@ Your Library
As we approach the last week of April, I definitely hope that the showers we’ve had bring May flowers. I am ready for my community to turn green. While I am waiting I’m reading, because honestly what else is there to do? I finally read The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens, such a powerful story of love, redemption and revenge in the former Yugoslavia and Minnesota by a wonderful Minnesota author. This book was very different than his other novels, but his writing is always beautifully powerful.
I read Legendary Frybread Drive-In edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith is a collection of 18 original interconnected stories centered on a fictional Sandy June’s Drive-In. I really enjoy short story collections that introduce me to new authors to explore and check out what else they have written. If you enjoy crime fiction and/or Minnesota writers, be sure and borrow either Silence of the Loons : thirteen tales of mystery by Minnesota’s Premier Crime Writers or Fifteen Tales of Murder, Mayhem and Malice from the Land of Minnesota Nice.
Spring can be an excellent time to go birding. The library has three birding kits that include binoculars and bird identification books that can be borrowed. We also have a couple of new books about birds. Stan Tekiela’s Birding for Beginners ; Midwest edition and National Geographic’s Birding Basics : tips, tools and techniques for great bird-watching by Noah Strycker. So get outside this spring and spend time listening and watching for birds.
Jill is Not Happy by Kaira Rouda has a pretty cover that hides a thriller in its pages. It begins with an ill-fated road trip between a cunning wife, reluctant husband both with secrets to hide. The Belles by Lacey N Dunham similarly has a pretty pink cover hiding the secrets of a private, secluded all-women’s college in the 1950’s. What will you do to fit in?
Tom Ryan, author of the bestselling Treasure Hunters Club returns with We Had a Hunch. Small town life can seem boring, but according to many books, that is just the surface, murder and mayhem hide behind seemingly every door and in this book, they are just waiting for teen detectives (now grownup) to solve. Bellamy Rose is a well-known author of romances trying her hand at detective fiction in Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder. Pomona, a wealthy socialite living on her trust fund is locked out of her well-to-do life by the unnatural death of her grandmother and with the family clamming up and not talking Pomona decides to solve the death so she can get back to high society life.
Tatiana de Rosnay sets her new novel in the scorching summer of 1960 at the legendary Mapes Hotel in Reno, Nevada. The Misfits is filming in the area and Marilyn Monroe is staying at the hotel. Pauline is a young chambermaid working at the hotel and has been told to clean Suite 614 which is supposedly empty. It isn’t and an unexpected friendship develops.