The Longest Ride

The Longest Ride

by Nicholas Sparks

At the age of ninety-one, Ira Levinson is caught in a snow storm and ends up off the road in an embankment. In poor health and pretty banged up, he's not sure how long he will make it and then he sees his wife, who has been gone for 9 years, sitting in the passenger seat. Ira knows his wife is not really there, but his memories of her help to keep him focused and give him the will to survive.

Sophia Danko, a senior at Wake Forest, grudgingly attends a bull-riding event with her roommate. She is rescued from an ugly confrontation with her ex-boyfriend by a young cowboy named Luke. Even though they live in totally different worlds, Luke and Sophia find that they have more in common than they thought.

Even though these two couples live years apart, the author brings their stories together in a beautiful way.

George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved The American Revolution

George Washington's Secret Six:: The Spy Ring That Saved The American Revolution

By: Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger

George Washington knew he could not win the Revolutionary war without some strategical intelligence about the events occurring in the city of New York, a city that was under the rule of the British Military. This is a fascinating look at our history and about six men, known as the Culper Spy Ring, who were instrumental in the success of the Americans in their war against Britain. Secrecy was of the highest priority in order for these men to be successful and survive, they managed to be so secretive that it has taken hundreds of years to uncover their identity. One identity, thought to be a women, has yet to be discovered and we may never know who she was.

The authors did a great job in bringing a little piece of history alive.

Beehive Book Awards

Voting is on for the Beehive Book Awards! You can either come into the library and vote or go to our new website to vote. There are five different categories:  Young Adult, Children's Fiction, Picture Book,  Poetry and Informational.

The Nominees in the Young Adult are:

Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The False Prince by Jennifer A Nielsen
Legend by Marie Lu
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Ungifted by Gordon Korman
Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe by Shelley Coriell
Wrapped by Jennifer Bradbury

If you have read any of these books, we'd love to have you vote and let us know if you liked them.

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Touch and Go

Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner

Justin and Libby Denbe live in an immaculate brownstone in Boston's elite Back Bay neighborhood. They have the perfect marriage, the perfect family, amazing friends and a future to look forward too. Until they come home from a dinner out celebrating their anniversary to find intruders. Tess Leoni  has been hired by Justin's company to solve the mystery behind the Denbe family disappearance. The problem is there is very little evidence left behind. No ransom demand, no motive, just a pile of their personal possessions sitting on the kitchen table.

This story takes all kinds of twits and turns and just when you think you know the answers, the author throws in another twist. The only negative is the bad language that is interspersed throughout the book and is not necessary for the story line.

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Sweetness and the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Yes, this is a book written for grown ups and yes, the main character is 11 years old. Flavia deLuce has a passion for poison, the vocabulary of an adult, and a bicycle named Gladys. Her mother died climbing mountains in the Himalayas and her father, Colonel de Luce, is just about as distant, showing more interest in his stamp collection than his daughters. It's part of the whole English reluctance to show affection and keeping a stiff upper lip, or something like that...
But things get shaken up a bit when a dead blackbird shows up on the porch at Buckshaw (the old mansion where the de Luces live) with a penny stamp stuck to it's beak. The next morning Flavia finds a dead man in the cucumber patch - well, he's not dead yet, but expires with a final word: "Vale." But who was he, and more important, who killed him? Was it the Colonel who had secretly argued with the stranger the night before, or Dogger, the dependable but unstable gardener (who still suffers from his experiences in Japanese POW camps)? Maybe he died from eating a slice of Mrs. Mullet's horrible cream pie? Whoever it was, Flavia is determined to find out with the help of her chemistry knowledge and Gladys.

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The Fault In Our Stars

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

Sixteen year old Hazel Grace Lancaster has terminal lung cancer and is currently living on borrowed time. Hazel's mom is trying to encourage her to get a little bit more involved in life and convinces her to go to a cancer survivor group where she meets Augustus "Gus" Waters, whose leg was claimed by a malignant bone tumor.
This is a touching story of two teenagers that have to face more in their young lives than many of us will ever have to deal with.