Harlem Library

This week the Harlem Library is participating in Jumpstart’s Read for the Record campaign by sharing the children’s book “Not Norman: A Goldfish Story” by Kelly Bennett. This is the 10th anniversary of the campaign that generates public support for high-quality early learning and literacy. The library staff will join in the world’s largest shared reading experience by reading “Not Norman” during our children’s programming.

Bring your children to Books and Babies on Tuesday at 10 a.m. or Story Hour on Friday at 10 a.m. so they can take part in Read for the Record.

The Book Challenge for October is to read a book with a color in the title. Let us know the book you read and we will enter your name in a drawing for a gift certificate from a local business.

Now that the days are cooler and the evenings are longer, it is a great time to get lost in a new book! Here are some new arrivals at the library.

“Us” by David Nicholls is the story of a man who is trying to save his thirty year marriage, as well as get closer to his teenage son. Douglas, his wife Connie, and their seventeen-year-old son Albie live in the London suburbs when Connie drops the bombshell that she wants a divorce. The family has planned a trip to the European capitals hoping to encourage Albie’s love of art and Connie can’t bring herself to cancel. Could this trip prove to save the family?

Mystery readers will want to pick up “A Pattern of Lies” by Charles Todd, “Lord of the Wings” by Donna Andrews, or “Candy Corn Murder” by Leslie Meier.

Jonathan Kellerman is the author of “The Murderer’s Daughter.” Grace Blades is a brilliant and dedicated psychologist. But she has a dark, secret side. When she was five she witnessed the death of her parents in a murder-suicide. Her two worlds converge as her harrowing past returns with a vengeance.

Linda Fairstein’s latest Alexandra Cooper novel is “Devil’s Bridge.” Coop’s sudden disappearance is filled with complications: a recent security breach, criminals she has put behind bars who would like nothing better than revenge, and her relationship with NYPD Detective Mike Chapman. His determination to find Coop is causing the police commissioner to question his methods.

New nonfiction includes “The Allergy Book” by doctors Robert W. Sears and William Sears. This work will help solve issues with nasal allergies, asthma, food sensitivities, and related health and behavioral problems.

Al Roker has written “The Storm of the Century.” In this historic narrative, Roker shares the story of the hurricane that destroyed the port city of Galveston in 1900.

“Orphan #8” by Kim van Alkemade is a debut historical fiction novel based on true events. Rachel Rabinowitz was four years old when she was subjected to an experimental course of X-ray treatments by Dr. Mildred Solomon. Now thirty-five years later, Rachel is a nurse in the hospice wing of the Old Hebrew Home. Dr. Solomon is her patient. Rachel begins a dangerous experiment of her own; and before the night shift ends, she must face the choice between forgiveness and revenge.

“The Nature of the Beast” is the latest Chief Inspector Gamache novel by Louise Penny. Nine-year-old Laurent Lepage is known for his tall tales and hardly a day goes by that he doesn’t “cry wolf.” But one day Laurent disappears and so begins a search for the boy and the truth. Deep in the forest, a sequence of events leads to murder, to an old crime, to an old betrayal, and to an old poet who knows the monster is back.

The library board will hold their regular monthly meeting Monday, October 26 at 9 a.m. in the library meeting room.