A fun time of socializing and dining on delectable food was enjoyed recently by Dimmitt Book Club members as they held their spring luncheon at West Texas Coffee. President Genell Craig led a brief business meeting to close out the club year. She noted that the next club year will commence on Wednesday, Sept. 13, at 2 p.m. in the meeting room here at Rhoads Memorial Library.
We want to thank Mary Ruth Baird for the memorial honoring her sister, Charlene (Weaver) Pietsek. A book, “Standing Dead,” by Margaret Mizushima was presented to us by Mary Ruth; it is the latest in the Timber Creek K-9 series. It is book number eight of that series, which is a popular read among our patrons.
Here throughout Castro County, this is the week where several young men and women graduate and claim their high school diplomas. We wish them all a bright future and good luck in their endeavors.
Reminder: registration for youngsters’ summer reading program will be May 30-31, 2023, here at the library. We are open from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. and do not close for lunch, so we and some volunteers will be glad to help. The event will be June 1 - July 28, featuring the theme of “All Together Now!”
As for adults, we have several newly released books that have arrived and are ready for checkout. They include: -”Breakneck” (a suspense thriller) by Marc Cameron, follows U.S. Marshall Arliss Cutter, assigned to a routine security detail for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Charlotte Morehouse and her daughter, as they prepare to attend a judicial conference in Fairbanks, Alaska.
But mother and daughter decide to go sightseeing on the famous Glacier Discovery train, unaware that Russian mafia members plan to live stream their deaths. Can Cutter gain control of the situation after the Chechen rebels capture the train?
-”Moorewood Family Rules” (a novel) by Helen-Kay Dimon, features Jillian Moorewood, the eldest daughter of a con man and an heiress. She is the stable, reliable one who willingly went to prison to save them. Now, 39 months later, she is out, determined to go straight, which is difficult when she finds her family in full fleecing mode.
With the help of a crooked but loveable aunt, a bodyguard, and some undercover allies, she starts to put her life back together, kicking out some mooching relatives while limiting everyone’s access to money. Will she be able to finally become her own woman and find out who she is?
We will be closed Saturday, May 27, in observance of Memorial Day. We will re-open on Tuesday, May 30, at 9 a.m.
Until next week, Happy Reading!