The weather might have made it difficult to get to the library lately, but there’s still plenty of material online to keep you busy even in the worst of weather. Remember, you can always borrow audiobooks, eBooks, comics, movies, TV, magazines, or music so long as you have your library card and a screen!
Now, on to what’s happening in the coming week.
Rep. Jenn Hill is going to be holding an open meet & greet on at 10:30 a.m. on January 20, 2024. This meeting is open to the public. This is a forum where residents are welcome to voice their concerns so be ready with your questions once the informational portion of the meeting is over. Coffee will be served.
Then on January 23, 2024 be ready to discuss Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey as part of Alger Reads. The book club meets at 6:00 p.m. each month on the fourth Tuesday. Finally, on January 25, 2024 the long-awaited Beatnik Café will take place between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m.. This will be a regular event every fourth Thursday featuring coffee, tea, and poetry. Come prepared to share a piece of poetry or prose! NEW BOOK: Goodbye Girl: A Jack Swyteck Novel by James Grippando.
“This is the eighteenth Swyteck novel since The Pardon (1994), and it’s just as good as the rest. Grippando keeps coming up with complex and timely cases, and this one is firstrate.” — Booklist A contentious intellectual piracy case leads to an unsolved murder, and Jack Swyteck’s client— a pop music icon—is the accused killer.
Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that won’t stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck. His latest client, Imani Nichols, is a Grammy-winning popstar whose career has skyrocketed. Despite her success, she’s the most underpaid superstar on the planet because of an onerous record contract she signed as a teenager with her now ex-husband Shaky Nichols, who has made himself rich off her royalties.
Preferring to see thieves profit from her music than let her ex-husband pocket one more dime, Imani takes to social media and tells her millions of fans to “go pirate” and download her music illegally. Her hardball tactic leads to scorched-earth litigation, and now she needs Jack’s help.
The case takes a deadly turn when salacious allegations of infidelity send Imani and Shaky down a path of mutual assured destruction, each implicating the other in the unsolved murder of Imani’s extra-marital lover twelve years ago. Tyler McCormick died of asphyxiation, and his body was found in Biscayne Bay, chained to a piling with the words “goodbye girl” impressed on his chest. Despite their fierce denials, Imani and Shakey are both indicted for murder, leading to a sensational trial that exposes shocking secrets about their failed marriage, their cut-throat business partnership, and Imani’s astonishing success.
Yet as Jack discovers, uncovering the truth about the killing and the cryptic “goodbye girl” won’t just exonerate or convict his client, her ex, and their music empire. It may shape the future of the entire recording industry. (Provided by publisher)
