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Summer reading programs will meet for the final time the last week of July. Read-to-Me meets on Tues., July25 at 10 A.M. The Reading Club meets on Thurs., July 27 at 1 P.M. Children have until August 4 to bring in their reading logs. Grand prize winners will be announced the second week of August. Lego Club will continue to meet on Thursdays at 6 P.M. in August. The Letter by Letter game continues until the end of August.
The regular meeting of the library board of trustees will be Friday, July 28, 9 A.M. in the library meeting room.
Two new DVDs added to the collection recently are “The Zookeeper’s Wife” and “The Beauty and the Beast.”
Paula Hawkins who wrote “The Girl on the Train” has written a new novel “Into the Water.” The body of a single mother is found at the bottom of the river. Earlier in the summer a teenage girl died in the same way. These are not the first women to be lost to the river. The deaths disturb the river and dredge up secrets long submerged.
“Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone” is by Phaedra Patrick. Benedict Stone needs a jump start to his life. His jewelry shop business is drying up and his marriage is on the rocks. Then a surprise arrives at his door in the form of Gemma, his teenage niece. Gemma is the daughter of Benedict’s estranged brother, Charlie. Turning his life upside down, Gemma may be just was Benedict needs.
Michele Campbell is the author of “It’s Always the Husband.” Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny became unlikely best friends in college despite being very different. Now twenty years later one is urging the other to jump from the edge of a bridge. How can these three women love and hate each other? When one dies mysteriously will everyone assume that it’s always the husband?
Basketball fans will want to pick up the biography “Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry” by Marcus Thompson II.
“Always” is a novel by Sarah Jio. Kailey Crain and her fiancé, Ryan, enjoy a candlelit dinner. When they leave the restaurant Kailey offers her bag of leftovers to a thin homeless man on the sidewalk. She is stunned when their eyes meet and she recognizes him as the love of her life, Cade McAllister.
Bestselling author Jeff Shaara has written “The Frozen Hours,” a novel of the Korean War. Readers will be transported to a critical moment in the history of the “Forgotten War” when the “fate of the Korean peninsula lay in the hands of a brave band of brothers battling both the elements and a determined, implacable foe.”
Two new nonfiction selections are “Living with Cancer: A Step-by-Step Guide for Coping Medically and Emotionally with a Serious Diagnosis” by Vicki A. Jackson, MD, MPH and David P. Ryan MD. Paul Andrew Hutton is the author of “The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History.”
