Library Column for September 13, 2024

@ Your Library

The library staff all hope your fall is going well and that any back-to-school activities are settling down and that everyone is settling into a routine that includes books and reading. We encourage everyone to visit the library regularly (even if that is digitally) and borrow books or magazines to read.

Fall programming at the library is in full swing. Storytime started this week and we’ll do a Saturday storytime tomorrow morning at 10:30 am for families unable to make the Thursday time. Elementary Fun is each Wednesday from 3 – 4:30 pm and allows elementary students to participate in some elementary fun. Each week will be different activities with a snack provided (or sometimes made by the kids.)

Check out the new exhibit at the library. Through the end of October enjoy the bright, vibrant artwork by Lisa Simon. We are all really enjoying the paintings she has hung in our lobby.

New books keep arriving, many by popular authors. James Patterson’s “Women’s Murder Club” series latest is The 24^th Hour. Anne Hillerman recently published her ninth novel, Lost Birds, in the “Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito” series which began by her father Tony Hillerman. Fern Michaels continues her “Lost & Found” series with Proof.

Dale Brown continues his “Nick Flynn” series with The Devil’s Fortress and Karin Slaughter just released a new Will Trent and Sarah Linton novel titled This Is Why We Lied. Craig Johnson has a new “Longmire” novel called First Frost and Farewell Amethystine by Walter Mosley is a new “Easy Rawlins’ novel. Lisa Jewell has written a Jessica Jones Marvel Crime novel called Breaking the Dark.

Our Little Secret by Lisa Jackson is twisty, turny story of terrifying consequences. Can Brooke ever be safe from Gideon? She doesn’t want to throw away everything she holds dear for this charming, sexy man and hopes he’ll understand. But he insists they are meant for each other and promises that he’ll never let her go. Mary Kubica’s newest novel She’s Not Sorry follows nurse Meghan Michaels as she gets too involved in a patient’s life and finds that she and her daughter could be the next victims.

James Patterson working with Brian Sitts has created what sounds like a fun concept. Holmes, Marple and Poe is a new Private Investigators firm in New York City and they seek to solve unsolvable crimes, generating lots of buzz with their daring methodology. Read this novel to find out if it can rival the best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe as claimed.

And if you aren’t ready to call summer over just quite yet then borrow Emily Giffin’s The Summer Pact explores grief, loss, love and hope as she asks “when things fall apart, who will be at our sides, helping us pick up the pieces?” Or try The Entire Sky by Joe Wilkins. This beautifully designed cover of a book looks at found families in a moving story with the big Montana sky as a backdrop.