Harlem Library

 

March 3, 2021



Celebrate the month of March with the “Buy a Bag O’ Books” used book sale at the library. A grocery sack full of used books is only one dollar!

Book Club members may pick up the new selection “The Flood Girls” by Richard Fifield this week. The first discussion via Skype will be Monday, March 8 at 4 P.m.

The link may be found on the library website at http://www.harlempubliclibrary.org.

The Book Challenge for March is to read a nonfiction historical book or a historical fiction book. If you have completed the February Book Challenge contact the library. You may win a gift certificate from a local business!

The library is hosting the “1000 Books Before Kindergarten” program to encourage family literacy and to help prepare children for school. Parents/guardians may register by downloading the READsquared app or visit harlempubliclibrary.readsquared.com to get started. Children will receive a free board book when they register.


Fans of Fannie Flagg will want to revisit the site of “Fried Green Tomatoes” in “The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop.” Bud Threadgoode grew up in Whistle Stop where his mother Ruth and his Aunt Idgie ran the Whistle Stop Café. Sadly, Whistle Stop is now a ghost town. Bud decides to take one last trip back where he discovers new friends and surprises that change his life.

The new Jack Swyteck novel “Twenty” is by James Grippando. Jack and his family are caught in the cross fire of deadly school shooting that endangers his kindergarten daughter and his wife, Andie, who was at the school’s rec center when it happened.

Allie Reynolds is the author of “Shiver.” In this thriller five friends who have met for a reunion in the French Alps discover someone has stranded them at their remote mountain resort during a snowstorm.

The end of WWII has left Italy in devastation. Seven-year-old Amerigo and his mother try to get by in poverty-stricken Naples. When they learn of a rescue operation to send children in the south to well off families in the north Amerigo’s mother makes the hard choice to put him on the train. He is welcomed into the Benvenuti family and house filled with warmth, music and a pantry full of food. But when is it time for him to return to Naples Amerigo finds himself fighting against going back home. Don’t miss “The Children’s Train” by Viola Ardone.

Other new titles ready for check out are “The Silence” by Susan Allott, “Under the Alaskan Ice” an Alaska Wild novel by Karen Harper, and “Whispering Hearts” by V.C. Andrews.

The library is still practicing Covid-19 guidelines including masks, social distancing, and sanitizing of materials and surfaces. The library board of trustees have agreed to follow the Blaine County Health Officer’s and Blaine County Commission’s directives to maintain the safety of our users and staff.

 
 

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