A Year In Reading

July 2020 - Good Vs Evil

A trope as old as time, but it keeps us coming back for more. Here are our favorite Good Vs Evil themed books.

Beyond Good And Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Helen Zimmern 193 Nie	Jekyll And Heidi R. L Stine J FIC Sti
East Of Eden John Steinbeck FIC Ste	Renegades Marissa Meyer YA FIC Mey
Good Omens Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett FIC Gai	The School For Good And Evil Soman Chainani, Iacopo Bruno J FIC Cha
In The Garden Of Beasts [Audiobook] Erik. 1954- Larson 943.086 Lar

Beyond Good And Evil

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Helen Zimmern

Call Number: 193 Nie

Format: Book

Date Added: Jun 23, 2020

East Of Eden

John Steinbeck

Description: This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

Call Number: FIC Ste

Format: Book

Date Added: Jun 23, 2020

Good Omens

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

Description: The world is preparing to come to an end according to the Divine Plan recorded in the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (written in 1655). Meanwhile, a fussy angel and a fast-living demon have grown fond of living among the earth's mortals for many millennia and are not looking forward to the apocalypse. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they must find and kill the Antichrist.

Call Number: FIC Gai

Format: Book

Date Added: Jun 23, 2020

In The Garden Of Beasts [Audiobook]

Erik. 1954- Larson

Description: In 1933, President Roosevelt personally selected William E. Dodd to be the United States ambassador to Nazi Germany. Dodd took his family with him, including his daughter Martha. Initially enamored with the Nazi party and its passion, Martha supported the Third Reich. However, when Hitler's violent policies became apparent, Martha changed her opinion and watched in horror.

Call Number: 943.086 Lar

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: Jun 23, 2020

Jekyll And Heidi

R. L Stine

Call Number: J FIC Sti

Format: Book

Date Added: Jun 23, 2020

Renegades

Marissa Meyer

Description: The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies - humans with extraordinary abilities - who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone, except the villains they once overthrew. Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance. As she gets closer to her target, she meets Adrian, a Renegade boy who believes in justice - and in Nova. But Nova's allegiance is to the villains who have the power to end them both.

Call Number: YA FIC Mey

Format: Book

Date Added: Jun 23, 2020

The School For Good And Evil

Soman Chainani, Iacopo Bruno

Description: Best friends Sophie (princess wannabe) and Agatha (witchy loner) are headed (via kidnapping) to the School for Good and Evil, but their assumed destinies are reversed.

Call Number: J FIC Cha

Format: Book

Date Added: Jun 23, 2020

June 2020 - Books to Movies!

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This month in our Year in Reading challenge, we give you some of our favorite books that have been made into movies - and vice versa! Enjoy!

Coco : The Deluxe Junior Novelization Angela Cervantes, Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar (Firm) J FIC Cer	The Book Thief [Audiobook] Markus Zusak, Allan Corduner YA FIC Zus
Descendants : A Novelization Rico Green J FIC Gre	The Duff : Designated Ugly Fat Friend : A Novel Kody Keplinger YA FIC Kep
Fight Club [Audiobook] Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Colby FIC Pal	The Hate U Give Angie Thomas YA FIC Tho
Gone With The Wind. Margaret Mitchell FIC Mit	The King's Speech Mark Logue, Peter (Journalist) Conradi 941.084 Log
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 955.054 Sat	The Road [Audiobook] Cormac McCarthy, Tom Stechschulte FIC McC
Ready Player One Ernest Cline FIC Cli	The Sun Is Also A Star [Large Print] Nicola Yoon LP FIC Yoo
Taken : A Novelization Thomas H Cook, Leslie Bohem, DreamWorks Television FIC Coo	To All The Boys I've Loved Before Jenny Han YA FIC Han
The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale Of Sex, Money, Genius And Betrayal Ben Mezrich 338.761 Mez	Where'd You Go, Bernadette [Audiobook] Maria Semple, Kathleen Wilhoite FIC Sem
The Best Of Enemies : Race And Redemption In The New South Osha Gray Davidson 305.8 Dav 2018

Coco : The Deluxe Junior Novelization

Angela Cervantes, Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar (Firm)

Description: Miguel wants to be a musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Wanting to prove his talent, he finds himself in the Land of the Dead, where he begins an adventure with a trickster he meets along the way.

Call Number: J FIC Cer

Format: Book

Date Added: May 6, 2020

Descendants : A Novelization

Rico Green

Description: When four offspring of classic Disney villains are offered a chance to leave the island where they have been imprisoned and go to prep school in an idyllic kingdom, they must choose whether or not to follow in their parents' evil footsteps.

Call Number: J FIC Gre

Format: Book

Date Added: May 6, 2020

Fight Club [Audiobook]

Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Colby

Description: When a listless office employee meets Tyler Durden, his ho-hum life takes a dramatic turn as a contender in amateur bare-knuckle street fighting matches that soon develop a fanatical following.

Call Number: FIC Pal

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: May 6, 2020

Gone With The Wind.

Margaret Mitchell

Call Number: FIC Mit

Format: Book

Date Added: May 6, 2020

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

Description: Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the author shares the story of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she lived from ages six to fourteen while the country came under control of the Islamic regime.

Call Number: 955.054 Sat

Format: Book

Date Added: May 6, 2020

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

Description: Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other world-wide citizens, Wade dreams of finding three keys left behind by James Halliday, the now-deceased creator of OASIS and the richest man to have ever lived. The keys are rumored to be hidden inside OASIS, and whoever finds them will inherit Halliday's fortune. But Halliday has not made it easy. And there are real dangers in this virtual world.

Call Number: FIC Cli

Format: Book

Date Added: May 7, 2020

Taken : A Novelization

Thomas H Cook, Leslie Bohem, DreamWorks Television

Description: "This epic novel, based on the ten-part Sci Fi Channel miniseries from DreamWorks Television, spans sixty years of American history."--Cover 4.

Call Number: FIC Coo

Format: Book

Date Added: May 6, 2020

The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale Of Sex, Money, Genius And Betrayal

Ben Mezrich

Description: "The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook."--Jacket.

Call Number: 338.761 Mez

Format: Book

Date Added: May 6, 2020

The Best Of Enemies : Race And Redemption In The New South

Osha Gray Davidson

Description: C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Ellis and Atwater met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and suspicion. In an amazing set of transformations, however, each of them came to see how the other had been exploited by the South's rigid power structure, and they forged a friendship that flourished against a backdrop of unrelenting bigotry.

Call Number: 305.8 Dav 2018

Format: Book

Date Added: Jun 10, 2020

The Book Thief [Audiobook]

Markus Zusak, Allan Corduner

Description: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

Call Number: YA FIC Zus

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: May 6, 2020

The Duff : Designated Ugly Fat Friend : A Novel

Kody Keplinger

Description: Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties.

Call Number: YA FIC Kep

Format: Book

Date Added: May 6, 2020

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

Description: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.

Call Number: YA FIC Tho

Format: Book

Date Added: Jun 10, 2020

The King's Speech

Mark Logue, Peter (Journalist) Conradi

Description: An inspiring real-life tale of triumph over adversity, when an Australian taught a British king with a crippling speech defect how to speak to his subjects. Speach therapist Lionel Logue helped the Duke of York cure his lifelong stammer and ultimately saved the House of Windsor from collapse. With new-found speaking skills and confidence, he emerged as King George VI, just in time to help steer the nation through the dark waters of the Second World War.

Call Number: 941.084 Log

Format: Book

Date Added: May 6, 2020

The Road [Audiobook]

Cormac McCarthy, Tom Stechschulte

Description: America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.

Call Number: FIC McC

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: May 6, 2020

The Sun Is Also A Star [Large Print]

Nicola Yoon

Description: "Natasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I'm definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won't be my story. Daniel: I've always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents' high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store--for both of us. The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?"--Provided by publisher.

Call Number: LP FIC Yoo

Format: Large Print

Date Added: Jun 10, 2020

To All The Boys I've Loved Before

Jenny Han

Description: "Lara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent"-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: YA FIC Han

Format: Book

Date Added: Jun 10, 2020

Where'd You Go, Bernadette [Audiobook]

Maria Semple, Kathleen Wilhoite

Description: Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears.

