Harlem Library

The library will be closed Monday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day.

New titles are ready for you to check out. “The Fireman” is by Joe Hill. No one is safe. A terrifying new plague is spreading across the country. Dragonscale is a highly contagious spore that tattoos its victims with black and gold-before they burst into flames. And there is to antidote. Nurse Harper Grayson has discovered the gold-flecked marks on her skin. She and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact to take matters into their own hands if they became infected. But now that she is carrying a baby she must live. Jacob blames Harper for infecting him and abandons her. A mysterious stranger wearing a dirty firefighter’s jacket walks between insanity and death. The Fireman afflicted with Dragonscale has learned to control the fire within himself, using it to protect the hunted and avenge the wronged.

A modern retelling of “Pride and Prejudice” is the novel “Eligible” by Curtis Sittenfeld. Liz and her older sister, Jane, both live in New York City. When their father has a health scare they both return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to discover the Tudor they grew up in is crumbling and the family is in disarray. Younger sisters Kitty and Lydia are obsessed with fitness while Mary is nearly a recluse working on her third online masters degree. And Mrs. Bennet just wants to marry off her daughters. The new doctor in town is Chip Bingley, who has just appeared on the TV dating show Eligible. Chip takes an interest in Jane, but Liz finds his friend Fitzwilliam Darcy, much less charming.

Amanda Quick’s latest work is “ ‘Til Death Do Us Part.” Calista Langley runs an “introduction” agency in Victorian London, where lonely ladies and gentlemen may meet. Calista finds herself the object of a dangerously obsessive person who sends her trinkets appropriate for those in mourning. Fearing the police will not take her seriously Calista turns to Trent Hastings, a reclusive author of popular crime novels. As Trent and Calista search through files hoping to identify the tormentor, it appears the danger may be coming from her own secret past.

Bestselling author David Baldacci has written “The Last Mile.” Melvin Mars is hours away from his execution for murdering his parents twenty years earlier when another man confesses to the crime. Amos Decker, FBI special task force agent, takes an interest in Mars after he discovers how similar their lives are: both were talented football players whose careers were cut short, both had families brutally murdered, and both had another person confess to a crime in their place. Who wants Mars out of prison? After a member of Decker’s team disappears he knows there is something larger and more sinister going on.

A new western is “Colter’s Journey” by William W. Johnstone. Science fiction readers will want to try “Children of the Dark” by Jonathan Janz.

Two new nonfiction titles include Bill O’Reilly’s “Legends and Lies: The Patriots” and “Worry-Free Living: Trading Anxiety for Peace” by Joyce Meyer.

The regular meeting of the library board of trustees will be June 30, 9 A.M. in the library meeting room.

Lego Club meets Thursday evenings from 6:00-7:00. Summer reading programs continue on Tuesdays at 10 A.M. for the preschoolers and their parents and Thursdays at 1 P.M. for elementary age students.