Harlem Library

February is National Library Lovers month and to celebrate the Harlem Library is hosting the “Love Chocolate…Love Your Library!” event Monday, February 13 from 4:00 -7:00 P.M. Stop by any time between those hours and take part in the fun! Activities include chocolate crafts, voting on decorated chocolate cakes (which will be given away as door-prizes), fondue table, photo booth, chocolate temptations tasting table and vendors who will be selling chocolate confections. This is a great time to pick up those last-minute Valentine gifts! We are still looking for vendors to sell their creations so call the library if you are interested. Everyone is invited to come and enjoy this event and show their library some love.

The Book Challenge for February is to read one of the librarians’ favorite books! If you have completed the January Book Challenge please contact the library to have your name entered to win a gift card from a local business.

The Book Club’s new selection is “Liberty Lanes” by Robin Troy. This is a heart-warming novel about a group of elders from a small Montana town bound together by friendship, old romances, living life to the fullest and bowling at Liberty Lanes. You may pick up your copy this week and the first discussion will take place February 6 at 4 P.M.

The library has a puzzle table ready and waiting for you to do your part.

Come to the library if you need tax forms. We are happy to print them for you at no cost.

“The Ninth Month” is a new James Patterson and Richard DiLallo novel. Emily Atkinson is a successful marketing executive in NYC who lands in the hospital with a double diagnosis: she parties too much and she is pregnant. As a series of women in her social circle go missing, Emily realizes she is a killer’s target.

Laurie Lico Albanese is the author of “Hester.” Inspired by “The Scarlet Letter,” Isobel Gamble, a young immigrant, grapples with the legacy of witchcraft and the horrors of slavery coming to the conclusion that America’s ideas of freedom and liberty often fall short of their promise.

“The Couple at the Table” by Sophie Hannah is a twisting thriller. Jane and William are enjoying their honeymoon until Jane receives a chilling note warning her to “beware of the couple at the table nearest you.”

Deanna Raybourn has written “Killers of a Certain Age.” Four female friends have spent their lives as deadly assassins in a clandestine international organization. Now in their sixties, they are sent on an all-expenses-paid vacation only to realizes they are being marked for death.

“Body of Evidence” by Irene Hannon is the third installment in the Triple Threat series. A new western is “Old Cowboys Never Die” by William W. Johnstone. “Voice of Fear” is a Krewe of Hunters novel by Heather Graham.