Call Number: FIC Sem

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: May 7, 2020

May 2020 - Strong Female Leads

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Who runs the world?

Girls.

All these books have strong female characters.

(All books are in digital format so our lovely patrons can enjoy from home!)

Behind The Beautiful Forevers [Electronic Resource] : [Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity] Katherine Boo	Scrappy Little Nobody [Electronic Resource] Anna Kendrick, Inc. OverDrive
Between Shades Of Gray [Electronic Resource] Ruta Sepetys, Emily. (Actress) Klein	The 17th Suspect [Electronic Resource] James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, January LaVoy
Frozen [Electronic Resource] : The Junior Novelization author Disney Press	The 5th Wave [Electronic Resource] Richard Yancey
Judy Moody [Electronic Resource] Megan McDonald, Peter Reynolds	The Hunger Games [Electronic Resource] Suzanne Collins, Carolyn McCormick
Look Alive Twenty-five [Electronic Resource] Janet Evanovich	The Obsession [Electronic Resource] Nora Roberts
Matched [Electronic Resource] Allyson Braithwaite Condie	The Tail Of Emily Windsnap [Electronic Resource] Liz Kessler, Sarah Gibb
Reading Lolita In Tehran [Electronic Resource] : A Memoir In Books Azar Nafisi, Inc OverDrive	Wild [Electronic Resource] : From Lost To Found On The Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed, Bernadette Dunne
Rebecca [Electronic Resource] Daphne Du Maurier	Y Is For Yesterday [Electronic Resource] Sue Grafton

Behind The Beautiful Forevers [Electronic Resource] : [Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity]

Katherine Boo

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

Between Shades Of Gray [Electronic Resource]

Ruta Sepetys, Emily. (Actress) Klein

Description: In 1941, Lina and her family are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers.

Format: eAudiobook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

Frozen [Electronic Resource] : The Junior Novelization

author Disney Press

Description: When the kingdom is trapped in an eternal winter, Anna, a young dreamer, must team up with Kristoff, a daring mountain man, and his reindeer on the grandest of journeys to find Anna's sister, the Snow Queen Elsa, and put an end to her icy spell. Encountering mystical trolls, a hilarious snowman named Olaf, Everest-like extremes, and magic at every turn, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom from destruction.

Format: eAudiobook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

Judy Moody [Electronic Resource]

Megan McDonald, Peter Reynolds

Description: Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

Look Alive Twenty-five [Electronic Resource]

Janet Evanovich

Description: Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich's #1 New York Times bestselling series. There's nothing like a good deli and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World famous for its pastrami, cole slaw and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, the only clue in each case is one shoe that's been left behind. The police are baffled. Lula is convinced that it's a case of alien abduction. Whatever it is, they'd better figure out what's going on before they lose their new manager, Ms. Stephanie Plum.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

Matched [Electronic Resource]

Allyson Braithwaite Condie

Description: Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

Reading Lolita In Tehran [Electronic Resource] : A Memoir In Books

Azar Nafisi, Inc OverDrive

Description: The inspirational tale of eight women who defied the confines of life in revolutionary Iran through the joy and power of literature.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

Rebecca [Electronic Resource]

Daphne Du Maurier

Description: The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

Scrappy Little Nobody [Electronic Resource]

Anna Kendrick, Inc. OverDrive

Description: A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect. "I'm excited to publish my first book, and because I get uncomfortable when people have high expectations, I'd like to use this opportunity to showcase my ineptitude, pettiness, and the frequency with which I embarrass myself. And while many of my female inspirations who have become authors are incredibly well-educated and accomplished comedy writers, I'm very, very funny on Twitter, according to Buzzfeed and my mom, so I feel like this is a great idea. Quick question: are run-on sentences still frowned upon' Wait, is ending a sentence with a preposition still frowned upon' I mean, upon frowned' Dammit!"--Anna Kendrick Anna Kendrick's autobiographical collection of essays amusingly recounts memorable moments throughout her life, from her middle class upbringing in New England to the blockbuster movies that have made her one of Hollywood's most popular actresses today. Expanding upon the witty and ironic dispatches for which she is known, Anna Kendrick's essays offer her one-of-a-kind commentary on the absurdities she's experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture.

Format: eAudiobook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

The 17th Suspect [Electronic Resource]

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, January LaVoy

Description: A series of shootings in San Francisco and a tip from a reluctant confidential informant lead Sergeant Lindsay Boxer to uncover disturbing activities within the police department, a situation that is further complicated by Lindsay's worsening medical problems.

Format: eAudiobook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

The 5th Wave [Electronic Resource]

Richard Yancey

Description: After the first wave, only darkness remains. After the second, only the lucky escape. And after the third, only the unlucky survive. After the fourth wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it's the dawn of the fifth wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

The Hunger Games [Electronic Resource]

Suzanne Collins, Carolyn McCormick

Description: In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

Format: eAudiobook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

The Obsession [Electronic Resource]

Nora Roberts

Description: Years after discovering her father's predatory double life, successful photographer Naomi Bowes struggles to hide her painful past from her fellow residents in a community thousands of miles away, a situation that introduces her to a new relationship and forces her to confront her demons.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

The Tail Of Emily Windsnap [Electronic Resource]

Liz Kessler, Sarah Gibb

Description: After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole new world.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

Wild [Electronic Resource] : From Lost To Found On The Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed, Bernadette Dunne

Description: At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State--and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than "an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise." But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.

Format: eAudiobook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

Y Is For Yesterday [Electronic Resource]

Sue Grafton

Description: "The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace. Now, it's 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison. Moody, unrepentant, and angry, he is a virtual prisoner of his ever-watchful parents--until a copy of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand. That's when the McCabes call Kinsey Millhone for help. As she is drawn into their family drama, she keeps a watchful eye on Fritz. But he's not the only one being haunted by the past. A vicious sociopath with a grudge against Millhone may be leaving traces of himself for her to find"-- Provided by publisher.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 29, 2020

April 2020 - TechnoLit

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Technology is what makes our world run these days! Dive into these books that feature technology as a main plot point, or learn more about the technology that brings us to today.

(Note: all formats are digital to support our patrons stuck at home during the COVID-19 crisis.)

Crosstalk [Electronic Resource] Connie Willis	Rogue Star [Electronic Resource] Michael (Michael F.) Flynn, Malcolm Hillgartner
How To Be A Coder Kiki Prottsman J 005.1 Pro	Tesla's Attic [Electronic Resource] Neal Shusterman, Eric Elfman
How We Got To Now [Electronic Resource] : Six Innovations That Made The Modern World Steven Johnson	The Age Of Wonder [Electronic Resource] : How The Romantic Generation Discovered The Beauty And Terror Of Science Richard Holmes
Humans, Bow Down [Electronic Resource]. James Patterson. James Patterson, Tara Sands	The Circle [Electronic Resource] : A Novel Dave Eggers
Insignia [Electronic Resource] S. J. Kincaid	The Fear Index [Electronic Resource] Robert Harris
Mass Effect [Electronic Resource] : Retribution Drew Karpyshyn	The Information : A History, A Theory, A Flood [Electronic Resource] James Gleick
Mega Machines [Electronic Resource] Deborah Lock	The Internet Is A Playground [Electronic Resource] : Irreverent Correspondences Of An Evil Online Genius David Thorne
Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel [Electronic Resource] : The Gun That Changed Everything And The Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It Julia Keller, Norman Dietz, Tantor Media	The Tinkerers [Electronic Resource] : The Amateurs, Diyers, And Inventors Who Make America Great Alec Foege
Origin [Electronic Resource] : A Novel Dan Brown	Virtual Light [Electronic Resource] William Gibson
Physics Of The Future [Electronic Resource] : How Science Will Shape Human Destiny And Our Daily Lives By The Year 2100 Michio Kaku	Wake Up Missing [Electronic Resource] Kate Messner

Crosstalk [Electronic Resource]

Connie Willis

Description: In the not-too-distant future, a simple outpatient procedure to increase empathy between romantic partners has become all the rage. And Briddey Flannigan is delighted when her boyfriend, Trent, suggests undergoing the operation prior to a marriage proposal--to enjoy better emotional connection and a perfect relationship with complete communication and understanding. But things don't quite work out as planned, and Briddey finds herself connected to someone else entirely--in a way far beyond what she signed up for. It is almost more than she can handle--especially when the stress of managing her all-too-eager-to-communicate-at-all-times family is already burdening her brain. But that's only the beginning. As things go from bad to worse, she begins to see the dark side of too much information, and to realize love--and communication--are far more complicated than she ever imagined.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

How To Be A Coder

Kiki Prottsman

Description: A how-to volume filled with fun activites that can be done at home, as well as simple programs, and information about some of the most famous coders of all time. Includes glossary.

