MRLS Newsletter — January 2026
Did You Read It?

January Closings

Read with Libby
Download the Libby app to access our entire library of OverDrive titles
 
Libby gives you the ability to read ebooks and magazines, listen to audiobooks, and browse catalog guides and library lists with ease! 
 
With Libby, you can:
  • Read across devices -- all your loans, bookmarks, and reading progress sync across your devices.
  • Get access offline -- download ebooks and audiobooks for offline reading, or stream them to save space.
  • Listen in your car -- enjoy audiobooks in your car through Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, or a Bluetooth connection.
  • Send your books to Kindle -- if you prefer reading on your Kindle, Libby can send your library books to Kindle devices and the Kindle app.
  • Customize how you read -- Libby allows you to adjust font size, book layout, and lighting, as well as add bookmarks, notes, and highlights. You can even look up definitions of words!
  • Add multiple library cards -- if you are a member of multiple libraries that subscribe to OverDrive, you can add each card and toggle easily between them. 
Libby is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. If you need help downloading or using Libby, call or stop by your closest branch.
 
January Is National Hobby Month!
Check out these books to learn new ways to
craft, quilt, cook, and more!
 
The Perfect Loaf: The Craft and Science of Sourdough Breads, Sweets, and More: A Baking Book by Maurizio Leo
Crochet for Beginners: A Stitch Dictionary with Step-By-Step Illustrations and 10 Easy Projects by Arica Presinal
Crafting Encyclopedia by Zoey Schrader

Monthly Events
New Book Highlights

Otherwise Engaged by Susan Mallery
Otherwise Engaged
by Susan Mallery

When Shannon gets engaged, her mom Cindy is the first person she wants to tell--and the last. Cindy's engaged, too, and has hinted at a double wedding. Victoria has never been enough for her mother Ava, so she stopped trying. Chance brings the four women together, where a shocking secret comes out. Twenty-four years ago, desperate teenager Cindy chose wealthy Ava to adopt her baby--then changed her mind at the last second. The loss rocked Ava's world, leaving her unable to open her heart to the daughter she did adopt, Victoria--
Gone Before Goodbye
by Harlan Coben

Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she could make the most impact. And it was all going to plan ... until it wasn't. Upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her medical license being revoked, Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her nerve or her passion. At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite plastic surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best care money can buy, as well as absolute discretion. Halfway across the globe, sequestered in the lap of luxury and cutting-edge technology, one of the world's most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance. Desperate, and one of the few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfills her end of the agreement. But when the patient suddenly disappears while still under her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself--Provided by publisher.
Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben
The King's Ransom by Janet Evanovich
The King's Ransom
by Janet Evanovich

Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can find just about anything. Too bad she can't seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her help. His cousin Harley is in trouble. ... As the president of a too-big-to-fail bank, he invested an astronomical amount of money in insuring some of the world's most priceless artifacts at the urging of his board. It seemed like a low-risk, high-reward business move, so he jumped in with both feet. But recently, these insured pieces started going missing and worse, there's no paper trail of Harley being directed to make these risky investments. Unless the artwork can be recovered soon, it looks like Harley is going to be heading to jail as the fall guy for an ingenious crime--
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