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In October the library will be hosting the Science Spectrum as they present the program Astronauts in Space as we gear up for the Annular Solar Eclipse on October 14,2023. The Science Spectrum will be at the library on Thursday, October 12 from 5:00-6:00 PM. This is a free program and is open to the public and we will be handing out solar eclipse glasses at the end of the program to those present while supplies last. This week Chess Club for ages 8-13 will meet Monday, October 2 at 4:30 PM. Baby Storytime for ages 0-3 is on Tuesday, October 3, and Preschool Storytime for ages 4-6 is on Thursday, October 5 both storytimes start at 10:30 AM in the Childrens room. Tuesday afternoon from 4:30-5:30 PM we have Teen art program Slice of Art with Ms. Jamie, a free program for ages 12-17 in the large community room. Also, the Friends of the Library Fall Book Sale will be happening this Friday, October 6 from 12- 6PM and Saturday, October 7 from 9 AM- 2 PM. Come by and browse their large selection of books. Make sure to like and follow our
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This week's reviews are fiction titles in audiobook format.
Fresh off his first mission back with the CIA, Court Gentry secures what seems like a cut-and-dried contract job in Agent in Place-the Gray Man Series Bk 7 (AUCD F GRE M) by Mark Greane. A group of expats in Paris hires him to kidnap the mistress of Syrian dictator Ahmed Azzam to get intel that could destabilize Azzam's regime. Court delivers Bianca Medina to the rebels, but his job doesn't end there. She soon reveals that she has given birth to a son, the only heir to Azzam's rule, and a potent threat to the Syrian president's powerful wife. Now, to get Bianca's cooperation, Court must bring her son out of Syria alive. With the clock ticking on Bianca's life, he goes off the grid in a free-fire zone in the Middle East, and winds up in the right place at the right time to take a shot at bringing one of the most brutal dictatorships on earth to a close.
Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town is a beautiful cottage on a cliff in The Soulmate (AUCD F HEP S) by Sally Hepworth. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't. When Pippa discovers Gabe knew the victim, the questions spiral. Did the victim jump? Was she pushed? And would Gabe, the love of Pippa's life, her soulmate lie? As the perfect facade of their marriage begins to crack, the deepest and darkest secrets begin to unravel.
As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised, and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program in The Last Orphan-orphan X Series Bk 8 (AUCD F HUR G) by Gregg Hurwitz. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure never got out.
When he remade himself as The Nowhere Man, dedicated to helping the most desperate in their times of trouble, Evan found himself slowly back on the government's radar.
Having eliminated most of the Orphans in the program, the government will stop at nothing to eliminate the threat they see in Evan. But Orphan X has always been several steps ahead of his pursuers.
Until he makes one little mistake. Now the President has him in her control and offers Evan a deal to eliminate a rich, powerful man she says is too dangerous to live and, in turn, she'll let Evan survive.
But when Evan left the Program, he swore to only use his skills against those who really deserve it. Now he must decide what's more important, his principles or his life.
After five years on the run, Court Gentry is back on the inside at the CIA in Identity (AUCD F ROB N) by Nora Roberts. 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