Check it out, at the Library this week
The library will be closed on Thursday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day, we will reopen Friday, July 5. Another upcoming closure will happen on Monday, July 8, the library will be closed from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for technology updates and staff training, we will open at 1 p.m. and resume regular scheduled hours.
This month for the summer reading program we are excited for upcoming events: Space Bubble Demonstration at the Boys & Girls Club Gym on July 17 and on July 24th we will have Storyteller Carolina Quiroga at the library. We welcome families to join us for these events and for our regular scheduled story times, for summer reading program.
For more information check out our webpage and Facebook page or come by the library.
This week's reviews are fiction novels in audiobook format.
Ali Reynolds learns that no good deed goes unpunished in “The A List” (AUCD F JAN J) by Judith A. Jance.
More than 10 years after the abrupt end of her high-profile broadcasting career, Ali Reynolds has made a good life for herself in her hometown of Sedona, Arizona. She has a new house, a new husband, and a flourishing cybersecurity company called High Noon Enterprises, where her team of veritable technological wizards hunt down criminals one case at a time. But, the death of an old friend brings Ali back to the last story she ever reported: a feel-good human interest piece about a young man in need of a kidney to save his life, which quickly spiraled into a medical mismanagement scandal that landed a prestigious local doctor in prison for murder. Years may have passed, but Dr. Edward Gilchrist has not forgotten those responsible for his downfall, certainly not Ali Reynolds, who exposed his dirty deeds to the world. Life without parole won't stop him from getting his revenge. Tattooed on his arm are the initials of those who put him behind bars, and he won't stop until every person on that Annihilation List is dead.
Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD detective Renee Ballard in “Dark Sacred Night” (AUCD F CON M) by Michael Connelly, to solve the murder of a young girl.
Detective Renee Ballard is working the night beat, known in LAPD slang as "the late show." When she returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours she finds a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has never been the kind of cop who leaves the job behind at the end of her shift, and she wants in. The unsolved murder was of fifteenyear-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally killed, her body left in a dumpster. Now Ballard joins forces with Bosch to find out what happened to Daisy, and to finally bring her killer to justice. Along the way, the two detectives forge a fragile trust, but this new partnership is put to the test when the case takes an unexpected and dangerous turn.
During what was supposed to be a routine investigation in South America, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt finds himself embroiled in an international mystery, in “Celtic Empire” (AUCD F CUS C) by Clive Cussler.
The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack by tomb raiders on an archaeological site along the banks of the Nile. Are there links between these violent events?
The answer may lie in the tale of an Egyptian princess forced to flee the armies of her father three thousand years ago. Pitt's investigation will lead him across the world and threaten everyone and everything he knows, most importantly, his own family. Pitt travels to Scotland in search of answers about the spread of an unknown disease and the shadowy bioremediation company that may be behind it. Meanwhile, his son and daughter face a threat of their own when the discoveries they have made in an Egyptian tomb put killers on their trail. These seemingly unrelated riddles come together in a stunning showdown on the rocky isles of Ireland, where only the Pitts can unravel the secrets of an ancient enigma that could change the very future of mankind.
Detective Lindsay Boxer's investigation into the disappearance of three teachers quickly escalates from missing persons to murder in “The 18th Abduction: Women's Murder Club, Book 18” (AUCD F PAT J) by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.
For a trio of colleagues, an innocent night out after class ends in a deadly torture session. They vanish without a clue, until a body turns up. With the safety of San Francisco's entire school system at stake, Lindsay has never been under more pressure. As the chief of police and the press clamor for an arrest in the "school night" case, Lindsay turns to her best friend, investigative journalist Cindy Thomas. Together, they take a new approach to the case, and unexpected facts about the victims leave them stunned. While Lindsay is engrossed in her investigation, her husband, Joe Molinari, meets an Eastern European woman who claims to have seen a notorious war criminal from her home country who was long presumed dead. Before Lindsay can verify the woman's statement, Joe's mystery informant joins the ranks of the missing women. Lindsay, Joe, and the entire Women's Murder Club must pull together to protect their city, and one another from a true monster.
“America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination.” – President Harry S. Truman. Happy Fourth of July!
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