Call Number: J 005.1 Pro

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

How We Got To Now [Electronic Resource] : Six Innovations That Made The Modern World

Steven Johnson

Description: A new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences. Filled with surprising stories of accidental genius and brilliant mistakes, How We Got to Now investigates the secret history behind the everyday objects of contemporary life and unearths unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated fields. An accompaniment to a six-part television series on PBS, How We Got to Now is the story of collaborative networks building the modern world.--Excerpted from publisher statement.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

Humans, Bow Down [Electronic Resource]. James Patterson.

James Patterson, Tara Sands

Description: The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices—they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime to be human.And the robots aren't content—following the orders of their soulless leader, they're planning to conquer humanity's last refuge. With nothing left to lose, Six, a feisty, determined young woman whose family was killed with the first shots of the war, is a rebel with a cause. On the run for her life after an attempted massacre, Six is determined to save humanity before the robots finish what the Great War started and wipe humans off the face of the earth, once and for all.

Format: eAudiobook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

Insignia [Electronic Resource]

S. J. Kincaid

Description: Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

Mass Effect [Electronic Resource] : Retribution

Drew Karpyshyn

Description: Humanity has reached the stars, joining the vast galactic community of alien species, but beyond the fringes of explored space lurk the Reapers, a race of sentient starships bent on 'harvesting' the galaxy's organic species for their own dark purpose.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

Mega Machines [Electronic Resource]

Deborah Lock

Description: Join a busy, noisy construction site to watch the mega machines in action constructing a new school.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel [Electronic Resource] : The Gun That Changed Everything And The Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It

Julia Keller, Norman Dietz, Tantor Media

Description: Soon after its debut at the time of the Civil War, the Gatling gun changed the nature of warfare and the course of world history. Discharging 200 shots per minute with alarming accuracy, the world's first machine gun became vitally important to protecting and expanding America's overseas interests. Its inventor, Richard Gatling, was famous in his own time for creating and improving many industrial designs, from bicycles and steamship propellers to flush toilets, though it was the gun design that would make his name immortal. A man of great business and scientific acumen, Gating used all the resources of the new mass age to promote sales across America and around the world. Ironically, Gatling actually proposed his gun as a way of saving lives, thinking it would decrease the size of armies and, therefore, make it easier to supply soldiers and reduce malnutrition deaths. The scientists who unleashed America's atomic arsenal less than a century later would see it much the same way.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

Origin [Electronic Resource] : A Novel

Dan Brown

Description: Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he will reveal an astonishing scientific breakthrough to challenge the fundamentals of human existence. But Langdon and several hundred other guests are left reeling when the meticulously orchestrated evening is blown apart before Kirsch's precious discovery can be revealed. With his life under threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape, along with the museum's director, Ambra Vidal. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch's secret.

Format: Book

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

Physics Of The Future [Electronic Resource] : How Science Will Shape Human Destiny And Our Daily Lives By The Year 2100

Michio Kaku

Description: The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Physics of the Impossible" offers a stunning and provocative vision of the future, and explains how science will shape human destiny and everyone's daily life by the year 2100.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

Rogue Star [Electronic Resource]

Michael (Michael F.) Flynn, Malcolm Hillgartner

Description: Michael Flynn opened his saga of near-future technology and space exploration with Firestar, in which he introduced a set of characters orbiting around one powerful and determined woman: Mariesa van Huyten, who is obsessed with the need to get humanity...

Format: eAudiobook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

Tesla's Attic [Electronic Resource]

Neal Shusterman, Eric Elfman

Description: "With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla"-- Provided by publisher.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

The Age Of Wonder [Electronic Resource] : How The Romantic Generation Discovered The Beauty And Terror Of Science

Richard Holmes

Description: "The Age of Wonder" explores the earliest ideas of deep time and space, and the explorers of "dynamic science": an infinite, mysterious Nature waiting to be discovered. Three lives dominate the book: William Herschel, his sister Caroline, and Humphry Davy.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

The Circle [Electronic Resource] : A Novel

Dave Eggers

Description: "Set in the near future, this novel examines the inner workings of the Circle, an internet company that is both spiritual and literal successor to Facebook, Google, Twitter and more, as seen through the eyes of Mae Holland, a new hire who starts in customer service. As Mae is absorbed into the Circle's increasingly demanding multi- and social media experience, she plays an ever more pivotal role in the company's plans, which include preventing child abductions through microchips, reducing crime through omnipresent surveillance, and eliminating political corruption through transparency courtesy of personal cameras. Soon, she's not alone in asking what it will mean to "complete the Circle" as its ultimate goal comes into view; even her closest friends and family suspect the Circle is going too far in its desire to make the world a better, safer, more honest place"-- Publishers Weekly.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

The Fear Index [Electronic Resource]

Robert Harris

Description: "A visionary scientist creates a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him"-- Provided by publisher.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

The Information : A History, A Theory, A Flood [Electronic Resource]

James Gleick

Description: From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He also provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information, including Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude Shannon.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

The Internet Is A Playground [Electronic Resource] : Irreverent Correspondences Of An Evil Online Genius

David Thorne

Description: The Internet personality and creator of 27bslash6.com presents an uproarious collection of online mischief and comedy that includes such viral successes as "Next Time I'll Spend the Money on Drugs Instead" and "Missing Missy.".

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

The Tinkerers [Electronic Resource] : The Amateurs, Diyers, And Inventors Who Make America Great

Alec Foege

Description: Showing how tinkering has been the guiding force behind both major corporate-sponsored innovations and smaller scale inventions with great potential, Foege argues that America still cultivates visionary innovators who do not allow cultural obsessions with efficiency and conformity to interfere with their passion and creativity.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

Virtual Light [Electronic Resource]

William Gibson

Description: 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash...

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

Wake Up Missing [Electronic Resource]

Kate Messner

Description: After a concussion that effects her balance, memory, and other abilities, twelve-year-old Kat goes to I-Can, the "Miracle Clinic in the Swamp," where she joins forces with other patients to expose plot that endangers them all.

Format: eBook

Date Added: Apr 1, 2020

March 2020 - Sports

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Sports is a key part of so many genres of books! Let us entertain you with a few of our favorites for March's Year in Reading category.

Ali : A Life Jonathan Eig B Ali	Playing For Pizza John Grisham FIC Gri
Beartown [Large Print] Fredrik Backman, Neil (Neil Andrew) translator Smith LP FIC Bac	Proof Dick Francis FIC Fra
Charlie Takes His Shot : How Charlie Sifford Broke The Color Barrier In Golf Nancy Churnin, John Joven E Chu	Running Home : A Memoir Katie (Runner) Arnold 796.42 Arn
Darkest Fear [Audiobook]/ By Harlan Coben. Harlan Coben, Jonathan Marosz FIC Cob	Smokin' Joe : The Life Of Joe Frazier Mark Kram 796.83 Kra
Fast Company Rich Wallace J FIC Wal	Still Kicking : My Journey As The First Woman To Play Division I College Football Katie Hnida B Hni
Fumbled Alexa Martin FIC Mar	The Alibi Man [Large Print] Tami Hoag LP FIC Hoa
Game, Set, And Murder : A Mystery For D.i. Costello Elizabeth Flynn FIC Fly	The Blackbird Season : A Novel Kate Moretti FIC Mor
Ghost Jason Reynolds J FIC Rey	The Bolt Supremacy : Inside Jamaica's Sprint Factory Richard Moore 796.422 Moo
Girls Can't Hit Tom (Children's fiction writer) Easton YA FIC Eas	The Cost Of These Dreams : Sports Stories And Other Serious Business Wright Thompson 796.0922 Tho
Greatest Moments In Women's Sports Todd Kortemeier J 796 Kor	The Final Score Jaci Burton FIC Bur
Hard Hitter Sarina Bowen FIC Bow	The Game Can't Love You Back Karole Cozzo YA FIC Coz
Last Shot [Audiobook] : [A Final Four Mystery] John Feinstein J FIC Fei	Whistle! 01, Break Through Daisuke Higuchi, Marv Wolfman, Naomi Kokubo J FIC Hig
Murder On The Iditarod Trail Sue Henry FIC Hen	Wilma Rudolph Ma Isabel (María Isabel) Sánchez Vegara, Amelia Flower E San

