Check it out, at the library this week
Summer is now in full swing, and so is the summer reading program, A Universe of Stories.
If you have not had a chance to sign up your child, join us at one of the storytimes and they can be signed up then.
We have three storytimes; Tuesday is for children who have finished pre-school through second grade, Wednesday is for children who have finished third through sixth grade, and Thursday is for babies and toddlers. All storytimes start at 10:30 a.m. We also have Code Club that meets on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 5:30- 6:30 p.m. in the computer lab.
This week's reviews include fiction and mystery titles available in audiobook format.
Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor character-building program for atrisk teens in “Cave of Bones” (AUCD F HIL A) by Anne Hillerman, only to discover chaos.
Annie, a camper, has just returned from a solo experience, hours later and traumatized. Gently questioning the girl, Bernie learns that Annie stumbled upon something unspeakable while she was lost. The beloved instructor who hiked in search of the missing girl is still missing. The action unfolds in El Malpais, the rugged lava wilderness bordering Ramah Navajo Reservation. In Dine stories, the lava caves and tubes are the solidified blood of a terrible monster killed by superhuman twins. The quest for a solution introduces her to the missing instructor's own twin and exposes Bernie to the chilling face of human evil. The instructor's disappearance mirrors a long-ago search in which the legendary Joe Leaphorn took a crucial role, and Leaphorn's memory and connections come into play. Meanwhile, Jim Chee tackles what
should be an easy assignment to get an update on a Navajo man married to a Tesque Pueblo woman and neglecting his mother.
But, as often happens with Chee, deadly confusion abounds. Before the truth can be revealed, an unexpected blizzard, the possible misuse of tribal funds, an angry Shiprock councilor, and the arrival of a new FBI agent complicates the investigation.
Stone Barrington and his latest paramour are enjoying a peaceful country retreat when their idyll is broken by an unwelcome stranger in “Wild Card” (AUCD F WOO S) by Stuart Woods.
The stranger was sent by an enemy, someone who'd be happy to silence Stone and all his collaborators for good. But, it's soon clear that Stone is not an easy man to target. With boundless resources and a thirst for vengeance, this foe will not be deterred, and when one plot fails another materializes. Their latest plan is more ambitious and subtle than any they've tried before, and the consequences could remake the nation. With the country's future in the balance, Stone will need to muster all his savvy and daring to defeat this rival once and for all.
Detective Amos Decker is known as the man with the perfect memory in “Redemption” (AUCD F BAL D) by David Baldacci.
He's the FBI consultant who solves the cases that no one else can. So when Decker learns that he may have made a mistake on a case he worked as a rookie detective, one with heartbreaking consequences, he may be the only person who can put it right. Decker is visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by a man named Meryl Hawkins. Hawkins is a convicted murderer, the very first, in fact, Decker ever put behind bars. But he's innocent, he claims.
Now suffering from terminal cancer, it's his dying wish that Decker clear his name. It's unthinkable. The case was open and shut, with rock solid forensic evidence, but then Hawkins later turns up dead with a bullet in his head, and even Decker begins to have doubts. Is it possible that he really did get it wrong, all those years ago?
Decker is determined to uncover the truth, no matter the personal cost, but solving a case this cold may be impossible, especially when it becomes clear that someone doesn't want the old case reopened. Someone who is willing to kill to keep the truth buried, and hide a decades-old secret that may have devastating repercussions.
Marshall Mcewan, in “Cemetery Road” (AUCD F ILE G) by Greg Iles, is one of the most successful journalists in Washington, D.C.
When he discovers that his father is terminally ill, Marshall must return to his childhood home a place he vowed he would never go back to. Bienville, Mississippi, is no longer the city Marshall remembers. Jet Turner, the love of his youth, has married into the family of one of a dozen powerful patriarchs who rule the town through the exclusive Bienville Poker Club. The Poker Club has offered economic salvation to this community in the form of a billion-dollar Chinese paper mill. But on the verge of the deal's culmination, two deaths rock Bienville to its core, threatening far more than the city's economic future.
Joining forces with his former lover, he and Jet soon discover that the soil of Mississippi is a minefield where explosive secrets can be far more destructive than injustice.
Come check out of these titles, as Jeannette Walls in “The Glass Castle” wrote “One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
Library’s hours are Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 9 am to 6 pm, and Tuesday and Thursday from 10 am to 7 pm; the internet/video room will close at 5:30 pm every day from June through August. You may reach us at (432) 264-2260 and our fax number is (432)264-2263. Visit our website at http://howardcounty.ploud.net. Check us out on Facebook at www. facebook.com/howardcolibrary.