Books to help forget the weather

The library has some great new fiction to make you forget the weather outside that seems to be very slowly creeping toward spring. So hop on down to the library and check out a book or two to keep your mind off the seasons.
Traveling to exotic locales is exciting. Escape the browns of early spring by traveling to China at the height of the Cultural Revolution and find that love and hate are the same the world over. Brothers by Da Chen is a wrenching tale of half brothers raised in very different worlds who fall in love with the same woman. The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz is set in Japan, beginning in 1959 when a young woman of a good but common family marries the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. She is the first nonaristocratic woman to enter the mysterious, almost hermetically sealed monarchy. Haruko is prized only for her ability to produce a male heir. Thirty years later she has the chance to help her son’s bride enter the same world she has lived in since that fateful day so long ago. A moving story of a world unlike any I have ever experienced.
Travel even farther back in time to the world of ancient Greece in Black Ships by Jo Graham. Gull is an oracle, chosen at the age of seven to be the voice of the Lady of the Dead. She is destined to counsel kings but when nine black ships appear, captained by an exiled Trojan prince, Gull must decide her own fate and where she will place her loyalties.
Two tales of horrific events that will leave you breathless and desperate to know the whole story include First Shot by Walter Sorrells and The Dead of Summer by Camilla Way. First Shot is told from David’s point of view as he seeks to find out what really happened the night his mother was murdered two years ago. Anita Naidu in The Dead of Summer tells what really happened in London’s notorious cave murders of 1986. After all, she is the sole witness.
Family Night and the monthly Friends of the Library booksale will occur Tuesday, April 8. The book sale will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Family Night will begin at 6:3 and will celebrate the world of poetry with action, crafts and stories. Come learn and be creative.
Library hours are Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday 10 to 6 and Saturday 10 to 3. Saturday hours will continue through May 17. The junior room is open Tuesdays from 10 to 8. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the junior room opens at 10 and closes at 6. Saturday the junior room is open from 10 to 3.
Thank you to the library patrons who donated food, and wiped out fines. The library donated 288 pounds of food to the Falls Hunger Coalition in support of March Foodshare.