Harlem Library

Are you keeping up with the 2018 Reading Challenge? We challenge you to read 52 (or more) books this year. At the end of the year if you have met this goal your name will be entered into a drawing for a gift basket, including a $25 gift card.

The Book Challenge for August is to read a true crime book. Contact the library with the title you have read and you may win a $10 gift certificate from a local business.

Heather Graham’s latest Krewe of Hunters book is “Fade to Black.” Marnie Davante is hoping her former fame as a star in a cult TV show can help her achieve her dream of starting a children’s theater. But when a costar is murdered and other strange events plague Marnie, she can’t trust her own senses. Private investigator Bryan McFadden is compelled to help. How can he help when it seems there’s a force determined to end Marnie’s career and more?

“Tell Me Lies” is a novel by Carola Lovering. Lucy Albright is ready to embrace college life at her small California college where she can get away from her self-involved mother. There she meets Stephen DeMarco - confident and complicated. Lucy is quickly seduced but she knows there’s something about Stephen that isn’t to be trusted. Their addicting entanglement will have consequences that they never could imagine.

Rain Thomas is a mess. She has been clean for three years after seven years of addiction. She gave up a baby when she was sixteen and the boy’s father was killed in Iraq. Her only friends are the members of her Narcotics Anonymous group. One morning she borrows a pair of reading glasses to review her resume on the way to a job interview. Through a small crack in one of the lenses she sees a young boy go running and screaming down the aisle of a subway train. Then he disappears. The voices in her head are telling her horrible things as her day spins out of control. Is Rain going insane? She sets out to find answers to long-buried questions heading for a collision between reality and nightmare. Don’t miss the thriller “Glimpse” by Jonathan Maberry.

“The Season of Doubt” is written by Jeannie Burt. On the barren Nebraska prairie in 1873 Marry Harrington and her young son are abandoned by their husband and father. Three months go by and they do not know if he is dead or alive. Their sod house is freezing and they have no fuel or food. Mary takes her son and sets out desperate to find a way for them to survive.

Other new titles include “A Time of Love and Tartan” by Alexander McCall Smith, “Storm Front” a Montana Rescue novel by Susan May Warren, and “Someone to Care” by Mary Balogh.

There is no library board meeting this month. The library will be closed September 3 for the Labor Day holiday.

Library history trivia: The library was started in March 1940 with Mrs. Grace Kennedy as the first volunteer librarian.