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14 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | June 2017 | I have read some great books lately! Have you checked out the new books residents have donated? They are flying off the shelves. So many have been donated we are back up to speed now. May was Mother's Day. Did you receive a new book? Be sure to donate it after you finish reading it. The magazines needed at this time are dated April, May and June. We are still running empty most of the time so please bring your magazines to the library. Please return the ones you took to read as well. A large percentage of magazines borrowed are not returned. Thank you for your cooperation. We are so pleased to have many National Geographic magazines at this time! Thank you for returning them. Our hardbound books are getting full again with the recent donations. We keep the fiction hardbound books from 2006 and up. We don't have a date on the non-fiction books. History is important as well as the biographies. If you haven't looked at our non-fiction lately, take a minute to see what's available. The library committee constantly brainstorms ways to keep our library at its best. We'll keep you posted on the solutions we come up with. Our paperback books have plenty of room now that the accepted dates are from 2012 and up. That is still five years displayed. The shelves wax and wane constantly. Sometimes it's hard to squeeze a book in and then we'll look empty! If you haven't received a book lately, buy yourself a 2016 paperback and donate it! Are you enjoying the bookmarks that we made available for anyone to take? Most of us have many bookmarks at home. I have so many that were presents, why not make extras available for our residents? If you don't have one please take one home. Have extras? Bring them up for our cute container. We tried setting up an area for a "Classic" book section. But, we still only have one book. We had a beautiful section for the Classics a few years ago. Shogun was checked out all the time as well as Texas by Michener, Hawaii, and probably eight more. They were checked out but never returned. Maybe you have one or two you can donate! Our beautiful middle aged book author, Lynne Spreen, has agreed to have a book signing in September, sponsored by the Library Committee. We'll keep you up to date on when and where. You will so enjoy her! And, there will be cookies! Committee member Char read Heartbreak Hotel by Jonathan Kellerman For fans of Jonathan Kellerman, this is his thirty second mystery in the Alex Delaware series since 1985. At three weeks shy of 100 years old, Thalia Mars is not the kind of patient that child psychologist Alex Delaware normally treats. But she convinces him to meet her at the luxury hotel where she lives. She asks him about guilt, patterns of criminal behavior, and victim selection. When Alex asks why she is interested in such morbid subjects, she says she will tell all at their next meeting. But when he shows up the next morning, Thalia is dead in her room. Not surprising for a nearly 100-year- old woman. However, an observant police officer notices details that lead him to suspect that her death was not from natural causes. Now Alex and homicide detective Milo Sturgis must look into the long life of this fascinating but elusive woman, in a baffling investigation. Thalia is not an ordinary victim. She harbored nearly a century of secrets and her life and death draw those around her into more violence. Until next month… stay out of trouble and read a book! Library Committee

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