PEA RIDGE — We have some great new books here at the library!

Here is a review of just a few:

◊“Port Mortuary” by Patricia Cornwell. In this latest book, Cornwell bring Scarpetta together with Marino, Benton and Lucy in the intimate way her fans loved in the early novels;

fans and critics alike welcome a voice they haven’t heard in years. The point of view is Scarpetta’s, and this is her story. Port Mortuary is literally a port for the dead - and the deaths are mounting, as a treacherous path from Scarpetta’s past merges with the high-tech highway on which she now finds herself. At the beginning of her professional career, Scarpettaaccepted a schlorship from the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt. She found herself involved in a gruesome case of vicious, racially-motivated hate crimes again two Americans in South Africa. Now, more than 20 years later, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base in a training fellowship to master the art of CT-assisted virtual autopsy.

Scarpetta soon encounters a case that can shut down the facility in which she is charged and ruin her professionally and personally.

People are dying in strange ways that indicate a conspiracy to cause mass casualties and Scarpetta finds herself fighting a cunning, cruel and invisible enemy.

◊“The Snow Globe” by Sheila Roberts - one of our many Christmas books. On a blustery after, Kylie Gray enters an antique shop and buys an enchancting snow globe.

The antique dealer tells her of a story behind the snow globe; that through the generations, the globe has somehow landed in the hands of a person in special need of a Christmas miracle.

◊“A Chesapeake Shores Christmas” by Sherryl Woods. After years apart, Mick and Megan O’Brien are finally ready to make it official - again. Most of their grown children couldn’t be happier about their rekindled love and impending marriage this holiday season. Only son Connor is a holdout.

Driven to become a divorce attorney after what he views as his mother’s abandonment of their family, Connor is not about to give his blessing to this reunion romance. The last thing Megan wants to do is hurt her family again. After all, is she really sure she and Mick can make it this time around? And when aunexpected delivery causes chaos, it seems only a miracle can reunite this family.

Of course, it is Christmas - the season of miracles.

I would like to invite everyone to the library’s Christmas Open House from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 16. There will be treat bags for the children and goodies and snacks for all. Hope you will all come!

As always, we have many great books here at the library. Come by and ‘check’ us out!

Library phone is 451-8442. Hours are 4-8 p.m.

Tuesday, 1-5 p.m. Wednesday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Thursday, closed for dinner from noon to 1 p.m.

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Editor’s note: Linda Whitaker is the librarian of the Pea Ridge Community Library. She can be reached at P.O. Box 9, Pea Ridge, AR 72751 or [email protected].

Opinion, Pages 4 on 12/08/2010