Blaine County Library

The final Blaine County Book Club meeting for the winter was held Tuesday February 25th. We had a small group, but a great discussion about the book, “The Flood Girls” by Richard Fifield. The Blaine County Museum and the Blaine County Library look forward to collaborating to present this program again in October. If you participated, it would be helpful if you could fill out a short survey, which you can get at the museum or the library for the final report to the Humanities Montana. A grant from the Humanities enabled us to bring the book club to the community.

We have a variety of new books ready for check out this week. “Dream State” by Eric Puchner is the new Oprah’s Book Club selection. It is set in Salish, Montana at a lake house and is a story of relationships built and broken, mistakes inherited and repeated, and the beauty of trying again. “The Wedding People” by Alison Espach is a Read with Jenna book. It is the story about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew. “The Queens of Crime” by Marie Benedict is a thrilling story of the five greatest women writers of the Golden Age of Mystery and their bid to solve a real-life murder. “Nemesis” by Greg Hurwitz is an Orphan X novel. After the murder of her best friend, a librarian’s search for answers leads back to her own dark secrets in “The Quiet Librarian” by Allen Eskins. Outlaw falconer Nate Romanowski is off the grid and out for revenge in “Battle Mountain” by CJ Box, a Joe Pickett novel.

We have a couple of non-fiction books available this week. “Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner, an indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, is an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American. “The Stable Boy of Auschwitz” by Henry Oster is a heart-wrenching memoir from a Holocaust survivor that reveals the terrible realities of life in Auschwitz—and how a courageous young stable boy survived against all odds to tell his story.