Harlem Library

Today, Dec. 9, the used book sale kicks off at the library from 12:30-7 p.m. The Harlem Civic Association will be giving away fresh popcorn from 4-7 p.m. during the Country Christmas. The book sale continues through the month of December.

Story Hour for children will meet Dec. 11 at 10 a.m. Then all children’s programming will take a break until the first week of January.

The Book Challenge for December is to read a play. We have collections of plays to choose from.

A big thank you goes out to everyone who made the third annual Holiday Wine and Cheese Festival such a success. We deeply appreciate Sage Brush Flats Winery who donated the wine for tasting and for the silent auction. Thanks to everyone who brought delicious refreshments and for the decorating “elves” from the Friends Executive Council. We are grateful to the local businesses who donated to make the event possible and to everyone who attended and so generously supported the library.

More new holiday books have appeared on the Christmas Book Tree. These include “A Knights Bridge Christmas” by Carla Neggers, “A Christmas Bride in Pinecraft” by Shelley Shepard Gray, “Ornaments of Death” by Jane K. Cleland and “Beautiful Star of Bethlehem” by Lori Copeland. Three other new Christmas books are “Away in a Manger” by Rhys Bowen, Glenn Beck’s “The Immortal Nicholas,” and “Christmas Bells” by Jennifer Chiaverini. Do check out the large selection of holiday reads available.

If you are looking for a western to read, why not pick up “Buffalo Trail” by Jeff Guinn? Two new historical nonfiction selections are “1944: FDR and the Year that Changed History” by Jay Winik and “PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy” by William Doyle.

A teen age girl vanishes and a middle-aged man is murdered almost twenty-five years apart. How can these two horrific events be connected? The two sisters of the girl who disappeared must dig deep to uncover secrets that destroyed their family years ago.

They must also find the courage to go on as one sister’s husband is killed. You don’t want to miss the thriller “Pretty Girls” by Karin Slaughter.

Other thrillers to choose from include James Patterson’s “The Murder House,” “The Survivor” by Vince Flynn, “A Song of Shadows” by John Connolly, and John Stanford’s “Saturn Run.”