JULY 2023 CALENDAR
Cribbage Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00 a.m. – noon.
Toddler Time Thursdays 10:00 a.m.
PALS Bar Crawl Saturday, July 29th! The “BAR” Crawl Bar Recipe Challenges the best bakers in our community. We’ve got the bakers and now we need the taste testers! Join us at 10:00a.m. and not a minute earlier! 😊 The winners will receive a small prize and bragging rights!
Summer Library Program – Color Run Monday, July 31st – 1:00 p.m. @ Sports Complex. Wear old clothes!
Book Club Monday, July 31st @ 5:00 p.m.
International Travel Scholarship awardees, Avery Hazen and Landry Norton will share their travel adventures on Monday, July 31st @ 6:15 p.m.
Cookbook Club Wednesday, August 2nd @ noon. Theme: Tailgating!
Smash Journaling Wednesday, August 2nd 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Summer Library Program Swim Party Saturday, August 5th 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Last Day to turn in Reading Logs!!! Monday, August 7th by 6:00 p.m. NO EXCEPTIONS
Books & Badges Thursday, August 10th @ 10:00 a.m.
NEW BOOKS
American Blood by Jason Manning. 1846. The territory of New Mexico has fallen to United States forces. Hugh Falconer – tracker, trapper, explorer, mountain man – rides to Taos to rendezvous with old friends at the wilderness outpost of Turley’s Mill.
Coldwater Range by John D. Nesbitt. Del Rowland, working for Bill Overlin at the Spoke ranch, begins to doubt the boss’s integrity when Overlin and others bully a homesteader named Holt Warren and goad him into a fatal gunfight. Del’s curiosity increases as he gets to know Overlin’s stepdaughter, Lawna, and hears stories from saloon patrons.
Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese. A stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret.
The Enigma of Garlic by Alexander McCall Smith. The latest installment in the charming and congenial 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite residents of Scotland’s most celebrated address up to their usual hilarious hijinks.
Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke. A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters – enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers – are caught in the maelstrom.
If She Only Knew by Lisa Jackson. Left with fractured memories following the car accident that nearly took her life, Marla Cahill finds herself surrounded by a family of strangers and in deadly danger from a twisted killer who fears what she may remember.
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See. In 15th century China two women are born under the same sign, the Metal Snake. But life will take the friends on very different paths.
The Laws of Attraction by Mary Connealy.”A richly detailed adventure that captivates till the end.”–Publishers Weekly.
Livid by Patricia Cornwell. Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge’s sister has been found dead. At first glance, it appears to be a home invasion, but then why was nothing stolen, and why is the garden strewn with dead plants and insects?
Palazzo by Danielle Steel. Palazzo is a riveting novel about family, love and legacy set in the cut-throat world of Italian fashion, from the billion-copy bestselling author Danielle Steel.
Pinecraft Refuge by Lenora Worth. Can an escape from her present…
Become the future she’s always wanted?
Pony Boys by Richard Prosch. In 1879, the notorious horse thief Doc Middleton rules the Niobrara rough country west of Holt County, Nebraska, with a loose affiliation of young outlaws, dubbed the Pony Boys. Albert “Kid” Wade, August John, Windy Barnes, Boots Harper, and a dozen other amoral roughnecks spent their days stealing horses, raising hell, and generally having the time of their lives.
Remember Me by Mary Balogh. Can Lady Philippa Ware forgive the man who once shattered all her youthful dreams? Discover the passionate and heartwarming new novel on the redemptive power of love from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh.
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao.
Zero Days by Ruth Ware. The New York Times bestselling “new Agatha Christie” (Air Mail) Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller that combines Mr. and Mrs. Smith with the fugitive about a woman in a race against time to clear her name and find her husband’s murderer.