April 9, 2025
Memorials: Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Lucille Gohdes. Given by Rosie Thomas.
Regular Events: Crochet – Thursday’s at 1:00 pm Story Time – Wednesdays at 10:00, every 1st Saturday at 10:00 Book Club – 1st Saturday at 1:00
COMING SOON! Think: outdoors, gardening……SEEDS!
New fiction
The Paris express : a novel by Emma Donoghue
Passengers both rich and poor, hailing from as close as Brittany and as far as Russia, Ireland, Algeria, Pennsylvania, and Cambodia, set out from the Normandy coast, speeding toward Paris’s Montparnasse Station, the steam train’s driver and stoker under relentless pressure from the Company to keep her on schedule. With the carriages packed, the day will not end the way any one of them suspects. Because amongst them, there’s an anarchist aboard with a terrifying plan to kill them all.
Girl anonymous by Christina Dodd
As a child, Maarja Daire saw her mother ignite an explosion that killed vengeful mob boss Benoit Arundel–and herself–to save Maarja’s life. Maarja’s been on the run ever since…fleeing from intimacy, from love, from consequences.
Now an adult, Maarja hides in plain sight as a fine arts mover, transporting priceless belongings. Work for a new client brings her to the mansion where the fateful blast from her childhood occurred. There she meets Dante, the ruthless, scarred and brooding Arundel family boss. He watches her with dark intent…but does he remember her?
Will he use her to take revenge for his father’s death? A chance turn of events earns her his trust, when she courageously leaps into flames to rescue his mother. And what happens between them in the darkness sets their worlds on fire, as Maarja recklessly abandons her lifelong caution and self-imposed isolation. Dante calls the urgency between them Fate. Maarja denies him, struggles against his domination and fights the slow erosion of her resistance.
When he vows to end the ancient feud, his hidden enemies seize the opportunity to destroy him and the woman he will do anything to protect. Bound together by destruction, passion and destiny, Dante and Maarja must navigate uncharted depths of betrayal and loss, to create a new beginning…before the flames of the vendetta consume them.
Famous last words : a novel by Gillian McAllister
It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camilla’s life is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop her infant daughter off at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But after she arrives at the office, police officers storm the foyer: in the city, just near her work, a man has taken three hostages and is now in a tense standoff with law enforcement. And Luke, the person she’s loved for more than a decade, the father of her child, is involved. But he is not a hostage. He is the kidnapper.
Dead man’s list by Karen Rose
On a long-anticipated second date with police psychologist Dr. Sam Reeves–right as things are getting steamy–Kit stumbles across the mutilated body of a local San Diego politician. The politician is loved by many of his constituents but is hated and reviled by many more. That the suspect list is long is no surprise to anyone, but exactly who ends up on it stuns Kit and her team. As the SDPD reveal the victim’s sinister dealings, Kit and Sam are forced to navigate the lawless world of the city’s most rich and powerful citizens to find answers. But time is rapidly running out, with their sources of information dropping like flies as the killer methodically eliminates loose ends-and anyone else who stands in the way.
New Non-Fiction
How to stop trying : an overachiever’s guide to self-acceptance, letting go, and other impossible things by Kate Williams
Williams takes a look at hustle culture, exploring the forces that have shaped a generation of overachieving women who now find themselves in search of a better way forward.
Taking Manhattan : the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America
by Russell Shorto
Shorto tells the story of the birth of New York City as a center of capitalism and pluralism, a foundation from which America would rise. He also shows how the paradox of New York’s origins–boundless opportunity coupled with subjugation and displacement–reflects America’s promise and failure to this day.
How to love better : the path to deeper connection through growth, kindness, and compassion by Pueblo Yung
Pueblo examines all aspects of relationships, from the rose-colored early days when you may be hesitant to show your full self, to the challenges that can arise without clear communication, to dealing with heartbreak and healing as you close a chapter of your life.
Landscaping with stone by Pat Sagui
A guide that shows you how to incorporate the beauty of natural stone into you home landscape.
New Easy Readers
Grumpy monkey : mom for a day by Suzanne Lang
Grumpy Monkey offers to babysit the little animals in the jungle, but when things go haywire, help comes from an unexpected source.
That’s not funny, David! By David Shannon
David finds a lot of things funny – things that most grown-ups don’t find amusing at all. He finds it hard to resist the hilarity of grocery-cart crashing, cannonballs, and permanent marker mustaches. Once again, beloved and acclaimed creator David Shannon proves that while David might sometimes take things a little too far…we wouldn’t have him any other way.
The great dinosaur sleepover by Linda Bailey
A young boy’s disappointing birthday party gets turned upside down with a blast from the prehistoric past.
So Tortoise dug by Emmy Kastner
After creating a new burrow for herself and her best friend Mouse, Tortoise eagerly waits for Mouse’s return, but as more animals request their own rooms, Tortoise grows increasingly tired and frustrated with Mouse’s absence.
