Your local Juniata County Library is planning an exciting mini-golf event, and we’d love for you to join us. April 17 and 18, we plan to set up an indoor mini-golf fundraiser throughout the library.

The event will be held on two separate days.

Friday, April 17, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

This night is geared towards adults, as alcohol will be served along with food from Harshbarger’s. Spots are limited to 40 people per hour (6 p.m. and 7 p.m. slots).

Saturday, April 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

This day is geared towards kids and families. Food will be provided by Harshbarger’s.

Tickets are $25 per person and can be paid at the library with cash, card, or check.

A two-night event, this would be a wonderful opportunity for you to support our many programs and services while promoting your business. For any business that wishes to sponsor a hole, there will be plenty of space available to decorate with business-related items or a theme of choice – perhaps a favorite book. The tiers are as follows:

The Ace: For $2,000, sponsor a hole of your choice. Receive eight complimentary tickets.

The Eagle: For $1,000, sponsor a hole (not choice). Receive four complimentary tickets.

The Birdy: $500. Receive two complimentary tickets.

The Caddy: A donation individuals can make for the event of any amount. No complimentary tickets, but names are listed in with sponsor listing (if you wish).

This is planned as both a community-friendly and family-friendly fundraiser, and tickets are available to purchase now at the library. We would appreciate it so much if you would consider joining our team by sponsoring and/or playing a round of mini-golf.

Book of the week!

If you are going to read one book, give this one a try…

Want to Know a Secret? By Freida McFadden

(New adult fiction: novel, thriller, suspense) – 368 pages.

In a nutshell: Character assassination reigns supreme, if not uncontested, in a Long Island suburb.

April Masterson loves her husband, corporate attorney Elliott, their seven-year-old, Bobby, and her YouTube channel, “April’s Sweet Secrets.” What she doesn’t love is whoever’s texting her warnings about how Bobby isn’t really in their backyard while she’s busy filming her videos, or withering critiques of her baking show, or veiled accusations about her past and threats about her present. Her best friend, former prosecutor Julie Bressler, may be bossy and opinionated, but surely, she’d never turn on April this way. Who else might know enough to send April goodies like a picture of her kissing Mark Tanner, Bobby’s soccer coach?

Though April struggles to get Elliot to take her ordeal seriously, even when she shows up at his office for a lunch date, he is protected by his receptionist, Brianna Anderson, whose attachment to her boss goes far beyond loyalty. Then Julie turns on her. Maria Cooper, her friendly new next-door neighbor, turns on her. And, in the most mind-boggling scene, Doris Kirkland, April’s mother, whose dementia has brought her to a nursing home, turns on her.

McFadden releases an escalating series of toxins so deftly into the suburban atmosphere that it’s practically an anticlimax when someone gets killed and April instantly becomes the prime suspect. But that’s only a setup for the tale’s boldest move: switching its narrator from April to a fair-weather friend who frames the whole nightmare in dramatically different terms. As a special gift to her savviest fans, the author throws in an even more jolting epilogue that’s as hard to forget as it is to believe.

Bottom line: Recommended reading for every paranoid suburbanite who’s considering a move to the city, or to the Arctic wilds.

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Vince Giordano has been the librarian and director of the Juniata County Library since 2015.