Harlem Library

 

June 1, 2022



The Friends of the Harlem Library Basket Raffle fundraiser is underway! The baskets are on display at the library where you may make your silent bids. The baskets will be at the library through June 7. The finale will be held at the Harlem City Park June 8, 6:00 – 7:30 P.M. when final bids will be taken. Refreshments will be served that evening. The Friends of the Harlem Library will be taking memberships and donations that evening as well. Please support your library.

Get involved in the summer reading program “Oceans of Possibilities.” Parents/caregivers may bring their children to the library to register and to set goals for how many books/minutes to read this summer to earn prizes. Weekly children’s programs will be held from May 31 – July 22: Summer Storytime for children ages 0-5 and their parents is held on Tuesdays at 10 A.M. Summer STEAM for elementary students meets on Wednesdays at 1 P.M. All ages are invited to Lego Club on Thursdays at 3:30. Preschoolers must be accompanied by an adult. Teens and adults are encouraged to take part in summer reading as well. For each book read, your name will be entered in a drawing to win a $50 gift card.

The Book Challenge for June is to read a book that features water, either fiction or nonfiction. Come check out the selection we have on display.

If you have completed the May Book Challenge be sure to contact the library.

The library has devices to check out to patrons in good standing who are at least eighteen. Mobile hotspots connect you to the internet wherever there is cell service. The library also has iPads and a laptop available. These devices may be checked out for fourteen days.

“I’ll Be You” is the latest suspense novel by Janelle Brown. Sam and Elli were two identical twins who became famous as child actors who often inhabited the same role. As adults, they have grown apart. Elli is the perfect homemaker while Sam went the way of drugs and alcohol. Sam gets a call that Elli’s life has unraveled: her husband has moved out and she has checked into a mysterious spa. As Sam works to find answers, she realizes their bond is more complicated than she knew.

“A Young Man of Montana” by Daniel T. Miller is the true story of Irvin Atchison who grew up around Sidney during the depression. After his father passed away, Irvin bounced from home to home. Eventually he made his way to San Francisco where he joined the Army and shipped out to Hawaii. There he took the job of working mules as part of erroneous preparations by the military .

The latest from Anne Tyler is “French Braid.” This work follows the Garret family from the 1950s to the pandemic present. Full of heartbreak and hilarity this novel illuminates how close and yet how unknowable every family is to itself.

Other new titles include the historical fiction “Last Dance on the Starlight Pier” by Sarah Bird, “The Shop on Royal Street” by Karen White and “The Sacred Bridge,” a Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito novel by Anne Hillerman.

 
 

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