By Karen Kelly | Special to the Times Vedette
Author Event for tweens and teens
Iowa sportscaster and hit author Scott Reister will be appearing at the MJB Library on Wednesday, July 31 at 4:30 p.m. This event is open to all ages but especially is geared to upper elementary through early high school patrons.
Scott Reister’s book is entitled “Baseball Spy” and is a top new release on Amazon. An adrenaline-packed adventure, the book features 14-year-old Zane Mitchell who finds his mom missing and a mysterious Federal Agent at his door when he returns home from a tough baseball game with his new team. Zane discovers one of his teammates is a hacker who is trying to expose a government secret. Racing against the clock, Zane plays a deadly game of cat and mouse while trying to save his family and protect national secrets.
Reister’s interactive program is especially appealing to young sports fans. Attendees are encouraged to bring their ball gloves. Reister will discuss what the book is about and how he came up with the idea. He also shares hoops he had to jump through to get the book published. Workshop participants will also have an activity related to spies and/or baseball.
This thriller is available for check out at the MJB Library. Following Scott Reister’s program, autographed copies may be purchased from the author for $16. Sports fans and spy enthusiasts will not want to miss this captivating program.
Magic Show
Magic fans of all ages need to mark their calendars for Wednesday, Aug. 7 at 3:30 p.m. Our library will be hosting an exciting magic show from the same people who presented the Absolute Science Foam Show.
Between the Covers
Books are ready to be picked up for the August book club meeting. The August book will be “The Villa” by Rachel Hawkins. Childhood friends who drifted apart as adults, Emily and Chess reconnect and decide to take a girls’ trip to Italy. The two stay at an Italian villa with a notorious past. Rented in the summer of 1974 to a rock star and his entourage, the rock star sets in motion a chain of events resulting in one guest writing a platinum album, another writing one of the greatest horror novels of all time, and a third brutally murdered. Emily begins to dig into the villa’s past and the events surrounding the murder. As she gets closer to the truth, Emily senses tension between herself and Chess. Secrets are revealed. Will the summer end in another brutal murder?
This book is inspired by Fleetwood Mac, the Manson murders and the summer that Percy and Mary Shelly (author of “Frankenstein”) spent at a Lake Geneva Castle with Lord Byron.
Book club will meet at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 13.
Cookbook Club
Cookbook Club will meet Thursday, Aug. 15 at 6:30 p.m. to share dishes from “The Farm Made Cookbook: Traditional Recipes from America’s Farm.” Stop in and select a recipe that you would like to share at the meeting on Aug. 15.
Adult Programs
Cribbage Club will meet each Monday morning from 9-11 a.m. in the Taylor meeting room. Bridge Club will meet every Wednesday morning from 9-11 a.m. in the Taylor meeting room. Card Making Club meets the third Thursday of each month also in the Taylor meeting room from 9-11 a.m. The August Card Making Club will be Aug. 15. A reminder that all materials are provided for a $5 fee.
New Nonfiction
“The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Leta McCollough Seletzky tells the true story of her father’s life as a spy set deep in the Jim Crow South during the Civil Rights Movement. In the iconic photo of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, the author’s father is the man kneeling next to King, trying to stop the bleeding. “The Kneeling Man” is the result of the author’s research into her father’s past as a spy who went on to have a career in the CIA. This captivating story is both a spy thriller and a portrait of the author’s family. This book is available for check out at the MJB Library.