Vol. 21 ◊ Issue 2
Mar / Apr 2020 Discover What’s New at Your Library Spring has Sprung !
And with it, exciting additions and changes to your library!
The Preble County District Library began lending The Preble County District Library MOBILE HOTSPOTS on March 1st! A Library mobile has gone FINE FREE hotspot gives you free access to the Internet through as of March 1, 2020! Sprint 4G and Verizon from anywhere within the You read that right! FINE FREE! USA. The loan period is fourteen (14) days with no renewals When you return material that is permitted. less than 30 days overdue, you To borrow a Mobile Hotspot you must: will no longer be charged a fine!
Be 18 years or older The library will also offer automatic renewals! Any eligible item Present a valid drivers’ license/state I.D. AND a PCDL card in good will automatically renew four (4) times before it becomes standing, with an address on file. overdue, unless the item has been reserved (placed on hold) by someone else. In that case, an item cannot be renewed. Cards Sign the Mobile Hotspot Loan Agreement and the Wi-Fi Hotspot that allow a 42-day loan (Educator, Outreach and Homebound) Acceptable Use Agreement allows one six (6) week renewal. Also, material cannot be For more information about the library’s mobile hotspots, please renewed if three or more items are overdue on your account. contact your PCDL Branch. Mobile Hotspots cannot be renewed at all.
Whoops! Have an item that has become lost or damaged? All cardholders are still responsible for any lost or damaged material. The charge for lost or damaged materials is the replacement cost of the item(s) and any collection fees, if applicable. Collection fees cannot be waived.
For more information about the library’s Borrowing Policy, please contact your PCDL Branch.
Reoccurring LEGO Club opportunities
West Alexandria Branch: Saturday, March 28 & Saturday April 25, at 12 PM. (Last Saturday of the month) LEGO Club offered fun times at the New Paris Library! Eaton Branch: Monday, March 30 & Monday, April 27 Upcoming LEGO clubs will meet on Saturdays at 11 AM at the New at 6 PM. (First Monday of the month) Paris Library on Mar 7, Apr 4, and May 2.
Bring your imagination (and building skills) to this fun program!
Library Admin. Office 450 S. Barron St., Eaton, OH 45320 (937) 456-4250 www.preblelibrary.org @preblelibrary Would you like to learn more about computers? Do you have a new tablet or smartphone you'd like to learn more about? The
Reference Librarian is happy to help!
Book an appointment for assistance with:
EmilyEmily Hackett, Hackett, Reference Reference Librarian Librarian Tablets/e-readers Computers Microsoft Office One-Hour Sessions Internet Resumes & job searching One-on-One Assistance Using the library catalog Research
By Appointment Call 937-456-5562, email [email protected], or visit the Service available at all PCDL branches! library in person to set up an appointment at any PCDL branch!
Gmail for Beginners Thurs, March 12 Eaton Library at 6 PM
Need an email address? We can help! This adult computer class will cover: setting up an email name and password sending and receiving messages deleting emails Homework Help Club what to do with spam messages Mondays 4 PM - 6 PM Have an existing Gmail account and want to know more about it? We can help you with that too. Just Eaton Branch make sure to you have your password! Introduction to Google Apps The Eaton Library introduces the Thurs, April 9 Homework Help Club! It provides FREE Eaton Library at 6 PM homework help to students in grades You’ve used Google for searching, but it has many K-6th. other features to offer. Tutors will be available to assist with You will learn about: homework in a variety of subjects. For Google documents more information, contact the library adding events to the Google Calendar at 937-456-4331 or email finding directions on Google Maps, and more
[email protected] A Gmail account for this class is required. If you Drop-ins are welcome! No registration don’t have one, please let the instructor know. required! To register for computer classes, visit the Eaton Library or call 937-456-4331
Sometimes titles appear in the Library Ink Newsletter that are not listed in the library’s online catalog. What’s a patron to do? There are several options:
1. Visit your local PCDL branch and request the item Library Admin. Office 450 S Barron St Eaton, OH 45320 from a staff member. Don’t be shy! We’re more Mon - Thurs 9-5 / Fri 9-3 than happy to do this for you! Note: You may request up to four items per month, within sixty days of publication or release date of the item.
2. *Request the item yourself from the library’s online catalog: www.preblelibrary.org T he Preble County Room staff will be working on a WWII book project in observance of the war’s 75th anniversary, which culminates in December, 2020. This compilation will honor Preble County men and women who served during the war. Please feel free to contact the PC Room if you, or someone you know, served in the military during this time. They will make copies of your WWII military photos and/or other *Always check the online catalog first before memorabilia and include them in the book. making a request. As always, any keepsake lent for display or donated to the PC Room’s historical collection, will be cared for with the utmost care and respect. For more information, visit the PC Room, call 937-456-4970, or email [email protected]. Family Fun Night: Dinosaurs Thurs, Apr 16
Eaton Library Mon, Mar 2, West Alexandria Branch, at 5:30 PM: Read Across 6 PM America Day We will wrap up our winter reading program with Read Across America STOMP, STOMP, ROARRRR! Are you Day. Crafts, snacks and other activities all to celebrate Dr. Seuss. ready for an adventure? If so, join us at the Eaton Library for our DINOSAUR Wed, Mar 25, Eaton Branch at 6 PM: Women in Aviation International themed Family Fun Night! Learn about amazing women who have made aviation history and Women in Aviation International, a local aviation organization. At this LARGER-THAN-LIFE event we'll Presented by certified aviation instructor, Jennifer Saddler Thomas. offer DINO-TASTIC games, prizes, crafts and snacks! Mon, Apr 13, Eaton Branch at 6:30 PM: Yoga with Misti Join us for our new monthly yoga session with Misti from the 3 Little Come dressed as your favorite dinosaur, Birds Yoga Studio! Bring your own mat. Sessions occur every second dinosaur handler, or paleontologist Monday of the month at 6:30 and last about an hour. (family-friendly costumes only). Sat, Apr 18, Eaton Branch at 1:30 PM: National Library Week Kickoff Join us for crafts, a cookie decorating contest, prizes, live music by Keith Lykins, and stations with everything the library offers. “Your library has
eeeeeeeebooks!” The Preble County District Library Offers Hoopla to You!
