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We will be having a Garden & Flower Contest. Your framed photos must be in the library by Aug. 25. Public judging will be the following week with the winner announced on Sept. 1. There will be no entry fee and the winner will receive $50. Everyone is welcome to enter. Call 467-5676 for more information. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke – In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating t...
On August 14 the Library will be showing the kids movie, “The Love Bug” at 2 p.m. We will also be showing an outdoor movie on August 17 starting about 8 p.m. We will be showing “Top Gun Maverick.” Everyone is welcome. Please bring your own lawn chairs or blankets. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Zero Days by Ruth Ware – Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husba...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: Whispers at Dusk by Heather Graham – Four bodies have been discovered along Europe’s riverbanks, placed with care – and completely drained of blood. Pinpricks on their throats indicate a slender murder weapon, but DNA found in the wounds suggests something far more sinister. Tasked with investigating, the FBI recruits Agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter to Blackbird, an international offshoot of the Krewe of Hunters. If you want to catch a vampire killer, you need agents who can speak with the dead. The Happiness Plan...
Adult Summer Program is starting: Adult Weekly Summer Reading Challenge starts July 24 and ends Aug. 21. Please stop by the library before July 24 to pick up your CHALLENGE BOOKMARK. 1 Prize awarded weekly. Adult Summer Travel Program starts on Thurs., July 20 at 1:30 p.m. It will be July 27, Aug. 3, 10 and 17. Join us for an informative and fun afternoon as we travel the world. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Welcome to Beach Town by Susan Wiggs – Every town has its secrets...In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and c...
Please join us on Thurs., July 20 at 6:30 p.m. for the Moore Hill Cemetery Walk. We will meet at the cemetery and Jill Mackey will lead us through an evening of memories and stories of our early history. Everyone is welcome to attend this free event. Please bring a lawn chair. NEW FICTION BOOKS: The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda – A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine – a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who man...
Curtis Mork, the LEGO GUY, will be at the Library on Thurs., June 15 at 1 pm. He will do a short presentation on how Lego® began, show some of his own creations and then the kids will get to build their own. Everyone is Welcome! NEW FICTION BOOKS: The Wedding Planner by Danielle Steel – Faith Ferguson is New York’s most in-demand wedding planner, an arbiter of taste for elegant affairs, lavish ceremonies and exclusive fêtes. She appreciates a simple celebration as much as a dazzling event, for she knows that a dream wedding is not neces...
Summer Reading Program starts June 1. Come in and get your reading sheets and check out the cool prizes. Also, the Summer Program, Travel the World at the Library, will be on Tuesdays the month of June at 1 p.m. for kids 6-11 years old. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane – In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tr...
Come learn about the USS WYOMING at the Hulett Branch Library. On Thurs., May 18 at 6:30 p.m., local amateur historian Tim Velder will present the story of the USS Wyoming through photos and general information about the ship. Everyone is welcome. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner – California, 1938 – When she loses her parents in an accident, 16-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser’s daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert’s spaciou...
The Hulett Branch Library will be hosting a Ladies Tea Party on Thurs., May 11 at 2 p.m. Come enjoy some tea, goodies, special entertainment and games. Prizes for prettiest and craziest hats, so make sure you wear a hat. All ladies welcome! NEW FICTION BOOKS: Things I Wish I Told My Mother by Susan Patterson – A mother and daughter on vacation in Paris unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes – with a giant Pattersonian twist at the end! Every daughter and mother have their own distinctive voice, inimitable style and secrets. Hang the Moon by...
Have you seen the beautiful flowers around Hulett in the summertime? Now is your chance to learn the secret with expert gardener, Walt Daknis. He will be at the library on Wednesday, May 3 at 5:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend this free class. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Homecoming by Kate Morton – Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small t...
National Library Week is April 23-29. Friends of the Library will be host an OPEN HOUSE on April 27 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Please join us for free lunch, entertainment by Alvin McAmis and awesome door prizes. Everyone is welcome!! NEW FICTION BOOKS: Deep Fake by Ward Larsen – Sarah Ridgeway is living the life she's always envisioned. She has a devoted husband, a loving daughter and a comfortable home. The path to reach it, however, has not always been smooth. For 12 years her husband, Bryce, s...
