Harlem Library

 

March 23, 2016



Don’t miss the upcoming Learn at the Library “Fused Jewelry Class” presented by April Fox on Tues., Mar. 29, 7 P.M. You will make your own pendant! The class is limited to 15 participants so call the library at 353-2712 to reserve your spot. There is a $10 fee to cover the cost of materials.

Contact the library with title of the book with a green cover you read for the March Book Challenge. A gift certificate from a local business may be yours!

The regular meeting of the library board will be Monday, Mar. 28, 9 A.M. in the library meeting room.

New titles are here for your Spring reading! “Girl at War” is the debut novel by author Sara Novic. Anna Juric is a carefree ten-year-old when civil war breaks out in her homeland of Yugoslavia in 1991. Life in the capital of Croatia changes drastically as Anna’s family must endure food rationing, sniper fire, and air raid drills. Ten years later Anna is a college student in Manhattan haunted by the past events. She returns to Croatia hoping to make peace as she faces ghosts from the past.


Sally Hepworth has written “The Things We Keep.” Although Anna Forster is only thirty-eight her mind is slowly slipping away. Doing what they feel best, her family places her in Rosalind House, an assisted living facility. There she meets Luke, the only other resident who is her age. Unexpectedly love blossoms between the two even as they fight to hold on to what memories they have left. Eve Bennett works in the culinary department of Rosalind House. When an tragic incident leads Anna’s and Luke’s families to separate them, Eve becomes involved and is forced to question what she is willing to risk to help them.

Two new romances are “If You Only Knew” by Kristan Higgins and “The Spring at Moss Hill” by Carla Neggers.

“The Photographer’s Wife” by Suzanne Joinson is a story of betrayal between a father and daughter, husband and wife, and between nations set in the Middle East between the two world wars.

Three novels filled with suspense include “The Ex” by Alafair Burke, “She’s Not There” by Joy Fielding, and “The Quality of Silence” by Rosamund Lupton.

 
 

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