At the Library, November 27, 2024 We will be CLOSED tomorrow, November 28 for Thanksgiving. Wishing you and yours the happiest of holidays!
We are currently collecting recipes from our local folks for the publication of a Hardy County Public Library Cookbook! Please put together your favorite tried and true recipes to share with others and drop them off at the front desk.
Events: Crochet, Thursday’s at 1:00 pm (NOTE THE NEW TIME!) Story Time – Wednesdays at 10:00, every 1st Saturday at 10:00 December 12, 5:30pm – Diamond Art bookmark painting, ages 14 & up. Only 20 spaces available, please call to reserve your spot 304-538-6560 December 14, 10:00 – 11:30 – Christmas craft and a visit from Santa!
New fiction:
Desolation code : a novel by Graham Brown
When Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life in the Indian Ocean, they accidentally uncover a much deeper mystery. A strange figure soon steals NUMA’s findings, forcing a high-speed chase-someone really didn’t want them examining those dead whales. But who, and why? A cryptic text through the NUMA satellite network makes things still stranger: these odd phrases and numbers look like NUMA codes. But who could be tantalizing the crew with such specific knowledge of their tech? Are they being helped by an old friend, or lured into a trap by a traitor who knows a little too much about NUMA’s inner workings?
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.
What does it feel like? : a novel by Sophie Kinsella
Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumor growing in her brain. As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again–and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children–she begins to recall what’s most important to her: long walks with her husband’s hand clasped firmly around her own, family game nights, and always buying that dress when she sees it.
I think I was murdered by Colleen Coble
Just a year ago, Katrina Berg was at the pinnacle of her career. She was a rising star in the AI chatbot start-up everyone was talking about, married with an adoring husband, and had more money than she knew how to spend. Then her world combusted. Her husband, Jason, was killed in a fiery car crash. Her CEO was indicted, and, as the company’s legal counsel, Katrina faces tough questions as the Feds take over and lock her out of her office. New Non-fiction
A history of ghosts, spirits and the supernatural by DK Publishing, Inc.
This volume details the numerous ways in which spirits and the spirit world have been depicted in myth and religion, folklore, art, and literature.
Ruin their crops on the ground : the politics of food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to school lunch by Andrea Freeman
Drawing on fifteen years of research to argue that American food law and policy have historically been used to create and maintain racial and cultural inequality, Freeman moves from missions to Americanize immigrant food culture to the commodities supplied to Native reservations to USDA nutrition programs to milk as symbol of white nationalism. She traces the long-standing alliances between Washington and the food and agricultural industries that have produced gaping racial health disparities. And she shows how these practices continue to this day, in the form of marketing for unhealthy subsidized goods that target communities of color, causing diabetes, high blood pressure and even premature death.
Be ready when the luck happens : a memoir by Ina Garten
Ina Garten, the author of thirteen best-selling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and the cultural icon whose face has launched a thousand memes, shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table.
Black Saturday : an unfiltered account of the October 7th attack on Israel and the war in Gaza
by Trey Yingst
Fox News war correspondent Trey Yingst shares his firsthand account of the Hamas attack on a music festival in Israel on October 7, 2023, and the ensuing war.
New Easy Readers
Santa’s first Christmas by Mac Barnett
Santa returns home to the North Pole Christmas morning and, thanks to his loyal elves, gets to experience the magic of Christmas for the first time with a perfect tree, treats and presents.
How to sing a song by Kwame Alexander
Combines playful text with inventive artwork to encourage readers to celebrate the magic of discovering their very own song in the world around them and singing it.
I want to read ALL the books by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Hana wants to know everything about the world around her. When she starts asking questions, her mother gives her a book. She learns so much, but now she has even more questions! She also has a big mission: she will read all the books–every single one. She reads every book in her house–and then her friends’ houses–and then the whole block. But when her mother takes her to the downtown library, she realizes there are a lot more books than she thought–way more.
A moving story by Beth Ferry
With the utmost care, brothers and professional movers Tiny and Pete will move anything anywhere because they know that nothing is too small or too light to wrap up tight and treat just right. But during their biggest move yet, a young panda’s pet turtle goes missing and even the brothers’ efforts might not be enough to save the day.
