Episode Transcript
[00:00:16] Speaker A: Greetings readers. Welcome to the 1 July edition of Library News. This month we discuss summer programming, the top 10 fiction books on Bard and NLS events, and more.
Our Youth Summer Reading program is off to a great start and June was a busy month full of activities exploring the Pacific Northwest, the deserts of the Southwest, the Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes. Learn more about the summer reading program at IowaLibrary blog. Another exciting library program began last month as well. A Thrive Thursdays for Teens in the Summer Leap program kicked off on June 19.
They learned about space and coding and hosted guests from Spock's Sanctuary, a reptile and amphibian rescue. We look forward to many more guests this month.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: The National Library Service is hosting another great summer reading program this summer. It kicked off in June with a great program with author Mac Barnett reading his book extra yarn. DB127239 On July 14th at 6pm, MasterChef Christine Ha will Tell Her Story When Christine ha won the third season of MasterChef, she was the first blind contestant on the show. Join NLS and Christine for a night of conversation about cooking, reading and everything in between.
On July 24th at 6pm, musician Jono Manson will entertain with his music and and lighthearted stories. Find out what he's got planned for his next project. These programs are all held via Zoom and registration is required. Go to IowaLibrary blog for the complete schedule and register for the events.
[00:02:02] Speaker C: Now for the top 10 fiction books downloaded from Bard the Writer a thriller DB128607 by James Patterson and J.D. barker NYPD detective Declan Shaw gets a call. How fast can you get to the Beresford Building on Central Park West? In the Tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She's covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Every book in the apartment's floor to ceiling shelves is by the same author, best selling true crime writer Denise Morrow.
This is you? Shaw asks the woman. You're a writer.
Only one person knows the ending to this story. Is it the victim or the killer?
Blood Moon DB128435 by Sandra Brown Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Eau Claire Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken or not taken during the investigation of Chrissy Mellon, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now Crisis Point, a long running true crime television series, is soon to narrow an episode documenting the unsolved Mellon case, Bowie has been instructed by his unscrupulous boss to keep to himself his grievances and criticisms over the mishandling of the investigation. Beth Collins, a senior producer on Crisis Point, knows what classifies as a great story and when there's something more to be told.
After working on the show for seven years, researching, fact checking and editing dozens of episodes, Collins is convinced that Chrissy Mellon's disappearance was not an isolated incident.
A string of disappearances of teenage girls in the nearby areas have only one thing in common. They took place on the night of a blood moon. In a last ditch effort to find out the truth, the Beth leaves New York City for Louisiana to enlist Detective Bowie in helping her figure out what happened to Chrissy and find the true culprit before he acts. On the next blood moon. In four days time, at the risk of their jobs and lives, Bowie and Collins band together to identify and capture a canny perpetrator while fighting an irresistible spark between them that threatens to upend everything.
The New Couple DB126835 by Allison James the perfect marriage, the perfect house. The perfect secret As I step through the cherry red door of my new home, I know I should feel like the luckiest woman alive. I have a handsome husband, a beautiful daughter, and now the house of my dreams. And to everyone else, my life looks perfect.
When the neighbors stop by to welcome us, I tell them my name is Stephanie Hamlin and and under the watchful gaze of my husband, Richard, I introduce him and our curly haired little girl, Poppy. I smile as wide as I can and desperately hope I can fit into this exclusive place with its pretty communal gardens, because I've risked everything to be here. Behind closed doors, I try to relax, to unwind in the huge clawfoot bath and forget my complicated past.
It's hard being the new couple on the streets when you've got secrets. Because the truth is, my charming husband isn't really my husband. And I'm not Stephanie Hamlin.
Lethal Prey DB 128112 by John Sanford Doris Granfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death, but nobody knew exactly where the crime took place. Her body was found the next night, dumped among a dense thicket of trees along the edge of an Urban park eight miles east of St. Paul, Minnesota. Despite her twin sister, Lara Granfelt's persistent calls to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the killer was never found.
Twenty years later, Lara has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Confronted with the possibility of her own death, she's determined to find Doris killer once and for all.
Finally taking matters into her own hands, she dumps the entire investigative file on every true crime site in the world and offers a 5 million dollar reward for information leading to the killer's arrest.
Dozens of true crime bloggers show up looking for both new evidence and clicks, and Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to review anything that might be a new lead.
When one of the bloggers locates the murder weapon, Lucas and Virgil begin to uncover vital details about the killer's identity. But what they don't know is the killer lurks in plain sight. And with the true crime bloggers blasting every clue online, the killer can keep one step ahead.
As the nation maneuvers the detectives closer to the truth, Lucas and Virgil will find that digging up Doris harrowing past might just get them buried instead.
[00:06:54] Speaker A: A Rogue Lawyer Short Story DB 128075 by John Grisham Sebastian Rudd Rogue lawyer defends people other lawyers won't go near it's controversial and dangerous work, which is why Sebastian needs his bodyguard, assistant, sidekick, partner. So if Sebastian is just about the most unpopular lawyer in town, why is partner so loyal to him? How did they meet? And what's the real story of this man of few words who's as good with a gun as he is with the law?
