Library Greetings: Trick or Treat

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The library will be at the “Trick or Treat the Square” on Tuesday October 31, starting at 6:00 p.m. There will be many local businesses handing out candy, along with the Madill Jazz Band selling hotdogs, chips and drinks. There will be a bounce house, cake walk and other fun fall activities. You don’t want to miss all the fun so come by and see us and get some free candy.

The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and even among local artisans, athletes, and marching bands, Hannah attracts fans of her own while serving lip-smacking pink lemonade desserts. But the mood sours when a body turns up, leading revelers to wonder if the festivities mark both the longest day of the year and the deadliest.

A retired professional MLB player has met a terrifying end and, considering the rumors swirling about his past, the list of suspects could fill a small stadium. Amongthemcouldsoonbe Delores, Hannah s mother, who publicly held a grunge against the victim after he infamously dunked her in the tank at a previous county fair.

Now, with her mother's innocence on the line, a life-changing announcement at The Cookie Jar, and a overabundance of desserts to bake, Hannah can't afford to strike out as she begins a dangerous investigation into the ruthless killer who's truly in a league of their own'.

PinkLemonadeCakeMurder is the next book in the series “Hannah Swensen” by author Joanne Fluke.

A taT e x a sc o u n t yf a i r ,a m i d s t carousels and a bustling midway, children's book author Elle Portman is enjoying a rare night out with her favorite cowboy: her two-year-old son, Charlie. But just as they're about to head home, the unthinkable happens: a shooter opens fire into the crowd, causing widespread panic to erupt all around them.

Also caught in the melee was corporate consultant Calder Hudson. Arrogant, self-centered, and high off his latest career win, he's frustrated and confused when he wakes up in the hospital after undergoing emergency surgery on his arm.

The doctor tells him that he was lucky--that as far as gunshot wounds go, he pulled through remarkably well. Others weren't so lucky, which instills in Calder a furious determination to get justice . . . a goal shared by Elle.

Their chance encounter at the police station leads to a surprising and inexplicable gravitation to one another, but even as the attraction grows, Elle and Calder can't help but wonder if the unimaginable tragedy that brought them together is too painful and too complicated to sustain--especially while the shooter remains at large.

Out of Nowhere by Sandra Brown, is a emotional thriller where the lives of a young mother and a high-rolling consultant collide under devastating circumstances, culminating inadesperatemanhuntthatwill change their futures forever.

In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian mercenary unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield.

With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. Astheymovefromvillage to village, committing horrific war crimes, they meet little resistance as all able-bodied men are off fighting the war.

Simultaneously, a team of Russian soldiers has been dispatched by the Kremlin to loot truckloads of art and priceless cultural treasures hidden away in a host of churches, museums, and private homes.

When multiple American aid workers are killed, America's top spy, Scot Harvath, is sent in to settle the score. But in a country so vast, will Harvath be able to find the men in question and, more importantly, will he be able to stop them before they can kill again? Dead Fall is the next thriller in the Scot Harvath series by Brad Thor.