Harlem Library

Stop by your library and see the new selections ready to be checked out!

“The Other Black Girl” is by Zakiya Dalila Harris. Editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only black girl at Wagner Books and is excited when Hazel-May McCall starts working at the next cubicle. But soon Nella is targeted as the office enemy and Hazel becomes the office darling. Threatening notes appear on Nella’s desk. She uncovers sinister forces at play and she realizes she may lose more than her career.

Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is called to investigate the suspicious drowning of a wealthy professor. But soon he finds himself in a life-or-death battle to stay alive. Don’t miss the latest thriller by Paul Doiron “Dead by Dawn.”

“Our Woman in Moscow” is written by Beatriz Williams. In 1948 Iris Digby and her diplomat husband vanish from London with their children. Did Soviet intelligence cause them to disappear? Did they defect to Moscow along with the West’s vital secrets? Four years later Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from her twin sister, Iris. Within days Ruth is on her way to Moscow to rescue her sister where they must face a choice between two irreconcilable loyalties.

T.L. Lowe has written “Under the Magnolias.” Austin Foster is but a teenager when her mother dies giving birth to twins. Austin is left to care for her six siblings. Life on the tobacco farm is not easy and the family must rely on the kindness of others to see them through. But keeping secret what is going on at Nolia Farms is almost more than Austin can bear.

Two other thrillers include “Choose Me” by Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver and “False Witness” by Karin Slaughter.

If you have completed The Book Challenge for September please contact the library. The Book Challenge for October is to read a weather-related book or a story where weather plays an important part in the plot.

Storytime for children ages 0-5 meets every Tuesday morning at 10 A.M. in the library meeting room. After School Squad for elementary students is held each Wednesday at 3:30 with a focus on STEAM activities. Lego Club for all ages meets Thursdays at 4:30. Preschool children must be accompanied by an adult.

The Book Club members may pick up the new selection “The Book of Secrets” by Elizabeth Joy Arnold October 4-15. The first discussion will be October 18, 4 P.M.

The library will be closed October 11 in observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Those of you who attended the Rock Painting Party may pick up you rocks anytime.