Harlem Library

The Harlem Library Board of Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting today, October 30 at 4:30 P.M. in the library meeting room.

The Book Challenge for November is to read a book set in Montana. If you have completed the October Book Challenge please let the library staff know.

The library will be closed November 5 Election Day.

The Friends of the Harlem Library group is currently holding its annual membership drive. This non-profit, tax-exempt organization supports library causes and services. It also works to support the library through its fundraising efforts. New members are needed and your help is greatly appreciated. Membership dues are ten dollars annually and may be paid at the library or sent to Valerie VanVoast, PO Box 172, Turner MT 59542. Stop by the library for more information.

The library is seeking star quilts to display during the month of November in celebration of National Native American Heritage Month. If you have one or more star quilts you would like to loan us for the month, please bring it to the library this week marked with your name.

The Airmen’s Memorial Collection materials have been digitized by the Blaine County Museum staff. These are available online on the Montana History Portal at https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/118211. Thank you to the Blaine County Museum for completing this project.

Readers of Shari Lapena will want to pick up her latest novel “What Have You Done?” In the sleepy little village of Fairhill, Vermont, nothing ever happens. Until this morning - Diana Brewer isn’t lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead, her body has been found in a hayfield by a local farmer. Quickly a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects, a place of fear and paranoia.

“The Glass Maker” is by Tracy Chevalier. This transporting new novel follows a family of glassmakers in Venice at the height of the renaissance to the present day.

A new science-fiction selection by Deborah Harkness is “The Black Bird Oracle.” This is the fifth installment of the bestselling All Soul series.

Two women - separated by decades and continents, but united by an exotic family heirloom - reclaim secrets and lost love in “Husbands and Lovers” by Beatriz Williams.

Three new mysteries include “Shades of Mercy” by Burce Borgos, “Syndicate” by Felix Francis, and “Dog Day Afternoon” by David Rosenfelt.