West Salem Public Library

West Salem Public Library This is the official page of the West Salem, Illinois, Public Library.

05/14/2026

Our regularly scheduled
West Salem Public Library board meeting will be postponed this month until Tuesday, May 26, 2026 at 6 p.m.
Thank you!

Our apologies for any inconvenience.
05/05/2026

Our apologies for any inconvenience.

Books coming this month (May 2026).
05/04/2026

Books coming this month (May 2026).

Women's Murder Club #2626 BeautiesJames PattersonFrom the world's #1 bestselling author, the Women’s Murder Club goes ...
05/04/2026

Women's Murder Club #26
26 Beauties
James Patterson
From the world's #1 bestselling author, the Women’s Murder Club goes searching for 26 Beauties—young women missing in San Francisco.

SFPD’s Sergeant Lindsay Boxer's best friend, Claire Washburn, is named medical examiner of the year. But an uninvited guest crashes the Women’s Murder Club's party: a concerned father seeking investigative reporter Cindy Thomas’s help in locating his missing daughter. And she’s not the only one. Lindsay’s been investigating the deaths of a Jane Doe washed up on a nearby beach, and a young woman found in Golden Gate Park.

What if all these cases are connected?

The answers lie with the 26 Beauties on the run and in the wind.
Genres: Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Crime

The ShippersKatherine CenterOne of the hottest, fastest-rising rom-com stars delivers her latest swoon-worthy novel abou...
05/04/2026

The Shippers
Katherine Center
One of the hottest, fastest-rising rom-com stars delivers her latest swoon-worthy novel about a destination wedding on a cruise ship.

After a whole lifetime of being bad at love, JoJo Burton decides to solve her intimacy issues once and for all at her sister’s destination wedding on a cruise ship. With the help of a little pop psychology, she diagnoses herself with a fixation on the neighborhood guy who was her her first crush and first kiss (and who just happens to be a newly-divorced wedding guest ), and she decides to woo him during the cruise for some long-delayed closure. Only problem is, her sister’s a little busy being a bride at the moment—so JoJo ropes in her childhood bestie, Cooper Watts, to be her wing man. Cooper: who RSVPed no, but then showed up, anyway. Cooper: who left town without a word four years earlier and moved to London. Cooper: who was, if she’s honest, the worst heartbreak of JoJo’s life. It’s bliss for her to see him again, and it’s agony, too—and the more they team up for Project Conquest, the more she obsesses over questions she can’t bring herself to ask.

Shipboard antics ensue in this witty, heart-tugging, childhood-friends-to-lovers romance—as JoJo and Cooper fake flirt, slow dance, share a cabin, sing duets, treat sunburns, get jealous, rescue each other over and over, and finally, at last, figure it all out in the most blissful, swoony, romantic way.

No one does summer romance quite like Katherine Center. THE SHIPPERS will take readers on the cruise of a lifetime in a story awash with romantic longing, top-notch banter, long-held secrets . . . and true love rediscovered.
Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Rom Com, Friends To Lovers, Summer, Adult, Chick Lit

Rocket's Red GlareJames Patterson, Matt EversmannFrom the world's #1 bestselling author: they’re ex-Special Forces. The...
05/04/2026

Rocket's Red Glare
James Patterson, Matt Eversmann
From the world's #1 bestselling author: they’re ex-Special Forces. They’re on American soil. Their code name is “Rocket's Red Glare.”

“A military thriller that captures the best of American heroism. There’s courage and nonstop action on every page. Nat Phillips is the hero we need.”—Bret Baier

"Rocket’s Red Glare brings the heat! In a summer read you will not soon forget, James Patterson and Matt Eversmann combine forces to create unforgettable characters and plot, with breakneck pacing that will keep you riveted through the night! This one is a banger!" —Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Option

Nat Phillips leads an elite roster of special operators. They are ex-Special Forces, communications specialists, and intelligence officers. Phillips is a brilliant strategist and battle-tested leader who inspires total loyalty in his team. Now these decorated veterans of international warfare are at home and on stand-by—until a presidential campaign is interrupted by murder.

Suddenly, the plan is no longer the stuff of Mission: Impossible. Emergency operations happening not overseas but in the centers of American power, from Nantucket to Washington, DC. This national crisis is real.
Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Military Fiction

The Final TargetNora RobertsA young author becomes the object of a fan’s desire―and rage―in the gripping new thriller by...
05/04/2026

The Final Target
Nora Roberts
A young author becomes the object of a fan’s desire―and rage―in the gripping new thriller by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden Nature.

He showed up at Arden Bowie’s debut author appearance with a copy of her novel and an eager smile. He showered her with compliments and got her autograph. Then he came to her next event. And the one after that.

Dustin was just an aspiring writer who wanted advice, Arden reassured herself. But after giving in to one of his incessant invitations and chatting with him over coffee, she discovered that ignoring her inner alarm bell had been a terrible mistake…

An introvert at heart, Arden had long craved solitude―but now, after a harrowing assault, she finds herself hiding behind locked doors and startling at every sound. And her relief at his imprisonment is tempered by anxiety when Dustin’s wealthy mother helps to get him a paltry five-year sentence at a psychiatric facility.

Arden decides to write a new story for herself, moving to a tiny Oregon town and befriending Gideon, an ex-LAPD detective. But while she learns to thrive, Dustin remains his delusional, twisted self, as fixated as ever and now seething with anger. He still believes Arden's purpose on earth is to serve and please him. And his job is to protect her. But who will protect her from him?
Genres: Romance, Thriller Romantic Suspense, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, ContemporaryAdult

The Things We Never SayElizabeth StroutPulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout’s ...
05/04/2026

The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout
Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout’s new novel tells the story of a chance incident that sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher’s life—a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, parenthood, and the importance of truth in a capsizing world.

Artie Dam is living a double life. He spends his days teaching history to eleventh graders, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbors, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation. He looks out at a world gone mad—at himself and the people around him—and turns a question over and over in his How is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us?

And then, one day, Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him, one that threatens to upend his entire world. Once he learns it, he is forced to chart a new course, to reconsider the relationships he holds most dear—and to make peace with the mysteries at the heart of our existence.

Elizabeth Strout, as we have come to expect, delivers a moving exploration of the human condition—one that brims with compassion for each and every one of her indelible characters. With exquisite prose and profound insight,The Things We Never Say takes one man’s fears and loneliness and makes them universal. And in the same breath, captures the abiding love that sustains and holds us all.
Genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Adult, Family, Adult Fiction, Novels, Family Drama

04/27/2026

Due to inclement weather, the West Salem Friends of the Library meeting will be cancelled tonight. Thank you!

04/23/2026

The West Salem Friends of the Library will meet on Monday, April 27th at 6:30 p.m. at the
West Salem Public Library.
We are looking for people with passion, ideas and the time to help implement them. If you are wanting to become more civic minded, this might just be for you!
You do not have to live within the Village limits to become a member.

04/23/2026

The West Salem Public Library would like to send a huge "THANK YOU!!!"
to Chris Ristvedt
for mowing and w**d eating at the library on Tuesday, April 21, 2026.

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