Harlem Library

The library will be closed on Fri., Mar. 10 as we will be at the Seed Show. Stop by our booth and say hello! We will be signing up people for library cards. If you don’t have your own library card, you may register and your name will be entered to win free books we will be giving away.

The next Learn at the Library program will be Monday, Mar. 20, 7 P.M. when master gardener Hillary Maxwell will speak on Seed Saving. All of you with green thumbs, or not, will want to attend. Refreshments will be served.

“Everything You Want Me to Be” is by Mindy Mejia. Hattie Hoffman is a good girl who secretly wants something more. What she chooses is something dangerous. This story takes readers through a year in the life of this young woman during which her small town’s darkest secrets come to life and Hattie inches closer to death.

Roxanne Dunbar - Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker are the authors of the nonfiction selection “All the Real Indians Died Off.” In this work the authors tackle a wide range of myths about Native Americans tracking how these myths evolved. They also challenge readers to rethink what they have been taught about Native Americans and history.

“Fatal” is by John Lescroart. Kate Jameson, although a happily married mother of two, obsesses over a married man, Peter Ash. When she acts on her fixation she believes after one encounter life can go back to normal. But is Peter ready to move on? Six months later his body washes up on a beach and Kate’s friend, Beth, a San Francisco police detective, is assigned to the case. Beth has no idea of Peter’s connection to Kate, but as more details are uncovered Beth realizes the prime suspect might have been right in front of her the whole time.

“Hidden Figures” by Margot Lee Shetterly is the true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA who were instrumental in helping America achieve the victory over the Soviet Union in the space race at a time when the Jim Crow laws forced them to be segregated from their white counterparts.

Lindsey Lee Johnson has written “The Most Dangerous Place on Earth.” In this work readers are taken into the cruel and treacherous world of the American high school. There the students face a world where every word, feeling, and action are scrutinized and potentially can go viral. A young English teacher attempts to connect with her students, not knowing of a middle-school tragedy that continues to affect their lives.

A new true-crime book is “The Spider and the Fly” by Claudia Rowe. Two new romances include “On Second Thought” by Kristan Higgins and “Montana Family” by Linda Ford. New inspirational fiction novels include “Land of Silence” by Tess Afshar, “The Art of Losing Yourself” by Katie Ganshert, and “Rescue Me” by Susan May Warren.

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