Harlem Library

The library will be closed Nov. 12 in observance of Veterans’ Day.

The free Lunch and Learn Solid Finances webinar series continues Nov. 14 with the presentation “Slash Your Spending” from 12:05-12:55 in the library meeting room. The topic for Nov. 21 is “Organizing Your Financial Paperwork.” Bring your lunch!

This week I would like to introduce you to the members of the library board of trustees. The members include Kirsti Cederberg, Chuck Wasser, Mary John Taylor, Valerie VanVoast, and Jack Young. These dedicated individuals volunteer their time to assist and advise on decisions about running the library, care of the facility, budgeting and finances, staff, and advocating for the library. Thank you to each of them for their service.

Science fiction readers will want to pick up “Time’s Convert” by Deborah Harkness. On the battlefields of the American Revolution Matthew de Clermont meets a young surgeon, Marcus MacNeil. Matthew offers Marcus a chance to leave his puritanical upbringing and become a vampire. Fast-forward to present day Paris where Phoebe Taylor, a young employee of Sotheby’s whom Marcus has fallen for, is also seeking her chance at immortality. Both Phoebe and Marcus find their transformations are met with obstacles.

“The Glass Ocean” is a new novel by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. This historical mystery introduces readers to three women, two from the past and one from the present, whose lives are linked to the doomed passenger liner RMS Lusitania.

A Montana nonfiction memoir is “Wild Roses and Prairie Needles” written by Ellen Haugen Opprecht.

Opprecht grew up on a farm on the Milk River near Chinook in the 1940s. The true stories about life on the Montana prairie bring to life a world most of us have left in the dust.

Emily Bleeker is the author of “The Waiting Room.” Veronica Shelton can’t sleep, can’t work, and can’t bear to touch her beautiful baby girl ever since the death of her husband coincided with the baby’s birth and postpartum depression took hold. But not everything that is happening is due to despair. What about the break-in at her house? Or who can explain the disturbing sketches left in her studio? And now Veronica has returned home to a silent nursery and a missing baby.

Continuing with the famous Agatha Christie character Hercule Poirot, author Sophie Hannah, brings to readers “The Mystery of Three Quarters.” Poirot returns home to find a furious woman waiting on his doorstep. Inside he finds another visitor waiting for him. Both want to know why they were sent letters from Poirot accusing them of murdering Barnabas Pandy. Not only did Poirot not send any such letters he also has never heard of Pandy. How can Poirot discover the truth?

The latest J.D. Robb novel is “Leverage in Death.” Anne Rice has written “Blood Communion.” And a new House of Secrets novel by V.C. Andrews is “Echoes in the Walls.”

Mark your calendars for December 3, 7 P.M. when the library will host the Creative Christmas event. Our guest crafter this year will be Heather Jorgenson. Also the Friends of the Library Holiday Wine and Cheese fundraiser will be held December 5, 6 P.M.