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We still have 2020 tax forms available while supplies last. According to the IRS website this year's deadline for filing 2020 tax returns is April 15. We have the 1040 and 1040-SR instruction booklet and forms with schedules 1-3 and schedule Lep-request for change in language preference. Additional tax information and forms can be found at the IRS website at https://www.irs.gov/. Come by the circulation desk to request a copy.
This week's reviews include fiction and mystery titles.
Melanie is only going through the motions of living since refusing Jack's marriage proposal in “Return to Tradd Street” (Series BK #4) (F WHI K) by Karen White. She misses him desperately, but her broken heart is the least of her problems. Despite an insistence that she can raise their child alone, Melanie is completely unprepared for motherhood, and she struggles to complete renovations on her house on Tradd Street before the baby arrives. When Melanie is roused one night by the sound of a ghostly infant crying, she chooses to ignore it. She simply does not have the energy to deal with one more crisis. That is, until the remains of a newborn buried in an old christening gown are found hidden in the foundation of her house. As the hauntings on Tradd Street slowly become more violent, Melanie decides to find out what caused the baby's untimely death, uncovering the love, loss, and betrayal that color the house's history and threaten her claim of ownership. But can she seek Jack's help without risking her heart? For in revealing the secrets of the past, Melanie also awakens the malevolent presence that has tried to keep the truth hidden for decades.
In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney, a Major Crimes detective for the New Orleans Police Department, is accused of murder committed in the line of duty in “The Chef” (M PAT J) by James Patterson and Max Dilallo. While fighting the charges, Rooney makes a pair of unthinkable discoveries: His beloved city is under attack. And these would-be terrorists may be local. As crowds of revelers gather, Rooney follows a fearsome trail of clues, racing from outlying districts into city center. He has no idea what, or who, he'll face in defense of his beloved hometown, only that innocent lives are at stake.
On a remote island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate the wedding of Jules Keegan and Will Slater in “The Guest List” (M FOL L) by Lucy Foley. Will is a rising television star, handsome and charming. Jules is a smart and ambitious magazine publisher. Though the sea is a little choppy and the cell service may be spotty, their wedding is everything you'd expect of a young power couple: designer dress, four-tiered cake, the boutique whiskey, vintage champagne. Every detail has been curated to perfection. All that's left to orchestrate is the happiness. But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. It's not long after the cake is cut and the champagne popped that resentments and petty jealousies come out. Worse yet, the latest barometer reading shows the weather has shifted from fair to changeable, and dark clouds are looming overhead. Everyone on the island has a secret. Everyone has a motive. And someone won't leave this wedding alive.
It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom in “Valentine” (F WET E) by Elizabeth Wetmore. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader's heart, this fierce, and unflinching, novel illuminates women's strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive.
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” -Toni Morrison
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