Harlem Library

The Friends of the Harlem Library will be hosting their annual membership meeting on Wednesday, October 16, 6 P.M. at the Harlem Library. There will be a free soup supper followed by the business meeting. All current members and prospective members are invited. The Friends are seeking new members so please come and support your local library. Annual dues of ten dollars may be paid at this meeting.

The Book Challenge for October is to read a book with antonyms in the title.

During the month of October stop by and “Buy a Bag O’Books!” For only one dollar you may buy a grocery sack full of used books from the Reading Room.

The library will be observing National Native American Heritage Month during November. As part of this celebration the library is seeking star quilts to display during the month. If you have one or more star quilts you would be willing to loan us, please bring it to the library during the last week of October. Please mark the quilt(s) with your name. Watch for more information concerning other events the library will be hosting during November.

There will be no After School Squad, today, October 16 or Lego Club, October 17. Regular programs will resume next week.

The Book Club meets Mondays at 4 P.M. in the meeting room. We are currently reading “The Lions of Fifth Avenue” by Fiona Davis.

The leaves are falling and books are calling! Stop by your library this week to see what new titles we have for check out.

“An Unfinished Murder” is by Jude Deveraux. Sara Medlar is retired as a bestselling author and now spends her free time working with her niece and honorary grandson solving mysteries in their small town of Lachlan, Florida. When the trio visits the infamous Lachlan House, they make a grim discovery. After finding a skeleton dressed in a rotting tuxedo, Sara is determined to uncover the truth of the dead man’s history and his past secrets.

Bruce Borgos is the author of “The Bitter Past.” Sheriff Porter Beck’s life in the high desert of Nevada is relatively quiet until an old retired FBI agent is found tortured and murdered. Clues point to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age and a long-ago Russian spy.

A Melani Travis canine mystery is “Pumpkin Spice Puppy” by Laurien Berenson. A new Lost and Found suspense novel by Fern Michaels is “Proof.” Catherine Coulter’s latest FBI thriller is “Flashpoint.”

“The Briar Club” is the latest historical fiction novel by Kate Quinn. Set in Washington, D.C., in 1950 this novel is a story of female friendship during the McCarthy era. Briarwood House is an all-female boarding house where secrets hide behind white picket fences. When a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide who is the true enemy in their midst.