Library Notes for the Week of June 18

The Summer Reading Program is underway.  June 21^st we decorate a pillowcase, June 24^th is the Mad Hatter Tea Party, June 26^th we make dream catchers and on the 29th Jason Quick, a one armed juggler will entertain us. Come join us.

When you stop by the library, check out one of these new books.

Summer Breeze by Nancy Thayer.  Morgan O’Keefe feels trapped, she misses the thrill of working with her colleagues in the lab. She’s restless and in dire need of a change.
Natalie Reynolds takes up her aunt’s offer to move to the Berkshires and house-sit her fabulous lakeside house for a year. When her mother breaks her leg, Bella Barnaby quits her job in Austin and returns home to help out her large, boisterous family. Among her new duties: manning the counter at the family business, Barnaby’s Barn, an outdated shop sorely in need of a makeover. Summer on Dragonfly Lake is ripe for romance, temptation, and self-discovery as the lives of these three women unexpectedly intertwine.

Mortal by Ted Dekker.  Nine years have gone by since an unlikely hero named Rom Sebastian first discovered a secret and consumed an ancient potion of blood to bring himself back to life in Forbidden. Surviving against impossible odds, Rom has gathered a secret faction of followers who have also taken the blood-the first Mortals in a world that is dead. But The Order has raised an elite army to hunt and crush the living. Division and betrayal threaten to destroy the Mortals from within. The final surviving hope for humanity teeters on the brink of annihilation and no one knows the path to survival.

The Lower River by Paul Theroux.  Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When his wife leaves him, he realizes that there is one place for him to go: back to his village on the remote Lower River. Arriving at the village, he finds the school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people. They remember him, the White Man with no fear of snakes. But is his new life an escape or a trap?