Ali : A Life

Jonathan Eig

Description: The definitive biography of Muhammad Ali, an American icon. a twentieth century radical and compelling figure. Ali went from being one of the most despised men in the country to one of the most beloved. Jonathan Eig breaks new ground and radically reshapes our understanding of the slippery figure who was Muhammad Ali. Eig had access to key people in Ali's life, ithousands of pages of new FBI and Justice Department files, as well as newly discovered audiotaped interviews from the 1960s. This is a story about race, about a brutal sport, and about a fascinating man who shook up the world.-- From statement provided by publisher.

Call Number: B Ali

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Beartown [Large Print]

Fredrik Backman, Neil (Neil Andrew) translator Smith

Description: Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness. A victory like this would draw national attention to the ailing town: it could attract government funding and an influx of talented athletes who would choose Beartown over the big nearby cities. A victory like this would certainly mean everything to Amat, a short, scrawny teenager who is treated like an outcast everywhere but on the ice; to Kevin, a star player just on the cusp of securing his golden future in the NHL; and to Peter, their dedicated general manager whose own professional hockey career ended in tragedy. At first, it seems like the team might have a shot at fulfilling the dreams of their entire town. But one night at a drunken celebration following a key win, something happens between Kevin and the general manager's daughter--and the next day everything seems to have changed. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected. With so much riding on the success of the team, the line between loyalty and betrayal becomes difficult to discern. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear.

Call Number: LP FIC Bac

Format: Large Print

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Charlie Takes His Shot : How Charlie Sifford Broke The Color Barrier In Golf

Nancy Churnin, John Joven

Description: "In the 1960s Charlie Sifford became the first African American to break the color barrier in golf and despite discrimation went on to win the PGA tournament"-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: E Chu

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Darkest Fear [Audiobook]/ By Harlan Coben.

Harlan Coben, Jonathan Marosz

Call Number: FIC Cob

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Fast Company

Rich Wallace

Description: When sixth-grader Manny Ramos, one of the fastest runners on the youth football team, joins the new track club, he hopes that his light weight will be a benefit in racing against more experienced guys.

Call Number: J FIC Wal

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Fumbled

Alexa Martin

Description: "Single-mother Poppy Patterson moved across the country when she was sixteen and pregnant to find a new normal. After years of hard work, she's built a life she loves. It may include a job at a nightclub, weekend soccer games, and more stretch marks than she anticipated, but it's all hers, and nobody can take that away. Well, except for one person. T.K. Moore, the starting wide receiver for the Denver Mustangs, dreamt his entire life about being in the NFL. His world is football, parties, and women. Maybe at one point he thought his future would play out with his high school sweetheart by his side, but Poppy is long gone and he's moved on. When Poppy and TK cross paths in the most unlikely of places, emotions they've suppressed for years come rushing back. But with all the secrets they never told each other lying between them, they'll need more than a dating playbook to help them navigate their relationship"-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: FIC Mar

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Game, Set, And Murder : A Mystery For D.i. Costello

Elizabeth Flynn

Description: It's the first day of Wimbledon. And a dead body is lying on Court 19. Newly-promoted detective inspector Angela Costello recognizes the dead man as Croatian champion-turned-coach, Petar Belic. A double grand-slam winner, Petar was famous, and much loved. However, Petar had an ex-wife who wanted him back; a girlfriend who wouldn't let him go; a business partner with secrets. Then there was the temperamental leading Brit, Stewart Bickerstaff, whom Petar had been coaching. D.I. Costello deduces that only one person could have committed the crime. Unfortunately she has no way of proving her suspicions.

Call Number: FIC Fly

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Ghost

Jason Reynolds

Description: "Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: J FIC Rey

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Girls Can't Hit

Tom (Children's fiction writer) Easton

Description: After not being allowed to take a boxing class at her school because she is a girl, Fleur deals with bullying and disapproval in her quest to set things right and ensure equal opportunity for all students.

Call Number: YA FIC Eas

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Greatest Moments In Women's Sports

Todd Kortemeier

Description: "Learn more about the most exciting and important moments in the history of women's sports. The title also features informative sidebars, a glossary, and further resources."--Publisher's website.

Call Number: J 796 Kor

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Hard Hitter

Sarina Bowen

Description: As team captain and enforcer, Patrick O'Doul puts the bruise in the Brooklyn Bruisers. But after years of hard hits, O'Doul is feeling the burn, both physically and mentally. He conceals his pain from his coach and trainers, but when his chronic hip injury becomes too obvious to ignore, they send him for sessions with the team's massage therapist. After breaking up with her long-term boyfriend, Ari Bettini is in need of peace of mind. For now, she's decided to focus on her work: rehabilitating the Bruisers' MVP. O'Doul is easy on the eyes, but his reaction to her touch is ice cold. Ari is determined to help O'Doul heal, but as the tension between them turns red hot, they both learn that a little TLC does the body good.

Call Number: FIC Bow

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Last Shot [Audiobook] : [A Final Four Mystery]

John Feinstein

Description: After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.

Call Number: J FIC Fei

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Murder On The Iditarod Trail

Sue Henry

Description: Determined to track down the vicious killer of Iditarod dog-sled race contestants, a state trooper finds himself in the heart of the Alaskan wilderness--where merciless nature can kill as fast as any bullet . . . and only the Arctic night can hear one's final screams.

Call Number: FIC Hen

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Playing For Pizza

John Grisham

Description: A former American football star joins the Parma Panthers to play football in a small town in Italy.

Call Number: FIC Gri

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Proof

Dick Francis

Description: Young wine merchant Tony Beach's exposure of a liquor scam sparks a brutal murder and forces the corruption in the liquor industry to spread into the realm of thoroughbred horse racing.

Call Number: FIC Fra

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Running Home : A Memoir

Katie (Runner) Arnold

Description: "A deeply moving and inspiring memoir about fathers and daughters, grief and renewal, adventure and obsession, and the power of running to change your life." -- From book jacket.

Call Number: 796.42 Arn

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Smokin' Joe : The Life Of Joe Frazier

Mark Kram

Description: History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the ages. A trilogy of extraordinary fights transcended the world of sports and crossed into a sociocultural drama that divided the country. Joe Frazier was a much more complex figure than just his rivalry with Ali would suggest. Mark Kram, Jr. unlinks Frazier from Ali and gives a full-bodied accounting of Frazier's life. A journey that began as the youngest of thirteen children packed in small farmhouse, encountering the bigotry and oppression of the Jim Crow South, and continued with his voyage north at age fifteen to develop as a fighter in Philadelphia.

Call Number: 796.83 Kra

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Still Kicking : My Journey As The First Woman To Play Division I College Football

Katie Hnida

Call Number: B Hni

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

The Alibi Man [Large Print]

Tami Hoag

Description: Elena was once a child of wealth and privilege in Palm Beach until she was betrayed and disillusioned by those closest to her. She became an undercover cop until a tragic mistake ended her career, now she trains horses for a living. After finding the body of a friend she is determined to find the truth, a truth that will shock Palm Beach society to its core, and could very well get her killed.

