'Fatal Voyage' filled with many twists and turns Have a look at this month's display in the children's room. The den mothers of Cub Scout Pack 164 and Troop 164 have assembled an impressive collection of scout memora bilia to focus attention on the many activities avail able through scouting. Application forms are at the library now. In Fata/ Voyage by Kathy Reichs. Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthro pologist. helps investigate a plane crash in the North Carolina mountains. Searching for the cause of the crash, she uncovers evidence that does not seem to fit the scenario such as body parts from people who do not match the passenger list, and missing passengers who had reason to disap pear. Set'en Up by Janet Evanovich finds bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on the trail of a geriatric mobster who proves to be extremely elusive. Readers of the series know they can count on plenty of humor plus subplots°galore that C/iec% /; OMf ROSALIE BOYD involve Stephanie's love life, her outrageous grand mother, her perfect sister, and the neighborhood characters. An L.A. writer is lured back by his former fiance who dumped him for someone else. And the someone else was another woman in Befueeu Loners by Eric Jerome Dickey. Miss Ju/io 7'oAes Oner by Ann B. Ross follows the delightful*.Wiss Jn/io SpeoAs Her Afi'nd. In Speaks the widow finds herself respon sible for her late husbands child. Little Lloyd, and hij^ mother. Hazel Marie. Now the three are bonded into a non-traditional family unit. So when Hazel Marie goes missing. Miss Julia Hires J.D. Pickens and begins a search that takes them across the Tar Heel State. There's even a high-speed chase around the North Carolina Speedway. A' movie of the first book starring Shirley MacLaine and Dolly Parton is in the works. Another book with a North Carolina setting is WoK'here E/se on Ear?/! by Josephine Humphreys. In the last desperate days of the Civil War. both sides exploit the young men of the Lumbee community in Robeson County until a charismatic leader, Henry Berry Lowrie. steps forward from the group. Under his leadership, the young men forge a law of their own to keep themselves from being conscripted into working in the salt mines of the Con federacy. a place from which no one they know has ever returned. The story is told in the form of the memoir of the woman who loved and married Lowrie. Sharpe's 7'ro/a/gar by Bernard Cornwell opens in 1805 and Ensign Richard Sharpe, returning by ship from India, is caught in the middle of a conflagration that escalates into the Battle of Trafalgar. With the arrival of Admiral Nelson, the British take on the combined French and Spanish fleets in p naval battle that will delight fans of maritime adventures. 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