Callie’s latest assignment – go to Philadelphia and present an old family friend of Tom’s (her employer) with a check for $250,000.  Wendell Smythe heads a relief organization and needs immediate funds.  When Callie goes to his office, check in hand, she discovers him dead on the floor.  At Tom’s request, Callie moves into Smythe’s home and begins a murder investigation.  But it’s a dangerous place to be, for the family has secrets they would rather not have uncovered.

From the author of The Secret Life of Bees comes a second work that has been described as “a well-told tale about marriage, mystery – and mermaids”.

Jessie Aullivan is awakened by a shrilling phone late one night to horrifying news: her mother, who has never recovered from her husbnad Joe’s death 33 years earlier, has chopped off her own finger with a cleaver.

Frantic with worry and apprehensive at the thought of returning to the small island where she grew up in the shadow of her beloved father’s death, and her mother’s fanatical Catholicism. 42 year old Jessie gets on the next plane, leaving behind her psychiatrist husband, Hugh and college-age daughter, Dee. Confusing as the present may be, the past is rearing its head and Jessie, who has never understood why her mother is still distraught by Joe’s death, begins to suspect that she’s keeping a terrible secret.

Writing from the perspective of conflicted, discontented Jessie, Kidd achieves a bold intensity and complexity that wasn’t possible in her ealier book.

Come and enjoy the music and singing of the very talented Sharp Family Singers and then create ice cream sundaes with your  own family. 

This event is sponsored by Friends of the Linwood Library and proceeds from the ice cream social will benefit our new library at 19649 Linwood Road!

Crunch, Boof, Boing into the Amazon with Felicia Flash, wildlife photographer. A storm knocks our adventurer off course as she searches the levels of the Rainforest for its unusual inhabitants…like Rhinoceros Beetles, Hornbills, Boas and Golden Lion Tamarins. This interactive experience of puppet fun will be part of our Summer Reading programming for all ages.

A medley of puppets, stories and songs from renowned professional storyteller, Priscilla Howe, will feature Trixie in a shower cap!  Bring the whole family!