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Dimmitt Book Club has set May 12 as the date for a meeting at Dimmitt Country Club. The group, which has been on hiatus since early 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, plans to start the meeting at 11:30 a.m. that day as members convene for a Dutch treat meal.

Club President Genell Craig notes that Dimmitt native and author Natalie (Cline) Bright will be the featured guest. She will highlight some of her newly published books and answer questions about upcoming projects.

Here at Rhoads Memorial Library, we are making plans for our Summer Reading Program. Usually held for two months each summer, we offered an abbreviated version last year due to COVID-19 but look forward to returning to our expanded version. This year's program will begin June 1 and end on July 31, 2021, following the theme of "Tails and Tales."

For adults, newly released books by some of our patrons' favorite authors that have arrived and are ready for checkout include:

"Haunted Hibiscus" (a Teashop Mystery) by Laura Childs;

"No Way Out" (a suspense novel) by Fern Michaels;

"Till Death" (a "Have Bride, Will Travel" Western) by William W. Johnstone;

"Death with a Double Edge" (a Daniel Pitt mystery) by Anne Perry;

"Ocean Prey" (a Prey novel) by John Sandford;

"Turn a Blind Eye" (a Detective William Warrick novel) by Jeffrey Archer.

Fans of the "Miss Julia" series penned by Ann B. Ross will be glad (and sad?) to learn that the final installment is here and ready for checkout. "Miss Julia Happily Ever After" is the 23rd book of the much-beloved series about a feisty Southern lady of a certain age who seems to wind up in the most indelicate situations.

In this book, wedding fever hits Abbotsville and several of her friends plan nuptials ranging from a destination wedding to a secretive one. Miss Julia wants to properly celebrate each ceremony, but she is distracted by a mini-crimewave. It seems a stranger keeps showing up in town, streaking across lawns and vandalizing the gardens of her neighbors. Can she solve the mystery of the streaker and still properly attend to her friends' rites of holy matrimony?

The 25-book "Mysteries of Silver Peak" series has been donated to us and is ready for checkout. Sadie Speers is the unofficial historian of Silver Peak, Colorado, and her well-stocked antique shop is a favorite of locals and visitors. Mysteries abound in this historic mining town and Sadie excels at solving them.

Written by Carole Jefferson and published by the Christian, non-denominational GuidePosts, this series is a "clean" work that does not contain foul language. Patrons tired of contemporary reads that have a multitude of four-letter words can find this set of books in our Mystery section.

Until next week, Happy Reading!