Kids Summer Reading Program
Children have been Exploring Nature at the Lac du Bonnet Library this summer! Our program will continue to run every Tuesday and Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., until August 15th. If you are in town with your children or grandchildren, ages 5 to 12, stop by the library for our free, drop-in program. There will be fun activities, outdoor adventures to the park, stories, games, snacks and more! If you have any questions, please stop by the Library or give us a call at (204)345-2653.
- Upcoming Special Events include:
Science of Nature Demonstration on Thursday July 25th.
Painting with Nature on Thursday August 1st.
Reading with Raptors & Friends on Thursday August 15th.
New Fiction
Susan Mallery continues the Mischief Bay series with The Friends We Keep and A Million Little Things. Three close friends test the boundaries of how much a woman can give before she has nothing left as they explore the line between friendship and family.
The Take is a Simon Riske novel by Christopher Reich. He is a freelance industrial spy living mostly a quiet life until the CIA comes knocking at Riske’s door with a mission to retrieve a secret letter.
Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon is a tale of an 11-year-old’s struggle between innocence and evil. It begins with the discovery of a gruesome murder and ends with the revelation that, even in Zephyr, Alabama, life is not safe and simple. Most things and people are not what they seem to be.
Crystal King gives us a feast for the senses with The Chef’s Secret, a sumptuous story about the private chef to the Vatican in sixteenth-century Italy.
Dark Water Rising by Sharon Sala is a story of danger, loyalty and the lengths we’ll go to protect the people we love most.
The Next to Die is a suspenseful new offering from Sophie Hannah. In this disturbing tale of psychological suspense, a psychopath “Billy Dead Mates” targets pairs of best friends.
Hold Back the Dark is the sixth book in the Bishop: Special Crimes Unit – Dark Trilogy series by Kay Hooper. In a small North Carolina mountain town of Prosperity, murderous madness has taken hold.
New Young Adult Fiction
In Waiting for You by Susane Colasanti a young teenager Marisa learns how to ‘be in the Now’ as she realizes that the love she’s been waiting for has been right in front of her all along