Harlem Library

Don’t miss the presentation “Home, Home on the Ranch” by Humanities Montana speaker Bill Rossiter April 27, 7 P.M. in the library meeting room. This entertaining program includes stories in word and song about the less glamorous, but more enduring side of farm and ranch life. There is no charge for this program and refreshments will be served. Bring a friend and enjoy a fun evening at your library!

There will be no Lego Club Thursday, April 27. Also there will be no Story Hour Friday, April 28.

If you or your organization are donating a basket for the spring basket auction please have your basket to the library by April 24. The baskets will be on display and bids may be made through May 10 the date of the Spring Basket Social. The final bidding will take place that evening from 7:00 - 8 :00 P.M. This fundraiser is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

The library will be closed for regular business April 26 - May 1 while the new steel shelves are installed. The old wooden shelves will be sold using a silent auction Wed., April 26 from 1:00-3:00 P.M. Those shelves must be removed by 5:00 P.M. that day. However, we WILL be open the evening of April 27 for the Bill Rossiter program. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

The regular meeting of the library board of trustees is April 26, 4:15 P.M. in the library meeting room.

“The Orphan’s Tale” is by Pam Jenoff. Sixteen-year-old Noa is an outcast after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives in the rail station which she cleans to earn a living. After discovering a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she snatches one of the babies and flees into the night.

A new Hap and Leonard novel by Joe R. Lansdale is “Rusty Puppy.” Detectives Hap and Leonard look into the case of a young black man who was murdered by the neighboring town’s police. Uncovering an illegal fighting circuit and crooked cops Hap and Leonard are smack dab in the middle of big trouble.

Debbie Macomber readers will want to pick up “If Not for You.” Beth has moved from Chicago to Portland where she’s reconnected with her aunt and found a job teaching music. She has also met Sam Carney, a man who is her opposite in almost every way. When Beth is involved in a car crash, Sam rushes to her side and stays until help arrives and checks on her daily at the hospital. But Beth’s mother has no good words to say about Sam. As secrets from Sam’s past are revealed Beth struggles to reconcile her feelings for him.

Three new mysteries include “At Rope’s End” by Edward Kay, “Unpunished” by Lisa Black and “Dead in the Water” by Annalise Ryan.