Harlem Library

Today, Wednesday, April 28, the library board will meet at 4:15 P.M. in the library meeting room.

If you have completed the April Book Challenge to read a book in a different format than you usually do, please contact the library so your name can be entered to win a gift certificate from a local business. The Book Challenge for May is to read a book set in Montana.

Virtual Story Time is over for the year. Thanks to all who participated! Summer Reading is just around the corner. The theme this year is “Tails and Tales” and will explore the exciting world of animals! Watch for more information coming soon.

Early literacy is so important to instill the love of reading in your children and to prepare them for school. The library is sponsoring a program to help. “1000 Book Before Kindergarten” encourages families with infants, toddlers, and preschool age children to read to and with their children. Please contact the library for more information or visit the website to link to ReadSQUARED to log the books you read.

New books this week include “The Nature of Fragile Things” by Susan Meissner. On the eve of the infamous 1906 San Francisco earthquake the lives of three women intertwine as they are thrust on a perilous journey.

John Hart has written “The Unwilling.” After three tours in Vietnam, Jason French returns home hardened. His appetite for violence and heroine lands him in a North Carolina prison. After twenty-seven months he is released. On a drinking spree with his brother the day turns ugly when a woman in their car taunts the inmates in a prison bus and a riot erupts. Days later the woman is found dead and Jason is the prime suspect.

“The Four Winds” is the latest novel by Kristin Hannah. This story follows Elsa Wolcott from a life of invisibility in her wealthy family to life on a wheat farm on the Texas panhandle. When the Dust Bowl hits and her husband deserts the family, Elsa must make the difficult decision to find a better life for her children in California.

A new nonfiction selection is “The Black Church: This is Our Story, This Is Our Son” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Bestselling author Gates gives the history of “the Black Church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America.”

If you are looking for a thriller why not pick up “The Shadow Box” by Luanne Rice or “Every Last Fear” by Alex Finlay?

Congratulations to Cheryl Horn for winning the Fire HD 8 tablet during National Library Week. We asked patrons how they used the library during the pandemic and Cheryl was the lucky winner out of the entries.