Check it 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://howard-county.ploud. net and our Facebook page at www. facebook.com/HowardCoLibrary for more information about our services and any updates.
This week for summer reading program, we will have our first event, join us Thursday June 9 at 10:30 a.m. for Storyteller Ramblin’ Rita and her Seaside Stories. All ages are welcome to this event. We will have regular storytime on Tuesday at 10:30 in the children’s room. Make sure to visit our webpage and Facebook page for more information and updates.
This week’s review are fiction and mystery titles.
Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery, abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona in Quick Silver (F KOO D) by Dean Koontz. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of “strange magnetism.” It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life. During a shoot-out at a forlorn dude ranch, he finally meets his destined companions: Bridget Rainking, a beauty as gifted in foresight as she is with firearms, and her grandpa Sparky, a romance novelist with an unusual past. Bridget knows what it’s like to be Quinn. She’s hunted, too. The only way to stay alive is to keep moving. Barreling through the Sonoran Desert, the formidable trio is impelled by that same inexplicable magnetism toward the inevitable. With every deeply disturbing mile, something sinister is in the rearview, an enemy that is more than a match for Quinn. Even as he discovers within himself resources that are every bit as scary.
Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider, brilliant, but different in Her Hidden Genius (F BEN M) by Marie Benedict. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets. Rosalind