Special announcement #1: I won the 3rd Annual 2004 Bremer-Family Crappie Tournament this year. My winning crappie came in at 14.5 ounces. Perhaps it seems a little wimpy to win a tournament, but you should have seen the dinky little fish that brothers Dwight and Gordy brought in. It was just pitiful. The loving husband came in second place. The loving niece, Savanna, shared in the glory (and the fiscal incentive) because she caught the first crappie in our boat, thus marking the productive "crappie zone." Special announcement #2: The Friends Annual Book Sale has been scheduled for Sept. 16 though 18. We will be collecting book donations through Sept. 13. You may drop them off inside the front door during library hours. We would appreciate any books, videos, CD’s, paperbacks, hardcovers, and children’s books. The Friends will not accept encyclopedias, Reader’s Digest condensed books, or textbooks. Special announcement #3: Sandra Brown has a new book out, "White Hot," and it’s on the shelf ready for you to check out. When Sayre Lynch hears that her younger brother, Danny, has committed suicide, she returns to Destiny, La., the town in which she grew up. She plans to leave right after the funeral, but finds herself drawn into the web of Huff Hoyle, her controlling and tyrannical father. Sayre soon learns that nothing has changed. Her father and older brother, Chris, are as devious as ever, and now they have new partner-in-crime, Beck Merchant, who appears to be their equal in corruption. Sayre is thrown in closer contact with Beck and is convinced that something more sinister is at play that just her father’s usual need to dominate people and events. She comes to realize that there are many secrets in Destiny’ secrets that hide decades of pain and anger. As tensions mount, threatening to ignite a powder keg of long-held hostility, Sayre finds herself drawn into a struggle with striking laborers, her unscrupulous father, and her own emotions over her relationship with Beck, a man apparently with his own agenda, and mysteries of his own. Also new on the fiction shelf is, "Lost City," by Clive Cussler. Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hit man known equally for his brilliant tactics and for taking only "righteous" assignments. But when Paul gets caught, the arresting officer offers him a stark choice: prison or covert government service. Paul is asked to pose as a journalist covering the summer Olympics taking place in Berlin. He's to hunt down and kill Reinhardt Ernst — the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament. If successful, Paul will be pardoned and given the financial means to go legit; if he refuses the job, his fate will be Sing Sing and the electric chair. Paul travels to Germany, takes a room in a boarding house near the Tiergarten — the huge park in central Berlin, and begins his hunt. The next 48 hours are a feverish cat-and-mouse chase, as Paul stalks Ernst through Berlin while a dogged Berlin police officer and the entire Third Reich apparatus search frantically for the American.