Harlem Library

Need a little Christmas cheer? Join “Christmas with Carly and Colleen” on Facebook Live each Thursday in December at 1:00 P.M. as we share holiday stories and craft ideas. Please like the Harlem Public Library Facebook page so you can watch.

The library is hosting an exclusively online Winter Reading Program until the end of February 2021. You may track the books you read using the READsquared app or website. As you read you will earn online badges and unlock minigames. For each book read the library is adding a snowflake to the Winter Reading wall. Contact the library with any questions.

The Book Challenge for December is to read a book from a library display. We have many great Christmas selections for you to choose from as well as newly released titles.

The library will have special holiday hours on Christmas Eve. On December 24 the library will be open 9:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. On Christmas Day the library will be closed.

Virtual Story Time is held each Tuesday at 10:00 A.M. on Facebook Live. This is great time for children to enjoy stories, songs and fingerplays. Each week there are “take and make” activity packets available to pick up at the library to keep your child engaged.

The library has mobile hotspots and iPads available for check out to registered patrons in good standing for at least one month. These devices can be checked out for fourteen days. Please call the library to be added to the waiting list.

Stop by the library this week to pick up one of these new titles. “Don’t Look for Me” is a gripping mystery by Wendy Walker. It appears Molly Clarke has walked away from her life. An abandoned car, a note found at a nearby hotel, a shattered family all lead to the conclusion she doesn’t want to be found. But is that what really happened?

Matthew Quirk’s latest novel is “Hour of the Assassin.” In this political thriller Secret Service agent Nick Averose is framed and on the run for his life. He discovers how far some men will go to grasp the highest office in the land.

“The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett” is by Annie Lyons. In this powerful emotional novel an elderly woman ready to embrace death learns from a little girl what it means to live.

New nonfiction selections include “Return from Siberia” by John Shallman, “The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State” by Nadia Murad, and “Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life” by Bill Perkins.

Alice Feeney has written “His & Hers” a “fast-paced thriller with a killer twist that will keep readers guessing until the very end.”

Two new mysteries are “A Question of Betrayal” by Anne Perry and “Murder in Chianti” by Camilla Trinchieri.