Call Number: LP FIC Hoa

Format: Large Print

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

The Blackbird Season : A Novel

Kate Moretti

Description: In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto a high school baseball field, unleashing a horrifying and unexpected chain of events that will rock the close-knit community. Beloved baseball coach and teacher Nate Winters and his wife, Alicia, are well respected throughout town. That is, until one of the many reporters investigating the bizarre bird phenomenon catches Nate embracing a wayward student, Lucia Hamm, in front of a sleazy motel. Lucia soon buoys the scandal by claiming that she and Nate are engaged in an affair, throwing the town into an uproar...and leaving Alicia to wonder if her husband has a second life. And when Lucia suddenly disappears, the police only have one suspect: Nate. Nate's coworker and sole supporter, Bridget Harris, Lucia's creative writing teacher, is determined to prove his innocence. She has Lucia's class journal, and while some of the entries appear particularly damning to Nate's case, others just don't add up. Bridget knows the key to Nate's exoneration and the truth of Lucia's disappearance lie within the walls of the school and in the pages of that journal.

Call Number: FIC Mor

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

The Bolt Supremacy : Inside Jamaica's Sprint Factory

Richard Moore

Description: Beijing 2008: Usain Bolt slows down as he approaches the finish line of the 100-meter finals, well ahead of his nearest rival. It is one of the greatest moments in sports history--and it is just the beginning. Of the ten fastest 100-meter times in history, eight belong to Jamaicans. This small Caribbean island has come to almost totally dominate the men's and women's sprint events. This is a world where sprinting permeates daily conversations and interactions; where the high school championships are watched by 35,000 screaming fans; where identity, success and status are forged on the track, and where "making it" is a pass to a world of adoration and lucrative contracts. Richard Moore travels the length of this country, speaking to scientists and skeptics as well as to coaches, gurus, superstars, and the young guns desperate to become the next big thing. Peeling back the layers, Moore reveals the secrets of the phenomenal Usain Bolt and the Jamaican sprint factory.

Call Number: 796.422 Moo

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

The Cost Of These Dreams : Sports Stories And Other Serious Business

Wright Thompson

Description: "Whether it be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Pat Riley or Urban Meyer, Wright Thompson strips the away the self-serving myths and fantasies to reveal his characters in full. There are fascinating common denominators: it may not be the case that every single great performer or coach had a complex relationship with his father, but it can sure seem that way. And there is much marvelous local knowledge: about specific sports, and times and places, and people. Ludicrously entertaining and often powerfully moving, The Cost of These Dreams is an ode to the reporter's art, and a celebration of true greatness and the high price that it exacts"-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: 796.0922 Tho

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

The Final Score

Jaci Burton

Description: "Nathan Riley is ready to follow in the footsteps of his famous football player father. He's been drafted as quarterback for his dad's former team, and his future is bright. When his friend Mia Cassidy moves to the same city, their years-long friendship suddenly sparks hot, reminding him of the one night they had together in college that he can never forget. Like Nathan, Mia is from a sports dynasty family and embarking on an incredible new career--as founder of her own sports management company. Her friendship with Nathan means everything to her, and tossing sex into the mix again could jeopardize it. But the chemistry between them has always sizzled, and it isn't long before Mia realizes she wants more with Nathan than just late-night talks and pizza. Passion has a funny way of changing the rules, and soon Nathan and Mia discover that to win it all, they'll have to make an unexpected play for love."-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: FIC Bur

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

The Game Can't Love You Back

Karole Cozzo

Description: Eve is used to being the odd woman out. As the only girl on her school's baseball team, she knows exactly how to put sweaty, macho baseball players in their place, and she's learned to focus on one thing and one thing only--being the best pitcher she can be. But when a freak accident forces her school to be absorbed by the neighboring town, Eve has to contend with a new group of guys who aren't used to having a woman on their team. And the new team's star pitcher, Jamie, has no interest in being ousted from his throne. He can't afford to give up his starting slot to a new pitcher--especially to a girl. As the competition between Jamie and Eve starts to heat up, so does their attraction to each other. Can they keep their heads in the game, or will they end up getting played? -- netgalley.

Call Number: YA FIC Coz

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Whistle! 01, Break Through

Daisuke Higuchi, Marv Wolfman, Naomi Kokubo

Description: Shão Kazamatsuri is the leader of the Josui Junior High soccer team and he does everything he can to keep his team together and to be the best. Banned from his school's soccer team for being too short, Sh Kazamatsuri decides there is only one thing left to do: switch schools. But even a change in scenery doesn't help the David Beckham wannabe. On campus, he is mistakenly introduced to everyone as a hotshot soccer player. When the truth is revealed, Sh drops out of school in total disgrace. Now on his own, the spunky teenager must work twice as hard to make his dreams come true.

Call Number: J FIC Hig

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

Wilma Rudolph

Ma Isabel (María Isabel) Sánchez Vegara, Amelia Flower

Description: "Wilma was born into a family with 22 brothers and sisters, in the segregated South. She contracted polio in her early years and her doctors said she would never walk again. But Wilma persisted with treatment, and she recovered her strength by the age of 12. At school, Wilma showed a talent for basketball and sprinting, earning the nickname "Skeeter" (mosquito) as she ran so fast. Wilma was in college when she went to the 1960 Olympics. She not only won gold in sprint events, but also broke world records with her sprinting skill. She had beaten polio to become an Olympic champion. She is a huge inspiration to many women in sports around the world. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the athlete's life"--Amazon.

Call Number: E San

Format: Book

Date Added: Feb 25, 2020

February 2020 - Faraway Lands

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Let these books transport you to faraway lands, both fictional and real in our February Year in Reading challenge.

Farside Ben Bova FIC Bov	Snowblind 1976- author Ragnar Jónasson, Quentin Bates FIC Rag
Have Sword, Will Travel Garth Nix, Sean Williams J FIC Nix	Summer House With Swimming Pool [Large Print] Herman Koch, Sam Garrett LP FIC Koc
Hazards Of Time Travel [Audiobook] : A Novel Joyce Carol Oates, Andi Arndt FIC Oat	The Annotated Hobbit J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien, Douglas A. (Douglas Allen) Anderson FIC Tol
High-opp Frank Herbert, Scott Brick, Inc. Blackstone Audio FIC Her	The Big Beyond : The Story Of Space Travel James Carter, Aaron Cushley E Car
Illuminae Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff YA FIC Kau	The Broken Crown Michelle West FIC Wes
Neverwhere [Audiobook] Neil Gaiman FIC Gai	The Chronicles Of Conan. 01, Tower Of The Elephant And Other Stories Roy Thomas, Barry Windsor-Smith, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard FIC Tho
Raising Steam : A Discworld Novel Terry Pratchett FIC Pra	The Future Of Humanity [Audiobook] : Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, And Our Destiny Beyond Earth Michio Kaku, Feodor Chin 629.455 Kak
Rediscovering Travel : A Guide For The Globally Curious Seth Kugel 360.4819 Kug	The Princess Beard Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne FIC Daw
Rooftops Of Tehran Mahbod Seraji FIC Ser	Thorn Ogres Of Hagwood Robin Jarvis J FIC Jar
Secret Gardens Of Paris Alexandra d' Arnoux, Bruno de Laubadère, Gilles de Chabaneix 712.6 Arn	Up To This Pointe Jennifer Longo YA FIC Lon
Singapore Dream And Other Adventures : Travel Writings From An Asian Journey Hermann Hesse, Sherab Chödzin 915.9 Hes	Usa By Rail : Plus Canada's Main Routes : The Bradt Travel Guide John Pitt, publisher Bradt Travel Guides 917.304 Pit 2019

Farside

Ben Bova

Description: "The discovery of an Earth-sized planet 30 light years from Earth sparks a race to develop a telescope to create a photographic record of the new world. The far side of the moon, with its "clear" view of space, seems an ideal location, but the project's planners must contend with rivalries from the existing moon colony of Selene. Sent from Earth to assist Dr. Ulrich, director of Angel Observatory, Dr. Trudy Yost immediately becomes involved in the web of politics, sabotage, and physical obstacles that mark life on Farside."--Library Journal.

Call Number: FIC Bov

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Have Sword, Will Travel

Garth Nix, Sean Williams

Description: Odo is the seventh son of the village miller and he just wants to get away from work for awhile, Eleanor's mother was a soldier, and she yearns for adventure, but it is Odo who finds the magic talking sword named Biter, and thereby instantly becomes a knight--and together they set out on a quest (somewhat reluctantly on Odo's part) to save their kingdom from threats both human and dragon.

