The Friends of the Library’s Summer Fundraiser has been successful to date — thank you! Online giving also available, via QR code on our Hardy County Library – Moorefield FB page. The ADULT PROGRAM is growing / Book Club, Crochet/Knitting/Handwork still in place and open for more members, the Strawberry Class was terrific!
A beginning quilting and also a weaving expert are interested and discussing availability … What we need now is to know YOUR interests — classes can happen with a minimum of five folk — no maximum …
Please FB, call, come in and let us know your interests;
Home repair? Fishing? Motorcycles? Finances? Build an interest group and FOL will help find a teacher!
Memorials:
Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Irene Webster; given by The Pink Ribbon Ladies.
Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Irene Webster; given by Susan Nichols.
Regular Events:
Crochet/Needle craft – Thursdays at 1 p.m.
Story Time – Wednesdays at 10:00
Book Club – 1st Saturday at 1 p.m.
New Fiction:
Not a Word: a novel; by Linwood Barclay
Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents’ house, he’s shocked to find them in bed, dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there’s clearly more to the story. For starters, inconsistencies in the crime scene suggest his dad may not have shot himself. As Reece, shaken by his horrifying discovery, awaits questioning from the police. His phone lights up with a call. It’s the last person he ever would have expected to hear from.
Reeling from the day’s events, Reece finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew about his parents–and whether he and his own family are in danger now. While the authorities work to untangle the baffling crime scene, Reece is pulled into a web of secrets linked to the unscrupulous pharma company his father worked for years ago. In order to protect the people he loves most, he’ll have to dig deep into his own past to understand who his parents were, what they did, and who they hurt–before he ends up paying for their sins.
Cul-de-sac : a novel; by Joy Fielding
A shooting lays bare the secrets harbored by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Wrong Places,
The Boat House; by Fern Michaels
An unexpected inheritance from their late uncle brought Madison (Taylor) Wainwright and her brother Lincoln to Smuggler’s Cove. But it’s the quirky, close-knit locals who’ve convinced them to stay for the summer. The little town may be worlds away from the privileged existence the siblings knew before their father was arrested for fraud, but here, they’ve found a sense of belonging. After renovating the dilapidated boat house that once served as a local marina for crabbers and clammers, Madison and Lincoln are settling in for a true Jersey Shore summer, complete with the town’s famous Seafood Festival. Visitors love learning about the area’s history–the tales of pirates and privateers, cryptic maps and buried treasure. Those stories seem like harmless fantasy until a seemingly worthless map is stolen from their boathouse. Could their uncle’s rudimentary map show the true location of Captain Kidd’s treasure? Or was there another, more sinister motive behind the theft? As Madison and Lincoln dig deeper, they learn that the legends underpinning Smuggler’s Cove’s history may also have the power to tear it apart, unless they can quickly separate fiction from fact, and guilty from innocent.
Big Little Truths: a novel; by Liane Moriarty
The last time we saw the women of Big Little Lies–Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie–their children were five years old. If someone wasn’t invited to a birthday party, feelings were hurt. But ten years have passed and the kids are in high school, navigating all of the drama that accompanies teendom (goodbye playdates, hello drugs, sex, and alcohol). When the high school principal receives a threatening package in the mail, word quickly spreads throughout the community and parents are in an uproar. But Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie have other things to worry about.
Celeste’s mother-in-law, Mary Louise, is behaving oddly–is it old-age forgetfulness and bluntness or something more sinister? Madeline is facing perhaps the biggest challenge of her life, Jane is at a dangerous fork in her marriage, Celeste’s mother-in-law, Mary Louise, is behaving oddly–is it old-age forgetfulness and bluntness or something more sinister? Madeline is facing perhaps the biggest challenge of her life, Jane is at a dangerous fork in her marriage, Bonnie has realized there’s only so much solace in yoga.
And Renata? Renata is living her best life–revenge is sweet. And Renata? Renata is living her best life–revenge is sweet. When a stranger begins lurking around the school asking supposedly innocent questions, this tightly connected group of women must finally face the full repercussions of the big little truths they have and haven’t shared with their kids. Because the stakes are now much higher than not being invited to an ice-skating party–and the ice has never been thinner for any of them.
The True Meaning of Love: a novel; by Danielle Steel
February 24 is the eighteenth birthday of a Ukrainian ballet school student named Vlad. It also happens to be the day that the first bombs of the 2022 Russian attack land on his homeland. As life for every person in the country is turned upside down in a moment, Vlad is immediately called up to serve in the military. But as much as he wants to defend his country, he is desperate to get his girlfriend, Tatyanna, an orphan whose only home has been the ballet school, out of the country. With their home under siege, Tatyanna tries to make her way to safety in Poland. Also joining the refugees is Yulya, who is torn between getting her young children across the border and staying at the side of her husband, Symon, and her elderly parents, Petro and Oxana, who refuse to abandon their home.
As millions flee, Vlad and Symon join a volunteer civilians’ unit to fight. Even elderly citizens like Petro and Oxana are given AK-47s, though soon starvation becomes as much of a threat as the encroaching troops. Sasha, an obstetrician, and Anton, a surgeon, who are secretly lovers, stay behind to treat the never-ending waves of wounded. When the Russians bomb hospitals, the heroic couple finds themselves delivering babies in bomb shelters. Through the stories of Vlad, Tatyanna, Yulya, Symon, Sasha, and Anton–each struggling to protect their loved ones and preserve their own humanity.
New Easy Readers:
Cat’s Halloween; by Alison Murray
Cat despises everything about Halloween, but when he tries to escape the holiday altogether, he discovers that celebrating with loved ones might make it magical after all.
Sunday Scaries; By Debra Kempf Shumaker
Young Josie becomes anxious on Sundays about returning to school the next day, but with help from her family, she learns to soothe her worries and look forward to the week ahead.
My Kentucky moonlight school; by Kim Michele Richardson
In a small Kentucky holler in 1913, a young girl named Jewel accompanies her grandparents to
Moonlight School, a night school where adults of all ages can gain an education, as she proudly celebrates their accomplishments.
Three little witches and the spooky old house; by Peggy Archer
Three witches stir up a cozy Halloween surprise inside a house that is not as haunted as it seems.
