Blaine County Library

The Blaine County Library Board of Trustees will hold their regular monthly meeting Monday February 24th at 4:30 p.m. in the library meeting room.

February is National Library Lover’s Month! The entire month of February is dedicated to celebrating libraries, librarians, book lovers and lovers of libraries. So why love your local library? Libraries are a sanctuary away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life; they offer security and peace and quiet. They are also a place where you can focus surrounded by like-minded people with the desire to acquire knowledge. The library is a community gathering place filled with books, movies, newspapers, magazines, audio books, and lots of great ideas.

We encourage you to stop in this month and tell us why you Love Your Library! We will have drawings for door prizes at the end of the month. Elle will have a book display to celebrate Library Lover’s Month. February is also Black History Month, and we will have a display of books to celebrate that as well.

There is still time to get the next book club book. It is available at the library for checkout and at the museum for purchase. “The Flood Girls” by Richard Fifield welcomes readers to Quinn, Montana, population: 956. A town where nearly all the volunteer firemen are named Jim, where The Dirty Shame—the only bar in town—refuses to serve mixed drinks (too much work), where the locals hate the newcomers (then again, they hate the locals, too), and where the town softball team has never even come close to having a winning season. Until now. Rachel Flood has snuck back into town after leaving behind a trail of chaos nine years prior. She’s here to make amends, but nobody wants to hear it, especially her mother, Laverna. But with the help of a local boy named Jake and a little soul-searching, she just might make things right. This will be the final book for the winter. We will meet at the museum on Thursday February 27th at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the book.

In “Grave Danger” by James Grippando, legendary criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck is back to defend a single mother accused of kidnapping her own child in a perilous case involving politics and international diplomacy that will test his legal expertise and his marriage. Psychologist Alex Delaware and Homicide Detective Milo Sturgis race against time to find a twisted killer in “Open Season” by Jonathan Kellerman. “The Oligarch’s Daughter” by Joseph Finder is another thriller ready for checkout. Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness to evade Russian operatives who can seemingly predict his every move. Six years ago, Paul was a rising star on Wall Street who fell in love with a beautiful photographer named Tatyana—unaware that her father was a Russian oligarch and the object of considerable interest from several U.S. intelligence agencies. Now, to save his own life, Paul must unravel a decades-old conspiracy that extends to the highest reaches of the government.

We have a couple of non-fiction books available this week. “You Saved Me, Too” by Susan Kushner Resnick is the story about what a Holocaust survivor taught Resnick about living, dying, fighting, Loving, and swearing in Yiddish. “The Food Adventurers” by Daniel Bender tells how circumglobal travel shaped popular fascination with world cuisines, and leads readers on a culinary tour.