@ Your Library
Welcome to February. You are already a quarter of the way through the second month of 2025. I hope your reading is going well and you are excited for whatever comes next.
If you like mysteries or read mysteries in the winter, then try Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul by Larry Millett featuring three Shadwell Rafferty cases. J.A. Jance continues her J.P. Beaumont novels in Den of Iniquity this time set in Ashland, Oregon, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Or take a look at Paula Munier’s Mercy Carr mysteries with the latest being The Night Woods. Mercy Carr takes her weekly trek to Homer Grant’s place to play scrabble, but when she gets there she finds a dead man with an axe in his chest and no Homer. Her dog Elvis leads her to Homer, barely alive and suffering from amnesia.
Can you imagine visiting a town to attend its Book and Murder Festival? Sounds unique and intriguing. Such is the town of Great Diddling. This small, run-down village is overcome with outsiders after an explosion in the library of the village’s grand manor kills a local man. The villagers band together to start a festival to bring in needed tourism money in The Murders in Great Diddling by Katarina Bivald.
If you like survival stories or read either Gunflint Burning or Gunflint Falling by Gary Griffith then I recommend Last Entry Point by Joe Friedrichs for more amazing stories of danger and death in the Boundary Waters. Another title about the boundary waters is A Year in the Wilderness by Amy and Dave Freeman and covers a year’s worth of voyages within the Boundary waters by canoe.
Library programming this month includes Elementary Fun each Wednesday afternoon from 3 – 4:30. Elementary Fun is different activities each week ranging from cardboard construction to puzzles to crafts to coloring. Visit us and see what you can create. Storytime on Thursday mornings at 10:30 am is about 30 minutes of stories, rhymes and more followed by about 30 minutes of free play.
The monthly Friends of the Library book sale will be Monday, February 10th from 4 – 6 pm followed by the Silent Book Club from 6:30 – 8. Support the Friends of the Library support of library programming by buying a book or two and then reading with us upstairs. The Silent Book Club is simply formalizing time to read. Enjoy a hot beverage and treat, talk a bit about what you are reading and then read. We’d love to have you join us.
Crafters’ Café is also a simple program helping anyone who wants to create find time to create. Join us every other week on Tuesdays (February 11 and 25) from 11 – 1 in the meeting room to enjoy a hot beverage and then create. Bring whatever you are currently working on whether visioning boards, cross-stitch, knitting, crocheting or your current project. We’ll talk, work and enjoy the chance to make headway on those projects.