By Carol Koontz
Events: Story Time, Wednesday’s at 10:00. Every 1st Saturday at 10:00
Upcoming: Our Friends group is currently running a raffle for a stay at Lost River State Park, with dinner at Lost & Found Pizza & Provisions. Tickets are available at the front desk. Friends group’s annual Silent Auction will be coming up in November, details forthcoming! New fiction:
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C. M. Waggoner
Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle keeps finding bodies–and solving murders. But she’s concerned by just how many killers she’s had to track down in her quaint village. None of her neighbors seem surprised by the rising body count…but Sherry is becoming convinced that whatever has been causing these deaths is unnatural. But when someone Sherry was close to ends up dead, and her cat, Lord Thomas Crowell, is possessed by what seems to be an ancient demon, Sherry realizes she is going to need an exorcist more than a detective. With the help of her town’s new priest and an assortment of friends who dub themselves the “Demon Hunting Society,” Sherry needs to solve the murder and get rid of the demon.
The book swap by Tessa Bickers
Still reeling from a recent tragedy, Erin Connolly knows she needs to start living, but has no idea how. When she accidentally donates her favorite book–a heavily annotated copy of To Kill a Mockingbird containing a memento she can’t be without–to a local little community library, she’s devastated. But then the book turns up a week later, back in the library with fresh notes in the margins, along with an invitation in a copy of Great Expectations to meet her newfound pen pal. A life-changing conversation, written only in the margins of beloved classic books, begins between Erin and her Mystery Man. Following each other through the pages of their favorite novels as the book exchange continues, they both begin to open up, falling into a friendship…and maybe something more. But Erin and her pen pal have a shared history that neither of them has guessed. Faced with painful reminders of the past–and the one person she swore never to forgive–Erin finds herself at a crossroads. One that could change her life forever.
So thirsty by Rachel Harrison
Sloane Parker is dreading her birthday. She doesn’t need a reminder she’s getting older, or that she’s feeling indifferent about her own life. Her husband surprises her with a birthday-weekend getaway–not with him, but with Sloane’s longtime best friend, troublemaker extraordinaire Naomi. Sloane anticipates a weekend of wine tastings and cozy robes and strategic avoidance of issues she’d rather not confront, like her husband’s repeated infidelity. But when they arrive at their rental cottage, it becomes clear Naomi has something else in mind. She wants Sloane to stop letting things happen to her, for Sloane to really live. So Naomi orchestrates a wild night out with a group of mysterious strangers, only for it to take a horrifying turn that changes Sloane’s and Naomi’s lives literally forever, forcing them to come to terms with some pretty eternal consequences.
Triangle : a novel by Danielle Steel
As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate blond beauty Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running a chic contemporary art gallery in the City of Light. The only child of a French businessman and an American model, both now deceased, Amanda lives well and adores her dog, Lulu, but so far the love of her life has eluded her. Then she meets Olivier Saint Albin, a dashing publisher. At the same time, she reconnects with Tom Quinlan, an old boyfriend from her days at NYU twenty years ago, now a lawyer on sabbatical who has come to Paris to devote himself to writing a thriller. Charming Olivier is a master at the art of flirtation, but as Amanda feels herself falling for him, she learns he is married. Providing counsel and support is her friend and co-owner of the gallery, fun-loving bachelor Pascal Leblanc. When Amanda begins to receive threatening phone calls late at night, it is Pascal she turns to. Then someone breaks into her apartment on the Left Bank, and it’s all too clear she is in real danger. But from whom? An old love, a new love, or a stranger? As love enters her life, so does terror.
New Easy Readers
Bear in a bathrobe by Maddie Frost
Bear learns to face his fear of the outdoors and ice skating with a little help from his friends and his comforting bathrobe that acts as a security blanket.
The bakery dragon by Devin Elle Kurtz
Ember, a small dragon with an unimpressive roar, fears he will never be as good at stealing gold as other dragons, but discovers a different path to joy after a chance encounter with a baker.
Roar for reading by Beth Ferry
When Julius, a young lion, sees library books being removed from the library, he realizes the power of his voice and uses his roar to advocate for the value of all books.
