Harlem Library

The Summer Reading Grand Prize winners include: Emma VanValkenburg in the 0-5 age category, Feather Cuts the Rope in grades 1-8, and Rosie Main in the Teens & Adults group. Congratulations to our winners and all our readers who took part in the Summer Reading program.

Thanks to the Friends of the Library for hosting our community appreciation taco bar. What a great turn out we had!

The Book Challenge for August is to read a book with a person’s name in the title. Come check out the display to help in your selection.

Did you know the library has puzzles and games you may check out? Thanks to those generous people who have donated to our collection.

The regular programs are taking a break during the month of August, but they will start up again in September. Watch our website and Facebook page for the dates and times.

Douglas Preston has written “Extinction.” In the Colorado Rockies Erebus Resort offers guests the experience of viewing Irish elk, wooly mammoths, and giant ground sloths in the native habitat, brought back from extinction through genetic manipulation. A billionaire’s son and wife are kidnapped and murdered by what is assumed to be a group of ecoterrorists. Tracking down the perpetrators, Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent Frances Cash and county sheriff James Colcord must confront and ancient presence at Erebus bent on extinction.

A new James Patterson Women’s Murder Club novel is “The 24th Hour.” “Clive Cussler: The Heist,” an Isaac Bell adventure, is written by Jack De Brul. John Connolly’s latest work is “The Instruments of Darkness.”

“The Midnight Feast” is by Lucy Foley. The Manor, a luxe coastal retreat, is having its opening night and no expense has been spared. Just outside the grounds the forest is brimming with secrets. The local community resents the intrusion of The Manor on the area. On the opening weekend the police are called to investigate a fire. A body had been discovered. What happened on the grounds in the past thirty-six hours and who or what it the cause?

Peter Swanson’s new twisty mystery is “A Talent for Murder.” Martha Ratliff, a librarian in Maine, has recently married Alan, a salesman who is on the road for half the year. When she discovers a blood streak on the back of a shirt he’d worn to a conference in Denver her suspicions take hold . Martha investigates the cities Alan has visited over the past year, and uncovers a disturbing pattern - five unsolved cases of murdered women.