Harlem Library

February is Love Your Library month! Take advantage of all the services your library has to offer. We are you community center for entertainment, information, and connection. Free Internet access, Notary services, the latest bestsellers, copying, scanning, faxing and more!

The library is hosting a program for parents to read “1000 Books Before Kindergarten” to their children. This program encourages family literacy, preparation for school and a lifelong love of reading. Download the READsquared app or visit halempubliclibrary.readsquared.com to get started. Children will receive a free book upon registration as well as prizes along the way.

The Book Challenge for February is to read a book with a medical theme. This may be a fiction on nonfiction selection and we have several on display for you to choose from.

The library will be closed Monday, February 15 in observance of Presidents’ Day.

Check out the display of books highlighting Black History Month.

Virtual Story Time is held each Tuesday at 10 A.M. via Facebook Live. This is a time for preschoolers and their families to enjoy stories, songs and fingerplays.

Each week Carly puts together a take-home activity for the children to pick up at the library.

The Book Club is now reading “The Homesman” by Glendon Swarthout. Join in the discussion on Mondays at 4 P.M. via Skype. Find the link on the Harlem library website at harlempubliclibrary.org.

The Winter Reading program continues through the end of February. Track the books you read using the READsquared app or website. For each book read, a snowflake will be added to the Winter Reading wall.

Two new nonfiction books are “Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss” by Jenna Bush Hager and “Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It” by Erin Brockovich.

“Dark Ambitions” by Irene Hannon is the third in the Code of Honor series. “Dark Tides” is the second in the Fairmile Series by Philippa Gregory.

Montana author Pete Fromm has written “A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How to Do.” Taz and Marnie are working on their fixer-upper when they learn a baby is on the way. But when Marnie dies in childbirth Taz is faced with the new, strange world of fatherhood alone. In this land of contradictions, great joy, and sorrow Taz is tasked with a job no one can be fully prepared for.

Detective William Warwick and his team are reassigned to the drug squad where they must apprehend Khalil Rashidi, a notorious drug dealer in South London. “Hidden in Plain Sight” is the second Detective Warwick novel by Jeffrey Archer.

A new novel by Nora Roberts is “The Awakening” which begins The Dragon Heart Legacy Series. Jo Nesbo has written “The Kingdom.” Fans of Janet Evanovich will want to read the new Stephanie Plum novel “Fortune and Glory.”