Harlem Library

Today, July 24, the Friends of the Harlem Public Library are hosting a community appreciation event. A free taco bar will be served at the library from 4:00-6:00 P.M.

Summer Reading is drawing to a close. The final day for participants to bring in their reading logs to redeem minutes read for gift certificates is Friday, July 26. Teens and adults should also notify the library of books completed by that date. Grand prize winners will be announced the last week of July. Thanks to everyone who took part in the Summer Reading program.

All children’s library programs will take a break in August and resume in September.

Parents of infants and toddlers are encouraged to register their children for two literacy opportunities provided by the library. “1000 Books Before Kindergarten” helps parents prepare their children for school as they develop a love of reading. Keep track each time you read a book with your child. Prizes will be awarded at the time of registration, at the 500 book mark and when you reach 1000 books.

The second opportunity is Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Children ages 0-5 can receive a free high-quality book in the mail monthly. You may enroll your child using a link on the library website at http://www.harlempubliclibrary.org or at http://www.imaginationlibrary.com. You may also pick up a paper registration form at the library.

The library board of trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting Wednesday, July 31, 4:30 P.M. in the library meeting room.

Readers of Craig Johnson’s Longmire Series will want to check out the latest installment “First Frost.” “Tom Clancy: Act of Defiance” is the new Jack Ryan novel by Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson.

True Crime enthusiasts will want to pick up “College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight” by Shawn Cohen. Another new nonfiction title is “Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We’ll Win the Climate War” by Tom Steyer.

Eileen Garvin, author of “The Music of Bees” has written “Crow Talk.” Frankie O’Neill is a lonely ornithologist, returns to Beauty Bay on June Lake after a rift with her dissertation advisor. Anne Ryan is an Irish musician far from home who is raising her five-year-old son who refuses to speak. Frankie has lost her family and Anne has fled to her husband’s family’s summer home on Beauty Bay after a tragedy that has disrupted her career. A injured baby crow will bring the three lost souls together on a journey toward hope and healing.

“That Night in the Library” by Eve Jurczyk is a chilling library mystery that takes readers to a world where secrets live in the dark, books breathe fear to life, and the only way out is to wait until morning.

“Friends & Fun!” will take a break until September.

Stop by the library this week!