FEBRUARY 2025 CALENDAR
Cribbage Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00 a.m. – noon. Come when you can, stay as long as you are able.
Gentle Yoga Mondays & Wednesdays @ 10:00 a.m. Call the library for more information.
Dungeons & Dragons Saturdays 9:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Open to new players ages 13-17.
Toddler Time with Guest Storyteller, Kayla. Thursday, February 13th @ 10:00 a.m.
PALS Valentine Goodie Box Fundraiser Thursday & Friday February 13th & 14th NOON – 4:00 p.m. Boxes will contain Homemade cookies, bars and candy! Proceeds to benefit Children’s Educational programming.
CLOSED for President’s Day Monday, February 17th.
Poetry Club Wednesday February 19th
NEW BOOKS
Better Than Friends by Jill Shalvis. When Olive Porter’s off-the-grid parents go missing, she reluctantly seeks out Noah Turner, her ex and the only person she both trusts implicitly and not at all. As a special investigative agent for the National Park Service, Noah’s used to living under intense pressure. Or he was until he got injured on the job. Now unhappily recuperating at home while being smothered by his loving but nosy family, he’d love nothing more than a good distraction. So when Olive shows up looking like a million bucks, he has to do a gut and heart check. Because nope, no matter what, he can’t fall for her again, the woman who once blew up his entire life and never looked back. How ironic then that his own personal hell (Olive) is also his ticket out of town. The question is, will the risk be worth the reward?
Dreaming of Autumn Skies by V. C. Andrews. With her mother deceased and her father remarried, Caroline is forced to live with her domineering grandfather. But having endured so much loss and cruelty in her young life, she is determined to not let her suffering to have been in vain. Soon, Caroline embarks on a campaign to reclaim her own power and win over the most influential person in her family. She will stop at nothing to build the life—and the independence—she so desperately dreams of.
One in a Million by Janet Dailey. It’s Texas-style drama, scandal, and corruption set in the world of ranching, when the death of a powerful man leaves families at odds, a high-stakes reining competition in the balance, and forbidden attractions in the mix . . . Frank Culhane may be the wealthy patriarch of one of Texas’ most prestigious families, but his party girl daughter, Jasmine, is only interested in the money the ranch brings in—and the cowboys.
Robert Ludlum’s the Bourne Vendetta by Brian Freeman. A love from Bourne’s past seeks his help when assassins threaten her husband, but only treachery burns hotter than true love in the New York Times bestselling series. Two years ago, Bourne knew he had to let Abbey Laurent walk away from his dangerous world. Now Abbey is back – and she’s married to a top government official. But she’s convinced someone is trying to kill her husband, and she wants Jason’s help. Bourne follows the plot against this man into a deadly web of conspiracy that puts them all at risk. But the deeper he descends into the violence, the more he believes that Abbey may not know who her husband really is.
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler. Gail Baines is long divorced from her husband, Max, and not especially close to her grown daughter, Debbie. Today is the day before Debbie’s wedding. To start, Gail loses her job-or quits, depending who you ask. Then, Max arrives unannounced on Gail’s doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay and without even a suit in which to walk their daughter down the aisle. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband-to-be. It will not only throw the wedding itself into question but also send Gail back into her past and how her own relationship fell apart.
Three Wild Dogs: and the Truth by Marcus Zusak. What happens when the Zusak family opens their home to three big, wild, street-hardened dogs–Reuben, more wolf than hound; Archer, blond, beautiful, destructive; and the rancorously smiling Frosty, who walks like a rolling thunderstorm? The answer can only be chaos: there are street fights, park fights, public shaming’s, property damages, injuries, hospital visits, wellness checks, pure comedy, shocking tragedy, and carnage that must be read to be believed. This memoir about the human need for both connection and disorder, a love letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty–but also the visceral truth of the natural world–straight to our doors and into our lives and change us forever.