Library Notes for the Week of July 23rd

Summer Reading activities are continuing for a few more weeks.   

As we finish up our Summer Reader activities for this year don’t forget the Reptile Man is our last program, Thursday, August 2^nd at 6 p.m.  He will be performing outdoors in the field next to the old hardware store on the corner of 6^th and Morris (or inside if the weather turns ugly).  Join us for the first library activity on our new property!  

 Be sure your child has his reading record minutes in on Friday, July 27^th .  He must have 700 minutes to get his name in the drawing for the countywide bike drawing; and 800 minutes if he wants to get in on our bike drawing.

When you come to report those minutes, check out one of our new books.  Here are a few you might be interested in.

Never Tell by Alafair Burke.  Sixteen-year-old Julia Whitmire appeared to have everything: a famous father, a luxurious town house, a spot at an elite prep school. When she is found dead, a handwritten suicide note left on her bed, her parents insist that their daughter would never take her own life. Seems Julia's enviable world was more complicated. Abuse of prescription antidepressants and ADHD medication ran rampant among students; an unlabeled bottle of pills in Julia's purse suggests she had succumbed to the trend. And a search of Julia's computer reveals that she was engaged in a dangerous game of cyberbullying.

The Demands by Mark Billingham. Helen Weeks enters her local news agent's shop to buy her customary candy bar and ends up, along with another customer, as a hostage to the proprietor, who then demands that Detective Thorne find the murderer of his son. Some months before, Thorne had been the arresting officer when the boy surrendered for killing another lad in self-defense. While in prison, he was attacked and taken to the hospital where he was later found dead of an overdose of drugs. Forced to reopen the case and "find the truth," Thorne fights against time and Helen's predicament.

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.  It is Nick and Amy’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—Nick parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?  As the cops close in, every couple in town is wondering how well they know the one that they love. Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is his wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?