Submit your reading minutes before the Spring into Reading Challenge ends
By Brittany Booth
Rosetown Librarian and Archivist
For anyone participating in the Spring into Reading Challenge hosted through Beanstack, don't forget to submit all your reading minutes, check off any completed challenges, and submit any tickets earned toward your prize of choice by May 31, when the challenge ends. Good luck to all participants. The summer reading challenges begin in July, so there will be even more chances to win great prizes.
"The Midnight Train" by Matt Haig (fantasy). No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there and give you the chance to relive the moments that meant most. For Wilbur, his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life, on his honeymoon in Venice, before he gave it all away. He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything.
"The Library After Dark" by Ande Pliego (mystery). Aria Stokes is finally feeling settled in New York, working as a bookseller and indulging her attraction to bookstore regular Jasper. He seems to already know her so well. As a surprise, Jasper takes her to an exclusive, after-dark tour of the Daedalus Library, known for its rumoured hauntings. But this place holds more dark secrets than she'd prefer Jasper to know. Secrets like how the last time she was there, she left a body behind. The Daedalus won't give her a chance to continue hiding from her past.
"The Shippers" by Katherine Center (romance). While at her sister's destination wedding on a cruise ship, Jojo Burton decides to woo the guy who was her first crush and convinces her childhood bestie, Cooper Watts, to be her wingman. Shipboard antics ensue as Jojo and Cooper fake flirt, slow dance, share a cabin, and finally, at last, figure it all out in the most beautiful way.
"The Divorce" by Freida McFadden (thriller). Naomi thought she had the perfect marriage until her husband leaves her and takes up with a 20-something. Naomi finds herself fixating on her husband's new girlfriend, and what begins as cynical curiosity soon twists into obsession, and then into something darker. As Naomi uncovers secrets she never imagined, she realizes her own life may be in danger.
"A Perfect Hand" by Ayelet Waldman (historical fiction). Miss Alice Lockey, daughter of a tenant farmer, has raised herself to the lofty status of lady's maid at Alderwick Park. Alice spends her days arranging Lady Jemima Alderwick's hair, laundering malodorous petticoats and sewing. But when a visiting valet named Charlie Wells catches her eye, Alice begins to understand the constraints of her position and concocts a ploy to arrange a romance between Lady Jemima and Charlie's employer in order to spend time with the object of her affection.