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Tonight is the Friends of the Library Spring Basket Social beginning at 7:00 with the final bidding on the fabulous baskets donated by local organizations and individuals ending at 8:00. Delicious desserts will be served and there will also be a 50/50 drawing. This will also be an opportunity to see the new shelving. Please join us for a fun evening!
I would like to highlight the Friends of the Library this week. This is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that has three main purposes: to aid in the development of public library service by maintaining an association of citizens interested in increasing the public library facilities, to focus the attention of the citizens of Blaine County upon the needs of the Harlem Public Library, and to enrich the cultural advantages available to the citizens of Blaine County. Membership is open to any person or organization and annual dues are $10.00. Since its inception in 2013 the Friends of the Library have worked diligently to support the library through a variety of fundraisers. The library has benefited greatly from the generosity of those in the community and surrounding area who have contributed to these fundraisers. The most recent project is the new steel shelving that was purchased with additional help from the County Commission. The library deeply appreciates the work of the Friends of the Library.
Summer Reading is coming soon! The theme this year is “Build a Better World” and children from preschool to grade 6 are encouraged to participate. Registration begins May 30. Family Fun Night is May 31 from 6:30-8:00. The library will have a special “Letter by Letter” game for adults to play as part of the Summer Reading program. We are still in need of certain items on the supply list. Stop by to pick up a copy.
Come in this week to see the new books that are ready for check-out. Bestselling author Catherine Coulter’s latest is “The Devil’s Triangle.” This Brit in the FBI series features special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine, the government’s Covert Eyes, who lead a team of agents to tackle international and deadly criminals.
“Our Short History” is by Lauren Grodstein. Karen Neulander is fiercely protective of her six-year-old son, Jacob. She has raised him alone since Jacob’s father wanted nothing to do with fatherhood. Now Jake is asking to meet his dad and Karen must allow this to happen since she is dying. But as Jake and his father grow closer and her hold on him grows weaker, Karen must face the hardest decision she’s had to make: letting go of her son.
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of “A Book of American Martyrs.” This novel tells the story of two very different families whose lives become intertwined. Luther Dunphy is a zealous evangelical who believes he is doing God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider. Augustus Voorhees is the idealistic doctor who is killed and leaves behind a wife and children forever scarred by this violent act.
Killers are striking victims living undercover, their true identities held secret. These murders form a pattern that points to Claire Rhodes, a brilliant assassin, who was formerly the protégée of special operations legend, Captain John Hayes. Now he must stop the killing even as they conspire to eliminate Hays and his team. “Dead Man Switch” is by Matthew Quirk.
Ursula Werner has written “The Good at Heart.” As WWII breaks out Edith and Oskar Eberhardt move their family out of Berlin to the safety of a small town near the border with Switzerland. With Oskar a member of Hitler’s cabinet and their son away fighting, the women are left alone in what seems quiet village life. But daughter Marina joins a Protestant minister smuggling Jewish refugees across the border. Marina must hide the latest “package,” two Polish girls, in the basement. When her father comes home with news that Hitler will be visiting their village and their home, she realizes everyone’s lives are in jeopardy.
“Deeper Than Memory: Our Struggle with Alzheimer’s” is by Pamela Harr-Rattey. This candid and honest work shares Harr-Rattey’s experiences as she cared for her husband, Harlem High School graduate and Western Artist, Harvey Rattey, in his last stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
Three new inspirational novels include two by Shelley Shepard Gray: “Her Secret” and “An Uncommon Protector” and “Amelia and the Captain” by Lori Copeland.