Hoopla is a digital media service that allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone – and even your TV! To borrow from Hoopla, you will need your PCDL Download popular titles for FREE! Love to card and PIN. watch movies? Ohio Digital Library offers streaming and downloadable videos! With no waiting, titles can be streamed immediately, or downloaded to phones ohioebooks.org or tablets for offline enjoyment later. We have hundreds of thousands of titles to Is the item you’re interested in unavailable? Keep in choose from, with more being added daily. mind that returns are automatic, so the wait may not be too awfully long. You also have the option to Hoopla is like having your public library at your fingertips. Anytime. Anywhere. return items early! Download their free app on your device today! Go to: bit.ly/hooplapcdl
A sample of Popular movies available through you PCDL Hoopla Account! The Weekenders by The Perfect Match by Face It: A Memoir Mary Kay Andrews Adopt a Highway (Ethan Hawke) Susan May Warren by Debbie Harry (audiobook) Freaks (Emile Hirsch) (Deep Haven, 3)
The Knight of Shadows (Jackie Chan) The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (Julianne Moore) Into the Woods (Anna Kendrick) Miss Austen Regrets (Olivia Williams) Try Libby, the new app for downloading A Man Called Ove (Rolf Lassgard) ebooks and audio books! The Captive (Ryan Reynolds) The Illusionist (Edward Norton) The Sting (Robert Redford & Paul Newman) The Librarian series with Noah Wylie: Quest for the Spear; Return to King Solomon’s Mines; Curse of the Judas Chalice Book2Movie Dial M for Murder (Grace Kelly & Ray Milland)
Frank Herbert’s scifi masterpiece, Dune, has been adapted for the screen by director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival). The film stars Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides. The film is expected in theaters on Dec 18.
Kids & Family It’s hard to believe that it’s been 24 Charlotte’s Web (1973 animated version) years since Gwenyth Paltrow played The Wild Thornberrys Movie (animated) the role of Emma in the 1996 film adaptation, based on the Jane Austen’ Paddington’s Birthday Bonanza (animated) classic novel, Emma. 2020 will herald in The Sound of Music Live (Kelli Berglund) a new version, this one directed by Mandie series: Mandie and the Secret Tunnel; Mandie and the Cherokee Autumn de Wilde, and will star Anya Treasure; Mandie and the Forgotten Christmas Taylor-Joy in the matchmaker role. Dinosaur Island (Darius Williams) Other cast members include Bill Nighy The Secret Garden (Glennellen Anderson) (Mr. Woodhouse) and Johnny Flynn (George Knightley). Mission Possible (John Savage) The film arrived in theaters on Feb 21. Healed By Grace 2 (Sean Young) noun : written works, especially lit·er·a·ture: those considered of superior or ͝ lasting artistic merit. March /ˈlidərəCHər,ˈlidərəˌCHoor/ The Yellow Bird Sings / Jennifer Rosner (literary - WWII) Long Range / C. J. Box (Joe Pickett, 20 - mystery) Miss Austen / Gill Hornby: England, 1840. For the The Sea of Lost Girls / Carol Goodman (ghost thriller) two decades following the death of her beloved The Night Watchman / Louise Erdrich (literary) sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen has lived alone, The Body Double / Emily Beyda (literary noir thriller) spending her days visiting friends and relations and A Thousand Moons / Sebastian Barry (historical literary fiction) quietly, purposefully working to preserve her sister’s Please See Us / Caitlin Mullen (psycho thriller- psychic) reputation. Now in her sixties and increasingly frail, My Dark Vanessa / Kate Elizabeth Russell (psycho literary fiction) Cassandra goes to stay with the Fowles of Kintbury, A Reasonable Doubt / Phillip Margolin (Robin Lockwood thriller, 3) family of her long-dead fiancé, in search of a trove of The Red Lotus / Chris Bohjalian (psycho thriller) Jane’s letters. Dodging her hostess and a meddlesome housemaid, The New Life of Hugo Gardner / Louis Begley (literary satire fiction) Cassandra eventually hunts down the letters and confronts the A Conspiracy of Bones / Kathy Reichs (Temperance Brennan, 19) secrets they hold, secrets not only about Jane but about Cassandra I See You So Close / M. Dressler (Last Ghost, 2 - occult fiction) herself. Will Cassandra bare the most private details of her life to the The Boy From the Woods / Harlan Coben (PI thriller) world, or commit her sister’s legacy to the flames? Credible Threat / J. A. Jance (Ali Reynolds mystery, 15) Eight Perfect Murders / Peter Swanson (psycho mystery thriller) Darling Rose Gold / Stephanie Wrobel: For the first Hit List / Stuart Woods (Stone Barrington mystery, 53) eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed A Thousand Moons / Sebastian Barry (Days Without End, 2) she was seriously ill. She was allergic to everything, The Mirror and the Light / Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall, 3 - historical) used a wheelchair and practically lived at the Deacon King Kong / James McBride (literary fiction) hospital. Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering shoulders to cry on, but no April matter how many doctors, tests, or surgeries, no one The House of Deep Water / Jeni McFarland (literary women’s fiction) could figure out what was wrong with Rose Gold. The Stolen Gold Affair / Bill Pronzini (Carpenter & Quincannon, 8) Turns out her mom, Patty Watts, was just a really good liar. Hid From Our Eyes / Julia Spencer-Fleming (Russ van Alstyne , 9) Afterlife / Julia Alvarez (literary fiction) After serving five years in prison, Patty gets out with nowhere to go The Talented Mr. Varg / Alexander McCall Smith (Det. Varg, 2) and begs her daughter to take her in. The entire community is What’s Left of Me is Yours / Stephanie Scott (psychological thriller) shocked when Rose Gold says yes. Patty insists all she wants is to Dead Land / Sara Pretsky (V. I. Warshawski mystery, 20) reconcile their differences. She says she's forgiven Rose Gold for The Book of Longings / Sue Monk Kidd (literary) turning her in and testifying against her. But Rose Gold knows her Camino Winds / John Grisham (Mercer Mann mystery, 2) mother. Patty Watts always settles a score. Unfortunately for Patty, Masked Prey / John Sandford (Prey Thriller, 30) Rose Gold is no longer her weak little darling...And she's waited a long time for her mother to come home. The Business Lovers / Eric Jerome Dickey (popular fiction) Code Name Helene / Ariel Cawborn (biographical fiction - espionage) Redhead By the Edge of the Road / Anne Tyler: The Unsuitable / Molly Pohlig (dark humor - gothic) Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self- Afterlife / Julia Alvarez (literary) employed tech expert, superintendent of his
*You may request any title not found in the library’s catalog. Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines The Astonishing Life of August March / Aaron are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses Jackson: Abandoned as an infant by his actress to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells mother in her theater dressing room, August March him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door was raised by an ancient laundress. Highly intelligent, claiming to be his son. These surprises, and the ways they throw a tad feral, August is a true child of the theater –able Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him to recite Shakespeare before he knew the alphabet. forever.
