Check it out, at the library this week
This week we had a great turnout for the book signing with author Gaylon White, and former Big Spring baseball player Tito Arencibia. If you didn’t get a chance to come we have White’s book “Left on Base in the Bush Leagues,” in circulation ready for check out. For the summer reading program, we also had a great turnout for Magician Harlin Rhoades. If you haven’t had a chance to come by and register your child registration is open throughout the summer.
We have three Storytime’s a week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 10:30 a.m., check out our website for more information.
This week’s reviews are fiction novels in book and audiobook format. Deputy Sheriff John Cronin is looking forward to a quiet retirement in “The Grey Man: Twilight” (F CUR J) by J.L. Curtis, working on the ranch, and handing it off to his granddaughter Jesse. He also has to pass on a generation’s worth of investigations, but it’s not as easy as handing over the case files and the keys. First, he has to train Aaron Miller to fill his role, from the way to dress for rural juries to the finer points of stakeouts and murder investigations, Texas style. Between the oil patch workers and the cartel’s drug runners, there are plenty of loose ends for him to tie off.
Bianca St. Ives is clever, cunning, and highly skilled in “The Moscow Deception” (AUCD F ROB K) by Karen Robards. Bianca recently went through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does, the way her father trained her to, hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation that’s left a network of assassins’ trained on her, Bianca is ready to take fate into her own hands. It’s kill or be killed, and she’s got her finger against the trigger. But as Bianca races to outmaneuver her tireless pursuers, her father loops her in on a job that might just do the trick: recover King Priam’s treasure, a collection of heavily guarded, priceless artifacts stolen by Russians during World War II, and return it to Germany. It may be impossible for some, but a high-risk heist is all in a day’s work for Bianca, especially when there’s intel on the line-intel that could finally bring down the shadowy forces seeking to bury her for good. Faced with threats that circle closer with every move she makes, she knows the stakes are high, but when you’re already living on borrowed time, you have to hustle if you want to live to see tomorrow.
Lucas Davenport tracks a prolific serial killer in “Neon Prey” (AUCD F SAN J) by John Sandford, Clayton. Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the U.S. Marshal are looking for him. They don’t much care about a lowlevel guy--it’s his boss they want--but Deese might be their best chance to bring down the whole operation. Then, they step onto a dirt path behind Deese’s rural Louisiana cabin and find a jungle full of graves. Now Lucas Davenport is on the trail of a serial killer who has been operating for years without notice.
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf and comes up against the Department of Justice and the FBI in “Wolf Pack” (AUCD F BOX C) by C.J. Box. The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The Disappeared. The bad news is that he’s learned a drone is killing wildlife and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose son is dating Joe’s own daughter, Lucy. When Joe tries to lay down the rules for the drone operator, he’s asked by the FBI and the DOJ to stand down, which only makes him more suspicious. Meanwhile, bodies are piling up in and around Joe’s district in shocking numbers. He begins to fear that the Wolf Pack a pack of four vicious killers working on behalf of the Sinaloa cartel, has arrived. Their target seems to be the mystery man and everyone including Joe, Nate, and others who is associated with him.
Teaming up with fellow game warden Katelyn Hamm to confront these assassins, Joe finds himself in the most violent and dangerous predicament he’s ever faced.
“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato.
Come by the library and check these titles out.
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