HARLEMLIBRARY

July is Montana Open Land month which celebrates our state’s outdoor heritage. Check out our display of books which highlights Montana’s agriculture, wildlife, parks and recreation areas, clean water, and more! Each week our display will feature a new collection of books.

Summer Reading continues until July 28 when we will have our grand finale for all the children who participated. Be sure to keep reading and bring in your logs for prizes.

Mark your calendars for July 27, 6:30 P.M when the Friends of the Library will hold an “Alice in Wonderland” fundraising tea! This is a family friendly event so children are encouraged to attend with their parent/caregiver. Watch for details!

The Book Challenge for July is to read a book that is set in the summertime. Some titles to choose from are in our “Summer Sizzlers” display. A new title that fits the bill is “All Summer Long” by Dorothea Benton Frank. New York couple interior designer Olivia Ritchie and her husband Nicholas Seymour, an English professor, are moving back to Charleston, South Carolina. Nicholas is happy to be going back to his roots but Olivia not so much. She’s worried the slower pace of the South will find her missing the New York lifestyle. Plus, Olivia hasn’t share with Nicholas their troublesome financial situation. Over the summer as the couple travels the globe with clients and friends, Olivia must find a way to tell her husband the truth.

“June” is a new novel by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore. Cassie Danvers is mourning the death of her grandmother, June, in the crumbling family mansion. Forced to answer the doorbell, she discovers she is the sole heir to fortune of legendary matinee idol, Jack Montgomery. What involvement did Montgomery have in her grandmother’s life and why is Cassie the sole heir. Soon Jack’s daughters arrive to claim the inheritance they feel is theirs. The true reasons for June’s silence about Montgomery are revealed when lives were altered by murder, blackmail, and betrayal.

Heather Graham’s latest is “Haunted Destiny.” Another installment in the Krewe of Hunters series takes place on a cruise ship with a killer on board. He’s known as the Archangel because he displays his victims in churches wearing the medallion of a saint. Jackson Crow, head of the FBI’s paranormal investigators, along with local agent Jude McCoy are assigned to the case. When a ghost appears to Jude and ship employee Alexi Cromwell, they must rely on each other to catch a killer.

“Blood Flag” by Steve Martini finds attorney Paul Madriani drawn into a conspiracy from World War II as he defends a client accused of murdering her father. Emma Bauer insists she’s innocent and believes his death is connected to a package her father received just before he entered the hospital. Sent to him by a fellow WWII vet, the box contains only a key and slip of paper.

Putlizer-prize winning author, Annie Proulx, has written “Barkskins.” Young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in Canada, sentenced to work for three years as woodcutters - barkskins- in exchange for land. Sel is oppressed by the forest his is clearing and is forced to marry a Mi’kmaw woman. Ruthless Duquet runs away to become a fur trader and timber baron. This epic tells the story of descendants of these two men over three hundred years.

Char Hawthorn is college professor and devoted step-mother to her husband’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Allie. When Char’s husband dies in a car accident, Allie’s biological mother, Lindy, claims her legal rights and threatens to take Allie to California. Tensions mount when Allie begins to act out and her grades fall. The only thing keeping Allie grounded is Morgan, Crew, the ten-year-old former foster child she tutors. When Morgan disappears Allie takes the family car to go on a cross-county search to find her. Char now faces two worries: what will Lindy do when she finds out Allie is gone, and will Allie find Morgan safely? Don’t miss “Untethered” by Julie Lawson Timmer.