HARLEM LIBRARY
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Happy New Year and Happy Reading! The library is offering two challenges for 2018: A Book Challenge in which you are given a "type" of book to read each month. In January you are challenged to read an award winning book. After you have read this month's book contact the library and your name will be entered to win a $10 gift certificate from a local business. You may also participate in The Reading Challenge in which you are asked to read at least 52 books the entire year. At the end of the year you may win a gift basket including a $25 gift card. For more information contact the library.
Lego Club meets Thursdays from 4:30-5:30 for all ages. Preschoolers must be accompanied by a parent/guardian. Story Hour begins again Fri., Jan 5, 10 A.M.
Books and Babies will resume Tues., Jan. 9, 10 A.M. Families are encouraged to come to the library and enjoy the children's area including the Playspace.
Book Club members may pick up the new book "The Children's Act" by Ian McEwan this week. The first discussion will be Mon., Jan. 8, 4 P.M. in the meeting room.
A new book is a writer's memoir by bestselling author Amy Tan called "Where the Past Begins." In this revealing work, Tan shares memories of her traumatic childhood. She also shares with readers the mysteries surrounding her maternal grandmother and the complex relationship with her father. Through confessions in her journal and heartbreaking letters with her mother it becomes evident why it was both unlikely and inevitable that Tan would become a writer.
"The Last Mrs. Parrish" is a debut novel by Liv Constantine. In this thriller Amber Patterson is tired of being a nobody with a dull life. She insinuates herself into the life of Daphne Parrish, Bishop Harbor's most well-known socialite and philanthropist. Amber's plan is to undermine Daphne; but a skeleton from Amber's past may cause her manipulation to fall to pieces.
Beau L'Amour presents twenty-one mysterious stories from the manuscripts of his famous father Louis L'Amour. Using the handwritten notes, journal entries, and correspondence Beau presents "Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures" Volume 1.
"Almost Gone" is the true story of a young girl who was seduced online by a charming man from Kosovo to leave her solid Christian home to be his bride in a strict Muslim environment. Told from the views of both the father, John Earl Baldwin, and his daughter, Mackenzie, this story shares the desperation and unconditional commitment of a family torn apart.
The latest novel by Louise Erdrich is "Future Home of the Living God." In this dystopian thriller pregnancy and childbearing have become issues of state security. Cedar, who is four months pregnant, travels from her adoptive home to find her Ojibwe family amid panic created by warring government, corporate, and religious factions.
Hanna Casey is back in the rural Irish town she walked away from. After finder her husband cheating on her she is forced to live in the back bedroom of her overbearing mother's bungalow. There she has found work driving the mobile library van between villages. Hanna seeks her own independence by restoring a cottage left to her by her great-aunt. But the threatened closure of the Lissbeg Library forces Hanna to lead the charge to restore the heart and soul of the community. Don't miss "The Library at the Edge of the World" by Felicity Hayes-McCoy.
Other new titles include "Even If It Kills Her," a new Bailey Weggins mystery by Kate White; Danielle Steel has written "Fairytale"; and "Remington 1894" is a new western by William W. Johnstone.
