In addition to these workshops, young adults can check out the graphic tablets for two hours at a time with their library cards for use at any of the computers in the Youth Room. All computers on the lower level are equipped with Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements, and can be used with the tablets to edit photos, create movies, or paint and draw.

September is Art Month for Young Adults at Beebe!

After teaching our young adults to use this technology for creating art, we want to show it off! There will be an Art Show happening the last week of September at the library. Submissions of all kind will be considered from kids in grades 5 and up, with a preference given to art that has been digitally created or manipulated in some way. More details about the show and submission guidelines will be coming soon.

You may choose from the September 9, 3-5pm session OR the September 11, 2-4pm session. Please indicate a preference in the form below. If your chosen session is full, you will be put on the waitlist. If room opens in your preferred session, or if there is room in the other session, we will call you.

This program is for kids in Middle and High school. No younger siblings please. Enrollment is limited. Your registration will be confirmed by email.

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Adler, Elizabeth A. It all began in Monte Carlo.
Romantic Suspense Jewelry theft

Albert, Susan Wittig. The Darling Dahlias and the cucumber tree. MYSTERY.
The Depression-era women of a Darling, Alabama, garden club get to the bottom of a mysterious buried treasure and a young woman’s murder.

Andrews, Andy. The heart mender: a story of second chances. HISTORICAL FICTION,
While digging up a withering wax myrtle tree beside his waterfront home on the Gulf coast, author Andy Andrews unearths a rusted metal container filled with Nazi artifacts and begins an intriguing investigation that unlocks an unspoken past that took place in his backyard…literally. Previously published as Islands of Saints.

Andrews, Donna. Stork raving mad: a Meg Langslow mystery.

Armstrong, Kelley. Waking the witch. FANTASY.
Otherworld series #11 featuring Savannah Levine.

Aston, Elizabeth. The Darcy connection. ROMANCE.
Mr. Collins of Pride and Prejudice is now the Bishop of Ripon, living with his wife, Charlotte, and their two daughters, who have reached marriageable age. The elder, another Charlotte, is extraordinarily beautiful, and her parents hope her looks and connections will ensure a brilliant marriage. Her sister, Eliza, while not as handsome, possesses a lively intelligence that, in Mr. Collins’s opinion, is too like her godmother, Mrs. Darcy. In London, Charlotte’s beauty wins her many admirers, despite her small fortune. But Eliza’s wit and attempts to interfere in what she considers an unsuitable marriage for her sister infuriate her family and Charlotte’s suitor — until Eliza herself meets her match.–From amazon.com.

Baker, Sam, The other mothers’ club.
You can choose your family – but are you sure you want to? A funny and touching exploration to an often-misrepresented aspect of female life.

Beck, Glenn. The Overton window. SUSPENSE.
An unprecedented attack on U.S. soil shakes the country to the core and puts into motion a frightening plan, decades in the making, to transform America and demonize all those who stand in the way. Exposing the plan and revealing the conspirators behind it, PR executive Noah Gardner hatches his own plan to save both the woman he loves and the individual freedoms he once took for granted.

Binchy, Chris. Five days apart.
Being able to taste people’s emotions in food may at first be horrifying. But young, unassuming Rose Edelstein grows up learning to harness her gift as she becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.

Blackstock, Terri. SUSPENSE. Intervention.
Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment–and her interventionist is found dead at the airport where she was last seen–Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all.

When fourteen-year-old Ella Carmichael is killed by a cyberstalker, her sister Krista vows to protect others from falling into the same trap while she hunts down the online predator.

Britton, Andrew. The exile. SUSPENSE.
Espionage & Darfur

Burke, James Lee. The glass rainbow: a Dave Robicheaux novel. MYSTERY.
Beloved Burke hero Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to New Iberia to solve a series of grisly murders.

Cameron, W. Bruce. A dog’s purpose.
This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog’s search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, this touches on the universal quest for an answer to life’s most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey’s search for his new life’s meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8 year old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog. But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Bailey’s journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wonders, will he ever find his purpose? Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh out loud funny, this book is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog’s many lives, but also a dog’s eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man’s best friend. This story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.

Campion, Emma. The king’s mistress. HISTORICAL FICTION.
“From childhood Alice Salisbury learned obedience in all things, so at the age of fourteen, she dutifully marries the man her father has chosen for her – at the cost of losing the love of her mother forever, as well as the family she holds dear. But merchant Janyn Perrers is a good and loving husband and Alice soon learns to enjoy her marriage. Her happiness is short-lived, however, ending when a messenger brings news of Janyn’s sudden disappearance. Alice discovers that her husband had many dangerous secrets, secrets which have now put a price on her own head and that of her beloved daughter. Brought under the protection of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, she must dutifully embrace her fate once more – as a virtual prisoner at Court. When the king singles her out for more than just royal patronage, she knows she has little choice but to accept his advances. But obeying the king brings with it many burdens as well as pleasures, as she forfeits her good name to keep her daughter free from harm. Still a young woman and guided by her intellect and good business sense, she uses her gifts as wisely as she can in order to ensure her family’s survival.”–Provided by publisher.

Cantrell, Rebecca. A night of long knives. HISTORICAL FICTION.

Carcaterra, Lorenzo. Midnight angels. SUSPENSE.
Lost works of art in Florence

Carobini, Julie. A shore thing: an Otter Bay novel.
“Callie Duflay just isn’t like the rest of her family. While they’ve built white collar lives, she prefers getting her hands dirty by working with children and local California causes. When Callie learns that a beloved piece of untouched property in her town of Otter Bay may soon be developed, she confronts the architect assigned to the project”–Publisher.

Castillo, Linda. Pray for silence. SUSPENSE.
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family of seven. Formerly Amish herself, Kate is no stranger to the secrets the Amish keep from the English–and each other–but this crime is horribly out of the ordinary. Follows Sworn to Silence.

Chamberlin, Holly. The family beach house.
Vacation in Maine

Clinch, Jon. Kings of the earth. MYSTERY.
On a primitive farm on the margins of an upstate New York town, three Proctor brothers live together in a kind of crumbling stasis–until one of them dies in his sleep and the other two are suspected of murder. A deeply intimate saga of the human condition at its limits.

