Harlem Library

The library will be closed Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23; but we will be open Friday, November 24. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

The library board will hold its regular monthly meeting Wednesday, November 29, 4:30 P.M. in the library meeting room.

The Book Challenge for November is to read a book about a different culture. Please contact the library when you have completed the challenge to have your name entered to win a gift certificate from a local business. The Book Challenge for December is to read a book about music, bands or musicians.

The Friends of the Library are again hosting the Holiday Wine & Cheese Fundraiser. This year’s theme is “Silver Bells.” The event will be held Wednesday, December 6 from 6:00 – 8:00 P.M. at the library. Tickets are on sale for $10 at the library for adults twenty-one years of age or older.

Tickets will cost $15 at the door. This evening features live and silent auctions, delicious refreshments, 50/50 raffle, door prizes and musical entertainment. All proceeds will support the Harlem Public Library.

There will be no After School Squad for elementary students on November 29 and December 6.

The Book Club will take a break until after the holidays.

Alice Feeney has written “Good Bad Girl.” Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is killed. The two crimes are somehow linked and spark a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim.

“Killing Moon” is a new Harry Hole novel by Jo Nesbo. Two young women are missing. When one is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike again.

“Let Us Descend” by Jesmyn Ward is the latest Oprah’s Book Club pick. This novel is a reimagining of American slavery. It inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land of the American South.

Sophie Kinsella is the author of “The Burnout.” Sasha has hit a wall. She’s had it with the urgent corporate emails and joyfulness program. To try to find peace she heads for the seaside resort she loved as a child. When she arrives she’s disappointed to see the hotel in shamble and she has to share the beach with a grumpy guy named Finn. When curious messages addressed to Sasha and Finn appear in the sand, the two are forced to talk. Soon an energy develops between them and what does it signify?

Bill O’Reilly’s newest nonfiction history work is “Killing the Witches: The Horrors of Salem, Massachusetts.”

A new autobiography is “Enough” by Cassidy Hutchinson, former special assistant to President Donald Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows. “She provides a riveting account of her experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington.”