Library Greeting: Meeting Santa

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Christmas is coming to the library. We will have Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, Connie the Elf and Taylor the Elf on Saturday December 16, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Come join us for hot chocolate and cookies.

TakeapicturewithSantaand get a small gift along with a free book for the kiddos. We will also have a craft for the kids to do, so stay and enjoy the festivities. We look forward to seeing all your smiling faces.

In 1941, beautiful Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war raging overseas. She's dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank, and Irvel has no idea how to break the news when the unthinkable happens-Pearl Harbor is attacked.

Withtheirlivesturnedupside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and Irvel take up the battle on the home front. While SamfightsinEurope,anundeniable chemistry builds between Irvel and Hank but neither would dare cross that line.

Then a telegram comes, and the news is devastating. Hank enlists the next day and has just two weeks until he ships out. Will either brother make it home alive? Or will Irvel lose everything?

And can love find a way, even from the ashes of the greatest heartbreak? Just Once byKaren KingsburyisaWorldWarIIlove story about a young woman torn between two brothers.

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be taking time off.

But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris.

They are the picture of middleclass respectability: an older married couple, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance.

And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless. Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in the chilling novel Holly by Stephen King.

After two back-to-back lifechanging events, first grade teacher Katie McGrath leaves Albuquerque for a fresh start in Borden's Gap, Tennessee. She is finally back in the classroom where she belongs, but it will take a little while for her to heal and truly feel like herself.

She'll need to dig deep to find the courage to try again--in life and in love--but with some help from her neighbor Sam Youngblood and his adorable twin daughters, her future is looking brighter than she dared imagine.

A fresh start for a young teacher to build the life she's dreamt of and a second chance at romance for a single dad and a small-towncommunitycheering them on. The Next Best Day by Sharon Sala is filled with second chances and new beginnings.