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Tonight is the Microsoft Word Basic class at 7 P.M. Hope Speakthunder and Heidi Harris are the instructors. If you plan to attend please call the library. Please bring your own laptop or you may use one of the computers at the library. There is no charge for this class.
The library will be closed Friday, February 2 so staff may attend training.
February is “Library Lovers Month.” Join in the celebration. Stop by the library and guess how many Valentine candies are in the jar. Each time you check out material you will receive a special library Valentine. Read the declaration by Harlem Mayor Kim Hansen elsewhere in the paper.
If you have read an award winning book for January contact the library so your name can be entered to win a gift certificate from a local business. The Book Challenge for February is to read a book with food in the title. We have set some books out for you to choose from. Keep reading for the 2018 Reading Challenge, too!
Did you know the library subscribes to 38 magazines and 3 newspapers? Come enjoy them with a cup of coffee in the reading room. Magazines may be checked out for one week.
New titles arrive at the library all the time. This week you may want to read “A Hundred Small Lessons” by Ashley Hay. Elsie Gormley must move to a nursing facility after living in her Brisbane home for sixty-two years. Lucy Kiss and her family move in ready to make a new life. But both Elsie and Lucy struggle with the changes they face. This story is told through narratives to two women from different generations. It is also about a house that becomes much more than a home.
Thomas Perry is the author of the thriller “The Bomb Maker.” Readers are introduced to “the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder-and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost.”
Historical fiction lovers will want to check out “Silk and Song” by Dana Stabenow. It is 1322 in Beijing. Johanna is the sixteen-year-old granddaughter of Marco Polo. After her father’s death Johanna knows the Kahn’s court is disintegrating and loyalties are shifting. Her destiny lies with her grandfather in Venice, more than a continent away. With her traveling companions she takes to the Silk Road facing treachery and betrayal.
Our feature book this week is “Chasing Time: Last of the Active One-Room Schools in Montana” by University of Montana professor Keith Graham and Missoula photographer Neil Chaput de Saintonge. In this collection of photographic essays of 26 one-room schools across Montana readers are introduced to dedicated teachers and eager students. Three Blaine County one-room schools included in the collection are Bear Paw, Cleveland and North Harlem Colony.
“The Woman in the Window” is by A.J. Finn. In this suspenseful story Anne Fox is a recluse in her New York City apartment spending her days drinking wine, watching old movies, and spying on her neighbors. When the Russells move in across the street they appear to be a perfect family. Until one night when Anna sees something she shouldn’t and her world begins to crumble.
A novel right out today’s headlines is “A Time to Stand” by Robert Whitlow. Adisa Johnson, a young African-American lawyer had a position with a prestigious law firm in downtown Atlanta. A split second mistake forces her to return to her hometown where a few days earlier a white police officer had shot an unarmed black teen, now lying in a coma. Although it seems unthinkable, Adisa feels pulled to defend the police officer. This story challenges us to ask what it means to forgive while seeking justice.
The on-going used book sale in the Reading Room has hardbacks for $.25, paperbacks for $.10 and movies for $.25. Come see what’s available. Be sure to check out the library’s website and Facebook page to keep up on the latest happenings!
