January 15, 2025
Please mark you calenders for February 1, 2025! A special presentation to the Library by the George Hott family. A compilation of his athletic years as well as his contributions to Moorefield High School. Come reminisce and visit. 10:00 am on February 1. Light refreshments will be served.
Events: Crochet, Thursday’s at 1:00 pm Story Time – Wednesdays at 10:00, every 1st Saturday at 10:00
REMINDER: 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.
Memorials: Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Bernard Bean. Given by the Golden Girls (Annabelle, Cookie, Pattie, Phyllis and Phyllis) New fiction:
An eye for an eye by Jeffrey Archer
In one of the most luxurious cities on earth, a billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis. In the heart of the British establishment, Lord Hartley, the latest in a line of peers going back over two hundred years, lies dying. But his will triggers an inheritance with explosive consequence. Two deaths. Continents apart. No obvious connection. So why are they both at the centre of a master criminal’s plot for revenge? And can Scotland Yard’s elite squad uncover the truth before it’s too late? I’ll be waiting : a novel by Kelley Armstrong
Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, being diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child. Then medical advances let her live into her thirties and she met Anton, who taught her to dream of a future…together. Months after they married, Anton died in a horrible car crash, but lived long enough to utter five words to her, “I’ll be waiting for you.” That final private moment became public when someone from the crash scene took it to the press-the terminally ill woman holding her dying husband as he promised to wait for her on the other side. Worse, that person claimed it wasn’t Anton who said the words but his ghost, hovering over his body. Since their story went public, Nicola has been hounded by spiritualists promising closure. In the hopes of stopping her downward spiral, friends and family find a reputable medium-a professor of parapsychology. For the seance, they rent the Lake Erie beach house that Anton’s family once owned. The medium barely has time to begin his work before things start happening. Locked doors mysteriously open. Clouds of insects engulf the house. Nicola hears footsteps and voices and the creak of an old dumbwaiter…in an empty shaft. Throughout it all she’s haunted by nightmares of her past. Because, unbeknownst to the others, this isn’t her first time contacting the dead. And Nicola isn’t her real name. That’s when she finds the first body.
Robert B. Parker’s Hot property by Mike Lupica
Spenser is waiting out the latest Boston snowstorm when he gets word that Rita Fiore has been shot. Rita’s always been a tricky one: flirting with Spenser for years, she’s an ever-present figure that transcends friendship in Spenser’s circle. But at the end of the day, Rita is family. And family will always be protected. Both a pit bull in the courtroom and provocateur outside it, Rita is no stranger to
controversy. But as one of the city’s toughest lawyers, Spenser knows that there’s no short list of suspects who might want to enact revenge. With Rita’s life hanging in the balance, it’s up to him to get to the bottom of things, even if it means unearthing some unsavory secrets that might just lead him into an age-old game of lies and deceit.
The heart’s bidding by Kelly Irvin
Amish auctioneer Toby Miller and special education teacher Rachelle Lapp love their jobs so much, they’re in danger of missing out on marriage and children of their own—until circumstances force them to face uncertain futures.
New Non-fiction
Sweet tooth : 100 desserts to save room for by Sarah Fennel
In her first cookbook, Fennel offers 100 recipes for easy bakes that are suited to beginners and pros alike, with tips and key intel, including a baker’s pantry, a whole section devoted to never overbaking again, storage strategies, and pan prep.
Facing suicide : understanding why people kill themselves and how we can stop them by James Barrat Profiling suicide survivors, their families, and experts in the field, Barrat assembles a fuller portrait of suicide, examining such risk factors as genetics, means, mental health, and history. He specifically looks at the long-term affects of racial trauma, bullying, financial stress, and even reveals that the suicidal brain has a characteristic signature.
American scary : a history of horror, from Salem to Stephen King and beyond by Jeremy Dauber
Dauber takes readers to the startling origins of the horror genre in the United States, from the lingering influence of the European Gothic to the enslaved insurrection tales and the apocryphal chronicles of colonial settlers kidnapped by Native Americans.
Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 312 Days That Changed America’s Politics Forever by Chris Wallace It’s January 2, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy declared his candidacy; and with this opening scene, Chris Wallace offers listeners a front-row seat to history. From the challenge of primary battles in a nation that had never elected a Catholic president, to the intense machinations of the national conventions—where JFK chose Lyndon B. Johnson as his running mate over the impassioned objections of his brother Bobby—this is a nonfiction political thriller filled with intrigue, cinematic action, and fresh reporting. Like with many popular histories, listeners will be familiar with the story, but few will know the behind-the-scenes details, told here with gripping effect.