Call Number: J FIC Nix

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Hazards Of Time Travel [Audiobook] : A Novel

Joyce Carol Oates, Andi Arndt

Description: A reckless girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled future world and is punished by being sent to a region of North America eighty years in the past.

Call Number: FIC Oat

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

High-opp

Frank Herbert, Scott Brick, Inc. Blackstone Audio

Description: EMASI! Each Man A Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps, the resistance force engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the High-Opps, are given plush apartments, comfortable jobs, every possible convenience. But those who happen to be low-opped live crowded in warrens, facing harsh lives and brutal conditions. Daniel Movius, ex-senior liaitor, rides high in the opinion polls--until he loses everything, brushed aside by a very powerful man. Low-opped and abandoned, Movius finds himself fighting for survival in the city's underworld. There, the opinion of the masses is clear: it is time for a revolution against the corrupt superprivileged--and every revolution needs a leader.

Call Number: FIC Her

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Illuminae

Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

Description: "The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all"-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: YA FIC Kau

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Neverwhere [Audiobook]

Neil Gaiman

Description: Richard Mayhew's life is forever changed after he rescues a young girl named Door and finds himself living in a city of monsters, saints, murderers, and angels, and he must help Door on her mission to save this strange underworld kingdom from destruction.

Call Number: FIC Gai

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Raising Steam : A Discworld Novel

Terry Pratchett

Description: "Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork--Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job"--Provided by publisher.

Call Number: FIC Pra

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Rediscovering Travel : A Guide For The Globally Curious

Seth Kugel

Call Number: 360.4819 Kug

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Rooftops Of Tehran

Mahbod Seraji

Description: An unforgettable debut novel of young love and growing up in an Iran headed toward revolution. In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends one perfect, stolen summer with his beautiful neighbor, Zari, until he unwittingly guides the Shah's secret police to their target: Zari's intended. The violent consequences awaken Pasha and his friends to the reality of life under the rule of a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice from which Pasha may never recover.

Call Number: FIC Ser

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Secret Gardens Of Paris

Alexandra d' Arnoux, Bruno de Laubadère, Gilles de Chabaneix

Call Number: 712.6 Arn

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Singapore Dream And Other Adventures : Travel Writings From An Asian Journey

Hermann Hesse, Sherab Chödzin

Description: "In 1911, Hermann Hesse sailed through southeastern Asian waters on a trip that would define much of his later writing. Hesse brings his unique eye to scenes such as adventures in a rickshaw, watching foreign theater performances, exploring strange floating cities on stilts, and luxuriating in the simple beauty of the lush natural landscape. Even in the doldrums of travel, he records his experience with faithful humor, wit, and sharp observation, offering a broad vision of travel in the early 1900s"--Back cover.

Call Number: 915.9 Hes

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Snowblind

1976- author Ragnar Jónasson, Quentin Bates

Description: "Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors -- accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik--with a past that he's unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local theater, Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one, and secrets and lies are a way of life. Past plays tag with the present and the claustrophobic tension mounts, while Ari is thrust ever deeper into his own darkness -- blinded by snow, and with a killer on the loose."-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: FIC Rag

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Summer House With Swimming Pool [Large Print]

Herman Koch, Sam Garrett

Description: It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meier's extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife Judith, her mother, and film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the large group settles in for days of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations are revealed, and suddenly no one can be trusted. As the ultimate holiday soon turns into a nightmare, the circumstances surrounding Ralph's later death begin to reveal the disturbing reality behind that summer's tragedy.

Call Number: LP FIC Koc

Format: Large Print

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

The Annotated Hobbit

J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien, Douglas A. (Douglas Allen) Anderson

Call Number: FIC Tol

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

The Big Beyond : The Story Of Space Travel

James Carter, Aaron Cushley

Description: "The mysteries of space have intrigued us since ancient times. Early observers named the constellations as a way to keep track of the starry patterns in the night sky. Through the years, astronomers discovered planets, moons, and many other objects. As technology improved, the dream of physically exploring space became reality, and space shuttles blasted into the world above our heads. Where will we go next?" -- From Amazon.com description.

Call Number: E Car

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

The Broken Crown

Michelle West

Description: Treachery threatens the Dominion of Annagar as two power-hungry men--a skilled general and a sorcerer--seek to overthrow the clan of Leonne, whose control over the magic of the sun sword has kept the peace.

Call Number: FIC Wes

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

The Chronicles Of Conan. 01, Tower Of The Elephant And Other Stories

Roy Thomas, Barry Windsor-Smith, Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

Call Number: FIC Tho

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

The Future Of Humanity [Audiobook] : Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, And Our Destiny Beyond Earth

Michio Kaku, Feodor Chin

Description: World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores in rich, intimate detail the process by which humanity may gradually move away from the planet and develop a sustainable civilization in outer space.

Call Number: 629.455 Kak

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

The Princess Beard

Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne

Description: "Once upon a time a princess slept in a magical tower cloaked in thorns and roses, waiting for true love's kiss. Or so her father told her. Instead, she woke up on her own, cut off all that pesky long hair, and used it to escape. But she kept the beard, because it made a great disguise. This is not a story about finding Prince Charming-- it's a story about finding yourself. On a pirate ship. Where you belong. But these are no ordinary pirate misfits aboard The Puffy Peach, serving under Filthy Lucre, the one-eyed parrot pirate captain. First there's Vic, a swole and misogynistic centaur on a mission to expunge himself of the magic that causes him to conjure tea and dainty cupcakes when confronted. Then there's Tempest, who's determined to become the first dryad lawyer-- preferably before she takes her ultimate form as a man-eating tree. They're joined by Alobartolus, an awkward and unelfly elf who longs to meet his hero, the Sn'archivist who is said to take diction directly from the gods of Pell. Throw in some mystery meat and a dastardly capitalist plot, and you've got one Pell of an adventure on the high seas!"-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: FIC Daw

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Thorn Ogres Of Hagwood

Robin Jarvis

Description: The werlings, a peaceful group of forgotten forest creatures whose only magic is the ability to change shapes, are unwittingly drawn into the search for a valuable item stolen from an evil queen many years before.

Call Number: J FIC Jar

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Up To This Pointe

Jennifer Longo

Description: Devastated when her dream of becoming a professional ballerina falls through, seventeen-year-old Harper Scott takes a job as a research assistant, wintering over at McMurdo, a U.S. science station at the tip of Antarctica where, for the first time, she considers other possible futures.

Call Number: YA FIC Lon

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

Usa By Rail : Plus Canada's Main Routes : The Bradt Travel Guide

John Pitt, publisher Bradt Travel Guides

Call Number: 917.304 Pit 2019

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 22, 2020

January 2020 - Animals = Love!

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Year in Reading 2020 is an online only reading challenge for ages 12 to adult. Explore all that the Great River Regional Library has to offer in this year-long challenge as you explore a new topic each month with activities that help you learn and expand your mind. Who knows, you may find a few new favorites! Register and log at https://griver.beanstack.org/ or on the free Beanstack Tracker app. Learn more about Beanstack.

All Creatures Great And Small James Herriot 636.089 Her	Spill Simmer Falter Wither Sara Baume FIC Bau
Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.) Waal 591.513 Waa	The Animal Dialogues : Uncommon Encounters In The Wild Craig Childs 590 Chi
Dewey : The Small-town Library Cat Who Touched The World Vicki Myron, Bret Witter 636.8 Myr	The Chicken Whisperer's Guide To Keeping Chickens : Everything You Need To Know... And Didn't Know You Needed To Know About Backyard And Urban Chickens Andy G. Schneider, Brigid McCrea 636.5 Sch 2017
Dogtripping : 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, And 3 Rvs On Our Canine Cross-country Adventure David Rosenfelt 636.7088 Ros	The Hidden World Of The Fox Adele Brand 599.775 Bra
Enslaved By Ducks Bob Tarte 636.0887 Tar	The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle [Large Print] David Wroblewski LP FIC Wro
H Is For Hawk [Large Print] Helen Macdonald LP 598.944 Mac	The Travelling Cat Chronicles [Large Print] Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel LP FIC Ari
One Good Dog Susan Wilson FIC Wil	The Unexpected Inheritance Of Inspector Chopra Vaseem Khan FIC Kha
Redwall [Audiobook] Brian Jacques J FIC Jac	Watchers Dean R. (Dean Ray) Koontz FIC Koo
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat : Why It's So Hard To Think Straight About Animals Hal Herzog 304.27 Her	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler FIC Fow

All Creatures Great And Small

James Herriot

Description: An English veterinarian reminisces about his life, career, and animal patients in a small village.