But like all productions, August’s wondrous time An intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who finds those inside the theater comes to a close, and he finds around him just out of reach, and a funny, joyful, deeply himself in the wilds of postwar New York City, where he quickly rises compassionate story about seeing the world through new from pickpocket street urchin to star student at the stuffiest boarding eyes, Redhead by the Side of the Road is a triumph, filled with Anne school in the nation. To survive, August must rely upon the kindness Tyler's signature wit and gimlet-eyed observation. of strangers, only some of whom have his best interests at heart. As he grows up, his heart begins to yearn for love—which he may or may not finally find in Penny, a clever and gifted con artist. Search the PCDL online catalog for more NEW titles! April
Finn Family Farm series by Elle Brooke White Dead on the Vine: Charlotte Finn never March wanted to inherit the family's produce farm-- much less plow a heap of money into it. Her Vintage Sweet series by Kaye George plan is to hammer a great big FOR SALE sign Revenge is Sweet: Tally Holt has poured her heart, into the farm's fallow furrows--but Charlotte's soul, and bank account into Tally’s Olde Tyme Sweets, sunny hopes of a quick sale succumb to a specializing in her grandmother’s delicious recipes. killing frost when she finds a dead body Tally’s homemade Mallomars, Twinkies, fudges, and entwined supine in the tomato vines. The poor man, it seems, taffy are a hit with visiting tourists—and with Yolanda was run through...with a pitchfork? Bella, the flamboyant owner of Bella’s Baskets next door. But both shops encounter a sour surprise when Now, Charlotte is stuck with running the farm in the midst of a local handyman Gene Faust is found dead in Tally’s kitchen, stabbed murder investigation. Charlotte's knowledge of farming is with Yolanda’s scissors. smaller than her bank balance, so she relies on caretakers Joe and Alice Wong and their farmhands. Can she trust them? She Café Cinema series by Vickie Fee doesn't know them. There's also farmer Samuel Brown, who still My Fair Latte: Broke, unemployed barista Halley Greer carries a childhood grudge. But the case gets personal when is shocked when she inherits an Art Deco movie palace Charlotte learns that the victim might have been her own kin-- from the great uncle she remembers meeting once as a and seeds of suspicion grow into a fertile field of suspects.
child. She moves to the charming tourist town of Utopia Home to Ireland series by Carlene O’Connor Springs, Arkansas to claim her legacy. Murder in Galway: Tara never imagined her
In addition to the timeworn theater, she discovers she's introduction to Ireland like this--carrying her also inherited a trash-heaped apartment, family secrets, mam's ashes to honor her final request: "Tell her uncle's friends, a stealthy calico kitty--and an adversary. Johnny I'm sorry...Take me home." She's never met her mam's estranged brother, Johnny With a whole latte help from her new friends, the feisty barista fixes up Meehan, who owns an architectural salvage and re-opens the theater as a coffee and wine bar, showing classic business in Galway. Although Tara is immediately films. She generates some steam with a hunky local--and risks getting charmed by the medieval city, the locals seem wary of strangers burned. The opening night of My Fair Lady looks like a big hit, and her and a gypsy warns her that death is all around. new life feels like a bit of movie magic, until a customer turns up dead during intermission. When Tara arrives at her uncle's stone cottage, the prophesy seems true. A dead man lies sprawled over the threshold in a Sassy Cat series by Jennifer J. Chow pool of blood. Mimi Lee Gets a Clue: Mimi Lee is in over her head. There's her new Los Angeles pet grooming shop to run, 21st entry in Laura Childs’ Tea Shop Series her matchmaking mother to thwart, her talking cat Marshmallow to tend to—oh, and the murder of a local Lavender Blue Murder: Tea maven breeder to solve...now if only Mimi hadn't landed Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier herself on top of the suspect list. Drayton Conneley are guests at a bird hunt styled in the precise manner of an English Furever Pets series by Alex Eriskson shooting party. Which means elevenses (sloe gin fizzes), gun loaders, the drawing of The Pomeranian Always Barks Twice: With a pegs, fine looking bird dogs, and shooting veterinarian dad and a pet-rescuing mom, helping costumes of tweed, herringbone, and suede. animals is a family business for the Dentons—but after a But as gunshots explode like a riff of Black shocking murder, it’s Liz Denton’s son who might end up Cat firecrackers, another shot sounds too close for comfort to in a cage . . . Theodosia and Drayton. Mysteries available in March. See titles you like? Request them at your library!
Title Author Series Title or FYI No.