Cole, Julian. The amateur historian. MYSTERY.
Two brothers, PI Rick Rounder and policeman Sam Rounder, square up across the sibling divide as they are both drawn into the case of a missing girl. But the case gets more complicated as Rick’s past catches up with him, and the only clues that the brothers have, relate to a girl who lived–and died–in poverty one hundred years ago.

Compton, Jodi. Hailey’s war. SUSPENSE.
Hailey Cain has a history of testing the limits of her fate: as a fearless bike messenger on the streets of San Francisco; as a young female cadet at West Point. When an old friend from her former life in Los Angeles calls in a favor, Hailey doesn’t have to think long before she accepts the mission. From the dustiest Mexican roads to the meanest streets of East L.A., Hailey finds herself ensnared in a war more deviant and ugly than any she trained for as a cadet. Deep in the gang underworld, pusued by mobsters and authorities alike, Hailey must use her instincts to stay alive–and to protect the innocent from a past that still haunts her.

Connolly, John. The whisperers: a Charlie Parker thriller.
On the border between Maine and Canada, a dangerous smuggling operation is taking place. Drugs, cash, weapons, even people– and something ancient and powerful and evil…

Coulter, Catherine. Whiplash. SUSPENSE.
Married FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich are investigating a rather unusual case: Senator David Hoffman is experiencing a ghostly apparition with possible malicious intent. They’re no closer to cracking the case when a call comes in from Connecticut: A top foreign Schiffer Hartwin employee has been found murdered behind the drug company’s U.S. headquarters.

Crouch, Blake. Snowbound. SUSPENSE.
Human trafficking Mexico

Crowley, John. Four freedoms. HISTORICAL FICTION.
In the early years of the 1940s, as the nation’s young men ship off to war, the call goes out for builders of the machinery necessary to defeat the enemy. To this purpose, a city has sprung up seemingly overnight in the windswept fields of Oklahoma: the Van Damme airplane factory, a gargantuan complex dedicated to the construction of the B-30 Pax, the largest bomber ever built. Some men, but mostly women, many of whom have never operated a rivet gun or held a screwdriver, flock to this place eager to earn, to grow, to do their part. Many are away from home for the very first time, enticed by the opportunity to be something more than wife and homemaker. In the middle of nowhere they will live, work, and earn their own money, fearing for the safety of their absent fighting men as the world around them changes forever.–From publisher’s description.

Davidson, MaryJanice. Undead and unfinished. FANTASY.
Another humorous Betsey Taylor.

Demas, Corinne. The writing circle.

DeMille, Nelson. The lion. SUSPENSE.
Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as “The Lion,” has returned to America to make good on his threats and take care of unfinished business. John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, will stop at nothing to find and kill Khahil.

Egan, Jennifer. A visit from the Goon Squad.
Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs confront their pasts in this powerful story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem.

Eisler, Barry. Inside out. SUSPENSE.
Marooned in a Manila jail after a bar fight fatality, black ops soldier Ben Treven gets a visit from his former commander. The price of Ben’s release: find and eliminate Larison, a rogue operator from Ben’s unit who has stolen torture tapes from the CIA and is using them to blackmail the U.S. government.

Elmer, Robert. Wildflowers of Terezin. HISTORICAL FICTION.
Christian Fiction on WWII

Farnsworth, Christopher. Blood oath. FANTASY.
Vampires in the White House

Fesperman, Dan. Layover in Dubai. SUSPENSE.

Fesperman, Dan, ed. First thrills: high-octane stories from the hottest thriller authors.
An anthology of previously unpublished work includes contributions by favorite genre authors and a selection of up-and-coming writers.

French, Tana. Faithful Place.
Detective Frank Mackey finds himself straight back in the dark tangle of relationships he left behind twenty-two years ago when the suitcase belonging to his first love, Rosie Daly, shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place. The hotly anticipated third novel of the Dublin murder squad.

Freveletti, Jamie. Running dark. SUSPENSE.
Emma Caldridge; bk.2

Gabhart, Ann H. The seeker. HISTORICAL FICTION.
With the country–and her own household–on the brink of civil war, pampered gentlewoman Charlotte Vance hatches a plan to avoid her new stepmother and win back her man by joining the Shaker community at Harmony Hill. Little does she know that this decision will lead her down a road toward unforeseen peace–and a very unexpected love.

Gael, Juliet. Romancing Miss Bronte. HISTORICAL FICTION.
Biographical Fiction on Charlotte Bronte.

Gardiner, Meg. The liar’s lullaby. SUSPENSE.
When the country singer ex-wife of a U.S. president is sensationally murdered during a concert performance, forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett
endeavors to learn the victim’s role in her demise as well as the murder’s relevance for the president.

Gardner, Lisa. Live to tell: a detective D.D. Warren novel. SUSPENSE.
Boston series

Garner, Elizabeth. The ingenious Edgar Jones. HISTORICAL FICTION.
An extraordinary boy, both restless and inquisitive, turns his back on the scholarly life intended for him by his father, and finds his true calling in metalworking after apprenticing himself to a blacksmith.

Gaskell, Whitney. When you least expect it.
“India and Jeremy Halloway are happily married, have creative careers, and live in a remodeled bohemian cottage in a historic West Palm Beach
neighborhood. The only thing missing from their charmed life is the baby they both desparately want. After two years of failed fertility treatments, they are cash-strapped and no closer to parenthood. That’s when they decide it’s time to look into adoption. Lainey Walker’s unexpected pregnancy threatens to derail her dream of moving to Los Angeles and becoming a reality TV-star. She also finds herself homeless and alone when her supportive gym-rat boyfriend kicks her out of their apartment. When the Halloways and Lainey are matched up through an adoption agency, India proposes an unorthodox solution that just might solve all their problems. But as these three are about to discover, a baby changes everything.” – Taken from cover p.4.

Gerritsen, Tess. Ice cold: a Rizzoli & Isles novel. SUSPENSE.
Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Maura’s charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, Wyoming, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow.

