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Our Mystery Book Club met this past Wednesday, April 17th and shared some great reads with titles that featured either "Girl" or "Woman" in the title. Here is a quick description of the books we talked about, plus  the opinion of the person who read it : The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen After a child on a tour group in Chinatown finds a severed hand, Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles are called to the scene where the rest of the body is found on a nearby rooftop. They find monkey hair on the body and discover that this crime is connected to another crime from nineteen years ago when a murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. Their first suspect, a martial arts master who's connected to the massacre now seems to be the target of someone, or something, relentlessly evil. The person who read this one called it a real page-turner and said that she couldn't put it down. It's different from the show Rizzoli & Isles, but in a...

April is National Letter Writing Month!  I hope you'll take the time to maybe write a letter or two to a far away family member or to an old friend. If you want ideas of what to write or who to write to, check out the Write_On campaign which challenges you to write handwritten letters. To celebrate, here is a short list of epistolary novels that you can find here at the La Quinta Library!  Note: If you're like me and didn't know of this term until like a few months ago, an epistolary novel is one that is made up of letters or includes any kind of documented communication between characters (ex: text messages, diary entries, etc). Happy Reading! Jade, Reference Librarian Epistolary Novels The Supernatural Enhancements - Edgar Cantero The End of the Sentence - Maria Dahvana Headley & Kat Howard The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows Lesley Castle - Jane Austen The Historian -...

April is National Poetry Month! Interested in reading more poetry? Then check out this list of resources so you can start reading or listening to more today. Email newsletters Poetry Foundation Poets.org (produced by the Academy of American Poets) Knopf Poetry: Poem-A-Day - every day throughout April, they'll send you a free poem. Podcasts -  The Slowdown - Listen to a poem everyday, read by current U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith! Poetry Foundation  - There are 10 different podcasts you can choose to listen to! We've heard VS is a really good one.  The New Yorker: Poetry Podcast Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People) Social Media And if you are on Instagram a lot, check out this list of Instagram poetry accounts to follow from Book Riot. And be sure to check out our Instagram account as we're posting 3 poems to our Stories every week this month. If you want to check out our poetry collection at the library, check out the 811 ...