Death in Avignon Serena Kent Penelope Kite 2 Lavender Blue Murder Laura Childs Tea Shop 21 The Panda of Death Betty Webb Gunn Zoo 6 Death on the Page Essie Lang Castle Bookshop 2 The Body in the Apartment Judi Lynn Jazzi Zanders - Kindle 4 A Fatal Yarn Peggy Ehrhart Knit and Nibble kindle 5 Death of a Blueberry Tart Lee Hollis Hayley Powell 12 Dead in the Doorway Diane Kelly House-Flipper 2 Gone With the Whisker Laurie Cass Bookmobile Cat 8 Castle Bookshop series Dying to Celebrate Lynn Cahoon Tourist Trap 10 The Body in the Apartment Judi Lynn Jazzi Zanders 4 Death on the Page / Essie Lang: There are Mysteries available in April. See titles you like? Request them at your library! a thousand stories in Title Author Series Title or FYI No. New York's scenic Thousand Islands, and The Stolen Letter Paige Shelton Scottish Bookshop 5 Bayside Books co- Death of an American Beauty Mariah Fredericks Jane Prescott Historical 3 owner Shelby Cox Miss Julia Knows a Thing or Two Ann B. Ross Miss Julia 22 stocks them all. But lately, the Blye Island bookseller's life is Game of Bones Carolyn Haines Sarah Booth Delaney 20 more about investigation than The Diva Spices It Up Krista Davis Domestic Diva kindle 13 inventory. True-crime writer Murder in the Storybook Cottage Ellery Adams Book Retreat 6 Savannah Page caps off two Pulp Friction Julie Anne Lindsey Cider Shop 2 successful signings at Bayside Books with a night in Blye Castle. Murder Can Confuse Your Chihuahua Rose Pressey Haunted Craft Fair 2 She's there to research Joe Proof of Murder Lauren Elliott Beyond the Page Bookstore 4 Cabana, a colorful Prohibition-era Pumpkin Spice Peril Jenn McKinlay Cupcake Bakery 12 mobster who owned the castle-- And the Killer Is G.A. McKevett Savannah Reid 25 until he was found dead in the island Grotto. Mrs. Morris and the Witch Traci Wilton Salem B & B 2 Sugar and Vice Eve Calder Cookie House 2 But crime becomes all too true for Savannah. Her body turns up the Antiques Fire Sale Barbara Allan Trash 'n' Treasures 14 next morning, in a secret passage Murder on Pleasant Avenue Victoria Thompson Gaslight 23 at the bottom of the stairs. The last thing Shelby Cox wants is to sleuth another murder, but she's intrigued about how a killer could have reached the island after hours. She's not at a lack for suspects either. Can Shelby keep regular store hours, elude the police chief, and assemble the clues into a hard-bound case The Second Installment in Rose Pressey’s Haunted Craft Fair Series without getting permanently shelved? Murder Can Confuse Your Chihuahua: Celeste Cabot has a flair for painting—and a touch Previous title: of paranormal talent too. She’s just arrived to sell her artwork at a big craft fair in North Trouble on the Books Carolina, complete with rides, games, and deep-fried everything. But the sunny landscape takes on a darker hue when her Chihuahua, Van Gogh, leads her to the riverbank—and to a body that was definitely not part of her design. Contemporary Romance & Women’s Fiction March
The Grace Kelly Dress / Brenda Janowitz (women’s fiction) The Numbers Game / Danielle Steel (women’s fiction) Separation Anxiety / Laura Zigman (women’s fiction) An inheritance brought her to Magnolia, but love just The Moonglow Sisters / Lori Wilde (women’s fiction) might keep her there... In Five Years / Rebecca Serle (women’s fiction) My Way to You / Catherine Bybee (Creek Canyon, 1) The Magnolia Sisters / Michelle Major: Avery Keller The Billionaire in Boots / Julia London (contemporary western) arrives in Magnolia, North Carolina, with one aim: The Apple Orchard / Susan Wiggs (Bella Vista Chronicles, 1) collect her inheritance and quickly put the quirky It’s Not All Downhill From Here / Terry McMillan (women’s fiction) town in her rearview mirror. But the father who Honey-Don’t List / Christina Lauren (romantic comedy) didn’t acknowledge her when he was alive has left Wind River Undercover / Lindsay McKenna (Wind River, 9) The Two Lives of Lydia Bird / Josie Silver (romantic comedy fantasy) Avery a mess to sort through—along with two half sisters she’s never met and a gorgeous single dad April living next door. Soon her plan to keep this colorful, close-knit The Silent Treatment / Abbie Greaves (women’s fiction) community at a distance gets complicated…. One Perfect Summer / Brenda Novak (women’s fiction) Butterfly Bayou / Lexi Blake (Butterfly Bayou, 1) Grayson Atwell has rescued plenty of people in his firefighting The Lost Book of Friends / Lisa Wingate (women’s fiction) career. His work and his little girl, Violet, are his entire world and The Love Story of Missy Carmichael / Beth Morrey (women’s fiction) there’s no time for anything—or anyone—else. But the Sunrise on Half Moon Bay / Robyn Carr (women’s fiction) vulnerability beneath Avery’s prickly facade brings out a fiercely The Happy Ever After Playlist / Abby Jimenez (women’s fiction) protective side of him. Despite her protests, Gray can see that Perfect Tunes / Emily Gould (women’s fiction) Avery’s falling under Magnolia’s spell—just like he’s falling for her. The Sweeney Sisters / Lian Dolan (women’s fiction) Now the only question is: How can he convince her to give them Beachside Beginnings / Sheila Roberts (Moonlight Harbor, 4) both a chance at forever? The Wedding Dress / Danielle Steel (women’s fiction) The Heirloom Garden / Viola Shipman (women’s fiction) A delightfully charming love story
