Harlem Library

Summer Reading is well underway! "Imagine Your Story" by joining Storytime in the Park every Tuesday at 10 A.M. Children of all ages are welcome and must be accompanied by a parent/guardian. Each family is ask to bring a blanket to sit on through out the Storytime. Each week children will receive a craft project to take and make at home.

Keep track of the books or minutes you read this summer. Children ages 0-kindergarten may earn gift certificates for books read: 25 books – small ice cream, 50 books – Italian soda, and 75 books - personal pizza. Grades 1-8 will receive gift certificates for minutes read: 200 minutes – small ice cream, 500 minutes – Italian soda, and 1000 minutes – personal pizza. Each time a child earns a prize their name will be entered to win a grand prize LEGO set at the end of Summer Reading.

Teens and adults are also encouraged to keep track of books read. For each book read their name will be entered into a drawing to win a $50 gift card!

Everyone participating in the Summer Reading program may keep track using paper and pencil or the new READsquared app provided to us by Montana State Library. Contact the library for more information.

The Book Challenge for June is to read an original or retelling of a fairy tale. We have some on display to help in your selection.

Be sure to complete the 2020 Census survey. It is quick and easy! Complete the survey by phone at 844-330-2020; online at http://www.my2020census.gov; or by mail.

We can help you to find the website if you wish to use the library computers. Did you know library funding, as well as many other communities services, is based on population. So it is vitally important for every person to be counted.

To paraphrase song lyrics...."It's summertime and the reading is easy!" Especially with all the new books you can find at your library.

A new Joe Pickett novel by C.J. Box is "Long Range." Joe Pickett is joining rescue efforts for the victim of a grizzly attack. An emergency calls him back home to investigate a shooting attempt on a prominent local judge whose wife was hit instead of him. When Joe's friend Nate Romanowski is suspected of the crime, Joe must work to find the real shooter to clear Nate's name.

A new biography is "Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian County" by Sierra Crane Murdoch. This is the story of Lissa Yellow Bird's search for a white oil worker who disappears from the North Dakota Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, transformed by the Bakken oil boom.

"The Sea of Lost Girls" is by Carol Goodman. Tess teaches at an elite boarding school where her husband is a respected department head. Her son, Rudy, finally seems to be flourishing at the school, putting his dark moods and complicated behavior behind him. Early one morning she receives a text from Rudy asking for help. When Tess picks him up he is drenched and shivering with a dark stain on his shirt. Then the phone call comes that Rudy's girlfriend has been found dead on the beach.

Annie Hebbley, a maid on the Titanic, along with guest Mark Fletcher, and millionaires Madelaine Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim all are convinced there is something sinister aboard ship. But before they can locate the source of the danger, disaster strikes. Years later, Annie who survived, is now working on the Britannic, a hospital ship, where she happens across an unconscious Mark, now a soldier in WWI. Soon buried feelings and secrets reawaken forcing Annie to deal with the demons of her past. "The Deep" is by Alma Katsu.

Other new arrivals include "Sword of Fire" by Katharine Kerr, "The Red Lotus" by Chris Bohjalian, and "Tranquility Falls" by Davis Bunn