Jonty Gentoo : the adventures of a penguin by Julia Donaldson
Jonty Gentoo is excited by his aunts’ stories of the South Pole, so he slips out of the zoo, and sets out to find his ancestral home–which would be easier if he was not swimming in the wrong direction.
New fiction:
Identity unknown : by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an intense love affair with Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship. The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano’s skin is strangely red. Scarpetta’s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead’s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue. As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil.
Killing time by M. C. Beaton
Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton’s cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin-the star of her own hit T.V. series-is back on the case again. Agatha Raisin’s private detective agency is working flat out on a series of shop burglaries. The break-ins seem to have taken a violent turn when a friend of Agatha’s is murdered during a raid on his shop. Although determined to nail the villains, Agatha still makes time to help Sir Charles Fraith prepare to stage a massive, hugely glamorous, promotional event in the grounds of his ancestral home, Barfield House. When Agatha begins to receive death threats and narrowly avoids being abducted by kidnappers, she takes advantage of a previously arranged trip to Mallorca to lie low for a while. There she meets her partner, former police officer John Glass, who is now working as a dance instructor on a cruise liner. Their relationship founders over John’s apparent closeness to his stage dance partner, Louise. Putting her love life on hold, Agatha heads home, having worked out who has been threatening her life. Can Agatha track down whoever it is that wants her dead, nail her friend’s murderers and rescue her romance with John Glass? Everything comes to a climax at the Barfield Extravaganza when Agatha also manages to solve a 400-year-old Cotswold murder mystery!
This cursed house by Del Sandeen
In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago-and the spirits she has always been able to see. When she receives an unexpected job offer from the Duchon family in New Orleans, she accepts, thinking it is her chance to start over. But Jemma discovers that the Duchon family isn’t what it seems. Light enough to pass as white, the Black family members look down on brown-skinned Jemma. Their tenuous hold on reality extends to all the members of their eccentric
clan, from haughty grandmother Honorine to beautiful yet inscrutable cousin Fosette. And soon the shocking truth comes out: The Duchons are under a curse. And they think Jemma has the power to break it. As Jemma wrestles with the gift she’s run from all her life, she unravels deeper and more disturbing secrets about the mysterious Duchons. Secrets that stretch back over a century. Secrets that bind her to their fate if she fails.
Society of lies : a novel by Lauren Brown
Every year, Maya loves heading back to Princeton for her reunions–she may have graduated a decade ago, but it’s always fun to see old faces and take a walk through her own history. And this year is even more special because her little sister, Naomi, is about to graduate from her alma mater. But what should have been a dream weekend becomes Maya’s worst nightmare when she gets a call no one ever wants–Naomi is dead. The police are saying it’s an overdose, but Maya knows for a fact that Naomi would never touch drugs. As Maya attempts to piece together the last semester of Naomi’s life, she starts to realize there might be a lot of things Naomi never told her. Like the fact that she’d joined Sterling Club, the most exclusive social club on campus–the same one Maya belonged to–despite Maya warning her away. And if Maya had to guess, she’d say Naomi was also tapped for the secret society within it. The more Maya uncovers, the more terrified she becomes that Naomi’s decision to follow in her footsteps might have been exactly what got her killed. Because Maya’s time at Princeton wasn’t as wonderful as she always pretended it was–after all, her sister wasn’t the first young woman to turn up dead. And every clue keeps leading Maya back to the past, and to the people she holds nearest and dearest.
New Easy Readers
You are not sleepy! By Mark Teague
It is time for a nap, but a series of hijinks, interruptions, and distractions keep him from falling asleep.
Griselda Snook’s spectacular books by Barry Timms
Henry is not really into books, but all that changes when he enters Griselda Snook’s Halloween-themed bookstore.
Rainbow bear by Bill Martin
Readers learn the names of every color of the rainbow while following Little Bear as he wakes up from his hibernation and fills his hungry belly with berries!
It’s winter! By Renée Kurilla
Pull out your warmest coat, mittens, and scarf! It’s time for sledding, skating, and snowmen! And don’t forget the hot chocolate, decorations, and special time with family and friends–it’s winter!
