Stop by the library and pick up a new read or two! “The Children’s Blizzard” is by Melanie Benjamin. This is a story of courage on the Dakota Territory prairie inspired by the devastating storm that struck in Great Plains in 1888. Lives of hundreds of immigrant homesteaders, especially schoolchildren, were threatened that January day.

Andrew Mayne has written “The Girl Beneath the Sea.” Sloan McPherson has forged a path for herself and her daughter away from her family of Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers. Now Sloan is the go-to diver for evidence recovery with the Laude...