Gonzales, Laurence. Lucy. SCIENCE FICTION.
Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying chimpanzees, is running for her life with the child of a murdered fellow scientist after a civil war explodes. Grabbing the notebooks of the primatologist who’s been killed, Jenny brings the girl to Chicago to await the discovery of her relatives. The girl is fifteen and lovely, her name is Lucy. Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny begins to care for her as her own. When she reads the notebooks written by Lucy’s father, she discovers that the adorable, lovely, magical Lucy is the result of an experiment. She is part human, part ape, a hybrid human being.

Goodman, Allegra. The cookbook collector.
“…a novel about getting and spending, and about the substitutions we make when we can’t find what we’re looking for…” –inside cover.

Grange, Amanda. Colonel Brandon’s diary.
Epistolary novel based on Sense and Sensibility character.

Griffin, Lynne Reeves. Sea escape.
Family secrets/Mothers & Daughters

Hagberg, David. The cabal. SUSPENSE.
“CIA operative Todd Van Buren meets with a Washington Post investigative reporter who has uncovered strong evidence that a powerful lobbyist has formed a shadowy group called the Friday Club. The cabal’s members include high-ranking men inside the government: a White House advisor, a three star general at the Pentagon, deputy secretaries at the State Department, Homeland Security, the FBI, and even the CIA. The reporter is convinced that the Friday Club is powerful enough to potentially topple the United States government…and he’s terrified of what he knows. That afternoon, Van Buren–son-in-law to the legendary spy Kirk McGarvey–is gunned down. That evening, the reporter and his family are killed. All traces of the existence of the Friday Club are erased. A devastated McGarvey is soon drawn into the most far-reaching and dangerous investigation of his career, the stakes of which could destabilize the United States government, and shake the foundations of the world financial order.”–Dust cover flap.

Halpern, Adena. 29. Smart Funny Women.
Humorous take on Cinderella

Harbison, Elizabeth M. Thin, rich, pretty. Smart Funny Women.
Three women–Holly, Nicola, and Lexi–learn the path to true contentment and save each other in this humorous story about old rivalries, deep secrets, and the three things all women wish they were.

Hasler, Susan. Intelligence. SUSPENSE.
Domestic terrorism

Hatcher, Robin Lee. A matter of character.
The sisters of Bethlehem Springs series

Hayman, James. The chill of night: [a novel of suspense].
Legal thriller set in Maine

Haynes, Dana. Crashers. SUSPENSE.
When a passenger plane, a Vermeer One Eleven, slams into the ground outside Portland, Oregon, a team–the “crashers”– is quickly assembled to investigate the cause. Usually the team has months to determine the cause of a crash. But this time it’s different. This time, the plane was brought down deliberately, without leaving a trace, and this was only a trial run.

Hiaasen, Carl. Star Island.
Humorous take on Paparazzi and celebrity

Hilderbrand, Elin. The island.
It’s the perfect summer getaway– but some secrets are hard to escape…When her elder daughter abruptly cancels her engagement, and her lavish wedding, Birdie takes both daughters and her cousin to Tuckernuck Island. There dramatic truths are uncovered, old loves are rekindled, and new loves make themselves known.

Hinshelwood, Tom. The killer. SUSPENSE.
Assassins in Paris

Holden, Wendy. Farm fatale: a comedy of country manors.
British Smart Funny Women.

Hollowell, Jenny. Everything lovely, effortless, safe.
Actresses in Hollywood

Hoover, Michelle. The quickening. HISTORICAL FICTION.
Great Depression

Horn, Dara. All other nights. HISTORICAL FICTION.
Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army during the Civil War is ordered to murder his own uncle in New Orleans, who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln. After this harrowing mission, Jacob is recruited to pursue another enemy agent, the daughter of a Virginia family friend. But this time, his assignment isn’t to murder the spy, but to marry her.–From publisher’s description.

Howard, Evan Drake. Galilean secret.
Christian Fiction on antiquities

Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew. They’re watching. SUSPENSE.
Electronic surveillance in CA

Isaacs, Susan. As husbands go.
Grief & mystery on Long Island

James, Steven. The bishop: a Patrick Bowers thriller.
The Bowers files; bk. 4

Jance, Judith A. Queen of the night. SUSPENSE.
Cold case in AZ

Jenoff, Pam. A hidden affair. SUSPENSE.
What kind of man could fake his own death and then, for more than a decade, let his loved ones suffer? After such a betrayal, what woman would want him back? Meet erstwhile Cambridge University sweethearts Jared Short and Jordan Weiss, whose star-crossed odyssey continues in Jenoff’s intriguing sequel to Almost Home. Following Jordan’s discovery of Jared’s apparent survival–and her own narrow escape from enemies still out to silence him–the plucky young diplomat chucks her State Department commission to seek closure. But instead of answers, what lies ahead on a perilous chase stretching from London to the Aegean are more conundrums. Along the way, Jordan encounters Ari Bruck, a seductive mystery man who might be a Mossad agent, and Nicole Short, an elegant blonde who apparently runs in the same circles as Jared.

Johansen, Iris & Roy Johansen. Shadow zone. SUSPENSE.
A discovery by submersible designer Hannah Bryson suggests a possible cause of mythical Atlantis’s mysterious demise that has potentially cataclysmic consequences for the modern world.

Kalogridis, Jeanne. The scarlet contessa: a novel of the Italian Renaissance.
Daughter of the Duke of Milan and wife of the conniving Count Girolamo Riario, Caterina Sforza was the bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles, and openly took lovers whenever she pleased. Her remarkable tale is told by her lady-in-waiting, Dea. Dea reviews Caterina’s scandalous past and struggles to understand their joint destiny, while Caterina valiantly tries to fight off Cesare Borgia’s unconquerable army.

Kava, Alex. Damaged: a Maggie O’Dell novel. SUSPENSE.

