Harlem Library

Be sure to take advantage of the special used book sale during the month of January. You can “Buy a Bag O’Books” for only one dollar.

The library board of trustees will hold its regular monthly meeting Wednesday, January 29, 4:15 P.M. in the library meeting room.

The library will be hosting the Parenting Class Series “Circle of Security” beginning in February. Stay tuned for more information.

The Book Challenge for January is to read a book with an ugly cover. When you have finished your book contact the library so your name can be entered to win a gift certificate from a local business.

Check out the library’s Facebook page for the new online book club selection.

The 2020 Census is closer than you think. As a Census Champion your library will provide important information concerning the Census. Did you know the U.S. Constitution requires a census every 10 years? The census covers the entire country and everyone living here. The first census was in 1790. It is essential that everyone is counted. Census data determine how more than $675 billion are spent, supporting your state, county and community’s vital programs.

During these cold days bring your children to the library. We have just purchased new wooden puzzles that along with books, wooden blocks, puppets, stuffed animals, and building sets will provide your children with entertainment when cabin fever strikes!

Bestselling author Christina Dodd has written “Strangers She Knows.” Kellen Adams and her family are living on an obscure, technology-free island off California hoping they are safe from a murderer who is after them. But they are not as safe as they hope. Alone Kellen must face a killer playing a cruel game with only one survivor.

“The Giver of Stars” is by Jojo Moyes. Alice Wright leaves England to marry a handsome American and settles in Kentucky. But soon she needs more than small-town Kentucky can provide and answers the call for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library. Set in the Depression this is the story of five courageous women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. They are determined to deliver books to people who have never had any although they face dangers and fight conventions.

“A Pilgrimage to Eternity” by Timothy Egan is new nonfiction work that follows the author’s journey to explore the past and future of Christianity. Egan embarks on a trek from Canterbury to Rome following in the footsteps of centuries of seekers hoping to come to grips with his own beliefs.

John Le Carre is the author of “Agent Running in the Field.” Forty-seven-year-old Nat is a veteran of the British Secret Intelligence Service. He is called back into service with the threats from Moscow increasing. He must lead a ragtag band of spies down a path of political anger that will ensnare them all.

Nelson Demille ,with his son Alex, has written “The Deserter.” When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army’s elite Delta Force deserts his post in Afghanistan, Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor of the Criminal Investigation Division are assigned the task of finding and bringing him home. When Mercer is discovered in Venezuela Brodie and Taylor face dangerous twists and turns as they hunt for this notorious deserter.