Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer: Award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an “important” (The Guardian) and moving chronicle that demands a new reckoning with both the island’s past and its relationship with the United States. Spanning more than five…
The Hard Parts by Okasana Masters: An inspirational and powerful memoir from the United States’s most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, The Hard Parts is Oksana Masters gripping account of overcoming extraordinary Chernobyl disaster–caused physical challenges to create a life that challenges everyone to push…
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulah: Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is…
Murder your Employer by Rupert Holmes: A devilish thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of murder where earnest students study how best to “delete” their…
Thanks to the Innovia Foundation, Whitman County Rural Libraries is thrilled to announce four stops of the Joshua J. Superstar Supershow! All-ages will be dazzled by the show's side-splitting comedy, nail-biting circus stunts, and tons of thrilling audience participation. Superstar…
Starting on July 1, all of our branches will be returning to their regular open hours! Whitman County Rural Libraries was thrilled to be able to temporarily expand service hours through our Digital Navigation Grant, but only through the end…
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafón: Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he…
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng: Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American…
The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelley: Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II. Discovering a web of terrible secrets, they must…
Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson: When her marriage ends after two miserable weeks, Marnie is understandably shocked. She’s even more astonished to find that she’s inherited a Brooklyn brownstone from her ex-husband's matchmaking great-aunt Blix, along with all her unfinished “projects”: the heartbroken, oddball friends and neighbors running from…