King, Lily. Father of the rain.
“…Gardiner Amory is a New England WASP who is beginning to feel the cracks in his empire. Nixon is about to be impeached, his wife is leaving him, and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has spent the first eleven years of her life carefully negotiating her parents’ conflicting worlds: the liberal, socially committed realm of her mother and the conservative, decadent, liquor-soaked life of her father…As she grows into adulthood, Daley rejects the narrow world that nourished her father’s fears and prejudices, and embarks on her own separate life—until he hits rock bottom…” –Dust jacket flap.

King, Stephen. Blockade Billy.
From New York Times bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of Blockade Billy, the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. Even the most die-hard baseball fans don’t know the true story of William “Blockade Billy” Blakely. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse… and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all.

Kingsbury, Karen. Take four.
Above the line series; bk. 4. Filmmakers Keith Ellison and Dayne Matthews finally ink a deal with the nation’s top young actor. But the actor takes a public fall that threatens his reputation. Now the producers must act as missionaries to save the film, their families, and the young movie star.

Kramer, Julie. Silencing Sam. MYSTERY.
MN journalist

Kuzneski, Chris. The prophecy. SUSPENSE.
Treasures and prophecies

Lackberg, Camilla. The ice princess. MYSTERY.
After she returns to her hometown to learn that her friend, Alex,was found in an ice-cold bath with her wrists slashed, biographer Erica Falck researches her friend’s past in hopes of writing a book and joins forces with Detective Patrik Hedstrom, who has his own suspicions about the case.

Lamb, Cathy. Such a pretty face.
Plastic surgery dilemma

Land, Jon. Strong justice: a Caitlin Strong novel. SUSPENSE.
A Mexican girl on the run from human traffickers brings fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong to the sleepy border town where her legendary grandfather once worked, a region that hides a deadly weapon with a potential to give a new enemy the means to terrorize the United States.

Lansens, Lori. Rush Home Road.
For Jodi Picoult fans, Canadian abandoned children tale

Lawson, Michael. House justice: a Joe DeMarco thriller.
When a leak within the CIA results in the brutal torture and death of a US spy in Tehran, who just gave information to the CIA about a crooked American contractor in Iran, Joe DeMarco is tasked to investigate. Teaming up with the CIA, DeMarco discovers that the victim once had a fling with a journalist now serving time in prison and threatening to unravel DeMarco’s entire operation.

Le Beau, John J. Collision of evil. SUSPENSE.
When an American tourist is murdered in the Bavarian Alps, Kommissar Franz Waldbaer begins an investigation that yields no suspects or clues, but the arrival of the victim’s brother sends them both on a trail of evil leading to forgotten episodes from the Third Reich.

Lowe, Gail. Former things.
Wakefield author–On the surface, the relationship breakdown between Emily Preston and her adult daughter, Nicole, seems rooted in a denied request for money. But at the core of their estrangement is a family secret revealed in this heartbreaking, stunningly detailed narrative. After learning that she has been left out of her father’s will, Nicole abandons her mother, leaving her to grieve for 20 years. At age 70, Emily sells her home and moves to a retirement
community where she meets Evan Pierce, a young man who convinces her to search for Nicole to restore the relationship. Emily then rents an RV for the summer, and she and Evan embark on a thousand-mile journey to look for Nicole. On the last leg of their trip, a tragedy occurs — one that finally brings mother and daughter face to face.–Amazon.com.

Macomber, Debbie. Hannah’s list.
Widower’s dead wife arranges his next marriage

McCall Smith, Alexander. Corduroy mansions.
The author captures the goings on of the residents and visitors at Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, from nasty Liberal Democrat MP Oedipus Snark to the newest resident, Pimlico Terrier Freddie de la Hay.

McCrumb, Sharyn. The devil amongst the lawyers: a ballad novel. MYSTERY.
In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher’s alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.

Mills, DiAnn. A woman called Sage. ROMANCE.
Sage Morrow has lost everything she loved. Now, she is a Colorado bounty hunter determined to track down and bring killers to justice … and it’s personal. But when the tables are turned, will Sage become the one who is hunted? A high-energy historical romance novel set in the late 1800s.

Mitchell, David S. The thousand autumns of Jacob De Zoet.
1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city’s powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken–the consequences of which will extend beyond Jacob’s worst imaginings. On the Man Booker Longlist.

Murnane, Maria. Perfect on paper: the (mis)adventures of Waverly Bryson. Smart Funny Women.
Waverly’s fiance calls off the wedding at the last minute, and she finds her life spiraling downward. Bad dates, a bitchy coworker out for Waverly’s job, and her dad’s constant problems are starting to wear on her. To keep her head above water, Waverly starts to jot down Honey Notes, a pipe dream for a line of funny, self-deprecating greeting cards.

Nathan, Melissa. Pride, prejudice, and Jasmin Field. Smart Funny Women.
Humorous British Austen takeoff

Neggers, Carla. The whisper.
Romantic Suspense in Boston/Women archaeologists

Nelson, Peter. I thought you were dead: a love story.
Funny Dog story

Nicholls, David. One day.
Over twenty years, snapshots of an unlikely relationship are revealed on the same day–July 15th–of each year. Dex Mayhew and Em Morley face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. Soon to be a major motion picture from Focus Features/ Random House Films.

Noble, Diane. The sister wife. HISTORICAL FICTION.
Wealthy Mormon convert Mary Rose and shipbuilder Gabriel make their way to a new Mormon settlement, where Prophet Joseph Smith’s edicts about polygamy lead Gabriel to take additional wives and Mary Rose to question her faith.

Norman, Howard A. What is left the daughter. HISTORICAL FICTION.
Nova Scotia WWII

O’Flynn, Catherine. The news where you are.
Frank, a television newsanchor in Birmingham, England, is on the verge of a midlife crisis. The demolition of buildings designed by his late father, the somewhat mysterious death of his on-screen partner and mentor, Phil, and Frank’s obsession with people who die alone lead him down a path of self-discovery.

Oksanen, Sofi. Purge.
Aliide Truu, an older woman guilty of crimes during the Soviet occupation of Estonia, takes in a young woman, Zara, who is trying to escape a sex-trafficking ring, and as they work through their suspicion, the two rediscover a tragic family history from the past.

