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NEW FICTION BOOKS: The More the Terrier by David Rosenfelt – Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter is relieved to be headed back to Paterson, New Jersey, after a week-long family vacation in the Adirondacks. He’s ready to put the holly jolly season way behind him and settle in at home with his three dogs. But when they finally arrive, there is an extra dog eagerly awaiting them, as well as one anxious dog sitter. The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich – The Mighty Red is a novel of tender humor, disturbance, and hallucinatory mourning. It is about on-th...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden – Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill and, worst of all, men who can’t shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot. The Best Mystery Stories of the Year by Anthony Horowitz – Anthony Horowitz selects and introduces the best mystery stories from the past year, under the auspices of the world’s oldest mystery fiction specialty bookshop....
Join us at the Hulett Branch Library for the two-part series, “Life and Death Matters Program,” planning for aging and end of life. It will be Wed., Nov. 13 (Aging and End of Life concepts with attorney Rick Erb) and Wed., Nov. 20 (Write Your Own Story with Funeral Director Rita Mashak and Representatives from Hulett and Moore Hill Cemeteries) both programs will start at 1 p.m. NEW FICTION BOOKS: We Solve Murders by Richard Osman – Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his famil...
On Tues., Nov. 5 (Election Day) stop by the library, after you vote, for cookies and coffee provided by the Friends of the Library. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Fatal Intrusion by Jeffrey Deaver – Carmen Sanchez is a tough Homeland Security agent who plays by the rules. But when her sister is attacked, revealing a connection to a series of murders across Southern California, she realizes a conventional investigation will not be enough to stop the ruthless perpetrator. The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave – Liam Noone was many things to many people. To...
The library along with the Friends of the Library will be hosting a bar baking contest. Please have your pan of bars, as well as the recipe, at the library by noon on Thurs., Oct. 17. Everyone is welcome to participate and you can enter as many pans of bars as you want. A public judging will take place from 12-1:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to participate in that as well. Winners will be announced at 1:30 p.m. First place is $50, second place is $25 and there will be a librarian’s choice prize as well. Everyone who brings bars will receive a r...
If you would like to be a Friend of the Library, please join us on Monday, September 9 at 4 p.m. The Hulett Museum and Art Gallery and the Hulett Branch Library invite you to come listen to local Author Dawn Newland at the Hulett Branch Library on Wednesday, September 11 at 1 p.m. Sign up or renew your library card in September and be entered to win a prize. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Joy by Danielle Steel – When she is only six years old, Allegra Dixon’s party-loving mother leaves without so much as a goodbye. Her father, an emotionally distant milita...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: 12 Months to Live by James Patterson – Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might’ve committed several murders. She’s also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn’t have much time. She’s just received a terminal diagnosis giving her 12 months. Unless she’s murdered before her expiration date. Echo Road by Kendra Elliot – During a vicious heat wave, a county maintenance worker stumbl...
Save the Date for the Hulett Cemetery Walk with Jill Mackey. It will be on Thurs., Aug. 15 at 6 p.m. Bring lawn chairs if you wish. It is Sponsored by Hulett Branch Library and Hulett Museum and Art Gallery NEW FICTION BOOKS: Resurrection by Danielle Steel – Darcy Gray is a successful influencer with her blog, The Gray Zone, trusted by more than a million followers for her integrity and taste. At forty-two, she has the life she wants in many ways. Darcy and her husband, department store magnate Charles Gray, are a power couple in Manhattan a...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear – London, 1945: four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion, the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldier, gravely ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, has taken shelter with the group. Come the Fall (Of Men and Horses) l by Dawn Newland – By 1924, Arizona’s expansive range...
Magician Cody Landstom will be performing his magic in the GHCC gym on Tues., July 16 at 5 p.m. Everyone is welcome. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Evergreen Christmas by Janet Dailey – Barrel racer Jordyn Banks is thrilled to discover affordable land for sale in charming Noel, perfect for breeding her horses. But that’s not all. A nomad with no family – other than her beloved quarter horse, Star – she also hopes to find a home within the close-knit Appalachian Mountain community. Yet Jordyn didn’t bargain on inheriting a controversial Fraser Fir – or...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: Camino Ghosts by John Grisham – In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn’t know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed…and the past is never the p...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: James by Percival Everett – When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the F...
