Harlem Library

February is Library Lovers Month! When you stop by the library fill out a heart with the name of your Literary Valentine ( a book character you love!). Your name will be entered into a drawing and you may win a basket of fabulous prizes!

Did you finish your all-time favorite book for the January Book Challenge? Contact the library with the title and we will enter your name into the drawing for a gift certificate from a local business. The challenge for February is to read a young adult novel. The library has a great selection of young adult books for you to choose from!

Our next Learn at the Library program will be Feb. 23, 7 P.M. when Undersheriff Frank Billmayer will talk about protecting yourself from identity theft and scams. You don’t want to miss this valuable and timely presentation.

New books at the library include “Strong Light of Day” by Jon Land. Caitlin Strong, fifth generation Texas Ranger, finds herself investigating rich oilman Calum Dane, who may have poisoned a large section of the state with his genetically engineered pesticide. Strong faces another challenge when the poisoning is connected to the disappearance of thirty high school students from a Houston prep school. She also has to deal with a crazed rancher whose herd has been picked clean to the bone by something science can’t explain.

“The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto” is the newest Mitch Albom novel. Frankie Presto is raised by a blind music teacher and is sent to America in the bottom of a boat when he is only nine. All he owns is an old guitar with six magical strings. Frankie’s musical talent elevates him to rock star status, yet his gift becomes a burden. He realizes he can affect people’s future as his guitar strings turn blue whenever a life is altered. When Frankie is overwhelmed by this power he disappears for years only to reemerge in a mysterious farewell.

2016 is the centennial of the National Park Service. In celebration Kim Heacox has compiled “The National Parks: An Illustrated History” filled with iconic photographs and information on the development of the National Park System. This book may inspire you to visit one or more of the national parks.

Lovers of Jan Karon’s Mitford series won’t want to miss “Come Rain or Come Shine.” Father Tim Kavanagh’s adopted son, Dooley, has opened his own veterinary clinic. Since money is tight, he and Lace Harper want to keep their wedding simple. Karon invites readers along to the June wedding in the mountains with creatures great and small.

Three new crime thrillers are “Dance of the Bones” by J.A. Jance, “Silent City” by Carrie Smith, “What You See” by Hank Phillippi Ryan and “Her Final Breath” by Robert Dugoni.

“The Bohemian Gospel” is written by Dana Chamblee Carpenter. Mouse is a girl with unnatural senses and an uncanny intellect. This makes life for her in thirteenth-century Bohemia dangerous as some call her a witch while others think of her as an angel. When young King Ottakar shows up at the Abbey with a wound from a traitor’s arrow, Mouse breaks church law to save him. She agrees to go with him back to Prague as his personal healer. There Ottakar and Mouse must work to uncover the threat against him and the mystery of her past.