The library will be closed on Saturday February 18 and Monday February 20 for President’s Day. We will reopen on February 21 at 9:30 a.m.
Story-hour will be Tuesday, February 21 at 10:00 a.m. for children ages birth to 6 years old.
Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counterterrorism organization in the Western World.
Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his eyes. But Kate is compelled to tell this story, not only as an artist exploring the personal information catastrophe that affects us all, but as a daughter trying to understand her mother's apparent loss of purpose, made even more disturbing by the suicide note she left behind: I did it for Kate.
ThenPatrickBattlecomes back into her life, changing everything she has ever thought about her play, her father, and her mother's tragic death. Patrick is a childhood friend, but he is now Buck's golden boy with security clearance to the company's most sensitive projects.
When Buck comes under investigation by the Justice Department and Patrick suddenly goes missing, Kate doesn't know who to trust. A phone call confirms her worst nightmare: Patrick has been kidnapped, and the ransom demand is 'Code 6'--the most secret and potentially dangerous technology her father's company has ever developed.
Kate's fight to bring Patrick home safely reveals a conspiracy and cover up that may implicate one of the most powerful executives in the tech industry, while the development of Kate's play unleashes family secrets and the demons behind her mother's cryptic final note.
The two paths converge in explosive fashion, leading to a shocking and terrifying discovery that puts Kate and Patrick in the crosshairs of forces who will stop at nothing to control Code 6. Author James Grippando bold new thriller Code 6 asks at what price do we open our lives to Big Data.
On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys; as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself, have decided to turn around the farm's bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children.
They have hired a 'stockman' to impregnate them. But the women are determined to protect themselves.
Now each of the six faces a choice. Nan, the doctoring woman, has brought a sack of cotton root clippings that can stave off children when chewed daily. If they all take part, the Lucys may give up andsendthestockmanaway.
But a pregnancy for any of them will only encourage the Lucys further. And should their plan be discovered, the consequences will be severe.
Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton is a gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners.
Seven months ago, Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers were strangers, until their fateful stay at the Lucent Springs Hotel. An earthquake and a fire partially destroyed the hotel, but the women have no memory of their time there.
Now close friends, the three women co-host a podcast called the Lost Night Files , where they investigate coldcasesandhopetoconnect with others who may have had a similar experience to theirs, an experience that has somehow enhanced the psychic abilities already present in each woman.
After receiving a tip for their podcast, Pallas travels to the small college town of Carnelian, California, to explore an abandoned asylum. Shaken by the dark energy she feels in the building, she is rushing out when she's stopped by a dark figure, who turns out to be the women's mysterious tipster.
Ambrose Drake is certain he's a witness to a murder, but without a body, everyone thinks he's having delusions caused by extreme sleep deprivation. But Ambrose is positive something terrible happened at the Carnelian Sleep Institute the night he was there.
Unable to find proof on his own,heapproachesPallasfor help, only for her to realize that Ambrose, too, has a lost nightthathecan'tremember, one that may be connected to Pallas. Pallas and Ambrose conduct their investigation using the podcast as a cover, and while the townsfolk are eager to share what they know, it turns out there are others who are not so happy about their questions and someone is willing to kill to keep the truth from coming out.
Author Jayne Ann Krentz returns with Sleep No More the first novel of the Lost Night Files, an exciting new romantic suspense trilogy about a night that changed threewomenforever,butthat none of them can remember.