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Book Jacket   Anna Finch and the Hired Gun
Kathleen Y'Barbo

Despite her fathers attempts to marry her off, Anna Finch dreams of becoming a reporter. A chance encounter with legendary gunslinger Doc Holliday gives her the opportunity of a lifetime, but Pinkerto...read more »

Book Jacket   Beautiful malice : a novel
Rebecca James

To escape the media attention generated by her sister's murder, a grieving seventeen-year-old Australian girl moves away and meets a vibrant new friend who harbors a dangerous secret.

Book Jacket   Becoming Kate
Dixie Owens
Book Jacket   Big Nate : in a class by himself
Lincoln Peirce

Supremely confident middle-school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.

Book Jacket   Colorado Lace : The Long Road Home
Rachel Druten

What will it take for three strong and determined women to see that love is close to home? Will the female medical student be dazzled by new city friends or find true love back home? Will the abused w...read more »

Book Jacket   Courting Morrow Little : a novel
Laura Frantz

Even though several men vie for her attentions, Morrow Little, whose family was torn apart by raiding Shawnee warriors years earlier, finds herself inexplicably drawn to a forbidden love that both ter...read more »

Book Jacket   Damaged : a Maggie O'Dell novel
Alex Kava

When the Coast Guard finds a murdered body in the Gulf of Mexico while preparing for a Category 5 hurricane, Special Agent Maggie O'Dell places herself in the path of the deadly storm to track dow...read more »

Book Jacket   The devil amongst the lawyers : a ballad novel
Sharyn McCrumb

In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determin...read more »

Book Jacket   Doctor in Petticoats
Mary Connealy

Beloved author of humorous western romances, Mary Connealy begins a new series with a bang when an idealistic nurse locks horns with an embittered doctor.

Book Jacket   Fly away home : a novel
Jennifer Weiner
Book Jacket   Hero at large
Janet Evanovich

Sexy Ken Callahan meets single mother and former world-class ice skater Chris Nelson when he helps her after her car breaks down, and although countless disasters follow, he keeps trying to win her he...read more »

Book Jacket   Hurricanes in paradise
Denise Hildreth
Book Jacket   The island : a novel
Elin Hilderbrand

After her daughter, Chess, breaks off an engagement and her fianc� subsequently dies in a rock-climbing accident, divorc�e Birdie Cousins encourages her younger daughter, Tate, and her sister, India,...read more »

Book Jacket   The lion : a novel
Nelson DeMille

In a sequel to the best-selling thriller The Lion's Game, Libyan terrorist Asad Khalil, known as "The Lion," returns to the U.S. to take care of unfinished business, and the only man who...read more »

Book Jacket   Minnesota Moonlight : Walk With Me
Becky Melby

How will three modern Minnesota women cope when asked to concede their doubts and learn to trust? Can the man April blames for her sisters death help her fulfill a dream list? When Saras ex-husband re...read more »

Book Jacket   Morning for Dove
Martha Rogers
Book Jacket   The narrow path
Gail Sattler

Miranda, a modern woman who reads the Bible on her cell phone, begins to work with an Old Order Mennonite community and meets a man who will change her life.

Book Jacket   The Overton Window
Glenn Beck

After a terrorist attack shakes the country to its core, public relations executive Noah Gardner and mailroom worker Molly Ross must expose a conspiracy by the powers that be to radically transform Am...read more »

Book Jacket   The passage : a novel
Justin Cronin

A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop.

Adult Book Club

Come and join in on a wonderful monthly discussion of books. Each month we’ll select a popular title for discussion. The selections consists of different genres. There are no fees or cost for membership, and the library provides snacks and drinks. If you are interested in joining, please come in and pick up the current selection. The meetings are held at the main library in the meeting room the third Thursday of each month at 6:00p.m.

Current Book Club Selection
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  • Title: Between Sisters
  • Author: Kristin Hannah
  • Description: With her wedding day approaching, Claire Cavenaugh prepares to confront her estranged older sister and self-absorbed mother after more than twenty years apart and find out how to transform themselves into a family.
  • Next Meeting: 08/19/2010 06:00 P.M.

Coming Soon [Kentucky Libraries Unbound]

Kentucky Libraries Unbound The Martin County Public Library would like to announce a new service that will be available soon. Patrons will have access to many types of downloadable media such as audio books, e-books, music and videos. All it takes to access Kentucky Libraries Unbound is a valid library card and pin. Contact the library for details.

Price reduction for the New Year

To make the library a more inviting place. The Board of Trustees has approved the following changes at the libraries. Library fines will be reduced from 25 cents per day per book to 10 cents per day. The fine per video is reduced from $2 per day to 50 cents per day. Copies are reduced from 25 cents per page to 10 cents per page. The replacement fee for a lost or damaged library card has been reduced from $5 to $2. The new rates will take effect the first of January.

Computer Learning Program

Public Access Computer Martin County Public Library and Martin County Adult Education are proud to announce we will be hosting free basic computer classes, designed for you patrons to work on what you need at your own pace. We have up-to-date computer equipment and a talented teacher, so you can feel confident you will be receiving the best training possible. Donnie Osborn will be teaching the classes at Martin County Public Library starting at 10:30 A.M. every Wednesday and at Rufus Reed Public Library at 4:30 P.M. every Thursday. It is our mission to help train our patrons in the information technology skills you need. If you are interested in attending the classes, please contact us for details.