HARLEM LIBRARY

The Friends of the Harlem Library are hosting their annual membership meeting Oct. 11, 6 P.M. at the library. There will be a free salad supper along with a business meeting and door prizes! All Friends members and those interested in joining are invited to come! Annual dues of $10 may be paid at this meeting.

Please join us and bring friend!

The library will be closed Oct. 9 in observance of Columbus Day.

This month the library and the Harlem Senior Center are teaming up to again present a series of presentations entitled “End of Life Planning and Preparation.”

These will be held at the Senior Center at 7 P.M. on Oct. 16, 23 and 30. The first evening will cover legal and financial concerns. There is no charge for these presentations and refreshments will be served.

New books now available for check out include Sue Grafton’s latest “Y Is for Yesterday.” “Glass Houses” is the new novel by Louise Penny and Debbie Macomber fans will want to pick up “Any Dream Will Do.”

New nonfiction selections are “Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer” by M. William Phelps and “Not Alone: Reflections on Faith and Depression” by Monica A. Coleman.

Matthew Quick has written “The Reason You’re Alive.” Sixty-eight-year-old David Granger is found to have brain tumor that he attributes to his Agent Orange exposure. He awakens from surgery repeating a name that no one knows. It is the name of a Native American soldier Granger was once ordered to discipline. Granger makes the decision to return something precious he stole from Clayton Fire Bear. Hopefully this will help him confront his past and find closure.

The latest novel by bestselling author Kathy Reichs is “Two Nights.” Sunday Night is a woman who has spent years running from her past trying to bury secrets and build a life where she needs no one. But when a bomb explodes and a girl goes missing in the chaos, the family needs Sunday’s help. She must face her own demons as they lead her to the truth of what gave her physical and psychological scars.

“Sulfur Springs” is William Kent Krueger’s new novel. Cork O’Conner and his new wife, Rainy Bisonette, leave Minnesota seeking Rainy’s son, Peter, who seems to have gone missing after leaving a mysterious voice message. In Coronado County, Arizona, they discover Peter had been working at a rehab center but was fired six months ago. The only clue they have takes them to Sulfur Springs where Peter had been getting his mail. But their search leads them into something larger: a border war involving drug traffickers, illegal immigrants, and activists trying to help the most vulnerable survive.

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