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Celebrate February “Library Lovers Month.” Visit your library and see our special “Show a Little Kindness” display. Guess how many Valentine candies in the jar! Read the proclamation from Mayor Kim Hansen. When you check out we have a library Valentine for you!
Don’t forget to read a book with food in the title for the Feb. Book Challenge. We have some titles set aside for you to choose from. Contact the library when you have finished so your name can be entered into the drawing for a gift certificate from a local business.
You won’t want to miss the next Humanities Montana presentation on February 20, 7 P.M. at the Harlem Senior Center. Author and historian Mark Matthews will present “Swinging Through American History.” This program covers the evolution of dance in America. Audience members are invited to kick up their heels and join in! Refreshments will be served.
The library will be closed for Presidents’ Day February 19. The regular meeting of the library board of trustees is February 21, 4:15, in the library meeting room.
“The Weight of an Infinite Sky” is a new novel by Carrie La Seur. Generations of the Fry family have dedicated themselves to Montana working the cattle ranch and farming its soil. But Anthony, the only son of the new generation, wants out and flees to New York in search of excitement. But the big city life isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be and with the death of his father, Anthony comes back to Big Sky Country. There he discovers his mother has grown alarmingly close to his uncle Neal and a mining company has set sites on their land. Does Anthony still want out or has he found a new appreciation for Montana’s beauty?
Award-winning author James Lee Burke has written “Robicheaux.” Dave Robicheaux returns to investigate a murder of the man who took the life of Dave’s wife.
However, Dave discovers he may have committed the homicide. Now he must clear his name while encountering a cast of characters and social forces that threaten to destroy all he loves.
A mystery set in Bombay in the 1920s is “The Widows of Malabar Hill” by Sujata Massey. Perveen Mistry has joined her father’s firm as one of the first female lawyers in India. Appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left behind three widows, Perveen notices something amiss in the paperwork. All three widows have signed over their inheritance to a charity. What will they live on? In her investigation Perveen must make sure the women aren’t being taken advantage of. When tensions escalate to murder, she must find out what really happened on Malabar Hill.
“House Witness” is the latest Joe DeMarco thriller by Mike Lawson. Political fixer DeMarco is sent to New York to work behind the scenes on a high-stake murder case. But it seems someone is interfering with the witnesses. Is someone getting witnesses out of the way as the fate of a wealthy defendant is on the line?
In 1969 a mystical women as arrived on New York’s lower East Side. The four adolescent Gold children sneak out to hear their fortunes told including the dates of their deaths. Will the next five decades see the predictions played out? “The Immortalists” by Chloe Benjamin examines the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, and this world and the next.
Other new titles include “Winter,” the second novel in the “Seasonal” cycle by Ali Amith, “Now That You Mention It” by Kristan Higgins, and “Hidden Depth,” a Vera Stanhope mystery by Ann Cleeves.
