– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
Regular Lied Lincoln Library Township hours are Monday-Thursday, 1:30-5:30 p.m., and Friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
“The Winter Orphans” is by Kristin Beck.
Southern France, 1942: Jewish refugees Ella and Hanni Rosenthal have fled Nazi Germany and find themselves with many other young refugees in a derelict castle overseen by the Swiss Red Cross. Swiss volunteers Anne-Marie Piguet and Rösli Näf are caretakers when Germany invades. The only way to protect the children is to escape via secret mountain paths through Nazi-occupied territory to the distant border. They realize that the risks of escape are staggering, but the lives of the children depend on them. This book is in regular print.
“Lavender Blue Murder” is A Tea Shop Mystery by Laura Childs. Theodosia Browning and Drayton Conneley are guests at a traditional English bird hunt. They hear gunshots, but one seems too close. Theodosia wanders into the neighbor’s lavender field and finds their host bleeding to death. His wife begs them to stay the night, but Theodosia awakens to find smoke in her room and the house on fire. Theodosia investigates and learns that their host’s daughter is missing. The host’s wife wants to find the suspect through a séance. How will Theodosia solve the mystery?
This book is in regular print.
“Vermilion Drift” is by William Kent Krueger. Cork O’Connor finds the remains of six murder victims inside an underground iron mine in Tamarack County, Minn. Five are connected to a string of disappearances nearly 50 years ago, but the sixth appears to be less than a week old. The gun associated with two of the deaths belongs to Cork. He searches for answers, but knows he must look into his own past and his father’s. New threats surface and Cork must look hard at the clues he has before more die. This book is in regular print.
“Before They Are Hanged” is the second novel in The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Superior Glokta can’t defend a city that is surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, allies can’t be trusted and his predecessor has disappeared. Northmen have come into Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla wants to drive them back, but his army can’t accomplish that task. Bayaz, the First of the Magi, is leading bold adventurers on a perilous mission. Ancient secrets will be uncovered.
Bloody battles will be won and lost. Bitter enemies will be forgiven – but not before they are hanged. This book is in regular print.
