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Don’t miss the Humanities Montana program on Thursday, April 27, 7 P.M. in the library meeting room. Speaker Bill Rossiter will present an informative and entertaining program “Home, Home on the Ranch.” Please come and bring a friend!
Summer will soon be here. Each year the library hosts a Summer Reading Program for children ages preschool through grade six to support literacy skills and encourage reading enjoyment. The library is asking for your help. We have a list of supplies needed for the various projects we will do with the children. Items needed include: quart self-sealing bags, food coloring, nuts, bolts, screws, metal washers, sandpaper, empty paper towel rolls, empty milk/juice cartons (59-64 oz.), clay, various colors of duct tape, large pony beads, old puzzles (pieces missing are fine), dominoes and Jenga games (to use, we will give back), marbles, snacks, and juice boxes/packs. This year the library is also including an adult component to summer reading! Watch for details.
Book Club members may pick up the new selection “The Boys in the Boat” by Daniel James Brown this week. This nonfiction work tells the story of nine Americans and their epic-quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The first discussion will be April 17, 4 P.M. in the meeting room.
New titles to choose from this week include suspense novel “Her Every Fear” by Peter Swanson. Kate Priddy is suffering panic attacks after her ex-boyfriend kidnapped and nearly killed her. Her cousin, Corbin, who lives in Boston, suggests trading apartments so Kate can overcome her past trauma. But when Kate discovers Corbin’s neighbor has been murdered, a whole new set of questions arise.
“ My Not So Perfect Life” is by Sophie Kinsella. To Katie her life seems a daily struggle living in a dismal rental with oddball roommates as she deals with office politics. She wishes she could have the perfect life of her boss, Demeter Farlowe. Katie takes refuge in posting on Instagram. Then the worst happens - Demeter fires Katie. She leaves London to work on her family’s farm in Somerset setting up a vacation business. This grow complicated when Demeter shows up as a guest.
Peter Rena and his partner Randi Brooks earn their living making the problems of the powerful disappear. Their biggest job yet is to vet the president’s nominee, Judge Roland Madison, for the Supreme Court. When a string of random killings include Judge Madison as a target, Rena learns how dangerous Washington’s obsession with power can be. Tom Rosenstiel is the author of “Shining City.”
“The Keeper of Lost Things” is written by Ruth Hogan. Celebrated author Anthony Peardew is the Keeper of Lost Things. Since the long-ago loss of his fiancée he has sought consolation by rescuing objects other have dropped, misplaced or left behind. Now that Anthony is in his twilight years, he leaves his house and his collection of treasures to his assistant, Laura, who is to reunite the objects with their owners.
Other new arrivals include the thriller “I See You” by Clare Mackintosh, WWII novel “We Were the Lucky Ones” by Georgia Hunter, and a nonfiction selection “Cyberbullying and the Wild, Wild Web” by J. A. Hitchcock.