Ladies, you are invited to a Ladies Tea Party at the Library on Thurs., May 9 at 2 p.m. Come enjoy some tea, goodies and games, with special entertainment by Dorothy Greenwood. There will be prizes for the prettiest and craziest hats, so make sure you wear a hat. NEW FICTION BOOKS: The Women by Kristin Hannah – Women can be heroes. When 20-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has a...
National Library week is April 7-13. Stop by the library this week and shop our BOOK SALE, join in on our adult coloring contest and other fun contests with prizes being awarded. Cupcakes will be served on Wednesday and Thursday 1-3. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Never Lie by Freida McFadden – Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. They think they’ve found it when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace years ago. But when a violent win...
The library will be closed Thurs., March 21 for carpet shampooing. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Crosshairs by James Patterson – A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets. Detective Michael Bennett teams with a shooting expert – a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit. But Officer Rob Trilling seems more comfortable with rifles than he is with people. When his new partner begins to log unexplained absences from duty, only Bennett can prove whether the decorated officer is a lonely hunter or a hardened assa...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: The Ghost Orchid by Jonathan Kellerman – LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis sees it all the time: Reinvention’s a way of life in a city fueled by fantasy. But try as you might to erase the person you once were, there are those who will never forget the past...and who can still find you. The Fury by Alex Michaelides – This is a tale of murder…Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she inv...
Ladies, mark your calendars for Dec. 1 and join us at the Library for a Ladies Christmas Shopping Extravaganza. Doors will be open from 1-5:30 p.m. There will be wonderful shopping, door prizes (provided by the vendors) and snacks. This event is sponsored by the Hulett Branch Library and the Hulett Museum and Art Gallery. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly – Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out o...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: The Exchange by John Grisham – What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America’s favorite storyteller. It is now 15 years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mit...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: Blessings of the Lost Girls by JA Jance – Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. He chooses those he believes are the most vulnerable, wandering alone and distracted, before he strikes. For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes – or their identities – behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enfor...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff – A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions and the spark of God that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. The Armor of Light by Ken Follet – The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770 and, with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives eve...
The Hulett Branch Library will be hosting a Soup Cook-Off sponsored by Friends of the Library. Anyone may enter and there is no entry fee. Please bring two quarts of your favorite soup (in a crockpot if you have, otherwise we can provide) and the recipe to the library on October 25 any time before 11 a.m. A public judging will then take place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or as long as the soup lasts. Winner will receive $50 and 2nd place $20. Every participant in the contest will receive a cookbook with all the soup recipes. NEW FICTION...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: Happiness by Danielle Steel – Sabrina Brooks is a wildly successful bestselling author of gripping thrillers. Unlike her fictional characters, Sabrina lives a quiet life in the Berkshires with her two beloved dogs. But behind this peaceful exterior is a dark, painful past. As a child raised by an emotionally distant father, Sabrina rarely felt love. And as an adult, her marriage twisted into an abusive relationship from which she had to escape. Lion and Lamb by James Patterson – The city is in a state of shock over the fat...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride – In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. The Longmire Defense by Craig Johnson – Sheriff Walt Lon...
We will be having an adult sunflower wreath craft on Tues., Sept. 19 at 1 p.m. The cost of these cute wreaths will be $20. We have limited supplies so please call the library to reserve your spot at 467-5676. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Cursed at Dawn by Heather Graham – Vampires may not walk among us, but FBI agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter know real monsters exist. They’ve witnessed firsthand the worst humankind has to offer. They’re still catching their breath after the apprehension of two such monstrous killers when they’re met with horrifi...
Please join us on Mon., Sept. 11 for Friends of the Library Meeting at 4 p.m. All Adults are welcome to become members. It is a great way to give back to the Community. Friends of the Library help to purchase items and help with programs. Hope to see some new members. NEW FICTION BOOKS: The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman – One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia’s mother, Ivy...
