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Howard County Library is open from 9 AM to 6 PM Monday through Friday, the computer room closes at
5:30 PM. You may reach us at (432) 264-2260 and our fax number is (432) 264-2263. Please visit our website at http://howard-county.ploud. net and our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/howardcolibrary for more information about our services and any updates.
Howard County Library would like to invite the community for Pictures with Santa! We would like to thank the Friends of the Library for sponsoring our Picture with Santa event. This event will be on Thursday, December 14, from 4:30-5:30. The first 100 kids will receive a free book. This is a free event, no registration is required, and all ages are welcome. Please make sure to bring your own camera. Monday, December 4, join us for our Chess Club for ages 8-13. We will also have Baby Storytime for ages 0-3 is on Tuesday, December 5, and Preschool Storytime for ages 4-6 is on Thursday,
December 7 both Storytime's start at 10:30 AM in the Childrens room. Tuesday, December 5 from 4:30-5:30 we have our teen art program Slice of Art with Ms. Jamie, a free program for ages 12-17 in the large community room. Wednesday, December 6, we have our Code Club from 4:30-5:30 PM and this will be for ages 8-15. Make sure to like and follow our Facebook page for all upcoming events and activities.
This week's reviews are fiction, western, and mystery titles.
Two former female spies, bound together by their past in The Golden Doves (F KEL M) by Martha Hall Kelly, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II. An extraordinary novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls American Josie Anderson and Parisian Arlette Larue are thrilled to be working in the French resistance, stealing so many Nazi secrets that they become known as the Golden Doves, renowned across France and hunted by the Gestapo. Their courage will cost them everything. When they are finally arrested and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, along with their loved ones, a reclusive Nazi doctor does unspeakable things to Josie's mother, a celebrated Jewish singer who joined her daughter in Paris when the world seemed bright. And Arlette's son is stolen from her, never to be seen again. A decade later the Doves fall headlong into a dangerous dual mission, Josie is working for U.S. Army intelligence and accepts an assignment to hunt down the infamous doctor, while a mysterious man tells Arlette he may have found her son. The Golden Doves embark on a quest across Europe and ultimately to French Guiana, discovering a web of terrible secrets, and must put themselves in grave danger to finally secure justice and protect the ones they love.
In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three in The Last House on Needless Street (F WAR C) by Catriona Ward. A teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time.
A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.