Call Number: 636.089 Her

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?

F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.) Waal

Description: What separates your mind from that of an animal? Is it the ability to design tools; a sense of self; or the grasp of past and future? In recent decades these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence, offering a firsthand account of how science has stood traditional behaviorism on its head by revealing how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long.

Call Number: 591.513 Waa

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

Dewey : The Small-town Library Cat Who Touched The World

Vicki Myron, Bret Witter

Description: The charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa.

Call Number: 636.8 Myr

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

Dogtripping : 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, And 3 Rvs On Our Canine Cross-country Adventure

David Rosenfelt

Description: David Rosenfelt's "Dogtripping" is an account of his cross-country move from California to Maine, and the beginnings of a dog rescue foundation.

Call Number: 636.7088 Ros

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

Enslaved By Ducks

Bob Tarte

Call Number: 636.0887 Tar

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

H Is For Hawk [Large Print]

Helen Macdonald

Description: "As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals"--Dust jacket of a previous printing.

Call Number: LP 598.944 Mac

Format: Large Print

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

One Good Dog

Susan Wilson

Description: Adam March is a self-made 'Master of the Universe.' He has it all: the beautiful wife, the high-powered job, the glittering circle of friends. But there is a price to be paid for all these trappings, and the pressure is mounting - until the day Adam makes a fatal mistake. His assistant leaves him a message with three words: your sister called. What no one knows is that Adam's sister has been missing for decades. That she represents the excruciatingly painful past he has left behind. And that her absence has secretly tormented him all these years. When his assistant brushes off his request for an explanation in favor of her more pressing personal call, Adam loses it. And all hell breaks loose. Adam is escorted from the building. He loses his job. He loses his wife. He loses the life he's worked so hard to achieve. He doesn't believe it is possible to sink any lower when he is assigned to work in a soup kitchen as a form of community service. But unbeknownst to Adam, this is where his life will intersect with Chance. Chance is a mixed breed Pit Bull. He's been born and raised to fight and seldom leaves the dirty basement where he is kept between fights. But Chance is not a victim or a monster. It is Chance's unique spirit that helps him escape and puts him in the path of Adam. What transpires is the story of one man, one dog, and how they save each other - in ways they never could have expected.

Call Number: FIC Wil

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

Redwall [Audiobook]

Brian Jacques

Description: The hero of this enthralling tale is Matthias, a young mouse who must rise above his fears and failures to save his friends at Redwall Abbey.

Call Number: J FIC Jac

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat : Why It's So Hard To Think Straight About Animals

Hal Herzog

Description: "A maverick scientist who co-founded the field of anthrozoology offers a controversial, thought-provoking, and unprecedented exploration of the psychology behind the inconsistent and often paradoxical ways we think, feel, and behave towards animals"-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: 304.27 Her

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Sara Baume

Description: "It is springtime, and two outcasts -- a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life -- find each other, by accident or fate, and forge an unlikely connection. As their friendship grows, their small, seaside town suddenly takes note of them, falsely perceiving menace where there is only mishap; the unlikely duo must take to the road"-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: FIC Bau

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

The Animal Dialogues : Uncommon Encounters In The Wild

Craig Childs

Call Number: 590 Chi

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

The Chicken Whisperer's Guide To Keeping Chickens : Everything You Need To Know... And Didn't Know You Needed To Know About Backyard And Urban Chickens

Andy G. Schneider, Brigid McCrea

Description: Are you looking for a great way to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources? Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple way to start making this happen, even with limited space in your backyard.

Call Number: 636.5 Sch 2017

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

The Hidden World Of The Fox

Adele Brand

Description: The fox. For thousands of years myth and folklore have celebrated its cunning intelligence. Today the red fox is nature's most populous carnivore, its dancing orange tail a common sight in backyards. Yet who is this wild neighbor? How do we negotiate this uneasy new chapter of an ancient relationship? Join Adele Brand on a journey to discover the surprising secrets of the fabled fox, the familiar yet enigmatic creature that has adapted to the human world with astonishing--some say, unsettling--success.

Call Number: 599.775 Bra

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle [Large Print]

David Wroblewski

Description: A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.

Call Number: LP FIC Wro

Format: Large Print

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

The Travelling Cat Chronicles [Large Print]

Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel

Description: "A life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice, The Travelling Cat Chronicles shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy. We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to the comforts of home, to visit old acquaintances and to make new friends. But the most important journey is the one that shows us how to follow our hearts... With simple yet descriptive prose, this novel gives voice to Nana the cat and his owner, Satoru, as they take to the road on a journey with no other purpose than to visit three of Satoru's longtime friends. Or so Nana is led to believe... With his crooked tail--a sign of good fortune--and adventurous spirit, Nana is the perfect companion for the man who took him in as a stray. And as they travel in a silver van across Japan, with its ever-changing scenery and seasons, they will learn the true meaning of courage and gratitude, of loyalty and love"-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: LP FIC Ari

Format: Large Print

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

The Unexpected Inheritance Of Inspector Chopra

Vaseem Khan

Description: "On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his new ward than he thought. And he soon learns that when the going gets tough, a determined elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs"--Provided by publisher.

Call Number: FIC Kha

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

Watchers

Dean R. (Dean Ray) Koontz

Description: Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either doom or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter.

Call Number: FIC Koo

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

Description: Coming of age in middle America, eighteen-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister.

Call Number: FIC Fow

Format: Book

Date Added: Jan 2, 2020

December 2019: Holiday Reads

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The holiday season is here, and with it the desire to curl up with a good book! Here are some of our choice reads for holiday themed books.

A Holiday Yarn : A Seaside Knitters Mystery Sally Goldenbaum FIC Gol	Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday [Electronic Resource] : My Life With Brian Kim Johnson, Johnny Heller, Simon Vance
Baking All Year Round : Holidays & Special Occasions Rosanna Pansino 641.86 Pan	New Year's Eve Murder [Large Print] Leslie Meier LP FIC Mei
Bringing In The New Year Grace Lin E Lin	New Year's Eve Thieves Ron Roy, John Steven Gurney J FIC Roy
Eva's Holiday [Electronic Resource] Judi Curtin	Npr Holiday Favorites [Electronic Resource]. Susan Stamberg, National Public Radio (U.S.), HighBridge Audio (Firm)
Fortune's Christmas Baby Tara Taylor Quinn FIC Qui	Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The Choir : A Ruby, The Rabbi's Wife Mystery Sharon Kahn FIC Kah
Four Sides, Eight Nights : A New Spin On Hanukkah Rebecca Tova Ben-Zvi, Susanna Natti J 296.4 Ben	Resorting To Murder : Holiday Mysteries Martin Edwards, Martin Edwards, Arthur Conan Doyle, E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung, Arnold Bennett FIC Res
Handmade Holiday Homicide : A Kiki Lowenstein Mystery Joanna Campbell Slan FIC Sla	Santa Cruise : A Holiday Mystery At Sea Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark FIC Cla
Holiday Decorating For Dummies [Electronic Resource] Kelley Taylor	Slappy New Year R. L Stine J FIC Sti
Holiday Gifts Kids Can Make [Electronic Resource].	Super Simple Holiday Treats [Electronic Resource] : Easy No-bake Recipes For Kids Nancy Tuminelly
Holiday Wishes [Electronic Resource] : A Heartbreaker Bay Christmas Novella. Jill Shalvis. Jill Shalvis	The Berenstain Bears' Holiday Cookbook : Cub-friendly Cooking With An Adult Mike Berenstain J 641.568 Ber
How To Celebrate Everything : Recipes And Rituals For Birthdays, Holidays, Family Dinners, And Every Day In Between Jenny Rosenstrach, Victoria Granof 641.568 Ros	The Best Eid Ever Asma Mobin-Uddin, Laura Jacobsen E Mob
If The Fates Allow : An Lgbtq Holiday Anthology Annie Harper, Killian B. Gracious Living magazine says it must be a live tree Brewer, Pene. True north Henson, Erin (Novelist). Last call at the Casa Blanca Bar & Grille Finnegan, Lilah. Halfway home Suzanne FIC If	The Hunting Party : A Novel Lucy (Novelist) Foley FIC Fol
Joan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cookbook [Electronic Resource] : Revised And Updated On The Occasion Of The 25th Anniversary Of The Publication Of The Jewish Holiday Kitchen Joan Nathan, Joan. Jewish holiday kitchen Nathan, Joan. Jewish holiday baker Nathan	The Rainbow Magic Holiday Collection [Electronic Resource] Daisy Meadows, Georgie Ripper, Daisy. Stella the star fairy Meadows, Daisy. Holly the Christmas fairy Meadows, Daisy. Gabriella the Snow Kingdom fairy Meadows
Jul : Swedish American Holiday Traditions Patrice M. Johnson 641.568 Joh	The Shortest Day : Celebrating The Winter Solstice Wendy Pfeffer, Jesse Reisch E Pfe
Krampus : The Yule Lord 1965- Brom FIC Bro	The Worst Noel : Hellish Holiday Tales. SC Wor
Last Christmas In Paris : A Novel Of World War I Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb FIC Gay	Their Yuletide Promise Stacy Connelly FIC Con
Let It Snow [Electronic Resource] : Three Holiday Romances John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle	Together At Midnight Jennifer Castle YA FIC Cas
Llama Llama Holiday Drama Anna Dewdney E Dew	Town In A Pumpkin Bash B. B Haywood FIC Hay
Lucy's Holiday Surprise Ilene Cooper, Royce Fitzgerald J FIC Coo