The Honey-Don’t List / Christina Lauren: Carey Douglas has worked for home remodeling and design gurus Melissa and Rusty Tripp for nearly a decade. A country girl at heart, Carey started in their first store at sixteen, and—more than anyone would suspect—has helped them build an empire. With a A poignant post-WWII novel that explores the expectations new show and a book about to launch, the Tripps society places on women set within an engrossing family are on the verge of superstardom. There’s only one problem: mystery that may unravel everything once believed to be true. America’s favorite couple can’t stand each other. Truths I Never Told You / Kelly Rimmer: With her father James McCann, MIT graduate and engineering genius, was recently moved to a care facility, Beth Walsh volunteers originally hired as a structural engineer, but the job isn’t all he to clear out the family home and is surprised to discover thought it’d be. The last straw? Both he and Carey must go on the door to her childhood playroom padlocked. She’s book tour with the Tripps and keep the wheels from falling off the even more shocked at what’s behind it—a hoarder’s proverbial bus. mess of her father’s paintings, mounds of discarded papers and miscellaneous junk in the otherwise Unfortunately, neither of them is in any position to quit. Carey fastidiously tidy house. needs health insurance, and James has been promised the role of As she picks through the clutter, she finds a loose journal entry in what a lifetime if he can just keep the couple on track for a few more appears to be her late mother’s handwriting. Beth and her siblings weeks. While road-tripping with the Tripps up the West Coast, grew up believing their mother died in a car accident when they were Carey and James vow to work together to keep their bosses’ little more than toddlers, but this note suggests something darker. secrets hidden, and their own jobs secure. But if they stop playing along—and start playing for keeps—they may have the chance to Beth pieces together a disturbing portrait of a woman suffering from build something beautiful together… postpartum depression and a husband who bears little resemblance to the loving father Beth and her siblings know. With a newborn of her own and struggling with motherhood, Beth finds there may be more tying her and her mother together than she ever suspected. Paranormal, Suspense, & Fantasy
March The Sea Glass Cottage / RaeAnne Thayne: The life Lethal Game / Christine Feehan (Ghost Walker, 16) Olivia Harper always dreamed of isn’t so dreamy A Forgotten Murder / Jude Deveraux (Medlar Mystery, 3) these days. The 16-hour work days are unfulfilling Smoke Bitten / Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson, 12) and so are things with her on-again, off-again The Queen’s Bargain / Anne Bishop (Black Jewels, 10 - dark fantasy) boyfriend. But when she hears that her estranged A Murderous Relation / Deanna Raybourn (Veronica Speedwell, 5) mother, Juliet, has been seriously injured in a car The Sinner / J. R. Ward (Black Dagger, 18) accident, Liv has no choice but to pack up her life The Final Deception / Heather Graham (New York Confidential, 5) and head home to beautiful Cape Sanctuary on the Northern After Sundown / Linda Howard & Linda Jones California coast.
Fearless / Fern Michaels It’s just for a few months—that’s what Liv keeps telling herself. The Sisters Grimm / Menna van Praag (Sisters Grimm, 1 - dark fantasy) But the closer she gets to Cape Sanctuary, the painful memories Cut and Run / Allison Brennan (Lucy Kincaid, 16) start flooding back: Natalie, her vibrant, passionate older sister The Woman in the Mirror / Rebecca James (old-fashioned gothic) who downward-spiraled into addiction. The fights with her April mother who enabled her sister at every turn. The overdose that Hidden Salem / Kay Hooper (Bishop / Special Crimes Unit, 7) took Natalie, leaving her now-teenaged daughter, Caitlin, an Witness to Death / Heather Graham orphan.
A Bad Day for Sunshine / Darynda Jones (Police Chief Sunshine Vicram) As Liv tries to balance her own needs with those of her injured mother and an obstinate, resentful fifteen-year-old, it becomes clear that all three Harper women have been keeping heartbreaking secrets from one another. And as those secrets are revealed, Liv, Juliet, and Caitlin will see that it’s never too late—or too early—to heal family wounds and find forgiveness.
Daisy Cooper’s Rules for Living / Tamsin Keily: Daisy Cooper’s life has been pretty uneventful—
March Historical Romance An Heiress to Remember / Maya Rodale (Gilded Age Girls Club, 3) until the moment it suddenly ends. Unfortunately, First Comes Scandal / Julia Quinn (Rokesbys,4 - Bridgerton prequel) her death is—literally—an accident: Daisy wasn’t The Other Bennet Sister / Janice Hadlow (Mary Bennet’s story) meant to die for another fifty years. One terrible, The Earl Takes a Fancy / Lorraine Heath (Sins for all Seasons, 5) embarrassing clerical error is behind it, and Death himself is to blame. The Most Eligible Lord in London / Ella Quinn (Lords of London, 1) Highland Sword / May McGoldrick (Royal Highlander, 3) As Daisy battles against her new reality, she starts to realize
April that letting go isn’t just a challenge faced by those left behind.
