JULY 2024 CALENDAR
Cribbage Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00 a.m. – noon. Come when you can, stay as long as you are able.
Drop Everything and Read Fridays from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Bring a pillow, check out a book, and find a quiet place in the library to spend an hour just reading! Shhhhhhhh!
Lunch & Learn with Catherine Van Hove, author of I’m Packin’ Insulin Wednesday, July 17th 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
PALS Meeting Monday, July 22nd @ 6:00 p.m.
Kwik Star Walk-In Interviews Thursday, July 25th 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
PALS 2nd Annual Dessert “BAR CRAWL” Saturday, July 27th @ 10:00 a.m.
Potluck Club Monday, July 29th @ noon. The theme is picnic foods. Adults are welcome at this event.
Summer Library Program: Color Run & Walk *located at the Stuart Sports Complex Monday, July 29th @ 3:00 p.m. Feel free to bring water guns for water play following the run!
NEW BOOKS
8 Down by Kimberley Woodhouse. 8 more lives at stake. Investigator Carrie Kintz is new blood with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation in Anchorage. But with a serial killer on the loose, there’s no easing into the job. It’s sink or swim. The only clues to help law enforcement stop this madman are the taunts he drops into crossword puzzles across the country–always in the same 8 DOWN position.
A Choice Considered by Tracie Peterson.Love has a way of derailing even the most carefully laid plans Melody Doyle has spent years following her father across the country as the transcontinental railroad is built. When she announces her desire to settle down in Cheyenne, her father presents her with an unconventional challenge: he will allow her to stay if she finds a husband before his departure.
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng. The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When “Willie” Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert’s, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one.
How We Named the Stars by Andres N. Ordorica. Equal parts tender and triumphant, Andrés N. Ordorica’s How We Named the Stars is a debut novel of love, heartache, redemption, and learning to honor the dead; a story of finding the strength to figure out who you are–and who you could be–if only the world would let you.
Letters of Wisdom by Wanda E. Brunstetter. Doretta Schwartz has always enjoyed writing letters and feels her letters can be a bit of a ministry to her friends. In this series, exchanging letters that contain open and honest feelings and struggles helps Doretta and two of her best friends through the darkest challenges of their lives.
Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson. Probably Ruby is a dazzling novel about a bold, unapologetic woman taking control of her life and story, and marks the debut of a major new voice in Indigenous fiction.