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The 2022 summer reading program for youngsters continues here at Rhoads Memorial Library and it is complemented by Terrific Tuesdays, which began June 14. The popular event is led by Felice Acker, local agent with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, and it has been a fixture here for several years.

Terrific Tuesdays' first session offered youngsters the chance to show their creative side via a pearler bead craft. This week's session featured the creation of a miniature version of airplane transports. Terrific Tuesdays will continue through July 19, with each event being held from 2-4 p.m. in our meeting room in a come-and-go format.

Another group that assists us with our annual summer reading program is the Dimmitt Area Retired School Personnel Association (DARSPA). They display books in our meeting room, providing each child with the chance to pick out two books to keep as they start their own home library. We thank DARSPA for their generosity.

It is not too late to register children, up through age 17, into our summer reading program. Recently I was explaining the inner workings of the event to an 11-yearold, who looked quite blank as I spoke.

Worried she was not comprehending my explanation, I asked her, "Am I explaining this program so you understand how it works?" The bespeckled young lass looked me straight in the eye and said, "You're doing quite nicely." Good to know!

In the adult world, newly released books that have arrived and are ready for checkout include:

"A Face to Die For" (an Eve Duncan novel) by Iris Johansen;

"The Hotel Nan tucket" (a novel) by Elin Hilderbrand;

"A Fatal Booking" (a mystery) by Victoria Gilbert. "The Local," a legal

"The Local," a legal thriller by Joey Hartstone, is another new release ready for checkout. The plot features James Euchre, a freewheeling, small-town attorney who takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge. The accused is Amir

The accused is Amir Zawar, a wealthy Pakistani American businessman who had a heated confrontation in a preliminary hearing before Judge Gardner, a beloved hometown hero in Marshall, Texas. Shortly thereafter, Judge Gardner is found murdered in the courthouse parking lot, and all signs point toward Zawar.

"The Local" is touted by critics as providing "courtroom tension and high stakes gambits on every page to the final, shocking verdict, a courtroom thriller like the best of Grisham or Turow."

We will be closed Saturday, July 2, in observance of Independence Day. We will re-open Tuesday, July 5, at 9 a.m.

Until next week, Happy Reading!