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Here at Rhoads Memorial Library, our Displayer for the Month of December is Estella Salinas, who once worked here. She is exhibiting some whimsical Christmas gnomes, pickup trucks hauling Christmas trees, and a manger scene along with other seasonal items.

Areminder: Dimmitt Book Club will convene on Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 2 p.m. here in our meeting room. A festive fun time is guaranteed as members Mary Ruth Baird and Zetha Collins are in charge of the Christmas program.

At home, most of us have decorated for Christmas or we are about to do so. We may discover, while bringing out the decorations or making room for them, that there are items we no longer want or need. An example would be books or movies, which we would gladly accept for inclusion in our library for checkout or in our annual book sale set for Jan. 24-28, 2023.

'Bad Smoke, Good Smoke: A Texas Rancher's View of Wildfire' by John R. Erickson is a book that our patrons have expressed interest in, so the 2021 release is now here and ready for checkout. Erickson, the famous Texas Panhandle author who wrote the 'Hank the Cowdog' series, details the destruction of two megafires that swept across the High Plains in 2006 and 2017.

Newly released books that have arrived and are ready for checkout include: -'A Christmas Memory' (a novel) by Richard Paul Evans; -'A World of Curiosities' (a Chief Inspector Gamache mystery) by Louise Penny; -'The Vibrant Years' (a novel) by Sonali Dev.

That last book, 'The Vibrant Years, finds 65-year-old Bindu Desai inheriting a million dollars, which terrifies her: it could expose a shameful mistake from her youth. Desperate to keep the secret, she quickly spends it on a posh condo in a Florida retirement community. Aly, her former daughter-inlaw, lives with her, despite being divorced from Bindu's son. Aly hopes this change of scenery will help her secure a segment at the news station where she works which has been promised to her for years. Aly's daughter, Cullie, must come up with a new idea for her tech-world investors or lose her business. In a panic, she pitches a half-baked dating app and they love it. The catch? Cullie has never been on a real date. Naturally, her mother and grandmother come to her aid, providing what 'USA Today' calls 'hilarious, unconventional, ambitious women navigating bad dates, a spiteful HOA board, re-emerging exes, and secrets that refuse to remain hidden.'

Until next week, Happy Reading!