Several fire companies responded from Brown and Madison Townships (Morgan County), and after extensive searching and testing, they were unable to locate any electrical fault or fire sources.  Everything was in perfect working order!  There was “buzzing” when certain light switches were turned on, suggesting ballast problems.  An electrician who was consulted said that this could explain the “hot” wiring odor and even the “haze.”

Because of the fire alarm and appurtenant interruptions, the adult mystery dinner, in the words of Meghan Adams, MPL adult programming coordinator, went “up in flames,” so to speak.  Meghan was able to take a few photos of the firefighters, however.

Firefighters quickly respond and investigate the mysterious fire alarm during last Friday’s adult mystery dinner.  (All photos by Meghan Adams)

Fortunately, last Saturday’s teen mystery dinner came off without any hitches.  Participants, who dressed in character (and costume), were given a series of clues in a dozen or more library areas, which they had to find to solve the mystery and find the “killer(s).”  They appeared to successfully uncover the assailant, whose capture was documented in the following photos (by Meghan Adams).

Imagine our lady in white like, Marilyn Monroe, only her name is Maxine Marie. Daryl Beasley our lead character, loves everything Maxine Marie and collects as much stuff as he can of her. But Daryl one day buys a piece of memorabilia instead of giving his girlfriend, Loretta, a present for her birthday. Us girls, know that this a big no, no. Daryl is in the dog house, but not only by his girlfriend, but by Maxine herself. Maxine comes back from the dead to speak her mind to Daryl, and in all cheesiness, leaves a haunting obsession as well.

Trust me it is hilarious as it sounds. It is not all that spooky as it is funny. I have laughed, gasped, and cringed through out the book so far, but have never felt frightened. I’m so happy for R.J., and his success. He does fabulous work that any small town would be proud of.  If you love local authors, and are looking for a great haunting for October, pick up this little gem at the Mooresville Public Library.

In 1850, Florence, daughter of a prominent English family, sets sail on the Nile chaperoned by longtime family friends and her maid, Trout. To her family’s chagrin-and in  spite of her wealth, charm, and beauty-she is, at twenty-nine and of her own volition, well on her way to spinsterhood. Meanwhile, Gustave and his good friend Maxime Du Camp embark on an expedition to document the then largely unexplored monuments of ancient Egypt. Traumatized by the deaths of his father and sister, and plagued by mysterious seizures, Flaubert has dropped out of law school and written his first novel, an effort promptly deemed not publishable by his closest friends.At twenty-eight, he is an unproven writer with a failing body.

Florence is a woman with radical ideas about society and God, naive in the ways of men. Gustave is a notorious womanizer and patron of innumerable prostitutes. But both burn with unfulfilled ambition, and in the deft hands of Shomer, whose writing The New York Times Book Review has praised as “beautifully cadenced, and surprising in its imaginative reach,” the unlikely soul mates come together to share their darkest torments and most fervent hopes. Brimming with adventure and the sparkling sensibilities of the two travelers, this mesmerizing novel offers a luminous combination of gorgeous prose and wild imagination. All of it colored by the opulent back drop of mid-nineteenth century Egypt.

Shine, Shine, Shine is a unique love story and an adventure between worlds. Lydia Netzer delivers a book about death, challenges, and what it means to be human. At times, even though I’m not married with children, I could relate to the anger, sadness, and triumphs of these characters. Again, it’s wonderful when you can feel and relate to a book like that. You should be able to at least finish the book in a weeks time, and it is not challenging at all. It was very refreshing to read such an interesting and not your average story. The books I have read lately seem to have the same tone about them. I never guessed right on the ending, if that gives you some insight.

When Maxon met Sunny, he was seven years, four months, and eighteen days old. Or, he was 2,693 rotations of the earth old. Maxon was different, as you can guess. Sunny was different, too. They were different together. Now, twenty years later, they are married, and Sunny wants, more than anything, to be “normal.” She’s got the housewife thing down, but Maxon, a genius engineer, is on a NASA mission to the moon, programming robots for a new colony. Once they were two outcasts who found unlikely love in each other: a wondrous, strange relationship formed from an urgent desire for connection. But now they’re parents to an autistic son. And Sunny is pregnant again. And her mother is dying in the hospital. Their marriage on the brink of imploding, and they’re at each other’s throats with blame and fear. What exactly has gone wrong?

When an accident in space puts the mission in peril, everything Sunny and Maxon have built hangs in the balance. Dark secrets, long-forgotten murders, and a blong wig all come tumbling to the light. And nothing will ever be the same….(cue cliff hanger music)

Catch us next, on our episode about fairy tales!

As Apocalyptic/dystopian fiction is becoming a trend in our today’s world, their not only being written for young adults. Some are being written for adults, and a lot of them have already been written several years ago, even hundreds of years ago. So sit back, make yourself a hot cup of tea or coffee, and let me list the TOP 25 Apocalyptic fiction according to Me, Amazon, and Huffington Post .

1.  The Sheep Look Up
by John Brunner
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

2.  The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
(our library carries this)

3.  The Long Tomorrow
by Leigh Brackett

4.  Make Room! Make Room!
by Harry Harrison
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

5.  Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany

6. Barefoot in the World
by Brian W. Aldiss

7. Grey Beard
by Brian W. Aldiss

8.  Immobility
by Brian Evenson
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

9.  The Stand
by Stephen King

10.  In the Country of Lost Things
by Paul Auster

11. The Scarlet Plague
by Jack London

12.  The Last Man
by Mary Shelley
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

13.  The Purple Cloud
by M. P. Shiel

14.  Cat’s Craddle
by Kurt Vonnegut
(our library carries this)

15.  The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
(our library carries this)

16.  The Death of Grass
by John Christopher

17.  Oryx and Crake 
by Margaret Atwood
(our library carries this)

18.  A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller, JR.
(our library carries this)

19.  Dr. Bloodmoney
by Philip K. Dick
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

20.  Alas Babylon
by Pat Frank
(our library carries this)

21.  Lucifer’s Hammer
by Larry Niven
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

22.  Wastelands:  Stories of the Apocalypse
by George R.R. Martin

23.  Swan Song
by Robert R. McCammen
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

24.  One Second After
by William R. Forstchen
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do

25.  Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)