Check it out at the Library this week
Howard County Library is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, for Grab & Go access to the library. Customers have 30 minutes to browse the shelves, checkout items, make copies and send a fax; an appointment is still required to use a computer. Please visit our website at http://howard-county.ploud. net and our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/HowardCoLibrary for more information. You may reach us at 432-264-2260 and our fax number is 432-264-2263.
Join us for the last week of Babytime and Storytime this season. Babytime is Tuesday at 10:15 a.m. and Storytime is Thursday at 10:15 a.m. in the children's room. We are gearing up for Summer Reading Program 2022-Oceans of Possibilities, taking place June through July. We will post updates and more information on our website and Facebook page.
This week's reviews include fiction and mystery titles.
Spanning eras and generations, Conjure Women (F ATA A) by Afia Atakora tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother's footsteps as a midwife; and their master's daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom.
As a Secret Service agent, in Hour of the Assassin (F QUI M) by Matthew Quirk, Nick Averose spent a decade protecting the most powerful men and women in America and developed a unique gift: the ability to think like an assassin. Now, he uses that skill in a little-known but crucial job. As a “red teamer,” he poses as a threat, testing the security around our highest officials to find vulnerabilities, before our enemies can. He is a mock killer, capable of slipping past even the best defenses. His latest assignment is to assess the security surrounding the former CIA director at his DC area home. But soon after he breaches the man's study, the home's inner sanctum, Nick finds himself entangled in a vicious crime that will shake Washington to its foundations, as all the evidence points to Nick. Nick knows he's the perfect scapegoat. But who is framing him, and why? To clear his name, he must find the truth a search that leads to a dark conspiracy whose roots stretch back decades. The prize is the most powerful position in the world: the Oval Office. To save himself and the people he loves, Nick must stop the men who rule Washington before they bury him along with their secrets.
What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, in American Spy (F WIL L) by Lauren Wilkinson and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant, but she's also a young black woman working in an old boys' club. Her career has stalled out, she's overlooked for every high-profile squad, and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. So, when she's given the opportunity to join a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic revolutionary