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Mix all ingredients, along with smashed brains of moose, deer, caribou, etc.” begins the Laplander Coffee Bread recipe out of the cookbook, “Alaska’s Choice: Palmer-Pioneer Home of Palmer, Alaska.”

Other recipes include those for Steamed Fiddle Head Ferns, Moose Burgers, Roasted Loon, Beaver Roast, Fried Snowshoe Hare, and Spiced Moose Tongue, to name a few.

This is one of the cookbooks we will be offering for sale here at Rhoads Memorial Library when our book sale starts Tuesday, Jan. 24, and runs until noon Saturday, Jan. 28. As always, we will set up in our meeting room and display not only a plethora of books but other items as well.

Movies and TV series on DVD, audiobooks on CD, and miscellaneous items will be offered for sale. Print items for sale will include large print books, novels, non-fiction, inspirational items, children’s books, Westerns, and how-to instructions for any activity from knitting to woodworking to gardening.

Additionally, we are trying something new this year by offering mystery series for sale. By various authors, they are numbered and bundled together with brief series’ descriptions on them. These paperbacks are “cozy” mysteries, meaning they are quick and easy reads that are enjoyable in a fun, not overly cerebral, manner. And they can be yours for a few cents!

If you would rather borrow a book free of charge, following are some new releases ready for checkout: -”Through the Liquor Glass” is a novel by Sarah Fox set in the picturesque New England town of Shady Creek, Vermont. Fall is in full swing and Sadie Coleman, owner of the literary- themed Inkwell Pub, is serving scrumptious food and drinks, along with a side of sleuthing.

-”The Last Invitation” is a novel by Darby Kane that focuses on the Sophie Foundation, an exclusive, powerful group of women who meet over wine and cheese to review files of men who behave very, very badly. Afterwards, these men die via fluke accidents or shocking suicides. Once in the women’s group, it is impossible to get out. Yet new member Jessa Hall can’t stomach the group’s activities and hopes to take them down; will she survive to do so?

-”Night Shift”, is a novel by Robin Cook which critics call “an exhilarating new medical thriller where colleagues-turned-spouses Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton are lured into the dark underbelly of hospital dangers when an internist dies mysteriously.”

Until next week, Happy Reading!