Harlem Library

“Imagine Your Story” this summer by joining the summer reading program at the library. Storytime for children of all ages is held at the city park every Tuesday morning at 10 A.M. Children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian and bring a blanket for the family to sit on. You will be entertained with stories, songs and actions and each child will get a craft to make at home. Children, teens, and adults may earn prizes by reading. You may track your reading using paper and pencil or the READsquared app. See our Facebook page, website or call the library for more information.

The library now has mobile hotspots ready for check out. These are small devices used to access the Internet by using a cellular connection. Patrons who have been registered with a good record for at least one month may check out a hotspot for 14 days with no renewals. A user must read and sign a lending agreement and complete a survey upon return of the device. Each user is responsible to return the hotspot on time in good working order. If it is not returned on time the device will be disabled. The mobile hotspots are provided to libraries across the state thanks to a pilot program from Montana State Library.

Did you know we have a monthly book challenge at the library? This month’s challenge is to read an original or retelling of a fairy tale. We have several on display for you to select from. If you complete the challenge let us know and your name will be entered to win a gift certificate from a local business.

“The Night Watchman” is by Louise Erdrich. Thomas Wazhashk lives on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He serves on the Chippewa council and is trying to make sense of the new “emancipation” bill on its way to a vote in Congress. It is 1953 and the council members know the bill is really about terminating Native American rights. Pixie Paranteau work at the same jewel-bearing plant at Thomas, barely making enough to support her mother and younger brother. She is saving every penny to follow her older sister who moved to Minneapolis, hasn’t been in touch for months, and is rumored to have had a baby.

RaeAnne Thayne is the author of “The Sea Glass Cottage.” Olivia Harper is called home to Northern California unexpectantly when her mother is seriously injured in a car accident. As she draws near to her old home memories come flooding back: her older sister, Natalie, who fell into addiction, fights with her mother who enabled her, and the overdose that left Natalie’s daughter an orphan. As Olivia spends more time at home it becomes clear the need for healing over long kept secrets.

A new nonfiction selection is “Whole Again: Healing Your Heart and Rediscovering Your True Self After Toxic Relationships and Emotional Abuse” by Jackson Mackenzie.

Rebecca Serle has written “In Five Years.” Dannie Kohan is a girl who lives by the numbers and has every goal mapped out. She just nailed an interview for a new job and has accepted her boyfriend’s marriage proposal. But one morning she awakens to discover herself in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, beside a different man. She spends exactly one hour five years in the future before she returns to her own home at the brink of midnight. But try as she might, she cannot forget that one hour.

A new thriller by James Rollins is “The Last Odyssey.” “The K Team” begins a new mystery series by David Rosenfelt. Tracie Peterson has written a new series Willamette Brides that begins with “Secrets of My Heart.”

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