FEBRUARY 2023 CALENDAR
Cribbage Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00 a.m. – noon.
Toddler Time Thursdays @ 10:00 a.m.
Poetry Group Wednesday, February 15th @ 1:00 p.m.
CLOSED MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH PRESIDENT’S DAY
Toastmasters Wednesday, February 22nd @ noon
Nine Square Feet – Seed Swap Saturday, February 25th 10:00 a.m. – noon
Book Club Monday, February 27th @ 5:00 p.m.
Trustee Meeting Monday, February 27th @ 5:30 p.m.
PALS Meeting Monday, February 27th @ 6:00 p.m.
The library has many on-line resources to meet your needs. For instance, The People’s Law Library is brought to us by the State Library of Iowa and can be found on our website stuartlibrary.org where you can research topics about Consumer Law, Family Law, and Landlord/Tenant Law. When you have a legal information question, you can submit it to the State Law Librarian of Iowa found on our website and here at www.peopleslawiowa.org.
NEW BOOKS
Code Name Sapphire by Pam Jenoff. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind.
Encore in Death: An Eve Dallas novel by J.D. Robb. J. D. Robb (pseudonym for Nora Roberts) infuses murder, suspense, and drama in Encore in Death, a well-written futuristic police procedural set in New York City featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas with the NYC police department and set around 2061.
The House at the End of the World by Dean R. Koontz. In this paranormal thriller, Katie lives alone in a stone house on Jacob’s Ladder Island. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob’s Ladder in search of someone or something they refuse to identify. Although an air of menace hangs over these men, an infinitely greater threat has arrived, one so strange even the island animals are in a state of high alarm. Katie soon finds herself in an epic and terrifying battle with a mysterious enemy. As Katie struggles across a dark and eerie landscape, against her is an omnipresent terror that could bring about the end of the world.
Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica. Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend’s house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found. Lily Scott, Nina’s friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. After Lily confesses everything to her husband, Christian, the two decide that nobody can find out what happened leading up to Jake’s disappearance, especially not Nina. But Nina is out there looking for her husband, and she won’t stop until the truth is discovered.
Maame by Jessica George. Jessica George’s Maame deals with the themes of our time with humor and poignancy: from familial duty and racism, to female pleasure, the complexity of love, and the life-saving power of friendship. Most important, it explores what it feels like to be torn between two homes and cultures-and it celebrates finally being able to find where you belong.
Moonrise Over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks. It’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup’s status quo and could lead to the young couple’s expulsion-or worse-from the home they hold dear. But as Raymond continues to push alternatives for enhancing New Jessup’s political power, Alice must find a way to balance her undying support for his underground work with her desire to protect New Jessup from the rising pressure of upheavals both in and out of town