There will be a coloring contest for kids K-3. The sheets will be handed out at school or you can stop by the library and pick them up. Make sure to stop by the library the week of April 17-21 and vote for your favorites. Laura Lynn will be offering a journal making class at the Library on Wednesday, May 3 from 1-3 p.m. We will be using a beautiful collection of papers called Lady Vagabond. Please bring a scissors, ink pen and glue sticks or adhesives that you have and a paper slicer, if you have one. For more information or to sign up, visit...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: Worthy Opponents by Danielle Steel – Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather’s business – the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke’s has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn’t been an easy journey. Seven years after her father’s death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young girl. She may be the owner of Brooke’s, but she’s also now a divorced single mother of twin...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: Remember Me by Tracie Peterson – Addie Bryant is haunted by her past of heartbreak and betrayal. After her beau, Isaac Hanson, left the Yukon, she made a vow to wait for him. When she’s sold to a brothel owner after the death of her father, Addie manages to escape with the hope that she can forever hide her past and the belief that she will never have the future she’s always dreamed of. The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson – 1950s Philadelphia: 15-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to atte...
Please join us at the library on March 16 at 1:30 p.m. for the Kylie McCormick Program on Tea Party Suffrage, which is sponsored by The Hulett Museum & Art Gallery and The Hulett Branch Library. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Unnatural History by Jonathan Kellerman – On a superficially lovely morning, a woman shows up for work with her usual enthusiasm. She’s the newly hired personal assistant to a handsome, wealthy photographer and is ready to greet her boss with coffee and good cheer. Instead, she finds him slumped in bed, shot to death. The Good Son...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: Love Through the Seasons by Tracie Peterson – Four short contemporary romances from bestselling author Tracie Peterson take readers to the author’s native state of Kansas. A single mother is braced for spring tornadoes and Stormy Weather when she encounters her son’s scout troop leader. A student finds her King of Hearts while participating in a summer Renaissance festival, but she may lack queenly confidence. Autumn isn’t just about the changing of the trees for a widow living with her mother and aunts on the family farm, i...
The library is having an air fryer class on Wed., Feb. 15 at 5:30 p.m. Brianna will teach us the basics of using an air fryer and you will get to enjoy some delicious food. The class is free, thanks to the Friends of the Library, but you must call ahead at 467-5676 to reserve your spot. We are limiting the class to 20 people. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Horse by Geraldine Brooks – Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the n...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica – Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend’s house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found. Sleep No More by Jayne Ann Krentz – Seven months ago, Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers were strangers, until their fateful stay at the Lucent Springs Hotel. An earthquake and a fire partially destroyed the hotel, but the women...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny – It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge…But something has…As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them...
New items in the Children’s Section purchased from the Jim Maupin Memorial include: Hank the Cowdog Series 51-60, Magic Tree House Series 9-16 and 2 New Movies Spirit (2 movie collection) and An American Tail. New Fiction Books: The Perfect Assassin by James Patterson – Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, “Meed,” is demanding. She’s also his captor. I Know Wher... Full story
Friends of the Library Silent Christmas Auction is going on at the library now and runs until 3 p.m. Thurs., Dec. 15. They will also be hosting an Open House that day starting at 2 p.m. Everyone is welcome! Hope to see you there. NEW FICTION BOOKS: The Sea Wolves by Clive Cussler – As New England swelters in the summer of 1914, Detective Isaac Bell is asked to investigate a cache of missing rifles – only to discover something much more sinister. Whoever broke into this Winchester Factory wasn’t looking to take weapons, they wanted to leave...
Please join us for our first Ladies Sip and Shop on Fri., Dec. 2. It will be held at the Hulett Museum from 1-7 p.m. There will be 11 new vendors you can shop from, food and drinks and many door prizes. Hope to see you there! Friends of the Library meeting will be held on Mon., Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. It is never too late to join. Following the meeting, book discussion will take place at 5 p.m. NEW FICTION BOOKS: No Plan B by Lee Child – In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. The death is ruled a suicide. But J...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover – After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The Christmas Spirit by Debbie Macomber – Peter Armstrong and Hank Colfax are best friends, but their lives couldn’t be more different. Peter, the loc...
Come on down to the library for coffee and goodies after you vote on Tues., Nov. 8. Friends of the Library will be meeting at 4 p.m. on Nov. 7. Book Discussion will be at 5 p.m. that same day. NEW FICTION BOOKS: Under the Starry Skies by Tracie Peterson – Sensible and independent, Cassie Barton never anticipated being on her own at 32. But after the death of her father and the marriage of her sister, she’s found joy in her work as a seamstress. When a minor accident leaves her unable to sew, she decides to use her time to compile a book of sto...
NEW FICTION BOOKS: The Orchard by Beverly Lewis – For generations, Ellie Hostetler’s family has tended their Lancaster County orchard, a tradition her twin brother, Evan, will someday continue. Yet when Evan’s draft number is called up in the lottery for the Vietnam War, the family is shocked to learn he has not sought conscientious objector status, despite their Old Order Amish belief in non-resistance. The faraway war that has caused so much turmoil and grief among their Englisher neighbors threatens too close to home. Suspect by Scott Turow...
