Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone and we are fully staffed, (and fully stuffed?) we are busily decorating here at Rhoads Memorial Library for Christmas. We plan to spread Yuletide cheer throughout the facility and negotiations are underway to exhibit a local citizen's Christmas decorations in our display case soon. Watch this space for details!
Despite being closed recently due to COVID-19, we have received several newly released books. Catalogued into our system and ready for checkout, they include:
"Daylight" (an Atlee Pine thriller) by David Baldacci;
"In the Lion's Den: A House of Falconer Novel" by Barbara Taylor Bradford;
"Hidden in Plain Sight: A Detective William Warwick Novel" by Jeffrey Archer;
"Piece of My Heart" (an Under Suspicion novel) by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke;
"Deadly Cross" (an Alex Cross novel) by James Patterson;
"All That Glitters" (a novel) by Danielle Steel;
"The Awakening: The Dragon Heart Legacy" (a novel) by Nora Roberts.
Another new release available for checkout is "The Diplomat's Wife" by Pam Jenoff. The year is 1945: Marta Nederman, who worked in the Jewish Resistance in Krakow, is rescued from a Nazi prison camp by American soldiers. She falls in love with one of the liberators, Paul Mattison; their plans to meet in London are dashed, however, when his plane crashes.
Devastated and pregnant, Marta marries Simon, a caring British diplomat with whom she sees what joy family can bring. But her happiness is threatened when she is hired by the British government to go undercover and ferret out a Communist spy in their intelligence corps. Marta must revisit her past in order to fulfill her mission and expose the traitor.
"Fool Me Twice" by Jeff Lindsay is touted by critics as "a wildly entertaining caper starring the anti-hero you'll root for: Riley Wolfe." The story opens in St. Petersburg where Riley has stolen a Faberge egg for the world's most demanding--and dangerous--collector.
Betrayed by the pilot he hired to ensure his getaway, Riley wakes up chained to a rock wall on one of the Kerguelen Islands, site of the most remote spot on earth. He is held prisoner by one of the world's foremost arms dealers and art collectors who wants Riley to steal an artwork. The catch: it is a fresco, "The Liberation of St. Peter" that is a literal wall in the Vatican.
Presented with a choice of do or die, Riley agrees. However, he is grabbed by another arms dealer who wants to enact a double cross. This man shows surveillance on Monique, Riley's great love, and an art forger Riley needs, providing incentive for Riley's loyalty.
Until next week, Happy Reading!