The Friends of the Library will be at Rickels Park on Thursday, July 4 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. with a Patriotic Photo Backdrop. Bring your family and friends dressed in red, white and blue—we’ll provide the backdrop and you can use your camera or phone to take photos of your family and loved ones. Donations are appreciated, but not required.
On Saturday, July 6, we will be at the Spur Show Barn sponsoring the Homemade Ice Cream Contest. The entry fee is $10. Judging fee is $1.00 a taste and after the judging the ice cream will be sold for $3 per cup. All proceeds go to the Dickens County Spur Public Library. Have your entries in by 6:30 p.m. The judging begins at 7:00 p.m., with the announcement of the winners at 8:00 p.m. There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places.
We have some new books on our shelves thanks to the Friends of the Library and some individual donations. From Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series we have “The Secret.” In 1992 all across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army’s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy. But office politics isn’t Reacher’s thing. Three questions quickly emerge: Who’s with him, who’s against him, and will the justice he dispenses be the official kind, or his own kind?
From New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover we have “Heart Bones.” Moving, passionate and unforgettable, Colleen Hoover’s novel follows two young adults from completely different backgrounds embarking on a tentative romance, unaware of what the future holds .After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. But two months before she’s finally free to change her life for the better, an unexpected death leaves her homeless and forced to spend the remainder of her summer in Texas with a father she barely knows. Devastated and anxious for the summer to go by quickly, Beyah has no time or patience for Samson, the wealthy, brooding guy next door. Yet, the connection between them is too intense to ignore. But with their upcoming futures sending them to opposite ends of the country, the two decide to maintain only a casual summer fling. Too bad neither has any idea that a rip current is about to drag both their hearts out to sea.
Check it all out at the library.
Donnice Carruth is director of the Dickens County-Spur Library, in Spur.
