Harlem Library

The library is closed this week through March 28 for staff training.

If you have completed the March Book Challenge, be sure to contact the library to have your name entered to win a gift certificate from a local business. The April Book Challenge is to read a book with an article of clothing in the title.

Weekly programs include Storytime for children ages 0-5 and their parents/caregivers on Tuesdays at 10:00 A.M.; After School Squad for elementary students on Wednesdays at 4:00 P.M. and Lego Club for all ages on Thursdays at 4 P.M. The Book Club, a book discussion group for adults, meets on Mondays at 4 P.M.

New titles ready for check out include “The Crash” by Freida McFadden. Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperate to leave her crumbling life behind. She hits the road, not realizing she’s headed into a blizzard. When she is stranded in rural Maine with a broken ankle, she is rescued by a couple who offer her a room in their cabin. But something isn’t right, and staying here may be the biggest mistake ever.

Alafair Burke is the author of “The Note.” May Hanover has been the rule-following good girl. When she and her friends Lauren and Kelsey are on a reunion in the Hamptons, a drunken prank goes wrong and May finds herself the center of a police investigation. She wonders if her friends have been keeping dangerous secrets. After all, it wouldn’t be the first time.

“The Truth According to Ember” by Danica Nava is a witty rom-com. Ember Lee Cardinal’s job search is not going great. When her resume is rejected for the thirty-seventh time, she gets “creative” in listing her qualifications and answers the ethnicity question with a half lie. No one wanted Native American Ember, but white Ember just landed her dream job. When she becomes involved with the IT guy against the no-dating policy, it lands her is a world of hurt.

A new nonfiction selection is “The JFK Conspiracy” by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch. This is the little-known true story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before his inauguration.

Other new books include “The Texas Murders” by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle, “Blood Ties” by Jo Nesbo, and “Shattering Dawn” by Jayne Ann Krentz.