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Story Hour and Books and Babies will not meet the rest of August. Lego Club will meet on Aug. 25 at 6 P.M. in the meeting room. The Book Challenge for August is to read a book set in the future or the distant past.
“The Charmers” is a new novel by Elizabeth Adler. Mirabella Matthew’s finds herself the owner of a villa in the South of France when her aunt Jolly dies suddenly and under mysterious circumstances. The mysteries continue when Mirabella is run off the road by a motorcycle and men from Jolly’s past show up. Which ones can be trusted? Who is using his charm to cover the face of a murderer?
Daniel Silva is the author of “The Black Widow.” On the eve of Gabriel Allen’s promotion to chief of Israel’s secret intelligence service, ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in Paris. The French government wants Gabriel to eliminate Saladin before he can strike again. The only way to stop the terrorist mastermind is to secretly insert in agent into the terrorist group. The young doctor’s mission takes her from Paris to the island of Santorini and to the Islamic State’s new caliph. From there she must go to Washington, D.C. where Saladin is plotting a night of terror that will altar the course of history.
“Siracusa” is by Delia Ephron. This electrifying novel about marriage follows two couples on vacation to Siracusa, Sicily. There secrets are exposed and relationships unravel.
Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth have collaborated on the book “Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars.” This graphic novel tells the story of the Apache Wars through the eyes of Naiches, son of Apache leader Cochise, and Geronimo as they try to find peace and forgiveness.
“Sweetbitter” by Stephanie Danler tells the story of Tess who comes to New York in 2006, alone and knowing no one. There she lands a job as a backwaiter in a Manhattan restaurant and thus begins the story of her year. It is a year filled with education in food, drink, friendship, love: all experiences, sweet and bitter.
Russell Rowland takes readers along on his journey of two years as he visited all fifty-six Montana counties, talking to hundreds of people, and reading over one hundred books to discover the connection between our state’s past and present. Don’t miss “Fifty-Six Counties: A Montana Journey.”
Another new addition to the Montana nonfiction collection is “Blood on the Marias” the story of the Baker Massacre by Paul R. Wylie. This book tells of the attack on a Peigan Indian village, killing many more than the army’s count of 173 mostly women, children and old men. The well-researched work by Montanan author Wylie gives this ‘infamous event the definitive treatment is deserves.’
Looking ahead you will want to mark your calendars for September 20 when we will begin a four part series of workshops on beginning genealogy research.
