HARLEMLIBRARY

The Book Club is starting a new book “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese. You may pick up your copy today at 4 P.M. in the library meeting room.

Get in touch with your inner leprechaun and read a book with a green cover for the March Book Challenge! You may win a gift certificate from a local business.

Books and Babies will not meet again until May 31 and Lego Club will take a break until June 2.

There are some great new “reads” for you at the library. Stop by and pick up a few (or more!)

The latest installment of Karen Marie Moning’s Fever series is “Feverborn.” Mac, Barrows, Ryodan, and Jada are back taking readers into a “labyrinthine intrique and consummate seduction.” This tale includes ancient evil, lust, betrayal, forgiveness, and the redemptive power of love.

“River Road” is by Carol Goodman. Creative writing professor Nan Lewis drives home from a faculty holiday party after finding out she has been denied tenure. On the way home she hits a deer but she cannot find it when she gets out of her car to look for it. The next morning the police are at her door with the news that one of her students, Leia Dawson, was killed in a hit-and-run and she is a suspect because of the damage to her car. Because this accident is eerily similar to the one that killed her daughter six years earlier Nan suspects the two are connected. Can she uncover the truth and clear her name?

A dramatic and moving novel about an act of violence in a small, Southern town is “The Secret Wisdom of the Earth” by Christopher Scotton. After the death of his younger brother fourteen-year-old Kevin and his mother are sent to spend the summer in Medgar, Kentucky, with Kevin’s grandfather. There Kevin falls in with a hollow kid named Buzzy Fink. When Buzzy witnesses a brutal hate crime, events are set in motion that test the boys in a struggle for survival in the Kentucky mountains.

“My Name Is Lucy Barton” is by author Elizabeth Strout. Lucy is recovering slowly from an operation. Her estranged mother comes to visit her and over gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood, the two women begin to reconnect. But below the surface lies tension about Lucy’s escape from a troubled family, her wish to become a writer, her marriage and her daughter. This powerful story is told in Lucy’s voice.

Bestselling author Danielle Steel has written the novel “Blue.” Ginny Carter had a full and happy life as a star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son. Her entire world comes apart in a single instant in a freeway accident.

To try to find meaning in her life Ginny she works for human rights in the worst areas of the world. There she meets thirteen-year-old Blue Willliams, who lives on the streets. Through their unusual bond they become the family each has lost. After Ginny learns of a shocking betrayal Blue has been hiding can she recover from the wound it has caused?

“The Kitchen House” by Kathleen Grissom is the story of seven-year-old Lavinia who is orphaned on her passage from Ireland at the turn of the nineteenth century.

She becomes an indentured servant on a tobacco plantation in Virginia and is under the care of Belle, the master’s illegitimate black daughter. She works in the big house caring for the opium-addicted mistress and becomes friends with her troubled son. But straddling the two worlds between the slaves and the owners forces Lavinia to make difficult choices. When dangerous truths are revealed lives are put at risk.

Tami Hoag has written “The Bitter Season.” Detective Nikki Liska is already bored with her new assignment to the cold case squad. Her old partner, Sam Kovac, is trying to adjust to his new partner who is younger than most of his socks. Both Nikki and Sam are missing each other. But soon Sam is caught up in a new case involving the brutal murder of a couple while Nikki tries to solve a twenty-five-year-old murder of a sex crimes detective. When the paths of the two crimes cross, Sam and Nikki rush to find answers before a killer strikes again.