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County Library is open from 9 AM to 6 PM Monday through Friday, the compm. puter room closes at 5:30 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.
Howard County Library is excited to invite the community to our Fall Festival on Tuesday, October 31 from 4:30-6:30 PM. Eddie Austin Entertainment will be providing a mini golf station and a photo booth. We will also have other games, prizes, and candy. Monday, Oct 16, join us for our Chess Club for ages
8-13. We will also have Baby Storytime for ages 0-3 is on Tuesday, October 17, and Preschool Storytime for ages 4-6 is on Thursday, October 19 both Storytime’s start at 10:30 AM in the Childrens room. Tuesday, October 17 from 4:30-5:30 PM we have Teen art program Slice of Art with Ms. Jamie, a free program for ages 12-17 in the large community room. Wednesday, Oct 18, we have our Code Club from 4:30-5:30 PM and this will be for ages 8-15. Make sure to like and follow our Facebook page for all upcoming events and activities.
This week’s review are fiction and mystery titles in large print format.
In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War in The Secret Book of Flora Lea (LP F HEN P) by Henry, Patti Callahan. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister and her sister alone a fairy tale about a magical land, a secret place they can escape to that is all their own.
A kid walks into your bookstore and guess what? He’s your son in A Little Ray of Sunshine (LP F HIG K) by Higgins, Kristan. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! It’s a huge surprise to his adoptive mother, Monica, who thought she
had a close relationship with Matthew, her nearly adult son. But apparently, he felt the need to secretly arrange a vacation to Cape Cod for the summer so he could meet his birth mother without a word to either her or his dad.
It’s hard to deny friends asking for help even when it means stepping headlong into danger in The Woman Who Beat the Odds (LP W CRI C) by Crigger, CK. As a sort of left-over deputy from a previous adventure, January Billings is compelled to answer the call when a valuable gun is stolen from the local mercantile, and the storekeeper viciously assaulted. The town marshal is out of action and the sheriff is an ineffectual fool.
When Turquoise Ranch hand Curly Stevens went into Flagstaff to meet a new employee arriving on the train, his first impression of Rob Barringer was of how big and strong the tenderfoot is in The Tenderfoot (LP W VAU R) by Vaughan, Robert. Rob’s eagerness to learn and his willingness to take on the most difficult jobs wins everyone over, including ranch foreman Jake Dunford, and Melanie Dunford, his beautiful daughter.
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” Anna Quindlen