Harlem Library

September is Library Card month. If you don’t have a library card stop by and we will register you for your very own card. All you need is a current photo I.D. and contact information.

Book Club members may pick up their copy of “H Is for Hawk” by Helen Macdonald this week. The first discussion will be held Monday, September 11, 4 P.M. in the library meeting room.

There will be NO Lego Club this week. Beginning September 14 Lego Club will meet on Thursdays at a new time: 4:30-5:30 P.M.

The VHS tapes will be on sale through the month of September. We are selling them for $.50 each or 3 for $1.00.

Our children’s programming is back in the swing of things! Books and Babies for infants and toddlers with their parents/caregivers meets on Tuesdays at 10 A.M.

Story Time for preschoolers and grade school students meets on Fridays at 10 A.M. These programs provide a fun time of stories, play, songs, and activities!

“A Game of Ghosts” is a new thriller by John Connolly. Charlie Parker is assigned to find Jaycob Eklund, a private detective. But Eklund is no ordinary detective: he is investigating a series of homicides and disappearances linked to reported hauntings. Parker is drawn into a world in which the innocent and guilty are involved in a game of ghosts.

Audra has finally found the strength to escape her abusive husband. She takes her two children and carefully travels across the country on her way to California. In the middle of Arizona she is stopped by an unsettling sheriff who pulls a bag of drugs she has never seen before from her trunk. Audra thinks the worst has happened; but the worst is yet to come. Read “Here and Gone” by Haylen Beck.

Susan Mallery is the author of “Secrets of the Tulip Sisters.” In this charming tale two sisters, Kelly and Olivia, butt heads and reveal secrets that change everything they thought they knew. Can they find out what it means to be sisters and find forgiveness?

“His Guilt” is the latest installment in the Amish of Hart Country series by Shelley Shepard Gray. Another novel that takes place in Amish country is “Down a Dark Road” by Linda Castillo.

A new James Patterson novel is “Murder Games.” Dr. Dylan Reinhart is a bestselling Ivy League expert on criminal behavior. A copy of his book turns up at a gruesome murder scene along with a message from the killer in the form of a playing card. With the police at a loss, it is up to Reinhart to hunt down “the Dealer,” a serial killer that is unlike any New York City has ever seen.

Other new titles include “Effigy” by Chinook author Theresa Danley; “Trophy Son” by Douglas Brunt; and “The Answers” by Catherine Lacey.

Triangle Communications will hold a free class “Basic Internet and Email” on September 27 from 6:30-8:30 P.M. Please call the library if you are interested in attending.

Carly is now a certified notary. The library is providing this free service to the public.