A Duke By Any Other Name / Grace Burrowes (Rogues to Riches, 4) And while she learns how to survive this impossible time,
The Virgin and the Rogue / Sophie Jordan (Rogue Files, 6) friendship, hope and even love begin to come alive in the most How to Catch an Errant Earl / Amy Rose Bennett unexpected ways. (Disreputable Debutantes, 2) A Duke Too Far / Jane Ashford (The Way to a Lord’s Heart, 4) A Bad Day for Sunshine / Darynda Jones: Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an- egg-on-the-cement summers, its strong cups of coffee―and a nationwide manhunt? Sunshine #10 in Beverly Jenkins’ Blessings Series Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff―an election her adorably meddlesome On the Corner of Hope and Main: Trent July has been the parents entered her in―and she expects her mayor of this historic town for the past four years, but now biggest crime wave to involve an elderly flasher named Doug. he’s ready to let someone else take up the mantle. Barrett But a teenage girl is missing, a kidnapper is on the loose, and all Payne, a former Marine, decides he wants the job. But of it's reminding Sunny why she left Del Sol in the first place. when a surprise candidate also enters the ring, the town Add to that trouble at her daughter’s new school and a has opinions on who would be the best candidate. kidnapped prized rooster named Puff Daddy, and Sunshine has her hands full. And of course that’s not the only drama, as Malachi “Mal” July continues to make reparations for the damage he’s caused and to the people he’s Enter sexy almost-old-flame Levi Ravinder and a hunky US betrayed, especially his lady love Bernadine. Is she finally ready to Marshal, both elevens on a scale of one to blazing inferno, and forgive him and let the past go? the normally savvy sheriff is quickly in over her head. The following titles will be published in 2019. See something that interests you? Please search the library’s online catalog (www.preblelibrary.org). You can also request titles that are not available from the catalog. You can submit four requests per month (within 60 days of the item’s publication date.) March Amish Inspirational Happy Camper / Melody Carlson Out of the Embers / Amanda Cabot (Mesquite Springs, 1) March Dead End / Nancy Mehl (Kaely Quinn Profiler, 3) The Crow’s Call / Wanda E. Brunstetter (Amish Greenhouse Mystery, 1) The Traitor’s Pawn / Lisa Harris Hope Deferred / Linda Byler (An Amish Romance) Star Fish Pier / Irene Hannon (Hope Harbor, 6) Amish Protector / Marta Perry (River Haven, 2) Secrets of My Heart / Tracie Peterson Light Shines on Promise Lodge / Charlotte Hubbard (Promise Lodge, 5)
(Willamette Brides, 1) April The Runaway Bride / Jody Hedlund (Bride Ships, 2) A Beautiful Arrangement / Beth Wiseman (Amish Journey, 3) Woman of Sunlight / Mary Connealy The Englisch Daughter / Cindy Woodsmall & Erin Woodsmall (Brides of Hope Mountain, 2) Home to Stay / Loree Lough (Little Child Shall Lead Them, 2) Selah / Lisa T. Bergren (The Sugar Baron’s Daughters, 3) Promise at Pebble Creek / Lisa Jones Baker (Hope Chest of Dreams, 6) One Little Lie / Colleen Coble (Pelican Harbor, 1) Love Inspired - March The Sunday Potluck Club / Melissa Storm Amish Country Murders / Mary Alford (Love Inspired Suspense) (Sunday Potluck Club, 1) The Amish Teacher’s Dilemma / Patricia Davids (Love Inspired Romance)
April (North Country Amish, 3) Beach Haven / T. I. Lowe (Carolina Coast) Synapse / Steven James The Chisholm Trail Bride / Kathleen Y’Bardo (Daughters of the Mayflower, 12)
Debut Series by Amanda Cabot: Mesquite Springs
Out of the Embers: Ten years after her parents were killed, Evelyn Debut Green House Mystery Series by Wanda E. Brunstetter Radcliffe is once more homeless. The orphanage that was her refuge and The Crow’s Call: When Vernon King, his son, and son later her workplace has burned to -in-law are involved in a terrible accident, three the ground, and only she and a women are left to cope with their deaths, as they young orphan girl have escaped. become the sole providers of the family they have Convinced this must be related to left. The women’s only income must come from the her parents' murders, Evelyn flees family greenhouse, but someone seems to be trying with the girl to Mesquite Springs in to force them out of business. the Texas Hill Country and finds refuge in the home of Wyatt Clark, a talented horse rancher whose plans don't include a family of his own. Amy King has just lost her father and brother, and her mother needs her to help run the family’s greenhouse. It doesn’t seem fair to ask her to leave a At first, Evelyn is a distraction. But when it becomes clear job she loves, when there is still a sister and brother to help. But Sylvia is that trouble has followed her to Mesquite Springs, she also grieving for her husband while left to raise three children, and Henry, becomes a full-blown disruption. Can Wyatt keep her safe just out of school, is saddled with all the jobs his father and older brother from the man who wants her dead? And will his own plans used to do. As Amy assumes her new role, she also asks Jared Riehl to put become collateral damage? their courtship on hold. When things become even more stressful at the greenhouse, will Amy crumble under the pressure?
Moral Compass / Danielle Steel The Man From Misery / David C. Noonan Collateral Damage / Lynette Eason Cutthroats / William W. Johnstone & J. A. Johnstone (Danger Never Sleeps, 1) A Return to the Alamo / Paul Bedford An Unlikely Amish Match / Vanetta Chapman Gunfight at Hilton’s Crossing / Bill Cartwright A Home for Hannah / Amy Lillard Two Steps Forward / Suzanne Woods Fisher Blackwater / Abe Dancer Remembrance / Rita Woods Cheyanne Cowboy / Max Gunn Amish Country Undercover / Katy Lee Gun Barrel Justice / P. McCormac The Amish Widow’s Heart / Marta Perry Stranglehold / Corba Sunman The Healer’s Daughter / Charlotte Hinger Sheep Pen Canon / James D. Crownover Toxic Toffee / Amanda Flower (Amish Candy Shop, 4) Massacre at Crow Creek Crossing / Charles G. West Losing You / Nicci French (Cole Bonner Western, 3) Big Lies in a Small Town / Diane Chamberlain The Outfit: To Hell and Back / Matthew P. Mayo When Love Finds You / Virginia Wise Revenger: A Western Duo / Frank Leslie A Bend in the Stars / Rachel Barenbaum Max Brand’s Best Western Stories / Max Brand A Small Town / Thomas Perry Promises of the Heart / Nan Rossiter Just Watch Me / Jeff Lindsay The Way I Heard It / Mike Rowe: A Tough of Forever / Jo Goodman The Way I Heard It presents thirty- The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets / Molly Fader five mysteries “for the curious mind Almost Just Friends / Jill Shalvis with a short attention span.” Every A Divided Loyalty / Charles Todd Perfect Little Children / Sophie Hannah one is a trueish tale about someone Today We Go Home / Kelli Estes you know, filled with facts that you don’t. Movie stars, presidents, bloody do-gooders, and villains— An interactive they’re all here, waiting to shake program for nursing your hand, hoping you’ll remember home residents. them. Delivered with Mike’s signature blend of charm, wit, and ingenuity, their stories are part of a larger mosaic—a
March Topic: Cherry Blossoms memoir full of surprising revelations, sharp observations, April Topic: April Showers and intimate, behind-the-scenes moments drawn from Mike’s own remarkable life and career.
