Blaine County Library

Free People Reading Freely Book Club met during Banned Books Week. The club will meet Monday October 21st at 7:00 p.m. For the next meeting we will read the Jamie Ford books. Stop in and pick up a copy of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet or Love and Other Consolation Prizes. You may choose to read one or the other or both. Attendees voted to change the format of the club from reading just banned books to having members select the books that everyone will read. We ask members to think about books they would like to read and choose four. We will put everyone’s name in a basket and choose one name. That person’s choice of books will be put on a list in the library and online and we will vote which one we want to read. The book with the most votes will be chosen and the library will secure enough copies for everyone.

We have an interesting selection of new books available this week. In Girls Like Us by Christina Alger worlds collide when an FBI agent investigates a string of grisly murders on Long Island that raises the impossible question: What happens when the primary suspect is your father? The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz is a Lisbeth Salander novel. Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center is a novel about courage, hope, and learning to love against all odds. After the Flood by Kassandra Montag takes place in a future climate-change-altered world overrun by water. Anchored by a complicated, compelling heroine, this is a gripping, action packed, high-seas adventure. The Institute by Stephen King is said to be the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”

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