Harlem Library

The Beginning Genealogy class is full. If you have registered but are no longer able to attend please call the library as soon as possible as there are people on a waiting list. Remember the first session meets Tuesday, Sept. 20, 6:30-8:30 P.M. Bring your own devices or you may use the library’s computers.

The library has some new services to offer. We now have a laminating machine that will laminate letter-sized pages for $1.00 per page. We also have phone chargers that can be checked out to use in the library. Remember we also send and receive FAX’s for $1.00 per page, make black and white copies for $.20 each, and colored copies for $1.00 each.

The Book Challenge for September is to read a book that has been banned. If you need help finding a banned book we have a list of titles you can choose from.

Stop by the library to see the new art work by Roberta Shupe. Thanks to the Friends of the Library for commissioning this new painting.

New suspense thrillers ready for check out include “The Sisters” by Claire Douglas, “Don’t You Cry” by Mary Kubica, “In a Dark, Dark Wood” by Ruth Ware and “In the Clearing” by Robert Dugoni.

“Where the Light Gets In” written by actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley is the true story of how she and her family coped with her mother’s rare form of early-onset dementia. Kim tells the full story of her mother’s illness from the way her family reacted, how they educated themselves, how they worked through shame and secrecy, and how they found unexpected grace and humor.

Jonis Agee has written “The Bones of Paradise.” Set in the Nebraska Sand Hills this work is a multigenerational saga that includes “history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family and belonging.”

Science fiction readers will want to pick up “The Swarm” by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston. This is volume one of the Second Formic War series which tells the story of aliens attacking the earth 100 years before “Ender’s Game.”

“Harmony” by Carolyn Parkhurst is a novel that tells the story of the Hammonds who are faced with a daughter, Tilly, who has been call “undiagnosable” but falls somewhere on the autism spectrum. After exhausting all other avenues, the Hammonds turn to self-styled child behavior expert Scott Bean for help. What the family discovers at Camp Harmony in the woods of New Hampshire will push them to the limit.

Just a reminder that the Book Club meets on Mondays at 4 P.M., Books and Babies is held on Tuesdays at 10 A.M., Lego Club meets on Thursdays at 4 P.M. and Story Hour is held on Fridays at 10 A.M.