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This week join Chuck Wallace, Medicare Specialist on Thursday, September 28 from 5-7 PM for Medicare 101, get your Medicare questions answered. There are many fun after-school activities to keep your kids busy, come join us for our children's programs. Chess Club for ages 8-13 will meet on Monday, September 25 at 4:30 PM. Baby Storytime will meet Tuesday, September 26 for ages 0-3 and Thursday, September 28 we have
Pre-school Storytime for ages 4-6 at 10:30 in the Childrens room. All ages are welcome for both Storytime's. Tuesday is our teen art program Slice of Art with Ms. Jamie, and this free program is for ages 12-17 at 4:30 PM. Make sure to like and follow our Facebook page for all upcoming events and activities.
This week's reviews are fiction and non-fiction titles in audiobook format.
After five years on the run, Court Gentry is back on the inside at the CIA in Gunmetal Gray-the Gray Man Series Bk 6 (AUCD F GRE M) by Mark Greaney. But his first mission makes him wish he had stayed on the outs when a pair of Chinese agents try to take him down in Hong Kong.
Normally the Chinese prefer to stay eyes-only on foreign agents. So why are they on such high alert? Court's high stakes hunt for answers takes him across Southeast Asia and leads to his old friend, Donald Fitzroy, who is being held hostage by the Chinese. Fitzroy was contracted to find Fan Jiang, a former member of an ultra-secret computer warfare unit responsible for testing China's own security systems.
And Fan may have been too good at his job because China wants him dead.
The first two kill teams Fitzroy sent to find Fan have disappeared, and the Chinese have decided to "supervise" the next operation. What they do not know is that Gentry's mission is to find Fan first and get whatever intel he has to the US. After that, all he must do is get out alive.
After scoring a plea deal in a high-profile murder trial, serial killer James Michael Barrett leads a grim parade of law enforcement officers to the body of his last victim in More Than Meets the Eye (AUCD F JOH I) by Iris Johansen. At the alleged burial site, the officers swing their shovels down and are met with a strange metallic sound they were not expecting. In a blink, a terrific explosion rocks the woods, killing Barrett and most of the officers instantly.
The detonation is only the beginning of a shocking case for FBI consultant Kendra Michaels, a string of heinous murders in the style of the very-dead Barrett mysteriously continues, and it becomes clear that he may not have been