When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi, to investigate a series of brutal murders, they find at each crime scene an unexpected second body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. After meeting resistance...
Provence, 1347. Eleanore (Elea) Blanchet is a young midwife and herbalist with remarkable skills. But as she learned the day her mother died; the most dangerous thing a woman can do is draw attention to herself. She attends patients in her home city of Avignon, spends...
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of...
Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade. Featuring gorgeous orange sprayed edges! A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could...
An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead...
I read this book a couple years ago, as we were coming out of the pandemic. It had been a long couple years for me, when my son purchased this book and told me it was a “must read.” It did not look like my typical read and I was hesitant, but I found this book to be...
Summary A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. An...
Greetings from the library! My name is Angela and I am the new Adult Services librarian. There are a lot of exciting things in the works at the library. Several new programs are starting up in October. Here is what is in the works right now. The 2nd and 4th Thursdays...
Craft and Vendor Sale Registration We still have a few stalls available for the sale, so we have decided to extend registration through July 5 at the start of set-up (2:00pm.) The Friends of the Augusta Library has scheduled their used book sale for Friday, July 5 and...
The library is seeking individuals interested in shaping the future of the library. Planning committee members will be able to attend a minimum of 4 meetings over the next 6 months. Members will use library statistics and trends to determine the objectives of a new...
