My LINKcat AccountPhew! Now that we are finally past the Harry Potter Birthday Party, we can concentrate on getting those books read and logged as we coast towards the end of the Summer Reading Program. As of this past Friday, the community has read 24,169 books which puts us very much within reach of hitting the goal set at the beginning of this summer (which seems so long ago now, doesn’t it?) We are trying to hit the 27,500 books read mark. There is still plenty of time for you to do your share! The face off between the elementary schools has Windsor in the lead with 3,155 books read. Yahara is in second place with 2,733 books read. Eagle Point has read 1,248 books. These numbers are just snap shots and sometimes folks don’t log their books until the end (I speak from experience, since I am one of those). So, no judgement. The Village staff internecine rivalry finds village hall, pubic works, and the Cornerstone Community Center not quite neck-and-neck, but bunched up where any one of them could surge forward and take second place. Because, hard to believe, I know, but this is true, the library staff is way, way, ahead. I hope all these numbers have inspired to you keep reading and to log the books you have read on the Beanstack app (check out website (under the reading programs tab) for more information. In the meantime, there are a lot of new books which are waiting to be read. Below are a few of the books which recently arrived at the library. Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
“A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII” by Tim Brady. The true story of how Danish citizens united to secretly ferry nearly all of Denmark’s Jews to safety in Sweden during World War II, overcoming Gestapo patrols, political hurdles and incredible danger to orchestrate one of history’s greatest humanitarian rescues.
“The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood” by Nina Wilner. Follows the parallel journeys of Holocaust survivor Eddie Willner and his friend Mike, who endured years in Nazi death camps, and the American soldiers of Company D, whose harrowing wartime experiences culminated in the unexpected rescue of the two boys in war-torn Europe.
“Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations” by Sam Kean. An archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind—and through all five senses—from tropical Polynesian islands to forbidding arctic ice floes and everywhere in between.
New Fiction
“Beautiful Nights” by Nina George. A respected professor begins a secret affair with her son’s girlfriend one summer on the Brittany coast.
“Under the Stars” by Beatriz Williams. Providence Dare vanishes during a steamship disaster near Winthrop Island in 1846, leaving behind a trail of mystery that resurfaces two centuries later when chef Audrey Fisher and her actress mother Meredith uncover hidden paintings and long-buried family secrets that link past and present across generations.
“Something Whiskered, No.17 (Cat in the Stacks Mysteries)” by Miranda James. While honeymooning at a family-run Irish castle, Charlie Harris and his new wife Helen Louise witness the suspicious death of a baron, prompting them—and their enigmatic cat Diesel—to investigate a tangled web of inheritance and eerie omens in the countryside.
“Blood and Treasure” by Ryan Pote. In this debut thriller from a former Navy helicopter pilot, a chilling scene of violence is revealed when the International Space Station goes silent, unraveling a deadly mystery that began 254 miles above Earth.
“Matchmaking for Psychopaths” by Tasha Coryell. Newly jilted Lexie, a matchmaker for psychopaths (a specialty her clients are blissfully unaware of), falls for gorgeous client Aidan and befriends client Rebecca despite professional boundaries—but when a human heart appears on her doorstep and her fiancé disappears, Lexie wonders if she matched herself with a killer.
“Death and the Librarian, No 9 (Blue Ridge Library Mysteries)” by Victoria Gilbert. When a woman is murdered after accusing art dealer Kurt Kendrick of a cold case crime, librarian Amy Muir races to uncover the truth and protect her family in the ninth novel of the series following “Murder Checks Out”.
“The Bewitching” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. While researching a forgotten horror writer, a graduate student uncovers a disturbing link between a vanished schoolgirl, a sinister novel, and her great-grandmother’s eerie childhood tales, leading her to suspect that an ancient, malevolent force still lingers in the halls of her university.
“Coded Justice, No. 3 (Avery Keene)” by Stacey Abrams. Former Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene investigates a powerful AI company after a mysterious death, uncovering corporate corruption and high-stakes technological dangers that could have far-reaching consequences in the third book of the series following “Rogue Justice”.
“Badlands, No. 5 (Nora Kelly)” by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. Archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, while investigating bizarre deaths in the desert, awaken an ancient evil more terrifying than anything they’ve faced before.
“The List” by Steve Barry. Brent Walker returns home to Concord, a quaint town in central Georgia nestled close to the Savannah River, to work for Southern Republic Pulp and Paper Company as its assistant general counsel, he is drawn into a plan that puts his life on the line.