Check this out at the library this week
Howard County Library is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, the computer room closes at 5:30 p.m. You may reach us at (432) 264-2260 and our fax number is (432) 264-2263. Please visit our website at http://howardcounty.ploud.net and our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/howardcolibrary for more information about our services and any updates.
The ereader application Libby now has emagazines. Browse hundreds of popular titles of current and pass issues. Visit our website at howard-county. ploud.net and click on our Digital Collections link for instructions on how to set up your Libby account using your library card. You can also come by the library or give us a call if you have questions about setting up your account. There are hundreds of popular titles to choose from, and there are no late fees because titles automatically expire at the end of the lending period.
This week's reviews are mystery and fiction titles. Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered in Two Kinds of Truth –Harry Bosch series #20 (M CON M) by Michael Connelly. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big business world of pill mills and prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him, and seems to have new evidence to prove it. Bosch left the LAPD on bad terms, so his former colleagues aren't keen to protect his reputation. He must fend for himself in clearing his name and keeping a clever killer in prison. The two unrelated cases wind around each other like strands of barbed wire. Along the way Bosch discovers that there are two kinds of truth: the kind that sets you free and the kind that leaves you buried in darkness.
Dr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on criminal behavior in Murder Gamesmurder game series #1 (M PAT J) by James Patterson. Literally, he's a renowned, bestselling Ivy League expert on the subject. When a copy of his book turns up at a gruesome murder scene, along with a threatening message from the killer, it looks like someone has been taking notes. Elizabeth Needham is the headstrong and brilliant NYPD Detective in charge of the case who recruits Dylan to help investigate another souvenir left at the scene, a playing card.
Another murder, another card, and now Dylan suspects that the cards aren't a signature, they're a deadly hint pointing directly toward the next victim. As tabloid headlines about the killer known as "The Dealer" scream from newsstands, New York City descends into panic. With the cops at a loss, it's up to Dylan to hunt down a serial killer unlike any the city has ever seen. Only someone with Dylan's expertise can hope to go inside the mind of a criminal and convince The Dealer to lay down his cards. But after thinking like a criminal could Dylan become one?
Clayton Valley, Ohio, 1957, Ellie has the best grades in her class in The Daughters of Erietown (F SCH C) by Connie Schultz. Her dream is to go to nursing school and marry Brick Mcginty.
A basketball star, Brick has the chance to escape his abusive father and become the first person in his blue-collar family to attend college. But after Ellie learns that she is pregnant, everything changes. Just as Brick and Ellie revise their plans and build a family, a knock on the front door threatens to destroy their lives. This novel tells the story of Brick, Ellie, and their daughter Samantha. It illuminates the issues facing working-class families and their communities, as it chronicles the evolution of women's lives in America. It also explores how much people know about each other and pretend not to, and the secrets that explode lives.
In a storm-ravaged corner of post-nuclear America, Arden is left for dead after a brutal beating from his superior in (F SHA R) by Rich Shapero. On waking, he encounters Estra, a lost woman of mysterious origin, whom he smuggles into his cell. Desperate, and now in love, the two resolve to escape to the place from which Estra has come, the cloud realm. Together, they ascend to the skies and make their home on a vacant cumulus, where Estra initiates Arden into the ways of the vaporous world. On the horizon looms a thunderhead, growing larger and more monstrous as it consumes the clouds in its path.
The thunderhead is following them, and Estra knows and fears the man driving it. As the hidden truths of Estra's past emerge, Arden despairs, then with Estra's encouragement and guidance determines to fight back.
“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”- Samuel Johnson