At the Library, March 12, 2025 Memorials: Gift to the memorial fund in memory of Brenda Staley George. Given by Moorefield Class of 1969.
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 New fiction:
The antidote by Karen Russell
On Black Sunday 1935, a historic dust storm ravages the town of Uz, Nebraska, entangling the fates of five characters.
Blood moon by Sandra Brown
Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting the unsolved Mellin case. Bowie has been instructed by his unscrupulous boss to keep to his grievances and criticisms over the mishandling of the investigation to himself. Beth Collins, a senior producer on Crisis Point, knows what classifies as a great story and when there’s something more to be told. After working on the show for seven years, Collins is convinced that Crissy Mellin’s disappearance was not an isolated incident. A string of disappearances of teenage girls in nearby areas have only one thing in common: They took place on the night of a blood moon. In a last-ditch effort to find out the truth, Beth enlists Detective Bowie to help her figure out what happened to Crissy and find the true culprit before he acts on the next blood moon–in four days’ time. With their jobs and their lives at risk, Bowie and Collins band together to identify and capture a perpetrator, while fighting an irresistible spark between them that threatens to upend everything.
Battle Mountain : a Joe Pickett novel by C. J. Box
The campaign of destruction that Axel Soledad and Dallas Cates wreaked on Nate Romanowski and Joe Pickett left both men in tatters– especially Nate, who lost almost everything. Wondering if the civilized life left him vulnerable to attack, Nate dropped off the grid with his falcons in tow to prepare for vengeance. When Joe gets a call from the governor asking for help finding his son-in-law, who has gone missing in the Sierra Madre mountain range, he enlists the help of a local, a rookie game warden named Susan Kany. As Nate and fellow falconer Geronimo Jones circle closer to their prey, Joe and Susan follow the nearly cold trail to Warm Springs. Little do Nate and Joe know that their separate journeys are about to converge at Battle Mountain.
Pro bono by Thomas Perry
Los Angeles attorney Charles Warren is helping a young widow find her late husband’s missing money when he recognizes a con job that targeted his widowed mother years before, and he quickly becomes entangled in the web of fraud, betrayal, and criminals surrounding the theft.
Welcome to the Honey B&B by Melody Carlson
With a moody teenager in tow, Jewel Benedict returns to the family farm to help her aging parents. Turning the old farmhouse into a charming B&B seems like a fun solution to looming money problems, but juggling her dad’s dementia, an old flame, and the oh-so-helpful neighbors is not exactly what she had in mind when she uprooted her life.
Presumed guilty by Scott Turow
After Rusty Sabich’s heated acquittal in the trial for his life, he’s restlessly tried to accept his retirement and get his name out of the spotlight. Now, years later, he’s found himself living a quiet life in the town of Mirror with a house on the idyllic lake and a new love, Bea. But the peace that’s taken him so long to find comes crashing down when Bea’s adoptive son, Aaron, who’s under Rusty and Bea’s supervision while on probation for a possession conviction, goes missing.
New Non Fiction:
Sift : the elements of great baking by Nicola Lamb
Lamb begins with the foundational ingredients that underpin great bakes–flour, sugar, eggs, fat–before delving into the techniques that bring recipes to life: texture, color, how things rise, and a technical overview. 100 tested, tried, and true recipes follow and are organized by difficulty and time commitment, ranging from easy 30-minute cakes to spectacular showstoppers you can devote a weekend to.
Sweet farm! : cookies, cakes, salads, and other delights from my kitchen on a sugar beet farm by Molly Yeh
More than 100 recipes for sweet treats from Yeh’s cozy kitchen on a sugar beet (and wheat!) farm, to be shared in potlucks, set on the counter for family snacking, or scarfed down in one sitting.
New Easy Readers:
The baby who stayed awake forever by Sandra Salsbury
At bedtime, a family tries in vain to get their energetic baby to fall asleep.
Big bike, little bike by Kellie DuBay Gillis
Different animals approach the same simple bike, in a story that celebrates how circumstances can change perspective and how far one’s perspective–and one bike–can take someone.
Will the Pigeon graduate? by Mo Willems
The Pigeon had better graduate! He did the work! He paid attention to the little details! He overcame some BIG obstacles! The Pigeon’s got this… Or does he? Do YOU think The Pigeon will graduate?
That’s not funny, David! By David Shannon
David finds a lot of things funny that the people around him–including his mother–do not find at all amusing.
