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Salt Water by Charles Simmons (eBook*)
On Bone Point, an island off the New England coast, a boy's long, lazy days of boating and swimming are sharpened
by a growing awareness of his charismatic father's infidelities. Add to this the presence of a flirtatious middle-aged
woman and her beautiful 20-year-old daughter, who have rented the guesthouse, and the tale is set in motion. This
tautly constructed novel is both startling and haunting--an irresistible story of memory, desire, and suspense.
A Wreath of Snow: A Victorian Christmas Novella by Liz Curtis Higgs (eBook*)
All Margaret Campbell wants for Christmas is a safe journey home.
When her plans for a festive holiday with her family in Stirling crumble beneath
the weight of her brother's bitterness, the young schoolteacher wants nothing more than
to return to the students she loves and the town she calls home. Then an unexpected detour places her
in the path of Gordon Shaw, who struggles under a burden of remorse and shame. When the secret of their shared
history is revealed, will it leave them tangled in a knot of regret? Or might their past hold the threads that will bind their
future together?
Non-fiction
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account byNiklos Nyiszli
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to
Auschwitz. A Jew and medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer
fate: to perform scientific research on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous
Angel of Death: Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist.
Miraculously, Nyiszli survived to give this terrifying and sobering account.
The Big Book of Breakfast: Serious Comfort Food for Any Time of the Day
by Marilyn Vollstedt (eBook *)
The Big Book of Breakfast starts the day right with over 280 recipes for every kind of breakfast
food imaginable. It's classic Maryana Vollstedt: every delicious dish is so easy to make you can hit
the snooze button again and again. From classic blue-plate specials of Corned Beef Hash and Eggs
to an innovative brunch of Spicy Orange Pancakes, here are frittatas and omelets, quiches and
stratas, meats and potatoes, plus a bevy of beverages and the basic how-to.
T-Shirt Quilts Made Easy by Martha DeLeonardis
T-shirt quilts have always been difficult to make look good. No longer! Martha has mastered the
art of stabilizing all kinds of stretchy fabrics to corral the quilt top into straight lines. She then
uses a `Comparative Quilt Design Chart' to show how to artfully arrange blocks of various sizes
into a visually pleasing whole. Use Martha's finished quilts as jumping-off points to design unique
presentations of precious mementos that are precut-friendly.
Upcoming Closures
All Shreve Memorial Library branches (except e-branch) will be closed on the following dates:
Tuesday, January 1
New Year's Holiday
Saturday, January 19
Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Observance
Sunday, January 20
Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Observance
Monday, January 21
Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Observance
Fiction
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* ebook. Visit Overdrive at www.shreve-lib.org to learn more about downloadable content)
The Awakening by Angela Hunt (eBook*)
Aurora Rose Norquest is different from her neighbors, different from most people.
Still single at thirty-five, she spends every hour of her days and nights in an elegant Manhattan
apartment, quietly caring for her invalid mother. Then her mother dies, and Aurora's world spins on its
axis. Reality shatters into startlingly realistic nightmares, and the shards of troubling memories slice into her
sleep. Everything Aurora has believed about herself and her world fades into murky dreams that will not let her
rest. Something, someone is pursuing Aurora--growing more threatening by the day, testing the limits of her sanity.
T
he Broken Ones: A Novel by Steve Irwin
The world is reeling from a natural disaster that occurred a few years earlier. In just one day, Earth's poles
shifted to affect climate, agriculture, and governmental infrastructure, and setting off a global economic
crisis. This event is known as Gray Wednesday, the day when the spectral and living worlds became
one. Each person is haunted by a ghost, someone from his or her past. However, the identity
of the ghost that haunts Det. Oscar Mariani is unknown to him. Mariani is no typical cop:
he works only with those who claim to have committed their crimes-murders-at the
direction of their ghosts. In a haunted world, Mariani must track down a serial killer
who is murdering young women and mutilating their bodies with cryptic
occult symbols.
Christmas Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley (eBook *)
Add a new kind of thrill to the fluffiest of seasons with seven brilliantly conceived examples
of why you'd better be good at Christmas time. For stories which can be enjoyed by the
whole family, unwrap these perfectly formed festive tales of terror, each with a
gripping yarn and genius twist. Singing carols may never seem
quite the same again...especially after dark.
Eleven Eleven by Paul Dowswell (eBook*)
Set during the final 24 hours before the armistice at 11 a.m. on 11th November 1918,
the story follows a German storm trooper, an American airman and a British
Tommy. Their destinies converge during the death throes of the first ever
conflict to spread across the globe. War becomes incredibly personal
as nationality and geography cease to matter to each of these
teenagers on the Western Front, and friendship becomes
the defining aspect of their encounter. Two of them
will live; one of them will die before
the following morning.
The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Danielewski
In this story set in East Texas, a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself
responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller's tale
of vengeance, but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches,
the box is opened, a fateful dare is made, and the children as well as Chintana come
face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.
Merry Christmas, Alex Cross by James Patterson
It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross has been called out to catch someone who's robbing his church's poor box.
That mission behind him, Alex returns home to celebrate with Bree, Nan, and his children. The tree decorating is
barely underway before his phone rings again--a horrific hostage situation is quickly spiraling out of control.
Away from his own family on the most precious of days, Alex calls upon every ounce of his training,
creativity, and daring to save another family. Alex risks everything--and he may not make it back.
Red Velvet Revenge by Jen McKinlay
It may be summetime, but sales at Fairy Tale Cupcakes are below zero--and the owners Melanie Cooper and Angie
DeLaura are willing to try anything to heat things up. So when local legend Slim Hazard offers them the chance
to sell cupcakes at the annual Juniper Pass rodeo, they're determined to rope in a pretty payday! But not
everyone at the Juniper Pass is as sweet for Fairy Tale Cupcakes as Slim--including star bull-rider
Ty Stokes. Mel and Angie try to steer clear of the cowboy's short fuse, but when
his dead body is found face down in the hay, it's a whole different rodeo.
On your library's shelves
compiled by Lauren Hall
Looking forward
The
Mardi Gras Parade will feature a float from Shreve Memorial Library Belcher Branch on Saturday, February 9
@ 1:00 PM in Belcher, Louisiana!
The
Shreveport Opera Express will schedule a stop @ Shreve Memorial Library Broadmoor Resource Center.
Look for it on February 25 (The Ugly Duckling) & 28 (The Last Word)!