Rosetown Library: Holiday Reading Picks
By Brittany Booth, Rosetown Librarian
We have another upcoming Storytime program happening at the library next Wednesday, December 17, at 10:30 a.m. Parents and guardians can bring along children aged 5 and under for some stories, crafts, and fun. Don’t forget about the Snowy Storytime happening this Thursday, December 11, at 10:30 a.m., too!
The library’s holiday hours are as follows:
December 24: open 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Closed December 26 and 27
December 31: open 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Closed January 1
Regular hours resume January 2.
New and Featured Books:
The Once and Future Queen by Paula Lafferty (fantasy)
22-year-old Vera is waiting tables and heading toward an uncertain future. Then an odd man shows up at her workplace, insisting that she was once Queen Guinevere of Camelot and that her lost memories hold the key to changing both the past and present. After jumping through a magic portal, Vera is not prepared for what she finds. If Vera is truly destined to save Camelot, she’ll have to trust her instincts—and the king will have to trust her.
A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Cheating Death by Maxie Dara (mystery)
Ever since Nora Bird’s parents died when she was six, she’s been obsessed with avoiding risk. What better way to learn how to cheat death than joining S.C.Y.T.H.E., the company that employs the nation’s grim reapers? One day, a file crosses Nora’s desk with her twin brother’s name on it. Nora steals the file and flees to her brother’s house to save him. But someone is determined to take Charlie out, and Nora will have to use everything she’s learned about death to discover the culprit.
The Library of Fates by Margot Harrison (romance)
The Library of Fates was designed to show you who you are—and who you could become. For Eleanor, the library offers a world where everything makes sense. She’s spent most of her life there as an apprentice to the librarian. But when her mentor dies in a freak accident and a rare book—which can predict someone’s future—goes missing, along with the secrets written inside, Eleanor is pulled into a quest to locate it with the librarian’s estranged son, Daniel, who she once loved.
Weekend on Allyson Island by Susannah B. Lewis (adult fiction)
Moira Allyson is going all out for her 50th birthday. She’ll serve the best food and book the best entertainment for a small group of the most important women in her life, all to distract from her lonely reality. Everything is perfect—until it’s not. Each woman comes with her own well-wishes and her own secret sorrow. But weekends spent with friends have a way of bringing hidden things to the surface.
The Day I Lost You by Ruth Mancini (thriller)
Lauren suffered an unimaginable loss, but at last she has found a home in a pretty seaside town in Spain. Hope has everything: an interesting career, an attractive husband, and the baby she always longed for—Sam. But Sam has gone missing. When the police tell her that a woman has been found in Spain with a child matching Sam’s description, Hope thinks her nightmare might be ending. But Lauren is insisting Sam is her baby. She even has the passport and birth certificate to prove it. What really happened to baby Sam? And who still has secrets to hide?