This week the library will be open special hours because the staff are attending training. April 12 and 13 the library will be open from 4:00-6:00 P.M. The library will be closed April 14. There will be no After School Squad or Lego Club this week.

The Book Challenge for April is to read a biography.

April is National Poetry Month. Come check out the display of a portion of our poetry collection.

“My Good Man” is a coming-of-age novel written by Eric Gansworth. Brian is a man in his twenties who works as a reporter on the Niagara Cascade newspaper. As the only Indigenous writer in the newsroom, he is asked to do the stereotypical assignments covering the nearby Tuscarora reservation. A mysterious roadside assault on the brother of Brian’s mother’s late boyfriend forces Brian to pick up the threads of life he has abandoned.

A new nonfiction book by Timothy Keller is “Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I?” Keller “passionately defends the central role forgiveness has to play in our lives and shows readers how and why forgiveness is the only way forward in an imperfect world.”

Pam Jenoff is the author of the historical fiction novel “Code Name Sapphire.” Hannah Martel tries to escape Nazi Germany only to find her ship bound for America has been turned away at port. She has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily’s in Brussels. There she must return to the underground work she thought she had left behind. Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network. When Lily’s family is arrested and slated for Auschwitz, Hannah must ask herself how much she is willing to sacrifice to save the people she loves.

“Signal Fires” is by Dani Shapiro. On a summer night ins 1985 three teenage have been drinking when one of them gets behind a wheel. In an instant, everything on Division Street changes including the life of the doctor who arrives on the scene.

Other new titles include “Encore in Death” by J.D. Robb, “Hell Bent” a science fiction novel by Leigh Bardugo, and “Dark of Night,” an Annie Pederson novel by Colleen Coble.

The Book Club will meet Monday, April 17, 4 P.M. when they will conclude the discussion of “Inheriting Edith” by Zoe Fishman.