“Missionary Pumpkins: Miracle Stories from God’s Pumpkin Patch” is a new book we received here at Rhoads Memorial Library recently. It was written by Cheryl Erickson of Buchanan, North Dakota, and is designed to help readers “discover hope and inspiration as they accompany her on a walk through her peaceful pumpkin patch.”
Erickson notes that she never gardened until her very patient mother-inlaw gave her some pointers and she began growing pumpkins. Erickson says that “God’s creative power changed a handful of pumpkin seeds into 25 churches in India.” The book is available for checkout.
Newly released books that have arrived and are ready for checkout include: -”The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson”, a novel by Ellen Baker, finds fouryear- old Cecily dropped off at a Chicago orphanage in 1924 by her mother, who promised to return for the child once she had made enough money to support them.
But that never happens, and when Cecily turns seven, she is sold to a traveling circus to perform as the “little sister” to a glamorous bareback rider. Later, as a teenager, Cecily falls in love with a young roustabout named Lucky. She finds her life taking an unexpected and dangerous course.
Fast forward to 2015: Cecily is now in her 90s, living a quiet life in Minnesota, when her wellmeaning family decides to surprise her with an athome DNA test. The results shock her family as details of a tragic love story, kept hidden for decades, are revealed.
When everything about the family Cecily has raised as her own comes into question, they all must decide who they really are and what family, and forgiveness, really mean.
-”A Catered Quilting Bee”, a mystery by Isis Crawford, follows sisters and business partners, Bernie and Libby Simmons, who plan to cater an exhibition of the Longely Sip and Sew Quilting Circle. A more wholesome group of ladies cannot be found, until one of their own is found hanging from a plant hook in her pristine sewing room.
While it is believed initially that the victim, Ellen Fisher, committed suicide, her best friend, Cecilia, thinks otherwise. As Bernie and Libby investigate and learn about Ellen’s sketchy past along with a missing 700-year-old quilt fragment, they find that they must solve the case quickly before another person dies. Until next week, Happy Reading!