Blaine County Library

I jumped the gun last week with my article about Banned Books Week! Banned Books Week is next week October 5-11. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools. Typically (but not always) held during the last week of September, the annual event highlights the value of free and open access to information and brings together the entire book community — librarians, educators, authors, publishers, booksellers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas. Join Blaine County Library for Banned Books Week and take a look at many of the challenged and banned books we have on display. Better yet, be a rebel and check some out! Censorship Is So 1984. Read For Your Rights!

We have a couple of non-fiction books ready for check out this week. Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst by Bill O’Reilly is a dramatic confrontation with good, evil, and the worst people who ever lived. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America by Robert Reich is a deeply felt memoir of a life spent fighting for democracy and economic equality.

New fiction this week includes three thrillers. The Ghost Writer by Julie Clark is full of family secrets from a tragic event years ago. We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter is set in North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Kiss Her Goodbye by Lisa Gardner is the latest installment in the addictive Frankie Elkin series, in which Frankie is called to Tucson, Arizona, to find a missing Afghan refugee, whose friend suspects she is in grave danger—before it is too late.