My LINKcat AccountA week and a day is all the time that is left for you to read books and log books and activities before the Winter Reading Program comes to an end. You can still earn Dragon Dollars and spend them in our store or donate them to one of our designated charities. In the meantime, here are the latest statistics from our Winter Reading Program. 180 active readers have read an astonishing 10,141 books.
Our youngest readers (the Chipmunks) who read picture books and board books have made it through 7,146 books. The Raccoons, also known as chapter book readers, have done an amazing job and read 1.425 books. The 46 adults in the Moose category have read 621 books, and the 17 members of the library staff have managed to read 528 books. I know some of you readers wait until the very end of the reading program to log your books, so I’m expecting the total number of books read to shoot up by March 1st. I’m thinking that 11,000 books should be an easy goal to reach if every one reads and logs what they’ve read. The arctic blast at the beginning of the week provided a great incentive to stay inside and read. There are 8 days left to read, so dig in! Below you will find some of the books which recently arrived at the library. Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
“The DOSE Effect: Optimize Your Brain and Body by Boosting Your Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins” by T.J. Power. Describes a framework for enhancing mental and physical well-being by regulating the brain's key hormones—through lifestyle changes, offering science-backed strategies to improve cognitive performance, manage stress, elevate mood, and promote overall wellness by biohacking brain chemistry.
I’ll Have What She’s Having” by Chelsea Handler. A noted comedian and talk-show host shares humorous and tender stories about the path to becoming the woman she always wanted to be.
New Fiction
“The Note” by Alafair Burke. May Hanover, always the rule-following “Little Sheriff,” reunites with her childhood friends Lauren and Kelsey for a carefree trip to the Hamptons, but when a drunken prank goes disastrously wrong, May becomes the focus of a police investigation and begins questioning whether her friends are hiding dangerous secrets.
“The Oligarch’s Daughter” by Joseph Finder, Paul Brightman, a former Wall Street star hiding in a New England town with a bounty on his head, is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness as he unravels a conspiracy involving Russian operatives and government agencies after falling in love with Tatyana, the daughter of a powerful oligarch.
“Presumed Guilty” by Scott Turow. Rusty is a retired judge asked by his fiancée, Bea, to defend her adult son Aaron, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend Mae, and Rusty agrees to help but questions whether the system can provide true justice for those who are presumed guilty.
“Pro Bono” by Thomas Perry. A tenacious attorney grapples with a dangerous group of thieves. By the author of “The Old Man”.
“Robert Ludlum’s the Bourne Vendetta” by Brian Freeman. When a hacked database known as the Files upends the intelligence community, with careers destroyed and assassinations spreading from Europe to the U.S., Treadstone sends Jason Bourne to get or destroy them before the Chinese or the Russians—and Bourne’s ex-lover, treacherous spy Johanna, may be the only one who can help him.
“See How they Hide” by Allison Brennan. When murder victims are found in different parts of the country in the same unusual position the same night, Matt Costa and his team discover that both victims had escaped from Colorado’s Havenwood cult and are being hunted one by one.
“A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage” by Asia Mackay. Hazel and Fox, former vigilante killers turned suburban London parents, are adjusting to a quiet life with their baby until Hazel’s boredom leads to an impulsive murder, threatening to unravel their carefully constructed family facade.
“The Texas Murder, No.3 (Texas Ranger Thrillers)” by James Patterson & Andrew Bourelle. Texas Ranger Rory Yates, a quick-draw champion, teams up with Tigua Tribal police archer Ava Cruz to investigate the disappearance of a native woman, pursuing a suspect in a long-cold case across Texas’s harshest landscapes.
“Murder in an Irish Garden” by Carlene O’Connor. In Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, garda Siobhán and husband Macdara must solve a murder connected to the designer of Kibane’s Top Garden Contest winner—a landscaper hired by Siobhán’s chef brother Eoin—before there’s another victim.
“Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right to Me (King Oliver)” by Walter Mosley. Detective King Oliver fulfills his grandmother's dying wish to reunite with his estranged father while also protecting a missing woman and her daughter from a powerful billionaire in the third novel of the series following “Every Man a King”.
“Kingdom of No Tomorrow” by Fabienne Josaphat. Nettie Boileau joins the Black Panthers’ Free Health Clinics in Oakland in 1968 and is soon swept up in an all-consuming love affair with Melvin Mosley, a defense captain of the Black Panther Party.