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Danita Cook (L), Outreach Coordinator & Vicki Hoff (R), Outreach Assistant March Stop at Nothing / Michael Ledwidge (thriller) Do No Harm / Max Allan Collins (Nathan Heller, 16) The Last Odyssey / James Rollins (Sigma Force, 15) Texas Outlaw / James Patterson & Andrew Bourelle Yeeha! Westerns! (Texas Ranger Rory Yates, 2) The K Team / David Rosenfelt (thriller) Tombstone Territory: The Complete Television The Jerusalem Assassin / Joel C. Rosenberg (military thriller) Series: Sheriff Hollister has his hands full trying to Stone Cross / Marc Cameron (Deputy US Marshall Arliss Cutter, 2) keep peace in his city as gunslingers, bank robbers, Hour of the Assassin / Matthew Quirk (espionage thriller) and criminals of all kinds ride through town. Providence / Max Berry (Dystopian science fiction) The television series, which starred Pat Conway as April Sheriff Clay Hollister, aired for two seasons, 1957- Broken / Don Winslow (action thriller) 1958 on network television (for both ABC and NBC) Shakedown / Newt Gingrich & Pete Earley before moving into syndication for its third and final season, 1959- (Mayberry & Garrett, 2) Call of the Raven / Wilbur Smith with Corban Addison 1960. There were a total of 91 episodes. Season one (1957-1958): 1- (Falcon Files prequel) 39; Season two (1959): 40-51; and season three (1959-1960) 52-91. Crash / David Hagberg and Lawrence Light Season one was released on DVD in 2013 then, in 2014, all 91 (espionage / techno thriller) episodes were released.
Clive Cussler (1931-2020) Overall premise of the show: Tough Sheriff Clay Hollister keeps the law in Tombstone, Arizona with the support of his faithful Deputies Sadly, popular adventure novelist and IMDB underwater adventurer, Clive Cussler, and the Editor of the local newspaper.
passed away at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona on February 24 at the age of 88. He Books: Old Friends is best known for his fictional character, Promised Land / Mark Warren underwater expert diver, Dirk Pitt , whose (Wyatt Earp, an American Odyssey, 3) nautical adventures have spanned decades, beginning with the Bloody Season / Loren D. Estleman publication of the first book, The Mediterranean Caper in 1973. Brothers in Blood / Dusty Richards (Byrnes Family Ranch, 4) Twenty-four Dirk Pitt adventures have followed, along with four other series that includes NUMA Files, Oregon Files, Isaac Bell, West Like Lightning / Jim DeFelice and the Sam and Remi Fargo Adventures. Western Tommy / Max Brand Crooked Creek / Robert Hanlon Like his character, Dirk Pitt, Cussler was not only an underwater adventurer (with more than 60 ship wreak sites under his weight The Western Trail / Ralph Compton belt), but he was also an avid classic car collector. Noose / Eric Red (Joe Noose, 1)
Cussler’s last books will include: Journey of the Pharaoh (NUMA William W. Johnstone (1938-2004) Files, 17 - 3/20), Wrath of Poseidon (A Fargo Adventure, 12 - 1. The Last Mountain Man (1984) 5/20), and the fifteenth as yet untitled installment in the Oregon 2. Return of the Mountain Man (1986) Files slated for sometime in 2020. 3. Trail of the Mountain Man (1987) Over the coarse of his writing career, Clive Cussler wrote 85 4. Revenge of the Mountain Man (1988) books, including four nonfiction books (The Sea Hunters and The 5. Journey of the Mountain Man (1986) Sea Hunters II with Craig Dirgo; Built for Adventure, and Built to Thrill that highlighted his classic car collection). His books made 6. Law of the Mountain Man (1989) the NY Times Best Sellers list 20 times. No fewer than 100 million 7. War of the Mountain Man (1990) copies of his books have been sold. 8. Code of the Mountain Man (1991)
Journey of the Pharaohs / Clive Cussler and Graham 9. Pursuit of the Mountain Man (1991) Brown: In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear from 10. Courage of the Mountain Man (1995) the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil FYI: There are 47 books in The Last Mountain Man series. William American aviator vanishes on an attempted transcontinental flight. In the present day, a fishing W. Johnstone wrote books 1-32. Books 33-47 were written after his trawler--along with its mysterious cargo--sinks off the death in 2004. Fred Austen wrote book 33 (Destiny of the Mountain coast of Scotland. How are these three mysterious events Man, 2006) before Johnstone’s nephew, J. A. Johnstone, took over connected? More importantly, what do they mean for Kurt the rest of series (books 34-47). Austin and his NUMA team? (NUMA Files - Kirk Austen, 17) Nonfiction: Prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and Biography real people, such as biography or history.
