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Enjoy Spring Break at the library! From March 11-14, Monday we will have Chess Club ages 8-15 from 4:30-5:30, Tuesday we will have Storytime for all ages from 10:30-11:30 as well as Kid's Art for ages 8-12 from 3:00-4:00 and Teen Art ages 13-17 from 4:30-5:30, Wednesday we have Code Club from 4:30-5:30 and Thursday we will have Storytime for all ages from 10:30-11:30 as well as Color Me Healthy from 4:30-5:30 this program is for all ages as well.
This week's reviews are fiction titles in audio format.
Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business in Zero Days (AUCD F WAR R) by Ruth Ware. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect, her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer.
When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case in Holly (AUCD F KIN S) by Stephen King. Her partner, Pete, has covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie's disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless. Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors.
A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine, a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers in The Only Survivors (AUCD F MIR M) by Megan Miranda. The nine students who managed to escape the river that night was irrevocably changed. A year later, after one of the survivors dies by suicide on the anniversary of the crash, the rest of them make a pact: to come together each year to commemorate that terrible night. To keep one another safe. To hold one another accountable. Or both. Their annual meeting place, a house on the Outer Banks, has long been a refuge. But by the tenth anniversary, Cassidy Bent has worked to distance herself from the tragedy and from the other survivors. She's changed her mobile number. She's blocked the others' email addresses. This year, she is determined to finally break ties once and for all. But on the day of the reunion, she receives a text with an obituary attached: another survivor is gone. Now they are seven and Cassidy finds herself hurling back toward the group, wild with grief and suspicion. Almost immediately, something feels off this year. Cassidy is the first to notice when Amaya, the annual organizer, slips away, overwhelmed. This wouldn't raise alarm except for the impending storm. Suddenly, they're facing the threat of closed roads and surging water again. Then Amaya stops responding to her phone. After all they've been through, she wouldn't willfully make them worry. Would she? And as they promised long ago each survivor will do whatever he or she can do to save one another. Won't they?
Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century in 12 Months to Live (AUCD F PAT J) by James Patterson and Mike Lupica. Her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date.
"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift." – Kate Dicamillo