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Medicare 101 with Medicare Specialist, Chuck Wallace will be Thursday, March 28 from 5-7 PM, get your Medicare questions answered. Howard County Library will be closed Friday, March 29 in observance of the Easter Holiday and will reopen Monday, April 1. Also, join us for this week's children's programs; Monday Chess Club at 4:30PM, Tuesday and Thursday Storytimes at the library at 10:30 AM, Wednesday afternoon for Code Club at 4:30 PM and Thursday for Color Me Healthy at 4:30PM.
This week's reviews are fiction, biography and nonfiction titles.
The quiet of a Texas night is shattered by the sounds of screeching brakes, crumpling metal and, most shockingly, rapid gunfire in Weapons Grade-jack Ryan Universe #36 (F CLA T) by Tom Clancy. The auto accident Jack Ryan Jr thought he witnessed turned out to be a professional hit. Jack may be too late to save the victim, but he'll be damned if he's going to let the hitters escape justice. He's got just one lead, a meeting the victim was going to. When Jack shows up instead, he's drawn into the seedy underbelly of a small, Texas town and the cold case of a college student who vanished from its streets. Jack is left with nothing but questions. Who wants it to look like the victim was drunk? Why does someone want an innocent witness killed? And most of all, what's a team of South African hitmen doing in the Lone Star State? His quest for answers will take Jack from a quiet Texas road to the middle of an international conspiracy and may just cost him his life.
While on a drive in Los Angeles, on a seemingly average afternoon, Kerry Washington received a text message that would send her on a life-changing journey of self-discovery in Thicker than Water: A Memoir (B WAS K) by Kerry Washington. In an instant, her very identity was torn apart, with everything she thought she knew about herself thrown into question. In Thicker than Water, Washington gives readers an intimate view into both her public and private worlds as a mother, daughter, wife, artist, advocate, and trailblazer. Chronicling her upbringing and life's journey thus far, she reveals how she faced a series of challenges and setbacks, effectively hid childhood traumas, met extraordinary mentors, managed to grow her career, and crossed the threshold into stardom and political advocacy, ultimately discovering her truest self and, with it, a deeper sense of belonging. Throughout this profoundly moving and beautifully written memoir, Washington attempts to answer the questions so many have struggled with: Who am I? What is my truest and most authentic self? How do I find a deeper sense of connection and belonging? With grace and honesty, she inspires readers to search for and find themselves.
On October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, during a sleepover with two friends, while her mother slept soundly in the room next door In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child (363.259 CRO K) by Kim Cross. This rarest of all kidnappings, a stranger abduction from the home triggered one of the largest manhunts in FBI history. Many Americans remember Polly's face, which appeared on the national news every night, on the cover of People magazine, and on more than 8 million flyers distributed as far as China. The emotional gravity of Polly's story touched every agent, police officer, and forensic technician who worked on her case. Many of these investigators have never shared their stories, until now. Kim Cross wrote the first comprehensive account of what happened on that fateful night in October and how the case forever transformed the Bureau's approach to solving crimes. With unprecedented access to case files, crime scene photos, a videotaped murder confession, and inside sources, In Light of All Darkness follows the investigators who pieced together the evidence that led to the arrest and conviction of the kidnapper and made the victim a household name and a girl who will never be forgotten.
Linked to a special mini season of the awardwinning Startalk podcast, this enlightening illustrated narrative by the world's most celebrated astrophysicist explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space with authority and humor in To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery (520 TYS N) by Neil Degrasse Tyson. No one can make the mysteries of the universe more comprehensible and fun than Neil degrasse Tyson. Drawing on mythology, history, and literature alongside his trademark wit and charm Tyson and Startalk senior producer Lindsey Nyx Walker bring planetary science down to Earth and principles of astrophysics within reach. In this entertaining book, illustrated with vivid photographs and art, readers travel with him through space and time, starting
"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us." – Ray Bradbury