Spring 2017 Library News & Information Spokane County Library District Outreach Services assists those in the community introduces Food for Fines who are unable to visit any of the District’s 10 Spokane County Library District is celebrating National Library Week, libraries. Outreach is April 9–15, 2017, with Food for Fines, a community food drive for the also the local liaison for Second Harvest Food Bank. Washington Talking Book Food for Fines works like this: for each donation of a non-perishable & Braille Library. food item, library members can reduce their overdue fines by $2—for a maximum $20 forgiven per library account. AIRWAY HEIGHTS Donations benefit the Second Harvest Food Banks and their expanded 509.893.8250 networks in Cheney, Deer Park, Fairfield, and Medical Lake. 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The show’s host believes someone she received his wife’s heart in a transplant and on her team doesn’t want the truth revealed. has a message for him. 461 pages, HB CD EB 581 pages, HB EB COBBS, Elizabeth DODD, Christina THE HAMILTON AFFAIR BECAUSE I’M WATCHING An orphan, a bastard, and raised in the Alone in his darkened house, reliving the horrors Caribbean, Alexander Hamilton fell in love of war, Jacob wants to die. When his neighbor with respectable, wealthy Elizabeth Schuyler. Maddie drives her car into his house, she breaks Their love was forged and tested by the his world wide open. American Revolution. 495 pages, HB EB 629 pages, HB CD 3 www.scld.org FICTION FLAGG, Fannie GRISHAM, John THE WHOLE TOWN’S TALKING THE WHISTLER The town of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is much Lacy Stoltz investigates corruption in the Florida like any other small town. But lately odd things courts for the Board on Judicial Conduct. Her have been happening out at Still Meadows, the latest complaint could be her most dangerous town cemetery. case ever. 535 pages, PB CD DAB EB 496 pages, PB CD DAB EB FLANERY, Patrick HARPER, Karen I AM NO ONE THE ROYAL NANNY Jeremy’s life has taken a strange turn when he’s Charlotte Bill is newly employed by the Duke and back in New York after a decade in England. Duchess of York to care for their children. No one Someone is watching his every move, harassing imagined the impact this mere girl would have on his family, and telling him about it. a generation of royals. 537 pages, HB EB 529 pages, HB EB GOODWIN, Daisy HARRISON, Kim VICTORIA THE DRAFTER At barely 18 years old, Victoria became Queen In 2030, Peri Reed is a drafter, a person with of England. Doubters were eager to relieve her the rare ability to alter time. 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The journey will be difficult, and where being cut off from the outside world is the impact on history great. about to become terrifying. 463 pages, HB 609 pages, HB EB KRAUS, Jim O’BRIEN, Edna THE DOG THAT WHISPERED THE LITTLE RED CHAIRS Vietnam vet and single professor Wilson Steele Desperate to have a child, Fidelma initiated lives alone and insists that he is too old for a an affair with the mysterious Vladimir Dragan. family. A rescued black Labrador retriever (who When Dragan is arrested, she flees to London seems to speak) may change his thinking. in disgrace and begins a difficult road to 423 pages, HB redemption. 357 pages, HB CD DAB EB LAMB, Wally I’LL TAKE YOU THERE PATTERSON, James Film scholar Felix Funicello has encountered the MISSING ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing director of The investigative team at Private Sydney are silent films. Lois invites Felix to view scenes from searching for high-powered CEO Eric Moss. 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