HARLEM LIBRARY

The regular meeting of the Harlem Library board of trustees is today, Nov. 29, at 4:15 P.M.

Don’t miss the Creative Christmas program tomorrow, Thursday, November 30, 6 P.M. in the library meeting room. This fun evening will feature crafting ideas from our guest presenter, Shannon Van Voast. She will demonstrate Christmas crafts that are ideal to make with children and to use as gifts. She will also display holiday wall hangings she has made. Refreshments will be served. All ages are welcome.

The Friends of the Library 5th annual Wine and Cheese Holiday Festival Fundraiser will be Wed., Dec. 6, 6-8 P.M. Tickets are on sale now at the library for $10 each. There will be many wonderful items up for auction including artwork, homemade goodies, wine, quilted items, floral decorations, etched glasses, a metal sign and more! There will be wine tasting and fabulous refreshments will be served. Also door prizes galore will be given away! Celebrate the holidays in style and support your local library!

On December 6 the library will be open from 10 A.M. to 1 P.M. This change in hours will allow time for setting up for the Wine and Cheese Fundraiser.

Stop in at the library to see our decorations and pick out a selection from the Christmas Book Tree. We have new titles and old favorites for your holiday reading enjoyment.

“The Ninth Hour” is by Alice McDermott. A young Irish immigrant commits suicide by opening the gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement in response to his recent firing. Following the resulting fire, Sister St. Saviour appears to offer help to his widow and unborn child. In Catholic Brooklyn, the suicide is never spoken of although its affect is felt in many lives, testing the limits of love, sacrifice, and forgiveness.

The latest by Dan Brown, author of “The Da Vinci Code,” is “Origin.” Robert Langdon travels to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain to attend the unveiling of a an astounding breakthrough discovery from futurist Edmond Kirsch. The evening dissolves into chaos and the discovery may be lost forever. Langdon and museum director, Alma Vidal, flee to Barcelona where they must locate the password that will unlock Kirsch’s secret.

Fans of Bill O’Reilly’s and Martin Dugard’s “Killing” series will want to read “Killing England.” This nonfiction historical work chronicles the path to American independence in the Revolutionary War.

A secret prisoner has been held captive in the Negev desert for a dozen years. In the novel “Dinner at the Center of the Earth” author Nathan Englander attempts to answer the questions “How does a nice American Jewish boy from Long Island wind up an Israeli spy working for the Mossad and, later, a traitor for his adopted country? What does it mean to be loyal, what does it mean to be a traitor, when the ideals you cherish are betrayed by the country you love?”

“Odd Child Out” is written by Gilly MacMillan. Best friends Noah and Abdi are both students in an elite private school in Bristol, England. They share a nerdy love of school and chess. When Noah is found floating unconscious in a canal, Abdi can’t, or won’t, tell anyone what happened.

A new cookbook by Ree Drummond is “The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It!” A collection of short stories is “Uncommon Type” by actor Tom Hanks. “The Last Castle” by Denise Kiernan tells the epic true story of love, loss, and American royalty in Biltmore House, the grandest residence every built in the United States.