Harlem Library

The Usborne and More Book Fair is being held at the library through Dec. 4. Stop by the library and look over the great selection of books and more for children from toddlers to teens. There will also be a special with $5 bargains! You may also order from the catalog or shop online at https://n4768.myubam.com/Event/175672. A portion of the proceeds will come back to the library. If you have questions please contact Sheena Pursley, Usborne Educational Consultant at 353-4274.

Don’t miss your chance to come to the third annual Holiday Wine and Cheese Festival Dec. 2 at 6 p.m. at the library. The Friends of the Library are sponsoring this fundraiser. Tickets are on sale at the library with only 50 being sold. No tickets will be sold at the door. This adults only event will feature a wine tasting and auction with wine donated by Sagebrush Flats Winery. There will also be delicious refreshments provided by the Friends of the Library. Thanks, too, to the local businesses who are helping to sponsor this event. For more information, call 353-2712.

The Harlem Civic Association is sponsoring the Homemade Christmas Ornament Contest as part of the Harlem Country Christmas. Ornaments may be entered until Dec. 8 at the library where they will be displayed. Winners will be announced Dec. 9. Prizes will be awarded in adult and children divisions.

The new Jesse Stone novel is “Robert B. Parker’s The Devil Wins” by Reed Farrel Coleman. Following a storm that hit Paradise three bodies are discovered in an abandoned factory: a man, whose body is only hours old and two teenage girls who were killed twenty-five years earlier. Police Chief Jesse Stone must uncover the secret of how the murders are connected.

“The Courtesan” by Alexandra Gamb Curry is a tale inspired by the real life of legendary Sai Jinhua, a woman who lived in the twilight decades of the Qing dynasty. Raised in an orphanage after her father’s execution, for seven silver coins Jinhua is sold to a brothel. There she becomes the “little wife” of a troubled scholar. Although she must deal with his jealous first wife, Jinhua accompanies her “husband” on his diplomatic journeys to the western world. There her eyes are opened to irresistible possibilities.

Daneille Steel’s new work is “Undercover.” Marshall Everett was a undercover DEA agent from South America to Paris. Back Stateside, he performs an act of heroism on temporary detail with the Secret Service protecting the president. Ariana Gregory accompanies her father, U.S. ambassador to Argentina, to Buenos Aires where an act of violence shatters her world. When Marshall’s and Ariana’s paths cross in Paris, they confront dangerous forces determined to end their lives.

A novel of the Nez Perce War is “The Dying Grass” by William T. Vollman. As Vollman tells the epic story of the Nez Perce flight from Oregon across Montana his main character is General Olive Otis Howard. We see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend, and killer.

Author Susan Wittig Albert takes readers to the summer of 1934, when the sensational murder of the Eleven O’clock Lady shakes up the small town of Darling, Alabama. Rona Jean Hancock, earned her nickname because her shift as a telephone operator ended at eleven, when her nightlife was just beginning. The Darling Dahlias’s garden club must dig around and uncover truth before a killer pulls up stakes and gets away with murder.

Other titles ready for check out are “Devoted in Death” by J.D. Robb, “The Sparrow Sisters” by Ellen Herrick, “Love Everlasting” by Tracie Peterson, and “The Woman in the Photograph” by Dana Gynther.

The library will be closed Thanksgiving Day but will be open Friday, Nov. 27. There will be no Story Hour that day. Story Hour will be meet Dec. 4 and Dec. 11 and then take a break until Jan. 8.

Books and Babies meets Dec.1, at 10 a.m. at the library, Dec. 2, at 10 a.m. at the Big Flat Grocery in Turner, and 1 p.m. at the Aaniiih Nakoda College Library. There will be no more Books and Babies until the new year.

Lego Club will meet Dec. 3, at 6 p.m. and then will take a break until Jan. 7.