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Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at your public library. May you find time in the days and weeks ahead to be thankful. May you gather with friends and family to celebrate, appreciate and enjoy one another.
Here are some new books to explore. World War II fiction continues to be original. We are seeing lots of stories being told that hadn’t been told yet including these two books. The Sound of a Thousand Stars by Rachel Robbins tells of a young Jewish physicist studying with the famed Dr. Oppenheimer for her doctorate. Rather than settling down as her family wants she moves to Los Alamos to work on a secret project. Further explore Los Alamos in Hill of Secrets by Galina Vromen looks into the cost of secrecy. If you are ordered to move your family and wait for orders once there, what is the price of not knowing what you are doing? What is the cost to the family who moves with you? Or The Secret War of Julia Child by Diana R. Chambers relates the war time adventures of Julia Child in the Far East as part of the Office of Strategic Services.
Margaret Mizushima continues for Timber Creek K-9 mysteries with Gathering Mist. Deputy Mattie Wray is summoned to the Olympic Peninsula with her K-9 partner to search for a celebrity’s missing child. Her fiancé joins her when dogs begin getting ill and he suspects poison. Can they find the child before it is too late?
Have fun with Sulari Gentill’s three novels After She Wrote Him, The Woman in the Library and the latest The Mystery Writer. Mysteries about mystery writers are a fun twist. Theodosia decides to abandon the career path to become an attorney and shows up at her brother’s to finish a novel and become a writer. But she soon becomes embroiled in a hidden literary world where identity can be lost and remade and her brother then becomes the prime suspect in the death of a highly successful author. Will everyone have to die to protect the carefully constructed narrative of the killer?
Danielle Steel continues to wrestle with difficult topics in many of her books and Joy is no exception. Allegra Dixon has faced many difficulties in her young life. Her mom abandoned her a six, her father was unable to cope and sent her to her joyless grandparent’s home. She finally seems to be making connections and discovering joy when her new husband is deployed to Afghanistan. The war is changing him, can she fight for him and reclaim their joy.
The library will be closed on Thursday, November 28th in observance of Thanksgiving Day. We will have regular hours on Friday (November 29) 10 am – 6pm and Saturday (November 30) 10 am – 3pm. The holiday movies are out! Come borrow a classic or family favorite or check out a new to you holiday movie and begin to get in the holiday spirit.