Harlem Library

The regular meeting of the library board of trustees will be held today at 4:15 in the library meeting room.

Tonight is the final Humanities Montana program “Montana Towns: Then, Now, and Always” with Hal Stearns. This free presentation will take place at the Harlem Sr. Center at 7 P.M. This event is cosponsored by the Harlem Sr. Center and the Harlem Public Library.

Drop by the library this week and check out the many new titles we have available. The latest by Jonathan Kellerman is “Night Moves.” In this new suspense thriller LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis calls on the assistance of psychologist Alex Delaware when a murder proves to be as baffling as it is brutal. There is no evidence at the murder site and the victim cannot be identified. In the upscale suburban neighborhood a web of corrupted love, cold-blooded greed, and mistrust is exposed.

“The Hush” is written by John Hart. Johnny Merrimon lives in isolation on six-thousand acres trying to put behind him events that changed his life and rocked his hometown ten years ago. The only person he keeps in contact with is his boyhood friend, Jack. But Jack sees only danger in the wild places Johnny calls home. There are things Johnny knows and can do that he will not discuss, even with Jack.

Minrose Gwin is the author of “Promise.” During the Great Depression a tornado rips apart the town of Tupelo, Mississippi. In the aftermath two women, worlds apart, fight for the survival of their families. Dovey is a a black great-grandmother who works as a laundress. Jo is a white teenager from the despised McNabb family. Together these two women struggle to navigate the remains of the disaster even as they must overcome their distrust.

A new nonfiction book is “Enough As She Is” by Rachel Simmons. This work based on two decades of research offers parents the ways to help their daughters “move beyond impossible standards of success to live healthy, happy, and fulfilling lives.”

“Here We Lie” is a new novel by Paula Treick DeBoard. Megan Mazenos and Lauren Mabrey have nothing in common. Megan was raised in a modest home in the Midwest while Lauren is the daughter of a New England senator. But when they become roommates at a private women’s college a strong friendship is formed. The summer before senior year Megan joins Lauren and her family on a vacation on a private island off the coast of Maine. There something unspeakable happens that tears their friendship apart. Years later Megan reveals the horrible truth of what happened that night as long-buried secrets are exposed.

Other new titles include “Death of an Honest Man” by M.C. Beaton, “Fifty Fifty” by James Patterson, and “Plum Tea Crazy” by Laura Childs.

Carly will be in Turner at the Big Flat Grocery on May 2, 10:00 A.M. for Books and Babies. Books and Babies at Harlem will resume May 1, 10:00 A.M. and Story Hour will resume May 4, 10:00 A.M.