Rocket Man; The Life of Elton John / Mark Bego: American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI / Kate Winker Dawson: Berkeley, Here’s the book every pop music lover has been California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities-- waiting for―full of the scandals, addictions, beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds affairs, and tantrums that underscored the life of upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who arguably the world’s greatest pop musician. would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in Flamboyant, iconic Elton John is as much part of his forty-year career. Known as the "American Sherlock Holmes," Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of the American musical landscape as he is in his America's greatest--and first--forensic scientists, with an uncanny native England. knack for finding clues, establishing evidence, and deducing answers Washington’s End: The Final Years and Forgotten with a skill that seemed almost supernatural. Struggle /Jonathan Horn: Washington’s Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s End begins where most biographies of George and How It Brought on the Great Depression / Washington leave off, with the first president Christopher Knowlton: The author takes an in-depth exiting office after eight years and entering what look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the would become the most bewildering stage of his 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression. life. Embittered by partisan criticism and eager to return to his farm, Washington assumed a role for which there was no precedent at a time when the kings across Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the ocean yielded their crowns only upon losing their heads. In a the Appalachian Mountains / Cassie Chambers: different sense, Washington would lose his head, too. After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region. Roots of Black Travel / Candacy Taylor: Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to America.” At that time, it Gabby: The Little Dog That Had to Learn to Bark / was very dangerous and difficult for African- Barby Keel: In the decades that Barby Keel has Americans to travel because black travelers couldn’t run her animal sanctuary in the English eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green countryside, she has seen all manner of Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other businesses creatures...but Gabby, a small terrier with solemn, that were safe for black travelers. It was a resourceful and terrified eyes, is like no case Barby has ever innovative solution to a horrific problem. It took courage to be encountered before. listed in the Green Book, and Overground Railroad celebrates the Gabby has spent all eight years of her life indoors. She has no idea stories of those who put their names in the book and stood up how to play with a toy or chew a treat. She has never dug in the dirt against segregation… or rolled happily in the grass. Strangest of all, Gabby does not know FYI: The Negro Motorist Green Book was originated how to bark. Barby can tell that the little golden-haired dog is bright and published by African American, New York City and curious beneath her paralyzing fear, but coaxing out Gabby’s mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966, during true spirit will be a daunting task. the era of Jim Crow laws. Yet sometimes, a dog and a human fit together like two puzzle Denali: A Man, A Dog, and the Friendship of a pieces, and so it is with Gabby and Barby. And Barby, who believes Lifetime / Ben Moon: [This] is the story of the passionately in animals’ ability to help and heal those they love, will friendship between Ben Moon and his dog, Denali, as find her faith in Gabby repaid just when she, and her sanctuary, they traveled the American west. Denali supported need it most. the author as he battled cancer, then the author dealt with the cancer illness and death of his dog. What we’ve been up to at the West Alexandria Library
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Mary Higgins Clark Series: Alvirah and Willy Dashing Through the Snow Weep No More, My Lady 1927-2020 I'll Walk Alone The Lottery Winner The Lost Years Sadly, Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, passed away on All Through The Night As Time Goes By January 31, 2020 in Naples, Florida. She was 92 years old. Deck the Halls All By Myself Alone The Christmas Thief Born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins on December 24, 1927, she was the Santa Cruise only daughter in a family of two sons, Joseph and John. Her parents,
Nora C. Durkin Higgins and Luke J. Higgins were both of Irish descent. Under Suspicion (with Alafaire Burke) During a 2015 interview with correspondent Tricia Vanderhoof from My I've Got You Under My Skin Central New Jersey, Mary recalled that her parents had “kept company The Cinderella Murder for seven years -- typical, very Irish -- they were 40 and 42 when they All Dressed in White got married...” The Sleeping Beauty Killer Luke Higgins was born in 1884 in Roscommon County, Ireland. At the Every Breath you Take age of 28, he emigrated to the United States, arriving at the Port of You Don't Own Me
New York on the ship Cedric on March 24, 1906. According to his Novels immigration papers, Luke was a bartender by trade, so he would Aspire to the Heavens (aka Mount Vernon Love Story) eventually purchase and run his own establishment, Higgins Bar and Where Are the Children? Grill in Bronx New York. Mary’s mother, Nora, was American born and, A Stranger Is Watching after the sudden death of her husband in 1939, single-handedly The Cradle Will Fall supported and nurtured her family by renting out rooms in their home. A Cry in the Night Before becoming the talented, bestselling author we’ve all come to Stillwatch love, Mary Higgins Clark was a secretary at an ad agency for Remington While My Pretty One Sleeps Rand, a model (alongside then unknown beauty, Grace Kelly), and a Loves Music, Loves to Dance flight attendant for Pan American Airlines. In 1949, she married Warren All Around the Town Clark and they would eventually expand their family to include five I'll Be Seeing You children -- Marilyn, Warren, Jr., David, Carol, and Patricia. During this Remember Me time, Mary decided to hone her love for writing by enrolling in writing Pretend You Don't See Her courses at NYU. It was there that she met agent Patricia Schartle Myrer, Let Me Call You Sweetheart who would represent her for 20 years. Silent Night
Moonlight Becomes You In 1956 (and after 40 rejections) Mary was able to sell her short story, You Belong to Me Stowaway to Extension Magazine. But when Warren was diagnosed We'll Meet Again with severe angina in 1959 and had to quit work, Mary quickly took on Before I Say Good-Bye the responsibility of providing for the family. She got a job as a radio On the Street Where You Live scriptwriter, writing 65 four-minute programs for the Portrait of a The Last Book He Sees You When You're Sleeping Patriot series. Sadly, the day she accepted the job, Warren suffered a Daddy's Little Girl (with Alafaire Burke) fatal heart attack. During this time, Mary made extra money by writing The Second Time Around Under Suspicion, 7 short stories for magazines, However, by the late 1960s, the market had Nighttime Is My Time dried up. Mary then focused on writing her first novel, Aspire to Heaven No Place Like Home Piece of My Heart: In the (aka Mount Vernon Love Story), a fictionalized account of George Two Little Girls in Blue latest thrilling collaboration Washington’s love for his house. Although the book made only a small I Heard That Song Before from #1 NY Times bestselling advance, its sale was all the incentive Mary needed to keep writing. Where Are You Now? Loving a good suspense yarn, she decided to try her hand at the genre, author and “Queen of Just Take My Heart and the rest, as they say, is history. Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark Inherit the Dead and Alafair Burke, television In 1975, Mary would sell her first successful suspense novel, Where are The Shadow of Your Smile the Children? to Simon & Schuster for $3000. The paperback rights sold Daddy's Gone A-Hunting producer Laurie Moran must for $100,000. By the publication of her second suspense novel, A The Melody Lingers on solve the kidnapping of her Stranger is Watching, she made $1.5 million. Mary was well on her way I've Got My Eyes on You fiancée’s nephew—just days to becoming the Queen of Suspense that no one will ever dethrone. Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry before her wedding.11/2020 Piece of My Heart (11/2020) ~Cheryl Richter~
Publication created by Cheryl Richter, 2019 All book synopses taken from the product summary unless otherwise noted.