Monday, August 5, 2019

Summer Reading Counts!


This year for our summer reading program, we had several people come out and visit our library. We thank each an every one of YOU!

We had 14 events that were attended by a total of 226 attendees.  Our hope is that everybody enjoyed themselves and that next year will be even better.

During the summer reading program, we like to look at our circulation numbers. We are impressed with all of you!

From May 25 through July 31 our circulation numbers are great!

Books
449
Audio Books
9
DVD/Blu-ray
131
Computers
212
TOTAL
801

Great circulation at our library for the summer. We are proud that we can provide services for our community. 212 times the computers were checked out to use providing FREE internet access.  This does not include the patrons that stopped by to use the FREE Wi-Fi.

Speaking of patrons, we welcomed 81 new card-carrying patrons to the Jennie Woodworth Library Family. WELCOME!

Are you an individual or business that is interested in helping with our summer reading program? We love to involve the community in our programs. We are looking for people to help with our summer program including; story time, activities, and sponsors for our end of summer back to school bash in 2020. Contact us via comments, phone (615)797-9553

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

New Titles in our Adult Collection

In the New Books Section of our Adult Books you will find the following:

FICTION

See the source imageSummer of ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand

The #1 New York Times and USA Today bestseller Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Martha's Vineyard. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, each of them hiding a troubling secret. As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country. In her first historical novel, rich with the details of an era that shaped both a nation and an island thirty miles out to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again earns her title as queen of the summer novel.


BacklashBacklash by Brad Thor

In ancient texts, there are stories about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond the reach of death itself. These men were considered part angel, part demon. Their loyalty was to their families, their friends, and their kings. You crossed these men at your peril. And once crossed, there was no crossing back.

They were fearless; men of honor who have been known throughout history by different names: Spartan, Viking, Samurai.

Today, men like these still strike from the shadows. They are highly prized intelligence agents, military operatives, and assassins.

One man is all three.

Two days ago, that man was crossed – badly.

Now, far from home and surrounded by his enemy, Scot Harvath must battle his way out.

With no support, no cavalry coming, and no one even aware of where he is, it will take everything he has ever learned to survive.

But survival isn’t enough. Harvath wants revenge.



UnsolvedUnsolved by James Patterson

In the long-awaited follow-up to the #1 bestselling thriller INVISIBLE. . . the perfect murder always looks like an accident. FBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. She's young and driven, and her unique skill at seeing connections others miss has brought her an impressive string of arrests. But a shocking new case-unfolding across the country-has left her utterly baffled. The victims all appear to have died by accident, and have seemingly nothing in common. But this many deaths can't be coincidence. And the killer is somehow one step ahead of every move Dockery makes. How? To FBI special agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, everyone in the FBI is a suspect-particularly Emmy Dockery. But someone else is watching Dockery. Studying, learning, waiting. Until it's the perfect time to strike.


Lock Every DoorLock Every Door by Riley Sager

No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind.

As she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly, disturbingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story . . . until the next day, when Ingrid disappears.


Searching for the truth about Ingrid's disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew's dark past and into the secrets kept within its walls. Her discovery that Ingrid is not the first apartment sitter to go missing at the Bartholomew pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building's hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent.