Book Notes

Young Writers Group

Monthly // Third Thurs

Thurs, Mar 19 @ 6:00 pm

For Teens // Bring your writing projects to work on (books, stories, poetry, anything!), or just come for writing prompts, discussions, and fun!

The Writer

by James Patterson 

Mystery PATTERSON 
Also in Large Print

NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West? In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She’s covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Every book in the apartment’s floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow.  "This is you?" Shaw asks the woman. "You're a writer?" Only one person knows the ending to this story. Is it the victim or the killer? 

The Mystery Writer

by Sulari Gentill 

Mystery GENTILL

When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few challenges. Will her brother support her ambition or send her back to finish her degree? What will her parents say when they learn of her decision? Does she even have what it takes to be a successful writer? 

Writers and Liars

by Carol Goodman 

Large Print GOODMAN 

Fifteen years ago, Maia Gold attended a prestigious, and very exclusive, writers retreat hosted by billionaire Argos Alexander on the Greek island of Eris. It’s where she wrote her first book, the one that should have launched a brilliant career. But something dark happened on that island, a betrayal that has hung over Maia ever since. 

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Seed Starting Workshop

with Carrie Knutson (Agriculture & Natural Resources, Horticulture | NDSU Extension)

Thurs, Mar 12 @ 6:00 pm

Ready to start your vegetable or flower garden the sustainable way? Join us for a hands-on seed starting workshop focused on simple, eco-friendly methods you can use at home. Participants will create their own starter pots during the workshop and plant seeds to take home, everything you make goes with you! 

Essential Guide to Ecological Gardening

by the American Horticultural Society 

635 AMERICAN 2026 

Shares insight on the many ways gardeners can embrace nature for a healthier, more vibrant home landscape. How it is about making thoughtful decisions in your garden each and every day, knowing they impact the millions of plants and animals living there and the greater environment beyond.   

The Water-Smart Garden

by Noelle Johnson 

635.0486 JOHNSON 

As freshwater shortages increasingly strike regions around the globe, it’s more important than ever to employ water-conserving practices in the garden. Whether your landscape is filled with shrubs and perennials or fruits and vegetables, in The Water-Smart Garden, you’ll learn dozens of techniques to limit water use while growing a gorgeous and thriving garden. 

Microfarms

by Jean Martin Fortier 

631.584 FORTIER 2025 

A guide to setting up and running profitable small-scale vegetable farms using organic, low-tech, and highly intensive production methods grounded in ecological principles. 

Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening

by the American Horticultural Society   

635.932 AMERICAN 2025 

A comprehensive and modern guide to cultivating and caring for perennial plants, including many perennials native to North America. Whether you grow in full sun or a shady corner, in a small space or a large landscape, this insight and guidance will ensure you’ll have a thriving, bloom-filled garden.   

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Simple Book Binding

Tues, Mar 3 @ 6:00 pm

Ages 10+ // Learn about Japanese stab binding and bind your own small sketchbook. All supplies provided.

Book Lovers

by Emily Henry

HENRY 

Cutthroat literary agent Nora Stephens is dragged to a small town for a vacation, only to repeatedly run into Charlie Lastra, a brooding editor she knows from the city. While trying to avoid the clichés of a romantic comedy, they instead find themselves falling for each other, forcing them to rewrite their own life stories.   

Book Scavenger

by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman  

Junior BERTMAN 

For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco is that it's the home city of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, book publisher and creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger. Upon her arrival, however, Emily learns that Griswold has been attacked and is now in a coma, and no one knows anything about the epic new game he had been poised to launch.

Murder Book

by Thomas Perry

Mystery PERRY 

When a sudden crime wave hits several small midwestern towns, the U.S. Attorney for the region calls on Harry Duncan to investigate. An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Duncan is reluctant to go up against a widespread criminal organization, but the attorney in question is Ellen Leicester, the wife who left him fifteen years earlier, and to her, he can't say no. 

The Graveyard Book

by Neil Gaiman

Junior GAIMAN 

Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead.  But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack, who has already killed Bod’s family. 

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