School is back in session, and the Friends of the library—along with generous donations of both supplies and funding to buy the supplies—has helped over 60 students and a good number of teachers with school supplies. It’s the beginning of September, and hopefully we will have some cooler temperatures. This has been one of the hottest summers in a long time.
Coming up soon is the annual Lubbock Book Festival, hosted by Literacy Lubbock and presented by HEB. My daughter, Amanda, was very excited one of the featured authors is one of her favorites and asked if I would like to go with her to the event. I agreed to go with her and began doing some research on the festival and found that one of the attending authors is one of my favorite authors and also my favorite newspaper editor, Barbara Brannon. The event takes place November 3-5. I hope to bring back lots of new books for the library.
One of the latest books added to our shelves courtesy of funding from the Tocker Foundation is “Five Years After” from William R. Forstchen, the New York Times bestselling author of the One Second After series.
“Five Years After” is a near-future thriller in which protagonist John Matherson must contend with new threats to the fragile civilization that he helped rebuild. Five years after The Final Day, the Republic of New America has all but collapsed into regional powers and the world at large is struggling to remain stable as regional conflicts ravage the post EMP landscape. After several years attempting to lead a quiet life, Matherson receives the news that the president is dying from a possible assassination attempt, and is asked to step in to negotiate with what appears to be a new military power hidden in the wreckage of the world. Pulled back into the fray, John struggles to hold the tottering Republic together. Facing threats on multiple fronts, he races against time to stop another EMP attack on the former United States and China, putting years of progress at risk. With so much of his work under threat, John must find the strength within to start over, so that he can save the country and the people that he holds dear from even greater calamity.
From New York Times bestselling author and masterful storyteller John Hart we have “The Unwilling.” Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, it combines crime, suspense and searing glimpses into the human mind and soul.
We have added a few DVDs to our collection due to a generous donation. A few of the titles are “The Hills Have Eyes,” “Made of Honor,” and three volumes of the television series “The Beverly Hillbillies.”
Check it all out at the library.
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