Harlem LIBRARY

 

April 4, 2018



The library will be closed April 11-13 as the staff will be attending state library conference. There will be no Lego Club or Story Hour that week.

The Book Challenge for April is to read a book with more than five words in the title. We have a selection set aside for you to choose from. Keep working to meet the 2018 Reading Challenge of reading at least 52 books this year!

Here are some new books for you to check out. “Sunburn” is a new novel by Laura Lippman. This psychological thriller is about a pair of lovers, Polly and Adam, who each hold back dangerous secrets from each other. Then someone dies. Was it an accident or part of a plan?

Sara Ackerman is the author of “Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers.” In 1944 on the island of Hawaii the battle in the Pacific rages. Violet Iverson and her young daughter, Ella, try to piece together their lives after the disappearance their husband and father. Rumors and questions about his loyalties swirl and Violet believes Ella knows more than she is willing to share. Banding together with her close friends, Violet, opens a pie stand near the military base. When the friends are accused of spying Violet knows she must find out what happened to her husband to keep her daughter and friends safe.

“Poison” is a Dismas Hardy novel by John Lescroart. Hardy is pulled back from retirement to defend a former client, Abby Jarvis, who is accused of killing Grant Wagner, owner of a successful family business. As Hardy probes into the Wagner family what he finds is disturbing with more than one family member appearing capable of the crime. The deeper he digs, the larger the target painted on his back.

“Homeland” is an archaeologist’s view of Yellowstone Country’s past by Larry Lahren, Ph.D. In this series of vignettes, Dr. Lahren offers a look at the big picture of early people’s adaptation and survival in the greater Yellowstone area.

Sophie Kinsella has written “Surprise Me.” In this humorous portrayal of marriage readers are taken into the lives of Sylvie and Don. After ten years they believe they have a happy marriage until someone casually mentions they could be together another sixty-eight years. As panic sets in Sylvie and Don decide to join Project Surprise Me hoping to keep their marriage fresh and fun. As mishaps and disasters result and scandal from the past is uncovered, they begin to wonder if they ever really knew each other at all.

Successful New York surgeon Nate McHale is called back to his home town of Greystone Lake when a body is found in the surrounding forests. As he reconnects with estranged friends and old enemies, he meets strangers who seem to know impossible things about him. His memory is haunted by Lucy Bennett with whom Nate is linked by youthful passion and shattering loss. As a hurricane strikes the Northeast it unleashes acts of violence and lays bare lies. “The Storm King” is by Brendan Duffy.

“Only Child” is the debut novel of Rhiannon Navin. Zach Taylor is squeezed into a closet with his classmates and teacher as a gunman enters the school. In a matter of minutes he will take nineteen lives. Zach’s mother pursues justice holding the shooter’s parents responsible for their son’s actions. Zach retreats into the world of books and art determined to help the adults in his life rediscover love and compassion. This story is told through the voice of Zach, the gentle narrator.

Mark your calendars for April 25 when the last Humanities Montana program will take place at the Harlem Senior Center. Hal Stearns will present “Montana Towns: Then, Now, Tomorrow.”

 
 

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