Contributed by Leslie Randall, Glenwood Public Library

We have many new books and magazines to enjoy during the cold, blustery winter ahead. 

Monday mornings aren’t supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie’s Bail Bonds to find the door locked, the coffeepot empty, and the usual box of Boston cream donuts absent. That’s because longtime reliable office manager Connie Rosolli hasn’t shown up. Stepanie’s first fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie’s abductor. As Stephanie gets closer to unraveling the reasons behind Connie’s kidnapping, Connie’s captor grows more threatening. Full of surprises, thrills and humor “Going Rogue” shows Janet Evanovich at her best.

LAPD Detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “White Whale,” a man responsible for the murder of an entire family in Michael Connelly’s new thriller “Desert Star.”

We have Reese Witherspoon’s new book club pick “Wrong Place Wrong Time” by Gillian McAllister. Late October, after midnight, you’re waiting for your 17-year-old son. He’s past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone. He’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it, your happy teenage son, he kills a stranger right there on the street outside your house. You don’t know who or why, you only know your son is now in custody, his future shattered. This clever tightly plotted story has you asking “How far would you go to save your child?”

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was just an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and it’s passions. As author Lucy  Worsley says, “She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern.” She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn’t do. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley’s biography “Agatha Christie” is not just of an internationally successful writer. It’s also the story of a person who became an astonishingly successful working woman, truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.

In the little one’s dept. we have the picture book “While you Sleep.” Breathtaking collage art and exquisite rhyming couplets showcase fantastical dreams as the natural world is prepared for a new day in this gentle bedtime book. As the day ends and a little girl is put to sleep by her mother, night-helper bunnies work their magic to tidy and polish the world. These helpers paint flowers, dust butterflies, and charge rainbows to make the world a beautiful place to wake up to.