Contributed by Leslie Randall, Glenwood Public Library

There is still plenty of room at our Story Time held each Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Children ages 3-5 enjoy a variety of books and crafts. This program is free, and is a fun introduction to the library.

Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wis., has a hobby. When she’s not tending the store, she’s hunting cryptids, creatures whose existence is rumored but never proven to be real. It’s a hobby that cost her parents their lives but one she’ll never give up on. So when a number of bodies turn up on the shores of Lake Michigan with injuries that look like bites from a giant unknown animal, police chief Jon Flanders turns to Morgan for help. A skeptic at heart, Morgan can’t turn down the opportunity to find proof of an entity whose existence she can’t rule out. Check out “A Death in Door County,” by Annelise Ryan.

Jane MacGuire is enjoying a period of domestic bliss as she focuses on her art and her partner, Seth Caleb, uses his unique abilities as an agent for the M16 intelligence service. But when Seth crosses crime lord Hugh Bohdan, he incurs the wrath of one of the world’s most powerful criminal empires, one whose tentacles reach across the globe and even to the idyllic Scottish retreat where Jane is working. Jane seems to have found a perfect life until a ruthless madman threatens to destroy it all in “Captive,” by Iris Johansen.

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in the spellbinding novel about a 17-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher for that world or ours in “Fairy Tale.”

In the picture book section we have “The Blanket Where Violet Sits.” “This is a place where Violet sits, eating a sandwich, an apple, and chips.”  Violet and her family venture to a local park to partake in some late-night stargazing. Telescope and space book in tow, Violet is ready to explore and discover the night sky for herself, wherever that may lead.