Fiction June Bug by Chris Fabry — June Bug lives an itinerant, RV life with her father, and never questions why until the day she sees her face on a missing child poster at Wal-Mart. Then suddenly she questions everything. Rich Boy by Sharon Pomerantz — In 1965, Robert Visniak sets off to leave his [...]
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Starting in August, Meeteetse Branch Library will host “Icons,” a reading and discussion series featuring biographies of American cultural icons. The discussion group meets at 2 p.m. August 25, September 22, October 27 and December 1 at the library and is free and open to the public. To learn more, please call the library at [...]
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Fiction Snowbound by Blake Crouch — After his wife Rachel’s car is found with its window smashed in, Will Innis flees town with their daughter, fearing he’ll be blamed for Rachel’s mysterious disappearance. Five years later, an FBI agent tracks him down and tells him his wife isn’t the only one who disappeared — so [...]
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Fiction Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson — Rose grew up with an abusive father and is now married to an abusive man. From time to time, she reminisces about her high school boyfriend, who always promised he’d kill her father for her. Then a tarot reader tells her she has two choices — her husband’s [...]
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Wizard rock, a new type of music born in the present decade, will come to this area for the first time in a concert at the Park County Public Library in Cody on Thursday, July 1. Five bands make up the free three-hour concert that begins at 5:00 p.m. in Grizzly Hall. Sponsored by the [...]
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Wyoming native Jamie Lisa Forbes will talk about her debut novel, Unbroken, in which she portrays the struggles and extremes of ranch life. The free program begins at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 29 in Grizzly Hall at Park County Library, Cody. Forbes grew up on a high plains ranch on the Little Laramie River in [...]
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The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer — In this sequel to The Tourist, CIA secret operative Milo Weaver has been convinced, against his better instincts, to rejoin the force. His first assignment? The abduction and murder of a fifteen-year-old girl. Hook, Line & Sinister edited by T. Jefferson Parker — Stories of mystery and fishing [...]
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Fiction Lucid Intervals: A Stone Barrington Novel by Stuart Woods — The 18th novel featuring the wining, dining, womanizing yet charming New York City attorney. This Body of Death: An Inspector Lynley Novel by Elizabeth George — A mystery lover’s mystery, with a complex case that lures Inspector Lynley back from mourning his dead wife [...]
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Fiction Black Hills by Dan Simmons — As Custer is dying at his last stand, his spirit enters the body of a ten-year-old Lakota. Simmons’s latest novel moves forward and backward over the next eighty years of the boy’s life, as he grows older and watches the tremendous changes time and history have wrought. Saving [...]
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Split Image by Robert B. Parker — The last novel from the recently-deceased Parker. Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb — Eve Dallas’s latest adventures from best-seller Nora Roberts (writing as J.D. Robb). Able One by Ben Bova — It’s the near future, and the North Koreans have set off a nuclear explosion in space. [...]
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