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This week join Chuck Wallace, Medicare Specialist on Tuesday, January 30 from 5-7 PM for Medicare 101, get your Medicare questions answered. Don't forget to join us in the library for Chess Club on Monday, January 29 from 4:30-5:30, Storytime will be in the Children's room at 10:30 AM for Baby Storytime for ages 0-3 on Tuesday, January 30, and Preschool Storytime for ages 4-6 on Thursday, February 1. On Tuesday, January 30 from 4:30-5:30 PM we have teen art program Slice of Art with Ms. Jamie, a free program for ages 12-17. Code Club is on Wednesday, January 31, from 4:30-5:30 PM for ages 8-15. Make sure to like and follow our Facebook page for all upcoming events and activities.
This week's reviews are western, fiction and science fiction titles.
Mariel Prager needs a break in Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (F STR J) by J. Ryan Stradal. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she's been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for decades, and while Mariel's grandmother embraced the business, seeing it as a saving grace, Florence never took to it.
When Mariel inherited the restaurant, skipping Florence, it created a rift between mother and daughter that never quite healed. Ned is also an heir to a chain of home-style diners and while he doesn't have a head for business, he knows his family's chain could provide a better future than his wife's fading restaurant. In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, Ned and Mariel lose almost everything they hold dear, and the hardwon victories of each family hang in the balance. With their dreams dashed, can one fractured family find a way to rebuild despite their losses, and will the Lakeside Supper Club be their salvation?
Every town has its secrets in Welcome to Beach Town (F WIG S) by Susan Wiggs. In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chill surfer vibe, it's graduation day at the elite Thornton Academy.
At Thornton, the students are the worldly and overindulged children who live in gated enclaves with spectacular views. But the class valedictorian is Nikki Graziola, a surfer's daughter who is there on scholarship. To the shock of everyone in the audience, Nikki veers off script while giving her commencement address and reveals a secret that breaks open to the whole community. As her truth explodes into the light, Alara Cove will face a reckoning. Nikki Graziola's accusation shakes the foundation of Alara Cove, pitting her against the wealthy family whose money runs the town. Her new notoriety sends Nikki into exile for years, where she finds fame but not fortune overseas as a competition surfer, until a personal tragedy compels her to return to Alara Cove. As Nikki struggles to rebuild her future, she finds that the people of the town have not forgotten her. But time has changed Alara Cove, and old friendships, rivalries, and an unexpected romance draw her back into the life of the beach town she's never quite forgotten, and where joy and redemption may be possible after all.
Carlota Moreau a young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula in
Daughter of Doctor Moreau (SF MOR S) by Silvia Moreno-garcia. The only daughter of either a genius, or a madman. Montgomery Laughton a melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his scientific experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers. The hybrids, the fruits of the Doctor's labor, destined to blindly obey their creator and remain in the shadows. A motley group of part human, part animal monstrosities. All of them living in a perfectly balanced and static world, which is jolted by the abrupt arrival of Eduardo Lizalde, the
charming and careless son of Doctor Moreau's patron, who will unwittingly begin a dangerous chain reaction. For Moreau keeps secrets, Carlota has questions, and in the sweltering heat of the jungle, passions may ignite.
1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming, but within a year's time she's fallen in love both with the High Plains and with a handsome cowboy named Charlie Bacon in Where Coyotes Howl (W DAL S) by Sandra Dallas. Life is not easy in the flat, brown corner of the state where winter blizzards are unforgiving and the summer heat relentless. But Ellen and Charlie face it all together, their relationship growing stronger with each shared success, and each deeply felt tragedy.
Ellen finds purpose in her work as a rancher's wife and in her bonds with other women settled on the prairie. Not all of them are so lucky as to have loving husbands, not all came to Wallace willingly, and not all of them can survive the cruel seasons. But they look out for each other, share their secrets, and help one another in times of need. And the needs are great and constant. The only city to speak of, Cheyenne, is miles away, making it akin to the Wild West in rural Wallace. In the end, it is not the trials Ellen and Charlie face together that make them remarkable, but their love for one another that endures through it all.