What’s on the shelf
Celeste Ertelt
DEVILS LAKE - The book Club read will be At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen. Book discussion will be on May 5 at 5:30pm via zoom. Please see library staff for books and details. Also new book displays such as: April Showers Bring May Flowers featuring gardening books, Staff Picks and Funny Books for National Humor Month.
Turn a Blind Eye by Jeffrey Archer (Adult Fiction). Newly promoted to Detective Inspector, William Warwick is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. Along with detectives Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being compromised when Nicky falls for Summers.
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New Yorker writer Bill Barich is best known for his horse racing book
Laughing in the Hills, published 25 years ago now. For his latest book, Barich has again written about horses, but this time added Ireland as a topic as well in
A Fine Place to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance and the Irish. Barich fell in love, moved to Dublin and took quickly to the Irish love for the race track. As Barich explores Ireland, he also meets top trainers, horses and jockeys.
A Fine Place to Daydream builds up to the English Cheltenham Festival in March when Irish and British patriotism do battle on the track. Along the way, Barich paints a humorous picture of Ireland that will appeal to racing fans and non-fans alike. ($23 / 228 pages / Knopf)
Carmel Valley author organizes ‘Mystery Loves Georgia’ online auction to benefit Fair Fight
Dec. 10, 2020 12:47 PM PT
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Carmel Valley author Kathy Krevat is working with local authors Tammy Kaehler and Lisa Brackmann to organize Mystery Loves Georgia (www.mysterylovesgeorgia.com), an online auction to benefit Fair Fight. Fair Fight is Stacey Abrams’ organization that promotes fair elections in Georgia and around the country, encourages voter participate in elections, and educates voters about elections and their voting rights. The auction will run now through Friday, Dec. 11 at 6 p.m.
Kathy Krevat
• Zoom book club meeting with Sara Paretsky
• Zoom book club meeting with Rhys Bowen