Weller Public Library

212 Main Street, Waitsburg

Hours: Mon. and Thurs. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. (closed noon -1 p.m.)

Sat. 10 a.m. - noon

All That's Bright and Gone by Eliza Nellums

All That's Bright and Gone is both a murder mystery and a coming-of-age story and at the center of both is a precocious 6-year old, Aoife (pronounced EE-fa). The men in blue coats have taken Aoife's mom to hospital and the most confusing part for Aoife is that while they were doing it, her mom was talking to her brother Theo as though he were still alive. Now, her Uncle Donny has come to stay in her house to take care of her, but even with a functioning adult at home, Aoife still feels in the dark and neglected, knowing there is much she is not being told. - Amazon.com

A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci

"A Minute to Midnight is the next gripping instalment in Special Agent Atlee Pine's search for the truth from one of the world's most favourite thriller writers, David Baldacci.

'My sister was abducted from here nearly thirty years ago. The person who took her was never found. And neither was she. Her abductor nearly killed me. So I'm back here now trying to find the truth." - panmacmillan.com

The Guardians by John Grisham

"In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's." - fantasticfiction.com

Dayton Memorial Library

111 S. 3rd Street, Dayton, WA

Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 10 a.m.– 5 p.m.

Tuesday and Thursday: Noon – 8 p.m.

Saturday: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson

"Noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself. Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."  - booktable.net

The Testaments: The Handmaid's Tale #2 by Margaret Atwood

"More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia.  Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways." - overdrive.com

The Guardians - John Grisham

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