Harlem Library

You are invited to join the Harlem Library Book Challenge for 2016! Each month we challenge you to read a certain type of book. When you finish the book contact the library with the title and your name will be entered into a drawing for a gift certificate from a local business. This is a fun way to read more and varied books. January’s challenge is to read your all-time favorite book! Copies of the challenge may be picked up at the library or you may access it on the library website at http://harlempubliclibrary.org.

Don’t miss the first Learn at the Library program for 2016. A local group of spinners will demonstrate and share the process of spinning from sheep to fleece to yarn. This program will be Monday, Jan. 25, 7 P.M. in the library meeting room. Refreshments will be served. Come for fun and informative evening and bring friend!

The library will be undergoing some remodeling soon. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation as things will be somewhat chaotic. We will try to serve you as best we can during this time.

“All the Stars in the Heavens” is by Adriana Trigiani. This work is based on a true story featuring names from Hollywood’s golden past. Sister Alda Ducci has been forced to leave her convent and becomes Loretta Young’s secretary. Over the course of decades Alda and Loretta encounter scandal, adventure, love, and passion. Their loyalty is put to the test when they face the greatest obstacle of their lives.

In “Avenue of Mysteries” by John Irving, we meet Juan Diego a fourteen-year-old boy who has grown up in Mexico. His younger sister, Lupe, is a mind reader who can tell the worst things that have happened in the past and she believes she can tell what the future holds for herself and Juan. What might a girl do if she thought she could change the future? As an older man Juan travel to the Philipines taking his dreams and memories with him. There events from his past collide with his future.

Jonathan and his son Jesse Kellerman have collaborated on the novel “The Golem of Paris.” LAPD detective Jacob Lev comes across a file on an unsolved murder that takes him on the hunt halfway around the world to Paris for a vicious serial killer. The search turns life-threatening as the truth plunges him into the past; and for Lev there is no more frightening place.

Two inspirational Amish stories are “Joyful,” the third installment of Return to Sugarcreek by Shelley Shepard Gray and “The Gift,” book two of the Prairie State Friends series by Wanda E. Brunstetter.

Carl Martin inherits a house in a rich London neighborhood after his father’s death. Cash poor, Carl decides to rent out the upstairs room and kitchen. Carl makes three mistakes: renting the space to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon; keeping the collection of homeopathic cures his father left in the medicine cabinet; and selling fifty of those pills to a friend, who is then found dead. Don’t miss the thriller “Dark Corners” by Ruth Rendell.

“The Explorers Guild Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala” is by Jon Baird and Kevin Costner. The Explorers Guild is a clandestine group of adventurers whose aim is to discover the mysteries that lie beyond the boundaries of the known world. In this first installment the Guild’s quest is to find the golden city of Buddhist myth. Set against the backdrop of WWI, the search takes them from the polar north to the deserts of Mongolia, through the underground canals of Asia to deep inside the Himalayas.

Romance readers will want to pick up Diana Palmer’s latest “Wyoming Rugged” or “Brown-Eyed Girl” by Lisa Kleypas.