Harlem Library

Have you taken advantage of the wide selection of magazines available at the library? There are titles that cover a variety of interests including cooking, home decorating, health, news and finance, sports, family, and hobbies. We also have magazines especially for young people in the children’s area. Magazines can be checked out for one week.

The LEGO Club starts up again this week on Thursday at 6 p.m. in the meeting room. Other programs for children include Story Hour on Fridays at 10 a.m. and Books and Babies on Tuesdays at 10 a.m.

There are new materials arriving at the library weekly. Stop by to pick up a new book or two. The latest from author Emilie Richards is “The Color of Light.” Minister Analiese Wagner’s commitment is tested when she finds a homeless family huddling in the churchyard. She offers them shelter in a vacant parish house apartment stretching the loyalty and faith of her congregation. Isaiah Colburn, a Catholic priest, had suddenly reappeared in her life torn between his vows and his desire for Analiese. Both must find where darkness ends and light begins.

“Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal” by Tim Hayes is a nonfiction work that shares the personal journeys of people who have been helped to heal through a relationship with a horse. This book scientifically explains how horses have the ability to transform lives. Readers will learn how horses help us to become better people.

The Port Aster Secrets series by Sandra Orchard are filled with small town intrigue as research scientist Kate Adams and former FBI agent Tom Parker cross paths as they seek to solve mysteries and secrets of Port Aster. The titles are “Deadly Devotion,” “Blind Trust,” and “Desperate Measures.”

Three new crime thrillers are “The Last Time I Saw Her” by Karen Robards, “Margaret Truman’s Internship in Murder” by Donald Bain, and “Deceptions” by Kelly Armstrong.

Inspirational romance readers won’t want to miss “Chasing Sunsets” the second in the Angels Walking series by Karen Kingsbury or “Whenever You Come Around” by Robin Lee Hatcher.

“The Stranger She Loved” by Shanna Hogan is the true story of Martin MacNeill - a doctor, lawyer and Mormon bishop who killed his wife in cold blood and almost got away with it. It would take six long years to solve the mystery of Michele MacNeill’s death and unmask the monster beneath the doctor’s facade.

Mark your calendars now for the Creative Christmas evening at the library Nov. 19.

We are accepting donations of gently used books for the annual book sale in December.