Harlem Library

The library board of trustees will meet Friday, July 27, 9 A.M. in the library meeting room.

The final summer reading program will be July 26, 1 P.M. Children have until Aug. 3 to return their reading record sheets to earn prizes and to enter to win the grand prizes. The grand prize winners will be drawn Aug. 10. Thanks to everyone who participated in the summer reading program. The “Letter by Letter” game for adults continues through the end of August.

The Book Challenge for July is to read a book from a genre you don’t usually read and the challenge for August is to read a true crime book.

“Dead Girl Running” is a new novel by Christina Dodd. Kellen Adams takes refuge at a job in a remote vacation resort on the North Pacific Coast. She is running from a year she can’t remember, from a husband she hopes is dead, from homelessness, and from fear. But when she discovers the body of dead woman she must keep her own secrets while she investigates first one murder and then another.

Bestselling author Dean Koontz’s latest book is “The Crooked Stairs.” Readers again meet FBI agent Jane Hawk from “The Silent Corner” and “The Whispering Room.” Jane will never cease the one-woman war on the strange epidemic of murder-suicides that claimed her husband and is escalating across the country. The conspiracy has made her a wanted fugitive whose enemies are determined to see her dead.

A new science fiction novel is “The Story Peddler” by Lindsay A. Franklin. This is the first installment in the “Weaver Trilogy.” Tanwen weaves stories into crystal sculptures that sell for high prices. However, she doesn’t see a cent as she is under the control of a cruel mentor. Her sites are set on escaping and becoming Royal Storyteller to the king. But when a tale of treason spills from her hands Tanwen must flee for her life.

Emmanuelle de Villepin has written “The Devil’s Reward.” Christiane is eighty-six and lives alone in her Paris apartment. Her daughter, Catherine and granddaughter, Luna, come to live with her after Catherine’s husband has yet another affair. While listening to her mother and grandmother Luna learns about Christiane’s father’s war experiences and the love affair that devastated the whole family.

Two new James Patterson novels are “The People vs. Alex Cross” and “Princess.”

“The Bad Daughter” is by Joy Fielding. Robin has turned her back on her father who married her best friend, her home town, and Melanie, her estranged sister. But when Melanie calls with the news that her father, his second wife, and his stepdaughter have been shot , likely a home invasion, and lie in a hospital Robin returns to the family she left behind. Attempting to mend fences Robin wonders if there is more to the story than a botched burglary when it seems everyone has something to hide.