At the Library July 23, 2025
Regular Events: Crochet/Needle craft – Thursday’s at 1:00 pm Story Time – Wednesdays at 10:00, every 1st Saturday at 10:00 Book Club – 1st Saturday at 1:00 Memorials: Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Wilma Stultz Jenkins, given by Eleanor Stultz Heishman Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Theda Stultz Wintermoyer, given by Eleanor Stultz Heishman Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Violet Heishman Alder, given by Eleanor Stultz Heishman Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Evelyn Snyder Colston, given by Eleanor Stultz Heishman Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Renick Williams, given by The Pink Ribbon Ladies Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Helen Chambers, given by The Pink Ribbon Ladies Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Henry Fulton Wintermoyer, given by Eleanor Stultz Heishman Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Leona Evans Reynolds, given by Sandra Evans & family
New fiction:
Badlands : a Nora Kelly novel by Douglas J. Preston
In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found-and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands-lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Is it suicide or… sacrifice? Agent Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found-exactly like the other-the two realize the case runs deeper than they imagined. As Corrie and Nora pursue their investigation into remote canyons, haunted ruins, and long-lost rituals, they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber, threatens to exact an unspeakable price.
Don’t forget me, little Bessie : a novel by James Lee Burke
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful than humanity has ever seen, Bessie Holland yearns for the love that she has never known. She finds a soulmate and mentor in a brilliant but tormented suffragette English teacher, who inspires Bessie to fight the forces of evil that permeate her world. Watching the vast Texas countryside being destroyed by an oil company and a menacing figure with a violent past, Bessie is prepared to defend her home and her family. But when she accidentally kills an unarmed man to defend her father Hackberry, she must flee to New York. There, her older brother introduces her to boys who will grow into gangsters, but as children admire and respect Bessie’s spirit and fortitude as she is cast into a gangland that yearns for justice and mercy.
Finders keepers by Brett Battles
After attending an Arrington properties meeting on Martha’s Vineyard at the group’s newest location, The Vineyard Arrington, Stone Barrington returns to New York City to catch up with his old friend Jack Coulter over lunch, who requests Stone’s help in settling his niece Sara into city life post-divorce. Always one to please, Stone takes Sara under his wing. But when various men from Sara’s past start getting hurt, and Jack’s loved ones find themselves a target in a deadly scheme, it’s up to Stone to put the pieces together–before the shrouded conspirer manages to tear them all apart, permanently.
King of ashes : a novel by S. A. Cosby
When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother Dante in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister Neveah exhausted from holding the family–and the family business–together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dante’s recklessness has placed them all in real danger. Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wannabe tough guys, he’s forgotten that there are real gangsters out there.
New Non-Fiction:
The harder I fight, the more I love you : a memoir by Neko Case
Case brings her trademark candor and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl ‘raised by two dogs and a space heater’ in rural Washington state to her improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent, showing readers what it’s like to be left alone for hours and hours as a child, to take refuge in the woods around her home, and to channel the monotony and loneliness and joy that comes from music, camaraderie, and shared experience into art.
We can do hard things : answers to life’s 20 questions by Glennon Doyle
Why am I like this? — Who am I really? — How do I know when I’ve lost myself? — How do I return to myself? — How do I figure out what I want? — How do I know what to do? — How do I do the hard thing? — How do I let go? — How do I go on?……….
A history of the world in six plagues : how contagion, class, and captivity shaped us, from Cholera to COVID-19 by Edna Bonhomme
Bonhomme shows that throughout history, outbreaks of disease have been exacerbated by and gone on to further expand the racial, economic, and sociopolitical divides we allow to fester in times of good health.
Undeniable : how to reach the top and stay there by Cameron R. Hanes
Hanes brings together outliers of today–men and women who are experts in their field–to share their unique and motivating perspectives on reaching the pinnacle of success and remaining there.
New Easy Readers:
Who ate Steve? By Susannah Lloyd
Marcel is a bird and he is big. Steve is a worm, and he is… Wait a minute! Steve has DISAPPEARED! Does Marcel know something about it? And can he be persuaded to return that poor worm RIGHT NOW?!
The wombats go wild for words by Beth Ferry
A trio of wandering wombats with a passion for words inspire an enthusiastic duckling to transform her town from dull to dazzling.
Anything by Rebecca Stead
After moving to a new apartment, a father tells his daughter to wish for three Anythings, but when she admits she wishes to return to their old home, her dad helps her realize home is where they are together.
The peddler of puddles by Beth Perry
The Peddler travels the countryside making perfect puddles for all his forest friends. Puddles that delight ducks, refresh frogs, and satisfy even the thirstiest hummingbird. But being constantly on the go can be lonely, and it’s not until his friends step in that the Peddler discovers the joys of a home sweet home of his own.
