We hope you enjoy our latest VPL Newsletter; to subscribe, email library@vintonia.gov. See you at the library!

• 'Counting Miracles' by Nicholas Sparks
• 'Leave No Trace' by Mindy Mejia
• 'The Briar Club' by Kate Quinn (duplicate copy)
• 'Bad Liar' by Tami Hoag
• 'We Used to Live Here' by Marcus Kliewer
• 'To Catch A Storm' by Mindy Mejia

New Large Type Fiction

• 'Beyond Ivy Walls' by Rachel Fordham
• 'The Briar Club' by Kate Quinn
• 'Angel of Vengeance' by Preston & Child
• 'Counting Miracles' by Nicholas Sparks

I'm currently reading 'One Perfect Couple' by Ruth Ware. Imagine if Agatha Christie wrote a fictional season of 'The Bachelorette.' Five couples are invited to a remote island as part of a reality tv show with vague details about the premise for the show. They know there will be one individual winner; however, it's unclear whether the prize is monetary or not.

The first few chapters are separated by 'Mayday' calls on a radio, hinting that tragedy strikes. It's fast-paced and light, with plenty of mysterious character backstories to keep me hooked. Check it out if you're looking for a tropical thriller. It currently has 3.68/5 stars on goodreads.com.

Happy reading!
~Kelly

Famous Sorcerer Solomon is mysteriously but gruesomely murdered in his home workshop. His teenage apprentice, Tabatha Zeng, had just seen him alive and well the previous evening during her lesson. Unfortunately, the local detective immediately suspects Tabatha, as well as the sorcerer's youngest son, Callum. Desperate to prove her innocence, Tabatha teams up with the youngest Solomon boy in order to find the true killer and clear their names once and for all. However, the suspect list contains some of the most famous and powerful magic wielders of the Solomon family. Tabatha also has to deal with the nagging question: how much can she really trust Callum Solomon when everyone close to the slain sorcerer has a motive? 9/10, would recommend. I really enjoyed the book but felt it was a little anticlimactic.

~Micah

VPL Note: We have 'The Cutting Season' available in large type, and 'Bluebird, Bluebird' and 'Heaven, My Home' available in regular type. Locke's third book in the Highway 59 trilogy, 'Guide Me Home' is on order and will be available soon.

Attica Locke is a NY Times best-selling author whose sixth novel Guide Me Home, the finale of her Edgar-Award winning Highway 59 trilogy, joins Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home in September 2024. She is also the author of Pleasantville, winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and long-listed for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction; The Cutting Season, winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence; and her debut Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award, as well as a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was short-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. A former fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmaker’s Lab, Locke is also a screenwriter and TV producer, with credits that include Empire, When They See Us and the Emmy-nominated Little Fires Everywhere, for which she won an NAACP Image award for television writing. She co-created and executive produced an adaptation of her sister Tembi Locke’s memoir From Scratch for Netflix. She is currently in a multi-year development deal with Universal Television, working on adaptation of her Highway 59 series, among other shows. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.

Source: https://www.atticalocke.com/about

Photo credit: Mel Melcon, Los Angeles Times

Join us at Vinton's Celebration Park for lunch with the library staff! Bring a sack lunch and join us in the gazebo for a casual conversation about books; we’ll have a limited number of adult fiction titles available for checkout. We'll meet every Monday in September and October, beginning September 9th, from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. Everyone is welcome. Scheduling subject to staff availability and the weather.

• Monday, September 23rd
• Monday, September 30th
• Monday, October 7th
• Monday, October 14th

Test your puzzle-solving skills this October at our library's escape room! Teams of 2-6 people, ages 8 and up, spend an hour trying to 'escape' by looking for clues and solving puzzles. Call 319-472-4208 to reserve your spot today!

Our latest Beanstack reading challenge starts October 1st! Sign up today in the Beanstack app; we have challenges for all ages!

On the evening of September 10th we had the pleasure of hearing about Shelby Van Weelden's recent experience in the 2024 Mongol Derby, a 10-day horse race across Mongolia. Thank you, Shelby, for sharing your experience at our library!

Here is a list of several books in our physical collection related to 9/11. This list is not exhaustive but rather a brief starting point covering several sections of our collection. More titles are available digitally through Libby and Hoopla.

Connie and Kelly had fun today on the Vinton Guild of Fine Arts Scavenger Hunt! We're completing the hunt this Fall for some fun team-building! #librarylife

New mystery series added to our collection this week: The Cameron Winter Mystery series by Andrew Klavan. The fourth book in the series is scheduled for release soon. Happy reading!

This guy has read 700 books, way to go!

Someone was happy to be at the library! High five for reading 700 books.

Congrats to this library friend who just finished reading 100 books!

Here are a few rules from our library's circulation policy; happy reading!

Hours of Operation:

Mondays: 9a-5p

Tuesdays: 9a-8p

Wednesdays: 9a-5p

Thursdays: 9a-8p

Fridays: 7a-4p

Saturdays: 9a-Noon

Sundays: Closed

Copy services: $0.20 per black and white, $0.25 per color

Fax services: $1.00 for 1-2 pages, $2.00 for 3+ pages

Notary services: No charge, call 319-472-4208 for availability

Free Wifi

Boardroom available at no charge; reservations required

Email: library@vintonia.gov
Website: vinton.lib.ia.us
Location: 510 2nd Avenue, Vinton, IA, USA
Phone: (319) 472-4208
Facebook: facebook.com/heartofvinton