The library is OPEN! It has been a long six weeks. I bet everyone is ready for something new to read. We have just processed some books and they are ready and waiting on our new book shelf.
Like everywhere, this corona virus has created changes in policies, procedures and hours. Our city manager and emergency manager have worked hard to think of everyone’s safety as the city of Madill reopens. So, there will be a few changes we need everyone to be aware of.
We truly missed all of our patrons and guests and ask for your help in keeping the library safe by following these new policies and procedures. We will be enforcing social distancing and limiting the number of patrons in the library for a time and if necessary the amount of time each patron is allowed to stay in the library.
There are marked waiting areas in black tape on the floor. Orange tape marks seating capacities also as a reminder to look around before you decide where to sit. Computer time limit is now 30 minutes daily per person and only one person can be at a computer at a time. Librarians will be unable to help with the computers as before but we will do our best at a distance.
Hand sanitizer is readily available at both of the front desks. To help prevent the spread of this virus, library staff will be wearing masks and gloves. These new rules are being implemented for the safety of all our patrons and guests; we hope the social distancing will only be for a short while. Our hours during the month of May will be Monday through Friday 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., computers will go off 30 minutes before close.
When Stone Barrington finds his name on a hit list, he plans to lie low until the culprit is caught. But when this foe shows no sign of stopping until his deadly objective is realized in full, Stone is left with no choice but to face the problem head-on.
Armed and alert, Stone joins forces with his most savvy connections to catch the perpetrator before the next strike. But it turns out this scum is an expert at evasion in more ways than one, and the international cat-and-mouse hunt that ensues has Stone questioning if he has become the predator or the prey. . . “Hit List” by Stuart Woods.
Years ago, Beth Lathrop and her sister Kate suffered what they thought would be the worst tragedy of their lives the night both the famous painting Moonlight and their mother were taken.
The detective assigned to the case, Conor Reid, swore to protect the sisters from then on. Beth moved on, throwing herself fully into the art world, running the family gallery, and raising a beautiful daughter with her husband Pete. Kate, instead, retreated into herself and took to the skies as a pilot, always on the run.
When Beth is found strangled in her home, and Moonlight goes missing again, Detective Reid can’t help but feel a sense of déjà vu. Reid immediately suspects Beth’s husband, whose affair is a poorly kept secret. He has an airtight alibi--but he also has a motive, and the evidence seems to point to him. Kate and Reid, along with the sisters’ closest childhood friends, struggle to make sense of Beth’s death, but they only find more questions: Who else would have wanted Beth dead? What’s the significance of Moonlight? Twenty years ago, Reid vowed to protect Beth and Kate--and he’s failed. Now solving the case is turning into an obsession . . . “Last Day” by Luanne Rice.
2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful fortytwo-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager—and who professed to worship only her—may be far different from what she has always believed? “My Dark Vanessa” by Kate Elizabeth Russell.