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Looking for a Good Read? Visit the BTV Library

Are you the type to always have a book on the go? Do you like to bring a selection of new titles with you while you vacation or travel? Do you like to lose yourself in a good book curled up on the couch, or sipping your favorite wine?

If the answer is yes, now is the perfect time to welcome a new book into your life. Visit the Butterfield Library where the new book shelves are regularly stocked and where residents can check out as many books as they like, for a long as they like.

Here are some of the new titles:

In A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen, an American couple fleeing turbulent lives in New York City attempt to pull off a high-stakes con by selling fake antiques to an eccentric millionaire in Venice.

The story of a young woman from Kentucky who graduated from Harvard Law School with the help of strong females in her family is the basis for Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers.

When You See Me by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner unites three of her most beloved characters — Detective D. D. Warren, Flora Dane, and Kimberly Quincy — as they track down what happened to victims of a serial kidnapper who has died without leaving many clues.

Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld tells the story of Jewish partisan fighters living in the forest and taking on the Nazis in To The Edge of Sorrow.

Naked Came the Florida Man by Tim Dorsey is about two buddies who have a passion for visiting cemeteries and telling ghost tales, as they travel fearlessly in the midst of a hurricane.

Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives by Daniel Levitin argues that our brains don’t stop getting better when we’re getting older.

A rediscovered memoir, A Bookshop in Berlin by Francoise Frenkel tells the World War II story of a Jewish bookseller who successfully eluded the Nazis.

This is Happiness by Niall Williams is an enchanting novel of country life in County Clare, Ireland.

Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated author, humorist and CBS Sunday Morning news correspondent Mo Rocca.

Moral Compass by Danielle Steel is a dramatic novel about an elite all-male boarding school transitioning to becoming co-ed.