Parkhurst, Carolyn. The nobodies album.
On her way to deliver the manuscript to her editor, bestselling novelist Octavia Frost reads a news crawl in Times Square and learns that her rock-star son, Milo, has been arrested for murder. Though she and Milo haven’t spoken in years–an estrangement stemming from their tragic past–she drops everything to go to him.

Patterson, James & Maxine Paetro. Private: Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, London, Chicago, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Rome. SUSPENSE.
Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. He already deep into the investigation of a multi-million dollar NFL gambling scandal and the unsolved slayings of 18 schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friend’s wife, Jack’s former lover, has been killed.

Perry, Marta. Anna’s return. ROMANCE.
Pleasant Valley; bk. 3

Pitkeathley, Jill. Dearest cousin Jane: a Jane Austen novel. HISTORICAL FICTION.

Pouncey, Maggie. Perfect reader.
At the news of her father’s death, Flora quits her big-city magazine job and returns to Darwin, the quaint New England town where she grew up, to retreat into the house he has left her, filled as it is with reminders of him. Even weightier is her appointment as her father’s literary executor. It seems he was secretly writing poems at the end of his life–love poems to a girlfriend Flora didn’t know he had.

Pronzini, Bill. Betrayers: a Nameless Detective novel.

Racculia, Kate. This must be the place.
NY Boarding House

Radish, Kris. Hearts on a string. Smart Funny Women
Traveling women

Reich, Christopher. Rules of Betrayal. SUSPENSE.
Doctors Without Borders & terrorism

Richards, Emilie. Fortunate harbor.
Tracy Deloche, Rishi Kapur, Wanda Gray, Alice Brook, Olivia Symington, and newcomers Dana Turner and her daugher Lizzie live in the seaside cottages of Happiness Key, a rundown Florida development. Their friendship is put to the test when CJ, Tracy’s ex-husband, unexpectedly shows up, wanting to reconnect after he’s released from prison pending a new trial. Tracy ponders giving him a second chance. But then there’s Marsh Egan, her off/on environmentalist boyfriend whose troublemaking ex, Sylvia, is also back in town.

Roberts, Nora. The search. SUSPENSE.
Fiona, a dog trainer who participates in canine search-and-rescue missions, is devastated after her fiance is murdered, but her emotions are rekindled when Simon, a newcomer to town, brings his puppy Jaws to her for obedience training.

Ruchti, Cynthia. They almost always come home.
Canadian Christian Fiction

Rue, Nancy N. Antonia’s choice.
Christian Fiction/Aging parents

Shepherd, Lynn. Murder at Mansfield Park. MYSTERY.
Jane Austen homage

Sigler, Scott. Ancestor. SUSPENSE.
On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered the holy grail of medicine–a computer-
engineered living creature whose organs can be implanted in any person, with no chance of transplant rejection. There’s just one problem: these “ancestors” are not docile.

Silva, Daniel. The Rembrandt affair. SUSPENSE.
Gabriel Allon series

Singh, Jaspreet. Chef.
Cooks in India

Skyhorse, Brando. The Madonnas of Echo Park.
Mexican Americans in Echo Park, CA

Steiner, Peter. The terrorist. SUSPENSE.
Louis Morgan; bk.2 Espionage

Stevens, Chevy. Still missing. SUSPENSE.
Abduction in British Columbia

Stoker, Dacre. Dracula: the un-dead. HORROR.
The great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, Dacre Stoker collaborates with Dracula historian Ian Holt to pen the first Stoker-family-supported sequel to the 1897 horror classic. Based on Bram Stoker’s notes, the legendary story continues 25 years after the events of the original. An evil has once again crept onto the land, this time to hunt down those responsible for Dracula’s demise.

Straub, Peter. A special place: the heart of a dark matter. SUSPENSE.
A boy, Keith Hayward, is drawn to an irresistible fascination with death and the taking of life. His Uncle Till, who has led a shadowy career as local celebrity “Ladykiller,” recognizes his nephew’s nature and tutors him in the art of doing ill without getting caught.

Tafoya, Dennis. The wolves of Fairmount Park. MYSTERY.
PA drive-by shootings

Tanenbaum, Robert. Betrayed. SUSPENSE.
Butch Karp & Marlene Ciampi Legal series

Taylor, D. J. Ask Alice. HISTORICAL FICTION.
In 1920s London, former actress and society hostess Alice Keach receives a mysterious visitor and unearths a secret long ago buried in rural Kansas.

Thor, Brad. Foreign influence: a thriller.
Recruited as a field operative, Scot Harvath has just returned from his first assignment abroad when a bombing in Rome kills a group of American college students. The evidence points to a dangerous colleague from Harvath’s past and a plan for further attacks on an unimaginable scale.

Tiffany, Grace. My father had a daughter: Judith Shakespeare’s tale. HISTORICAL FICTION.
Biographical Fiction.

Trollope, Joanna. The other family.
When Richie dies unexpectedly, Chrissie must now tell the truth to their three daughters: their parents were never married. There is more shock to come when his will is read: he ever forgot the wife and son he left behind years ago. Now two families must confront their losses–and each other.

Turow, Scott. Innocent. SUSPENSE.
“INNOCENT continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, twenty years later, pitted against each other in a riveting
psychological match after the mysterious death of Rusty’s wife”–Provided by publisher.

Vantrease, Brenda Rickman. The heretic’s wife. HISTORICAL FICTION.
16th C. Great Britain

Vaughn, Carrie. Discord’s apple. FANTASY.
Discovering a magical storeroom in a house she is destined to inherit, Evie Walker finds a cache of mythological and legendary artifacts that she is charged to keep out of the hands of villains who threaten the world with apocalyptic violence.