Strangers in a World War II novel DB 128900 by David Baldacci 14 year old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason.
Without parents peerage or merit ducking school but barred from actual work, he steals what he needs, living day to day until he's old enough to enlist to fight the Germans.
After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there's no telling when a falling bomb might end his life.
15 year old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of people to have been evacuated to the countryside via Operation Pied Piper, Molly has been away from her parents, from her home for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she'd hoped for as she's confronted by devastating reality.
Neither of her parents are there, only her old nanny, Mrs. Pride. Without guardians and stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver and a solace at his bookshop, the Bookkeep, where a book a day keeps the bombs away. Mourning the recent loss of his wife, Ignatius forms a kinship with both children and each other.
Over the course of the greatest armed conflict the world had ever seen, they rediscover the spirit of family each has lost.
But Charlie's escapades in the city have not gone unnoticed, and someone's been following Molly since she returned to London. And Ignatius is reeling from a secret Imogen long kept from him while she was alive, something so shocking it resulted in her death and his life being turned upside down.
As bombs continue to bear down on the city, Charlie, Molly, and Ignatius learn that while the perils of war rage on, their coming together and trusting one another may be the only way for them to survive.
[00:09:31] Speaker B: Battle Mountain DB127689 by CJ Box the campaign of destruction that Axel Soldad and Dallas Cates wreaked on Nate Romanowski and Joe Pickett left both men in tatters, especially Nate, who lost almost everything.
Wondering if the civilized life left him vulnerable to attack, Nate dropped off the grid with his falcons in tow to prepare for vengeance. When Joe gets a call from the governor asking for help finding his son in law who has gone missing in the Sierra Madre mountain range, he enlists the help of a local, a rookie game warden named Susan Caney.
As Nate and fellow falconer Geronimo Jones circle closer to their prey, Joe and Susan follow the nearly cold trail to Warm Springs. Little do Nate and Joe know that their separate journeys are about to converge at Battle Mountain.
Welcome to the Honey BNB DB 128430 by Melody Carlson when life feels like it's closing in around you, sometimes the solution is to open the doors wide and invite others in.
Jewel Makary is on the brink of unraveling as she heads home to Oregon to help care for her father, who has early onset dementia. Her 13 year old daughter is upset about the move, her beekeeper dad is a humorous handful, her mom is overworked and overwhelmed, finances are stretched tight and according to her father, the neighbors are nothing but trouble.
Despite all of these challenges, Jewel takes on one more when she convinces her parents to turn their decrepit farmhouse into a BNB in order to make some needed money, her old high school flame turned contractor steps in to help, but Jule isn't sure she can really trust him and those troublesome neighbors.
The handsome widower and his teenage daughter just might be the key to making all this work.
Get ready for a summer filled with family good humor and new beginnings.
Overkill DB12 8732 by J. A. Jantz Chuck Brewster, the former business partner of Ali Reynolds husband B. Simpson, once carried on an affair with Claris, B's first wife. So when he's found murdered with Claris standing nearby, covered in blood. It seems an open and shut case, but Claris swears she's innocent and begs for Ally's help. At the same time, someone is targeting Camille Lee while she's on the road for High Noon.
Allie is swiftly running out of time to find the real killer and keep her employee safe in this high octane thrill ride.
Our Little Secret DB 126128 by Lisa Jackson Brooke Harmon is ready to end her brief affair. Gideon Ross is charming and sexy, but he's not worth throwing away everything she holds dear. So she breaks it off, hoping Gideon will understand.
He doesn't. Gideon insists that he and Brooke are meant to be together.
Finally, he backs off, but not before issuing a promise. He'll never let her go. Little more than a year later, Brooke wants to believe it's all behind her. Her family has survived intact. Gideon has vanished, but the fear hasn't disappeared.
Brooke can't tell how much of it is paranoia and how much of it is justified, but she's worried.
And maybe she's right to be, because Gideon is a man who keeps his.
[00:13:17] Speaker C: Promises this summer the Instructional Materials center is conducting a course for Iowa educators. The IMC101 summer course for educators ran for two weeks in June with the goal of educating the participants about the Instructional Material center, accessible educational materials, ordering the materials, and much more.
The course will run again in July for two weeks.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: On Friday, July 25, the library will participate again in Steam on the Ridge in the Oak Ridge neighborhood in Des Moines. This event will provide students in kindergarten through 8th grade with different STEAM related activities. STEAM stands for science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. The library will provide a Hands on Braille activity for the students. We are excited to be part of this event.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: This month's Many Faces ABARD will be Thursday, July 10th at 6pm via Zoom. Please contact the library for the link or call in information or go to IowaLibrary blog Smart Speaking to the Smart speaker by NLS will be held Thursday, July 17th at 6pm the topic this month will be My Talking book Skill Preferences Part 2 the All May eRead, the monthly NLS program that focuses on the NLS Braille Ereader will be held Tuesday, July 22 at 6pm via Zoom.
Contact the library if you need assistance getting registered for any of the NLS events.
Please don't hesitate to contact the library with any questions or comments at 515-281-1323 or by email at librarylind state ia us.
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