September - October 2022
 Available Formats: Paperback and BRIDGES eBook
Poison Study
by Maria V. Snyder

About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. As a food taster, she'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made.
Available Formats: Hardcover, BRIDGES eBook and BRIDGES Audiobook
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama 
by Bob Odenkirk

The Emmy-winning star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul; Bob Odenkirk discusses his early career as a cult comedy writer, as well as his reinvention as an action star at age 50. 
Available Formats: Hardcover, Large print, BRIDGES eBook and BRIDGES Audiobook
The Bone Code
by Kathy Reichs

When forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan discovers a link between two murder victims and the spread of a human flesh-eating contagion, she soon recognizes that someone will do anything to protect a dark secret.
Available Formats: Hardcover, BRIDGES eBook and BRIDGES Audiobook
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey

Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
Available Formats: Hardcover, Large print, CD, BRIDGES eBook and BRIDGES Audiobook
The Boardwalk Bookshop
by Susan Mallery

Three best friends brought together by chance, bookshop owners Bree, Mikki and Ashley each get a chance for a new beginning and a love to last a lifetime when they fight for what they really want. 
Available Formats:  Hardcover, Large print, CD, BRIDGES eBook and BRIDGES Audiobook
Fear Thy Neighbor
by Fern Michaels

Allison Marshall believes shes found the ideal place to settle down on Palmetto Island, but soon discovers that the locals have a secret, and once she discovers what it is, she must either stay and join them or risk escaping.
Available Formats: Hardcover, BRIDGES eBook and BRIDGES Audiobook
The Mummy Case
by Elizabeth Peters

A hardcover edition of an early Amelia Peabody tale finds the Victorian Egyptologist's irascible archaeologist husband, Emerson, denied a coveted dig for a less-favorable site that proves more significant when an antiquities dealer is subsequently murdered.
Available Formats: Hardcover, CD and BRIDGES eBook
The Divide
by Nicholas Evans

When a murder suspect's body is found frozen in the ice of a remote mountain creek, the subsequent investigation takes the police from the streets of New York to the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains and poses unsettling questions about how a promising young woman from a loving family could engage in acts of killing and ecoterrorism.
Available Formats:  Hardcover, BRIDGES eBook and BRIDGES Audiobook
Black Cake
by Charmaine Wilkerson

Two estranged siblings try to reclaim the closeness they once shared while trying to piece together their late mothers life story and fulfill her last request of sharing a traditional Caribbean black cake when the time is right.

Upcoming Book Discussions
 
 
September 26, 2022
6:30pm at the Library
Book Discussion:
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
 
October 24, 2022
6:30pm at the Library
Book Discussion:
Educated
by Tara Westover
 
Multiple copies are made available at the library for upcoming selections. Contact the library for
more information.
 
 
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805 1st St East
Independence, Iowa 50644
319-334-2470
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