Verdon, John. Think of a number. MYSTERY.
NY serial murders

Waldman, Ayelet. Red Hook Road.
After John Tetherly and Becca Copaken die in a freak car accident an hour after their wedding, their families are left to bridge stark class and cultural divides, and eventually forge deep-rooted bonds thanks to the twin deities of love and music. Becca’s family is well off, from New York, and summers in Red Hook, Maine, a small coastal town where John’s blue-collar single mother, Jane, cleans houses for a living. They interact, awkwardly, over how to bury the couple, the staging of an anniversary party, and over Jane’s adopted niece, whose amazing musical talent makes a connection to Becca’s ailing grandfather, a virtuoso violinist, who agrees to give her lessons. Becca’s younger sister, Ruthie, a Fulbright scholar, meanwhile, falls in love with John’s younger brother, Matt, the first Tetherly to go to college, before he drops out to work at a boatyard and finish restoring his brother’s sailboat, which he plans on sailing to the Caribbean.

Walsh, Dan. The homecoming.
Sequel to Unfinished Gifts.

Weiner, Jennifer. Fly away home.
Infidelity and politics

Weir, Alison. Captive queen: a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
The author harks back to the twelfth century with a sensuous and tempestuous tale that brings vividly to life England’s most passionate and destructive royal couple: Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II. Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor has spent the past dozen frustrating years as consort to the pious King Louis VII of France. For all its political advantages, the marriage has brought Eleanor only increasing unhappiness and daughters instead of the hoped for male heir. But when the young and dynamic Henry of Anjou arrives at the French court, Eleanor sees a way out of her discontent. For even as their eyes meet for the first time, the seductive Eleanor and the virile Henry know that theirs is a passion that could ignite the world. Returning to her duchy of Aquitaine after the annulment of her marriage to Louis, Eleanor immediately sends for Henry, the future King of England, to come and marry her. The union of this royal couple will create a vast empire that stretches from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees, and marks the beginning of the celebrated Plantagenet dynasty. But Henry and Eleanor’s marriage, charged with physical heat, begins a fiery downward spiral marred by power struggles, betrayals, bitter rivalries, and a devil’s brood of young Plantagenets including Richard the Lionheart and the future King John. Early on, Eleanor must endure Henry’s formidable mother, the Empress Matilda, as well as his infidelities, while in later years, Henry’s friendship with Thomas Becket will lead to a deadly rivalry. Eventually, as the couple’s rebellious sons grow impatient for power, the scene is set for a vicious and tragic conflict that will engulf both Eleanor and Henry. This is an historical novel that encompasses the building of an empire and the monumental story of a royal marriage.

Whalen, Marybeth. The mailbox. ROMANCE
“When Lindsey Adams first visits the Kindred Spirit mailbox at Sunset Beach, North Carolina, as a teenager, she has no idea that twenty years later she will still be visiting the mailbox–still pouring out her heart in letters that summarize the best and worst parts of her life. Returning to Sunset for her first vacation since her husband left her and her two kids, Lindsey struggles to put her sorrow into words. Memories surface of her first love, Campbell Forrester–and the rejection that followed. When Campbell reappears in her life, Lindsey must decide whether to trust in love again or guard herself from greater pain.”–P. [4] of cover.

Whitson, Stephanie Grace. Sixteen brides. HISTORICAL FICTION.
Christian women

Wickham, Madeleine. A desirable residence.
Realtor Marcus Witherstone knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent Liz and Jonathan Chambers old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost-famous husband, Piers. But soon Liz is lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their business, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing an unhealthy passion for the tenants.

Windsor, Linda. Healer. HISTORICAL FICTION.
Her mother’s dying prophecy to the chieftain Tarlach O’Byrne sentenced Brenna of Gowrys to twenty years of hiding. Twenty years of being hunted–by the O’Byrnes, who fear the prophecy, and by her kinsmen, who expect her to lead themagainst their oppressors. But Brenna is a trained and gifted healer, not a warrior queen, so she lives alone in the wilderness with only her pet wolf for company. When she rescues a man badly wounded from an ambush, she believes he may be the answer to her deep loneliness. Healing him comes as easy as loving him. But can their love overcome years of bitterness and greed … and bring peace and renewed faith to the shattered kingdom?

Wingate, Lisa. Beyond summer.
Blue Sky Hill series; bk.3
Christian Fiction

The workshops will cover a range of areas designed to help job seekers. The complete schedule is as follows:

• Thursday, September 16 – Resume Writing Review. Attendees will participate in a round table discussion of resume writing in general, including how to address key word search techniques. Chronological and functional resume samples will also be analyzed. Participates are encouraged to bring their existing resumes for confidential one-on-one critique.
• Thursday, September 23 – Cover and Thank You Letter Review. A group discussion and analysis of various letter-writing samples. A review of acceptable formats will be included.
• Thursday, September 30 – Interview Workshop. An interactive and informal question and answer session where participants will role-play typical interview questions and how best to answer them. The seminar will also include ways to avoid job candidates’ most common interview mistakes.
• Thursday, October 7 – Online Job Search and Resume Submittal Workshop. An analysis and discussion of numerous search strategies, including job alerts, job boards, job aggregators and company employment pages. The session will include a discussion of how to best utilize these web sites for submitting one’s resume.
• Thursday, October 14 – Changing Careers: Reinventing Yourself in Today’s Job Market. Transitioning into a new profession can be a challenging and daunting undertaking. This session will explore various strategies to help make the transition from one industry to another a smooth one. This is a group discussion where everyone’s experiences and opinions are welcomed.
• Thursday, October 21 – Salary and Benefits Negotiating. For many, discussing compensation with employers is a risky and uncomfortable endeavor, yet it is imperative that people have the necessary tools to advocate for themselves. Is the salary commensurate with your market value? Can allowances be made with respect to additional vacation time and increased stock options? Strategies will be discussed to help bolster confidence and gain knowledge as it relates to business negotiations.

The employment workshops are funded by the Friends of the Library.

Beebe Library also maintains an extensive Career and College collection with resources for job seekers including guides to writing resumes and cover letters and other aspects of the job search.

For further information, phone 781-246-6334, x102.

Mother Goose on the Loose Story Times will begin at Beebe Library in September. Registration begins Tuesday, Sept. 7. Parents can apply for story time online (beginning Sept. 7). You can also register in person or by phone at 781-246-6334, extension 3. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred session and a second choice.

