In Small Spaces, New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle-grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story R.L. Stine called "Terrifying and fun". 

Pick up your copy today! Small Spaces is available as an ebook and an audiobook on Overdrive or in print and in audiobook on CD. 

This episode of First Chapter Fridays with ACL was recorded by Youth Services Librarian Hailee. Small Spaces was written by Katherine Arden and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Group USA.

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This week we are featuring The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore. 

Drawing on previously unpublished sources including diaries, letters, and court transcripts, as well as original interviews with the women's relatives, The Radium Girls is an intimate narrative account of an unforgettable true story. It is the powerful tale of a group of ordinary women from the Roaring Twenties, who themselves learned how to roar.

Radium Girls is available as an ebook on Overdrive, as well as in print and Large Print and as an audiobook on CD. Place your holds today! It is also available for immediate check out as an ebook or e-audiobook on Hoopla.

This episode of First Chapter Fridays was recorded by Adult Services Librarian Rachael.  Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Girls was written by Kate Moore and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.

Brilliant Maggie Hope uncovers terrible truths while working for newly sworn-in Prime Minister Winston Churchill in this historical spy thriller from Susan Elia MacNeal.

Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal is available as an ebook and audiobook on Overdrive as well as in print and Large Print. Place your holds today!

This episode of First Chapter Fridays with ACL was recorded by Churchville Branch Manager Ali. Mr. Churchill's Secretary is written by Susan Elia MacNeal and published by Random House Publishing Group. 

This week, listen to the first chapter of a Young Adult mystery set in a boarding school for gifted teens. 

In Truly Devious, New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart.

Pick up your copy today! The Story Collector is available as an audiobook on Overdrive or in print at the main library. You can also look for the rest of the series here. 

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This episode of First Chapter Fridays with ACL was recorded by Youth Services Librarian Hailee. Truly Devious is written by Maureen Johnson and published by Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Welcome to the first episode of First Chapter Fridays with ACL, a new podcast from the Augusta County Library. If you are looking for a new read, this is the place for you.

We are going to start things off with a Middle-Grade Historical Mystery that takes place in the New York Public Library!

The Story Collector by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb is inspired by the real-life of Viviani Joffre Fedeler, born and raised in the New York Public Library.

Pick up your copy today! The Story Collector is available as an audiobook on Hoopla or in print at the main library. 

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This episode of First Chapter Fridays with ACL was recorded by Youth Services Librarian Hailee. The Story Collector is written by Kristin O'Donnell  Tubb and published by Henry Holt & Company.