My LINKcat AccountThe countdown for the end of the Summer Reading Program is nearing its end. As of today (one assumes the publication date of the newspaper is Friday) August 9th, it is a mere a 8 days away. This means time is running out to read or listen to books, record them, redeem them for Dragon Dollars, and spend them in our store. There are only 8 days left! Time is beginning to run out not only beginning for you, individually, as a participant in the Summer Reading Program, but also for you as part of a group engaged in any of our reading challenges. As of the August, 1st, the total that will gain a very cool party for all is 2,047 books away. Can we do it? Yes, we can! But you need to record all those books you’ve been reading for the good of this cause. The Intermediate School students continues to trounce library and school staff with 2,182 books read by them compared to a paltry 474 by library and school staff. They will undoubtedly get their slime party. Yahara students are leading the elementary schools to see which will qualify for their slime part with 3,112 books read compared to the 2,076 books by Eagle Point students and the 1,856 books read by Windsor students. The village staff challenge is being led by library staff with 454 books, followed by village hall staff with 242 books, then the police department with 51, and public works with 15. I don’t think the winners of this challenge win anything. (Sigh. What’s the point then?) While you’re counting down with us to the end of the pressure to read because of the Summer Reading Program, you might care to take a look at some of the new books, listed below, which recently arrived at the library. Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
New Fiction
“Our Little Secret” by Lisa Jackson. Breaking off her brief affair with Gideon Ross, who threatens he’ll never let her go, Brooke Harmon, after a year goes by, wants to believe it’s all behind her but the fear hasn’t disappeared—and she’s right to be worried because Gideon is a man who keeps his word.
“Proof, No.4 (Lost and Found)” by Fern Michaels. The owners of a furniture restoration shop/café—an offshoot of their family’s longtime antique business, siblings Luna and Cullen, gifted with unique abilities, must solve the mystery surrounding a piece Cullen just acquired not realizing there are some who will stop at nothing to claim what they believe is theirs.
“The Rom-Comers” by Katherine Center. Hired to write a rom-com screenplay with her hero, movie-writing legend Charlie Yates, Emma, arriving in LA, discovers he’s kind of a jerk and doesn’t even believe in love and refusing to go down without a fight, she decides to write her dreams into reality whether he likes it or not.
“All the Colors of the Dark” by Chris Whitaker. After a string of disappearances in 1975 Missouri, a one-eyed boy heroically thwarts a kidnapping, igniting a chain of events that blur the lines between triumph and tragedy as the townspeople of Monta Clare confront hidden truths.
“Assassins Anonymous” by Rob Hart. After giving up his paid assassin gig and joining a twelve-step program for reformed killers, Mark is attacked and forced on the run from New York to Singapore while he chases down clues that point to who is after him.
“Clete, No. 24 (Dave Robicheaux)” by James Lee Burke. After his car is ransacked at a local car wash, Private investigator Clete Purcel probes into a group of Mexican cartel thugs trafficking fentanyl into New Orleans the latest installment of the long-running series following “A Private Cathedral”.
“Don’t Let the Devil Ride” by Ace Atkins. A Memphis wife and mother hires an old friend of her father, legendary private investigator Porter Hayes, to search for her missing husband and the pair uncover a dangerous knot of international intrigue involving mercenaries, retired actresses and imposters.
“Flashback, No. 11 (Kendra Michaels)” by Iris & Roy Johansen. Twenty years after their mother was the second victim of the Bayside Stranger, two sisters disappear leaving Kendra Michaels to investigate the cold case in the eleventh novel of the series following “More Than Meets the Eye”.
“Iron Star” by Loren Estleman. Set against the sprawling landscape of the Wild West, a new adventure by a Spur Award-winning author follows a man on a journey to set his legacy, and the men dedicated to bringing his story to life.
“Market for Murder, No.2 (The Blackbird File)” by Heather Graham. In Edinburgh, where murder victims are being dissected and sold for spare parts, Special Agent Luke Kendrick and Carly MacDonald, with the clock ticking on every organ being harvested, are running out of time—and people they can—trust to catch the killers before they themselves are put on ice.
“Middle of the Night” by Riley Sager. Returning to his childhood home 30 years after his friend Billy’s disappearance, Ethan, plagued by strange occurrences, sets out to find out what really happened that night and, reunited with former friends and neighbors, finds his investigation leading him to a mysterious institute where clandestine research is performed.
“Middletide” by Sarah Crouch. Disquiet descends on a small town after the suspicious death of a beautiful young doctor, with all clues pointing to the reclusive young man who abandoned the community in chase of big city dreams but returned for the first love he left behind.
“Stuart Wood’s Smolder, No. 65 (Stone Barrington)” by Brett Battles & Stuart Woods. When he is drawn into a case involving a ring of art thieves, which has links to his own mother’s paintings, Stone Barrington must draw out a familiar enemy and face down his most vindictive threat yet.