The Library intends for every Wakefield child to be able to attend at least one of the four six-week story time sessions offered during the school year: Fall, Winter 1, Winter 2, or Spring. The library strives to accommodate each registrant’s first scheduling choice. In any given session, the library gives priority to any Wakefield child who is not registered for another session.

Regretfully, we do not provide library services, including story times, to residents of communities without certified libraries. Nonresidents from communities with certified libraries are wait-listed until five days before the start of a session.

>(Note: During Winter 1, Thursday story times begin a week early on November 4 due to two holidays that take place on Thursdays this year. Thursday sessions last seven weeks instead of eight during Winter 1.)

Lapsit: for pre-walkers, 3 months up to a year old and a caretaker. You and your baby will listen to stories, learn songs, finger plays, nursery rhymes and play with other babies. Please make other arrangements for older children so you and your baby can enjoy this special time together. Lapsit will be offered at the following times:

Fall Session, September 23 – October 28: Thursdays at 9:30 a.m.
Winter 1, November 10 – December 15: Wednesdays at 11 a.m.
Winter 2, January 12-February 16: Wednesdays at 11 a.m.
Spring, March 10 – April 14: Thursdays at 11 a.m.

Walkers and Talkers: for walking children up to 35 months and caretakers. Build your child’s early literacy skills. Children will learn songs, play games, learn nursery rhymes and finger plays, and listen to simple stories. Children must be accompanied by a caretaker. The schedule for Walkers and Talkers is:

Fall Session, September 21 – October 29: Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m., Thursdays at 11 a.m. and Fridays at 11 a.m.
Winter 1, November 4 – December 17: Tuesdays at 11 a.m., Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m., Thursdays at 11 a.m. and Fridays at 9:30 a.m. (No program on November 5.)
Winter 2, January 11 – February 18: Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m., Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. and Fridays at 11 a.m.
Spring, March 8 – April 15: Tuesdays at 11 a.m., Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m., Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. and Fridays at 9:30 a.m.
Three and Four Year-Olds. Help your child build literacy skills. Children will listen to stories, learn songs, finger plays and games, and do a simple craft. Parents must remain in the building while child attends program. The schedule for this age group follows.
Fall Session, September 21 – October 29: Tuesdays at 11 a.m. and Fridays at 9:30 a.m.
Winter 1, November 4 – December 17: Thursdays at 9:30 a.m., Fridays at 11 a.m. (No program on November 5.)
Winter 2, January 11 – February 18: Tuesdays at 11 a.m. and Fridays at 9:30 a.m.
Spring, March 8 – April 15: Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. and Fridays at 11 a.m.

Four and Five Year-Olds. Children will build their listening comprehension and storytelling abilities, learn songs and do a craft. Caretakers must remain in the building, but allow the children to participate in the program alone. The schedule for this age group follows.

Fall Session, September 22 – October 27: Wednesdays at 11 a.m.
Winter 1, November 9 – December 14: Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m.
Winter 2, January 13 – February 17: Thursdays at 11 a.m.
Spring, March 9 – April 13: Wednesdays at 11 a.m.

In order to allow all residents fair access to their choice of program times, story time slots will be filled by random application.   Parents will fill out a form indicating time preferences. The library staff will randomize story time applications and fill story times from the pool of applicants. 

The Library intends for every Wakefield child to be able to attend at least one of the four story time sessions offered during the school year – Fall, Winter I, Winter II, or Spring. The library strives to accommodate each registrant’s first scheduling choice. In any given session, the library gives priority to any Wakefield child who is not registered for another session.

On the application, please indicate your preferred sessions,  and provide your first and second choices.  Residents whose first choice is the fall session will be notified by September 17, if they are accepted into the fall session.  Fall applications must be in before September 14, 2010. 

Applicants who register in September for a subsequent session (Winter I, Winter II, or Spring) as their first choice (or who are not admitted to the Fall session, if that is their first choice, and name a later session as a second choice) are confirmed at registration. The library continues to accept applications throughout the year. If vacancies remain two weeks prior to a session, the library will randomly select from the applicants wanting a second session. Library volunteers will call parents two weeks preceding a session to confirm registration, except for the fall session.

Application Deadlines and Notifications 

Fall deadline to apply for story time is Tuesday, September 14.  Attendees will be notified by 6:00 PM on Friday, September 17.

Winter 1 deadline is Tuesday, October 12.  Attendees will be notified by 6:00 PM on Friday, October 15.

Winter 2 deadline is Monday, December 27.  Attendees will be notified by 6:00 PM on Thursday, December 30.

Spring deadline is Monday, February 14.  Attendees will be notified by 6:00 PM on Friday, February 18.

Snow Storms and Closings

The library closes for all Federal and State holidays.  There will be no story times on those days.

Story time takes place if the library is open, even if there is no school in Wakefield. In bad weather, call the library before leaving home at 781-246-6334.  In the case of a delayed opening, story time will take place if the library re-opens in time for the program.  For instance, if the library opens at 10:00, the 9:30 story time will not take place, but the 11:00 will.  Cancelled story times are not re-scheduled. 

Residency and Eligibility Requirements

Nonresidents from communities with certified libraries are wait-listed until five days before the start of a session.

Regretfully, the library does not provide library services, including story times to residents of communities without certified libraries.

Story Time Schedules

Applications will be available Tuesday after Labor Day at 9:00 AM.  You can access them by clicking the name of the group you want to apply to. 

Note: Clicking on the link early results in an error message. 

