Spalding Public Library

The Spalding Library will be CLOSED Thursday, April 21^st, 2016.

Spalding Library’s book club chooses “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel” by author M. L. Stedman. In 1918, after serving in WWI, Tom Sherbourne welcomes his quiet job as lighthouse keeper on Australia’s remote Janus Rock, as does his loving new wife. But three years later a childless Isabel is bereft after suffering her third miscarriage. Tending the new grave, Isabel hears the cry of a baby; a boat has washed ashore with a dead man—and a living infant.

Two years later, little Lucy has become the center of the Sherbourne’s world. But their happiness turns when a trip to the mainland brings the discovery that she was not orphaned…and a desperate woman still seeks her vanished daughter. M.L. Stedman’s extraordinary debut, “The Light Between Oceans”, is a riveting tale of good intentions and heartbreaking consequences. (from the publisher)

Get your copy of this book today!! We will be discussing this book at our next book club meeting which will be on Monday, May 2^nd.

Spalding Library’s book club will meet at the library on Monday, April 4^th at 5:00 p.m. to discuss “The Meaning Of Names”, a novel, by native Nebraska author, Karen Gettert Shoemaker.  Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, “The Meaning Of Names” is the story of an ordinary woman trying to raise a family during extraordinary times.  Please join our discussion group, Monday night at 5:00p.m.

New titles added to the adult fiction collection include:

 Jonathan Kellerman- “The Murderer’s Daughter”

 Jonathan Kellerman- “Motive: An Alex Delaware Novel”

 J.D. Robb- “Obsession In Death”

 Jan Karon- “Come Rain Or Come Shine”

 Mary Higgins Clark- “Death Wears A Beauty Mask & Other Stories”

 Robert B. Parker- “Kickback”

 Nora Roberts- “Blue Smoke”

 Fern Michaels- “Perfect Match”

 Tony Hillerman- “Skeleton Man”

 Tony Hillerman- “Talking God”

 Tony Hillerman- “The Fallen Man”

 Jacquelyn Mitchard- “The Deep End Of The Ocean”

For The Month Of March, Spalding Library’s Book Club Chooses the book, “The Meaning Of Names” by author Karen Gettert Shoemaker. A Nebraska-set novel with a World War I backdrop, The Meaning of Names follows a German-American woman trying to raise a family in the heartland and keep them safe from the effects of war and the influenza panic, as well as from violence and prejudice.   This novel by Karen Gettert Shoemaker is Nebraska’s reading choice for the 2016 One Book One Nebraska statewide reading program.

Stop by the library and pick up your copy!!

The Spalding Public Library will host the library’s book club meeting on Monday, March 7^th, at 5:00p.m. The group will be discussing the book, “Orphan Train: A Novel”, by Christina Baker Kline. From 1854 to 1929 an estimated 250,000 orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children were sent by train, to towns in mid-western and western states, as well as Canada and Mexico. An estimated six to seven thousand youngsters rode orphan trains to Nebraska, and Spalding, was one of those selected train towns. When the orphan train movement began, it was estimated that 30,000 abandoned children were living on the streets of New York City. This period of mass relocation of children in the United States is widely recognized as the beginning of documented foster care in America.

Please join us at this book club meeting- it will be an interesting topic to discuss!!

Check Out These Audio Books by Authors Lee Child & Liane Moriarty!!

Lee Child- “Deep Down, Second Son, & High Heat”

Lee Child- “Never Go Back”

Lee Child- “Nothing To Lose”

Lee Child- “Gone Tomorrow”

Liane Moriarty- “The Husband’s Secret”

These recently donated books have been added to the adult fiction collection.

Amanda Coplin- “The Orchardist: A Novel”

Steve Martin- “An Object Of Beauty: A Novel”

James Lee Burke- “Burning Angel”

Greg Iles- “Natchez Burning”

James Patterson- “The Final Warning” (Maximum Ride, Book 4)

Malachy McCourt- “Malachy McCourt’s History Of Ireland”

Amanda Quick- “The Third Circle”(Arcane Society, Book 4)

Janette Oke- “Like Gold Refined” (Prairie Legacy, Book 4)

Karin Slaughter- “Pretty Girls: A Novel”

“A Faint Cold Fear: A Grant County Thriller”

Janet Evanovich- “The Job: A Fox and O’Hare Novel”

How many books have you read by these favorite romantic novelists?

• Maeve Binchy
• Barbara Taylor Bradford
• Sandra Brown
• Susan Andersen
• Robynn Carr
• Dorothy Garlock
• Julie Garwood
• Tess Gerritsen
• Iris Johansen
• Alex Kava
• Debbie Macomber
• Linda Lael Miller
• Janette Oke
• Diana Palmer
• Luanne Rice
• Jodi Thomas
• Susan Wiggs

Plus many more! Stop by the library and check out a book or an audio book, today!