Harlem Library

 

March 29, 2017



Have you read your four books for March as part of the 2017 Reading Challenge? Let the library know so we may enter your name into a drawing to win a gift certificate from a local business. Keep reading!

Join us for the next Learn at the Library program on Monday, April 3, 7 P.M. when Deputy Sheriff Jim Beemer will give an informative and helpful presentation on self-defense. Everyone is welcome and refreshments will be served.

Summer Reading is just a couple of months away. We have put together of list of supplies needed for our children’s programming. If you would like to donate please pick up of a copy of the list. Your donations would be greatly appreciated.

New books are on our shelves and ready for you to check out! “The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir” is a novel by Jennifer Ryan. During WWII the women of Chilbury Village are left behind to carry on as their men are away fighting. They choose to defy the Vicar’s decision to close the choir and instead “carry on singing.” This is the story of five unforgettable women as they show their indomitable spirit.

Kelly Armstrong is the author of “A Darkness Absolute.” Homicide detective Casey Duncan moved to the secret town of Rockton, where she will live off the grid and hopefully find a safe haven from her past misdeeds and past life. But Rockton comes with its own set of secrets and dangers.

“The Coming” is a written by David Osborne. This novel of the American West follows “the dramatic life of Daytime Smoker, Nez Perce son of explorer William Clark.”

A new biography is “This Life I Live” by Rory Feek. This is the story of songwriter, entrepreneur, and budding farmer Rory Feek as he searches for meaning and security as he faces the challenging journey with his wife who has terminal cancer.

“The Snow Child” by Eowyn Ivey tells the story of Jack and Mabel who are struggling to homestead in Alaska in 1920. During the season’s first snowfall they decide to build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone, but they see a girl running in the woods. The girl, Faina, somehow survives in the forest alone and seems to have stepped out of a fairy tale. As Jack and Mabel begin to love her as a daughter, they realize things in this violent territory are rarely what they seem.

Chris Ewan is the writer of “Long Time Lost.” Nick Miller heads a team who provide an illegal service of relocating at-risk indviduals in Europe with new identities. When Nick tries to prevent the murder of witness Kate Sutherland a chain of events are triggered with devastating consequences.

“A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.”

- Lyndon Baines Johnson

 
 

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