Harlem Library

The “Basic Internet and Email Class” presented by Triangle Communications is scheduled for this evening at 6 P.M. This class will cover internet addresses, browsers and search engines as well as email functions including sending, forwarding and replying.

The Book Challenge for the month of January is to read your all-time favorite book. When you have finished contact the library and your name will be entered into a drawing for a gift certificate from a local business. In 2015 we had 66 entries in the Book Challenge and we hope to surpass that number in 2016.

The first Learn at the Library program for this year will be held Monday, Jan. 25, 7 P.M. when we will have some local spinners demonstrate and explain the process from wool to yarn to sweater. Join us for a fun and informative evening. Refreshments will be served.

On these cold winter days curl up with a new book from the library. “City on Fire” is the debut novel by Garth Risk Hallberg. It is 1976 in New York City. A police detective is trying to figure out what an odd assortment of characters has to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year’s Eve. The mystery will reverberate through families, friendships, and the corridors of power. When the city is plunged into darkness during the blackout of July 13, 1977, each life will be changed forever.

“Corrupted” is the latest Rosato and DiNunzio novel by bestselling author Lisa Scottoline. As owner of the Rosato and Dinunzio law firm, Bernie appears tough but underneath she has a big heart. Her heart is still hurting over the case of Jason, a twelve-year-old boy who was sent to juvenile detention for defending himself against the class bully. After a difficult youth, Jason is now indicted for killing the same person who bullied him all those years ago. Bernie know she has to represent him and she risks everything to get justice.

Isabel Allende is the author of “The Japanese Lover.” In 1939 as Poland falls under Nazi power, Alma Blasco’s parents send her to live with an aunt and uncle in San Francisco. There Alma meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family’s Japanese gardener. Soon they fall in love. But when Pearl Harbor is attacked Ichimei and his family are sent to an internment camp. Although, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again they must keep their relationship hidden. Decade later Irina Bazili, a care giver at the nursing home where Alma resides, learns through a series of mysterious gifts and letters, the story behind the secret that has endured for nearly seventy years.

Ex-NYPD officer Marshall Grade has been forced to live in witness protection in Santa Fe after a botched undercover operation that has him wanted by the Mob. Feelings of guilt over the wrongs committed during his undercover work lead Marshall to investigate the disappearance of a local woman, Alyce Ray. Word of Marshall’s efforts gets out, and soon the worst elements of his former life are coming for him. Don’t miss “American Blood” by Ben Sanders.

The latest work by Stephen King is a collection of stories called “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.” “The Theory of Death” is Faye Kellerman’s newest Decker/Lazarus novel. Matthew Dunn has written “The Spy House” the fifth Spycatcher thriller.

The library will be closed Monday, Jan. 18 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.