Harlem Library

Happy May Day! If you have the gardening bug, stop by the library to check out the selection of gardening books we have on display.

The Book Challenge for May is to read a book about music. Contact the library if you completed the April challenge so your name can be entered to win a gift certificate to a local business.

The library has free information from Senior Medicare Patrol to avoid healthcare fraud. Stop by and help yourself to this vital information.

New books this week include "The Lost Man" by Jane Harper. This suspense story is set in the Australian outback. Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months on the fence line separating their cattle ranches with their third brother, Cameron, dead at their feet. Filled with grief, suspicion takes hold and the brothers are forced to examine family secrets they would rather leave in the past.

"The Lost Girls of Paris" is written by Pam Jenoff. Grace Healey is in Grand Central Terminal on her way to work when she discovers a suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside she finds photos of twelve women. Grace learns the suitcase belonged to Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of females agents deployed out of London during WWII. Inspired by true events, this story tells a tale of courage and sisterhood.

A new cookbook is "Dr. Neal Barnard's Cookbook for Reversing Diabetes" with 150 recipes to reverse diabetes without drugs.

Mary Crampton has spent all of her thirty years in the Midwest town of Petroleum working at her father's mortuary and feeling like an outsider. Petroleum has been dying ever since an accident in the grain elevator killed a beloved high school athlete. The victim's brother was blamed for the death and was shipped off elsewhere. Now Robert has returned home to care for his aging mother. Mary and Robert strike up an unlikely friendship which inspires her to dream of what might happen if she dares to leave Petroleum. "The Flicker of Old Dreams" is by Susan Henderson.

"The Next to Die" is by Sophie Hannah. For months detectives have been searching for the psychopath "Billy Dead Mates." Billy targets pairs of best friends, killing them one by one, giving them a small notebook with two cryptic lines written in each. As time goes by the public becomes filled with panic. Then a woman comes forward and what she reveals shocks investigators and adds another troubling layer to the case.

Other books for your reading pleasure include "That Old Scoundrel Death" by Bill Crider, "The Capitalist" by Peter Steiner, and "The Ghost Bride" by Yangtze Choo.