Harlem Library

Thanks to everyone who attended the Friends of the Library Wine and Cheese Festival fundraiser. A special thanks to Sagebrush Flats Winery, Friends of the Library, local businesses who gave donations, and those who took part in the silent auction. Your support and generosity is greatly appreciated!

Today the library’s annual used book sale starts at 12:30. We will be open until 7 P.M. for Harlem’s Country Christmas and the Civic Association will be giving away fresh popcorn from 4-7. The book sale continues through the month of December. All proceeds support the Summer Reading program.

Stop and see the wreaths on display for the Harlem Civic Association’s wreath contest!

The Book Challenge for December is to read a Christmas book! Check out the wonderful selection on the Christmas Book Tree.

New books for your reading pleasure include Beth Moore’s “The Undoing of Saint Silvanus.” Jill Slater returns to New Orleans at the news that her father has drunk himself to death. Although she hasn’t seen him or her grandmother in almost twenty years the call from Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother’s apartment house, was too intriguing to resist. When Jill arrives, she discovers her grandmother had no idea she was coming and there is an investigation into her father’s death. Strange messages and relics add to the mystery as Jill is drawn into a web of spiritual and personal danger.

“The Life She Wants” is by Robyn Carr. Emma Shay Compton’s life is shattered when her financier husband commits suicide and she learns of his illegal business practices which leave her with nothing. Returning to Sonoma County to start over Emma is forced to face her former best friend, the last person she thought she’d ever ask for help.

The latest by Vince Flynn is “Order to Kill.” Mitch Rapp finds himself chasing false leads from continent to continent to keep Pakistani nukes from falling into the hands of terrorists. He must go deep into Iraqi territory posing as an American ISIS recruit and uncovers a plan that could have far-reaching and catastrophic consequences.

“The Girl from Venice” is by Martin Cruz Smith. It is 1945 and although WWII is waning, the people of La Serenissima, Italy, are still living under the fear of the Third Reich. Cenzo, a fisherman, finds the body of a young woman floating in a lagoon and rescues her. He discovers she is still alive. Giulia is Jewish and on the run from the Nazis. Cenzo chooses to protect her and thus begins journey into the world of partisans, executions, art forgeries and high explosives.

After the Civil War Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas making a living by performing live readings from newspapers to audiences hungry for news of the world. At Wichita Falls, Captain Kidd is offered fifty-dollars to deliver a young orphan girl to her relative new San Antonio. Johanna’s family was killed by a band of Kiowa raiders who spared her and raised her as their own. The four hundred mile journey is filled with danger and difficulties as Johanna tries to escape at any opportunity. The Captain and Johanna forge a bond as the miles go by, but when they reach their destination another hurdle awaits.

A new nonfiction selection is “Secret Service Dogs: The Heroes Who Protect the President of the United States” by Maria Goodavage.

Other new titles to choose from include “Precious and Grace” by Alexander McCall Smith, “Deadly Encounter” by DiAnn Mills, “The Domino Effect” by Davis Bunn and “Only Daughter” by Anna Snoekstra.