March 18, 2026
Welcome Spring!
Upcoming Events:
Rick Shockey returns for a book signing on March 19
Seedable returns within the next week or so. Plan your Spring planting with free seeds!
We will be celebrating Hardy County Students with a month long Art Show during April.
Regular Events:
Crochet/Needle craft – Thursday’s at 1:00 pm
Story Time – Wednesdays at 10:00
Book Club – 1st Saturday at 1:00
Memorials:
Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Woodrow Simmons; given by Eleanor Heishman
Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Leona Reynolds; given by Eleanor Heishman
New Fiction:
More than enough : a novel by Anna Quindlen
High school English teacher Polly Goodman can talk about everything and anything with the women in her book club, which is why they’ve become her closest friends and, along with the support of her veterinarian husband, the bedrock of her life. Her private school students, her fraught relationship with mother, her struggles with IVF-Polly’s book club friends have heard it all. But when they give Polly an ancestry test kit as a joke, the results match her with a stranger. Despite it seeming clear that this match is a mistake, Polly cannot help combing through her own family history for answers. Then, when it seems that the book club circle of four will become three, Polly learns how friendships can change your life in the most profound ways.
Want to know a secret? by Freida McFadden
Everyone has secrets. YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she’d rather you didn’t know. Like where did her son go when he snuck out of the house. What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows. And what’s buried in her backyard. Everyone has secrets. Some are worse than others. April’s secrets are enough to destroy her. I’ll make sure of that.
Death of a groom : by M. C. Beaton
It is February and the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh is dealing with heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth can handle the weather, but with a surprise influx of high-society visitors for a Valentine’s Day wedding at Tommel Castle Hotel, he has bigger problems. The guest list includes not one, but two women from his own romantic past! And Hamish isn’t the only one disrupted by the arrival of the wedding party. The groom – the supposedly suave and sophisticated Darius Palmerston – is involved in a series of incidents in the local pub. Tensions between guests and villagers escalate until, on the night of the wedding, Darius is found dead in the dining room – the cake-cutting sword plunged into his chest. Hamish suddenly has a murder investigation on his hands, and onewith a very long list of suspects.
The crossroads : a Joe Pickett novel by C. J. Box
Marybeth Pickett gets the call she has always dreaded: her husband Joe is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. Joe was found in his pickup at Antler Creek Junction, a crossroads connecting three ranches. Each road leading to a dangerous family. Each family with a different bone to pick with the local game warden. Marybeth and the new sheriff assume that Joe was ambushed by one of the families, but they have no idea which one since Joe didn’t say where he was going or why. With Joe unconscious and fighting for his life with Marybeth by his side, Sheridan, April, and Lucy split up and investigate each of families to uncover the truth of what happened to their father, before it’s too late.
Free falling by Jill Shalvis
Retired hockey player Caleb Colburn needs this construction project to prove himself in the family business, but he also needs to recover from the injury that ended his pro career. Too bad Emma Sumner, architect liaison and Caleb’s college nemesis, is back in town and assigned to the project.
They’re going to have to see each other almost every day. Which means once again she’ll make his life a living hell. As for Emma, her job is on the line with this big project, made all the more challenging by the project manager. Caleb was the one who had snagged the scholarship she’d desperately needed to stay in college. She’s been living hand to mouth ever since and has no intention of ever forgiving the man.
But the beautiful historic building they’re renovating is exactly the kind of project that they both love best. Their surprising common ground and a burning mutual attraction start bringing them closer and closer to a potentially explosive mistake. And that’s even before the secrets come out.
New Easy Readers:
Is it spring? by Kevin Henkes
Fickle weather makes for an uncertain yet hopeful changing of the seasons.
It’s spring! by Renée Kurilla
A celebration of warmer days, blooming flowers, and everything else the spring season has to offer.
How to grow a family tree by Bea Birdsong
A family tree assignment troubles a girl with a single mom and no ties with relatives, until she realizes she has a found family in her neighbors.
A fluffle of bunnies by Christie Matheson
A scurry of squirrels ask a charm of goldfinches, a ballet of swans, an army of frogs, and more woodland animals if they have seen a missing rabbit.
When I redraw the world by Audrey Vernick
A young girl imagines what the world would look like if she had the power to redraw everything.
