April 8, 2026
Upcoming Events:
SEEDABLE is BACK! Start your Spring planting with free seeds! Stop in for more details.
2026 Student Art Show, sponsored by the Friends of the Library
Stop in the library to see the students’ hard work and creativity on display!
Elementary display April 4 – April 17; Reception on Saturday, April 11 from 1:00 – 2:00
Middle & High School display will be April 18 – May 1.
Special extended hours on Tuesdays until 7:00pm to allow for viewing.
Regular Events:
Crochet/Needle craft – Thursday’s at 1:00 pm
Story Time – Wednesdays at 10:00
Book Club – 1 st Saturday at 1:00
Memorials:
Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Rod Gunter, given by The Pink Ribbon Ladies.
New Fiction:
Judge Stone : a novel by James Patterson
The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities sacred: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. It’s there she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South. Criminally, it’s open-and-shut. Ethically, there is no middle ground. Essentially, it’s a choice between life and death. No judge can satisfy everyone. It would be dangerous to try. But Judge Stone is willing to fight to bring justice to the people and place she loves.
What happened that night: a novel by Nicci French
Tyler Green, convicted of murdering his friend at a house party in 1993, has been released after almost three decades in prison. He has always insisted on his innocence. One night, he summons his friends to discuss that fateful night…and one ends up dead. Detective Maud O’Conner is called to investigate.
The Hadacol Boogie by James Lee Burke
When a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux’s property, he knows his world and family are about to change. With Valerie Benoit, a detective new to the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Department who is grappling with sexist and racist harassment from their colleagues, and the volatile but fiercely loyal Clete Purcel, Dave embarks on an investigation that brings him into the most dangerous moments of his career and threatens the lives of Valerie and his daughter Alafair. He encounters a local handyman who leaves cryptic notes and warns of the ghosts who roam the shores of the bayou and is targeted by a vicious New Orleans button man and gangsters from the north.
The orchard by Peter Heller
Hayley and her seven-year old daughter Frith live in a rustic cabin with no electricity in the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains. A renowned translator of Tang dynasty poetry, Hayley walked away from her career and her addict husband to raise Frith alone in a land populated not by ambition-fueled academics but by hawks, beavers, and other wild things–including their exuberant Bernese Mountain dog Bear. They get by on what little they earn from their overgrown apple orchard and the syrup they make from their maple trees. Frith–precocious, homeschooled, and a voracious reader–considers herself queen of this backwoods paradise. She is too young to understand the pain and regret that have followed her mother here.
When I kill you by B. A. Paris
Nell Masters is certain someone is following her. The hairs on the back of her neck rise when she travels to and from work, there are silent calls to her office, and a huge bouquet of flowers arrives without a card. And Nell has a reason to be looking over her shoulder, because she has a secret that she’s hiding from everyone in her life, including her new partner, Alex. But Alex also has secrets of his own. Fourteen years earlier, when Nell went by the name Elle Nugent, she witnessed a student, Bryony Sanders, getting into a stranger’s car. When Bryony was found murdered, Elle became obsessed with finding the person responsible. She was convinced she knew who it was and her fixation with Brett Parker, the man she accused, led her down a dangerous path. Now, Nell tries to convince herself that this unnerving feeling of being watched is all in her mind. Has someone from her past discovered her new identity? Has the stalker become the stalked? Or is there something even more deadly at play?
New Easy Readers:
The selfish sister by David Sedaris
This selfish sister only thinks of herself, and she wants it all–even her brother’s kidney! Everything must belong to her! But who can possibly tell her?”Her family must cater to every whim–but where does that leave sister in the end?
Because of a shoe by Julie Fogliano
Even when it’s time to put on our favorite shoes and leave the house, and even when that time turns into a tantrum where someone can’t stop screaming, or flopping on the floor, or throwing a shoe across the room, and someone is making their maddest face and everyone else is waiting… Even then, nothing can come between the loving bond of a mother and their child. Not even a shoe.
Daddy plays a mean guitar by Jane Yolen
Waaaah, didi-waa-waa, bleep! A child’s daddy plays a mean guitar, but it’s not the only sound that fills this family’s day. From the vroom vroom zoomba zoom of the bus to the hum hummmm while setting the dinner table, all these joyful sounds and beats have one thing in common…love!
Forty the Fortune Teller by Drew Daywalt
Forty the Fortune Teller, along with her friends Potato Chip and Basketball, convinces a team of chewed-up chewing gum to help repair the playground slide so that the kids at school won’t get hurt.
The winding willow by Will Hillenbrand
On his way home in the snow, Hubert finds a tree full of lost possessions, including some that belong to his family, and faces a hungry owl before bringing his found trinkets home.