Lapsit

(ages three months to one year or until walking)
Fall Session: September 23-October 28
Thursdays at 9:30
Winter 1: November 10-December 15
Wednesdays at 11:00
Winter 2: January 12-February 16
Wednesdays at 11:00
Spring: March 10-April 14
Thursdays at 11:00

Walkers and Talkers
(ages one and two)
Fall Session: September 21-October 29
Tuesdays at 9:30
Wednesdays at 9:30
Thursdays at 11:00
Fridays at 11:00
Winter 1: November 4-December 17
(Note: During Winter 1, Thursday story times begin a week early on November 4 due to two holidays that take place on Thursdays this year. Thursday sessions last seven weeks instead of eight during Winter 1.)
Tuesdays at 11:00
Wednesdays at 9:30
Thursdays at 11:00
Fridays at 9:30 (No program on November 5.)
Winter 2: January 11-February 18
Tuesdays at 9:30
Wednesdays at 9:30
Thursdays at 9:30
Fridays at 11:00
Spring: March 8-April 15
Tuesdays at 11:00
Wednesdays at 9:30
Thursdays at 9:30
Fridays at 9:30

Threes and FoursFall Session: September 21-October 29
Tuesdays at 11:00
Fridays at 9:30
Winter 1: November 4-December 17
(Note: During Winter 1, Thursday story times begin a week early on November 4 due to two holidays that take place on Thursdays this year. Thursday sessions last seven weeks instead of eight during Winter 1.)
Thursdays at 9:30
Fridays at 11:00 (No program on November 5.)
Winter 2: January 11-February 18
Tuesdays at 11:00
Fridays at 9:30
Spring: March 8-April 15
Tuesdays at 9:30
Fridays at 11:00

Fours and Fives
Fall Session: September 22-October 27
Wednesdays at 11:00
Winter 1: November 9-December 14
Tuesdays at 9:30
Winter 2: January 13-February 17
Thursdays at 11:00
Spring: March 9-April 13
Wednesdays at 11:00

Another mystery set in South Africa is Deon Meyer’s Blood Safari. Emma Le Roux hires a personal security expert when her believed-dead brother is named as a suspect in the murders of five people. Full of page-turning tension, this will strongly appeal to mystery and suspense fans seeking intelligent, hard-boiled action.
Jassy Mackenzie’s Random Violence is the first in a series. Returning to South Africa after living in England for ten years following her policeman father’s murder, PI Jade de Jong agrees to help her father’s former partner investigate a series of carjacking cases and discovers a pattern that may have a link to her father’s death. Grim, gritty, and violent, the novel offers a revealing view of modern South Africa.

Do you enjoying reading something terrifying and entertaining? Try F.G. Cottam’s The House of Lost Souls. Ten years ago, rumors of human sacrifice, ghosts, and magic were just that—until journalist Paul Seaton confronted unspeakable evil at the abandoned Fischer House and barely escaped with his life. Still haunted by his loss, he is asked to return to prevent the house from claiming more unsuspecting souls.

Here is a great zombie story combining the undead with high school football. Its publisher describes the books as Friday Night Lights meets Dawn of the Dead. In Ryan Brown’s Play Dead, after a rival team causes his football squad’s bus to crash, killing all the players. This is a fast-paced, thrilling, and terribly funny debut by former actor Brown.

If being frightened is appealing, then Brian Evanson’s Last Days will give you your fix. Through spare language, a noir sensibility, and macabre humor, the author crafts a compulsively readable nightmare that asks, “How do you know the moment when you cease to be human?” If you enjoyed Stephen King’s Misery, this one may be for you.

Want something a bit less serious? Imagine five very different women stuck together in a Florida hotel room after a terrible storm shuts down the entire area. Kris Radish does just that in Hearts on a String. The author deftly juggles the different personalities and throws in some wacky side story lines. Radish also wrote The Shortest Distance Between Two Women (2009) and always writes a compelling and pleasing story.

Jennifer Ross’s Icing on the Cupcake is a first novel that highlights realistic characters and funny situations. Texas Southern belle Ansley is on the brink of getting engaged but her cattiness and downright meanness have gotten the best of her, and she finds herself fiancé-less as well as friendless. When she runs off to NYC to live with her estranged grandmother, she realizes that it is time to find a purpose for her life and turn things around.

Looking for a Love Story by Louise Shaffer is terrific at weaving contemporary and historical family stories. In this novel, the author mixes the stories of Francesca who is a blocked writer whose marriage unexpectedly crumbles and the story of a Depression-era husband-and-wife vaudeville team in need of a ghost writer. Other great titles by this author are Family Acts (2007) and Serendipity (2009).

The Empress of Mars by the late Kage Baker is a Science Fiction novel of fun and high adventure. The British Arena Company abandoned its colonies on Mars when it couldn’t make a profit. Now they want them back, and it is up to Mary Griffith, her three daughters, and the other misfit denizens of Mary’s bar, the only one on Mars, to stop the company as peacefully as they can.

Paolo Bacigalpi’s The Windup Girl gives the Science Fiction reader a sobering and nuanced vision of a future Bangkok teetering on the edge of disaster. In this inhospitable environment, a disparate group of characters calculates how to survive. Fans of Charles Stross’s Accelerando will want to check this novel out.

On Tuesday, August 17 at 6 p.m. kids in grade 5 and older are invited to a medieval weapons demonstration with “Guard Up.” Sign up online

On Wednesday, August 18 at 10:30 a.m., Wingmasters brings the World of Owls to Beebe Library for kids in grade 2 and older. Jim Parks of Wingmasters will bring five different types of owls and talk about how these birds of prey eat, hunt and survive in the wild.

On Thursday, August 19 at 4 p.m., kids in grade 5 and older are invited to create their own comics with Photoshop. Comics produced will be displayed in the library. Sign up online

Conversely, later research by professors Radun and Summala from the Traffic Research Unit of the Department of Psychology at the University of Helsinki in Finland found no difference in the frequency of road injury accidents on Friday the 13th compared to the number of accidents on Fridays that occurred on the 6th or 20th of the month.

That research had yet to be conducted when Franklin Roosevelt was president. If he had a trip planned for Friday the 13th, he would ask the conductor to leave at 11:50 p.m. on the 12th or wait until the early hours of the 14th, according to Thomas Fernsler, associate policy scientist in the Math & Science Education Resource Center at the University of Delaware. Professor Fernsler reports that Napoleon, Herbert Hoover and Henry Ford all suffered from paraskavedekatriaphobia.

The origins and history of this superstition and of the number 13 in general are detailed in “13: the Story of the World’s Most Popular Superstition,” by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer. He also relates the psychology of the superstition and that it is falling into decline. All this he writes in a fast-paced and entertaining style.