The library board of trustees will hold their monthly meeting Wednesday, February 24, 4:15 P.M. in the library meeting room.

The Book Challenge for February is to read a book with a medical theme. When you have completed the challenge contact the library to be entered to win a gift certificate from a local business.

The library is sponsoring the “1000 Books Before Kindergarten” program to encourage family literacy and to prepare children for school. Parents are encouraged to register their children for the program at the library or on our Facebook page. Upon registration each child will be awarded a free board book. Prizes will be awarded as various goals are met. Contact the library for more information.

Virtual Story Time is held each Tuesday at 10 A.M. via Facebook Live. Little ones and their families are invited to join for a time of stories, songs and fingerplays. Each week a take-home activity packet is available to pick up at the library.

The library has electronic devices available for check out to patrons in good standing for at least a month. These include mobile hotspots, iPads and a HP Pro Laptop. These may be checked out for fourteen days. Contact the library to be put on a waiting list.

The library offers free Wi-Fi 24/7. Please come in to get the password to access the internet inside the library as well as from the parking area.

“Dear Child” is by Romy Hausman. Lena disappeared fourteen years ago and finally has escaped her captor. But her family swears she isn’t their Lena even though she fits the profile and has the distinctive scars. The little girl who escaped the woods with her knows things she isn’t sharing.

The new autobiography by Barack Obama is “A Promised Land.” This is the highly anticipated first volume of the memoirs of the 44th President of the United States.

“Piece of My Heart” is the final novel by the late Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke. Laurie Moran and her fiancé, Alex Buckley, the former host of the investigative television show ‘Under Suspicion’ are just days away from their wedding when Alex’s young nephew vanishes from the beach. In this follow-up to “You Don’t Own Me” a ticking clock, a sinister stalker, and a fresh romance make for a riveting page-turner.

A new Lincoln Lawyer novel from Michael Connelly is “The Law of Innocence.” Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police who find the body of a former client in the trunk. Haller knows he’s been framed and mounts his defense from his jail cell with the help of his half-brother, Harry Bosch. But in order to be truly exonerated, he must find out who really committed the murder and why.

Two new science fiction novels are “A Deadly Education” by Naomi Novik and “Ready Player Two” by Ernest Cline.

“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright.” ~Gustave Flaubert