A Holiday Yarn : A Seaside Knitters Mystery

Sally Goldenbaum

Description: "With the Seaside Knitters' help, Mary Pisano converts her charming inherited home into a B&B. Her first week is booked by her very own family, in town to discuss their grandfather's will. She's hoping the tranquility of the setting will smooth over ill feelings among family members. But when her cousin Pam-a Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, native-is found murdered, she realizes she was dead wrong..."--FantasticFiction.com.

Call Number: FIC Gol

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Baking All Year Round : Holidays & Special Occasions

Rosanna Pansino

Description: Whatever the reason, when families are together they create lasting memories-- and enjoy eating fun foods! Pansino shares recipes for celebrating with friends and family throughout the year, covering holidays and special occasions. She includes vegan, gluten free, or dairy free options. -- adapted from back cover

Call Number: 641.86 Pan

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Bringing In The New Year

Grace Lin

Description: A Chinese American family prepares for and celebrates the Lunar New Year. End notes discuss the customs and traditions of Chinese New Year.

Call Number: E Lin

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 21, 2019

Eva's Holiday [Electronic Resource]

Judi Curtin

Format: eBook

Date Added: May 22, 2020

Fortune's Christmas Baby

Tara Taylor Quinn

Description: "When Nolan Forte returns to Austin a year after a yuletide romance, he is shocked to learn he is a father. He wants to do right by his beautiful baby girl--and her sweet mama, Lizzie Sullivan. But when he reveals his real name is Nolan Fortune, all bets are off. Lizzie doesn't trust men with money. Maybe some Christmas magic can convince her that she, Nolan and Stella are already rich in what matters!"--back cover.

Call Number: FIC Qui

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Four Sides, Eight Nights : A New Spin On Hanukkah

Rebecca Tova Ben-Zvi, Susanna Natti

Call Number: J 296.4 Ben

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Handmade Holiday Homicide : A Kiki Lowenstein Mystery

Joanna Campbell Slan

Description: "Super-crafter Kiki Lowenstein is cramming as much into the ho-ho-holiday season as she can. But Kiki's ambitious plans come to a crashing halt when her student, Eudora Field, drops death at the star of one of Kiki's community center classes"--Back cover.

Call Number: FIC Sla

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Holiday Decorating For Dummies [Electronic Resource]

Kelley Taylor

Description: "Easy, affordable ideas to fill your house with holiday cheer throughout the year!"--Cover.

Format: eBook

Date Added: May 22, 2020

Holiday Gifts Kids Can Make [Electronic Resource].

Format: eBook

Date Added: May 22, 2020

Holiday Wishes [Electronic Resource] : A Heartbreaker Bay Christmas Novella. Jill Shalvis.

Jill Shalvis

Description: It's Christmastime again in Heartbreaker Bay! When Sean O'Riley shows up at the Hartford Bed & Breakfast for his older brother's bachelor weekend, he's just hoping to make it through the weekend. What he's not expecting is to come face to face with the woman he lost his virginity to a decade ago—a woman he's never really forgotten. The last time Lotti Hartford saw Sean, she told him she loved him while he said nothing. Now, ten years later, she's just looking for a good time. For once, she wants to be the wild and free one, and Sean – the good time guy – is the perfect candidate. But as the weekend continues, Sean realizes that after a lifetime of being the hook-up king, he's ready to find happily-ever-after, and he wants it with Lotti. But will she open her heart to him again? As Christmas sweeps through the little B&B, he can only hope love and magic are in the air.

Format: eBook

Date Added: May 22, 2020

How To Celebrate Everything : Recipes And Rituals For Birthdays, Holidays, Family Dinners, And Every Day In Between

Jenny Rosenstrach, Victoria Granof

Description: A warm and inviting guide with more than one hundred time-tested recipes and a host of inspiring ideas for turning birthdays, holidays, and everyday occasions into cherished traditions. "Families crave rituals," says Jenny Rosenstrach, not just the big celebrations--but the little ones we may not even realize are rituals. Whether simple or elaborate, daily or annually, these rituals all serve the same purpose: to bring comfort, connection, and meaning to everyday family life. The recipes ideas and menus all translate to prime quality time with the family. How to Celebrate Everything helps families slow down, capture the moments that matter--and eat well while doing it.--From statement provided by publisher.

Call Number: 641.568 Ros

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

If The Fates Allow : An Lgbtq Holiday Anthology

Annie Harper, Killian B. Gracious Living magazine says it must be a live tree Brewer, Pene. True north Henson, Erin (Novelist). Last call at the Casa Blanca Bar & Grille Finnegan, Lilah. Halfway home Suzanne

Call Number: FIC If

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Joan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cookbook [Electronic Resource] : Revised And Updated On The Occasion Of The 25th Anniversary Of The Publication Of The Jewish Holiday Kitchen

Joan Nathan, Joan. Jewish holiday kitchen Nathan, Joan. Jewish holiday baker Nathan

Format: Book

Date Added: May 22, 2020

Jul : Swedish American Holiday Traditions

Patrice M. Johnson

Description: Christmas traditions, particularly those involving food, often honor our ancestors. Throughout the Midwest where Swedish immigrants settled, the dishes placed on the julbord (Christmas table) tell stories about who we are, where we come from, where we are heading, and what we eat.

Call Number: 641.568 Joh

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Krampus : The Yule Lord

1965- Brom

Description: When he stumbles upon a magical bag that belongs to Krampus, the Lord of Yule and the dark enemy of Santa Claus, struggling songwriter Jesse gets an unexpected chance to save his daughter and his own broken dreams, and return magic to Boone County, West Virginia.

Call Number: FIC Bro

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Last Christmas In Paris : A Novel Of World War I

Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb

Description: "August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes--as everyone does--that it will be over by Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate the holiday among the romantic cafes of Paris. But as history tells us, it all happened so differently. Evie and Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged young lady, Evie longs to play a greater part in the conflict--but how?--and as Thomas struggles with the unimaginable realities of war he also faces personal battles back home where War Office regulations on press reporting cause trouble at his father's newspaper business. Through their letters, Evie and Thomas share their greatest hopes and fears--and grow ever fonder from afar. Can love flourish amid the horror of the First World War, or will fate intervene? Christmas 1968. With failing health, Thomas returns to Paris--a cherished packet of letters in hand--determined to lay to rest the ghosts of his past. But one final letter is waiting for him."--Amazon.com.

Call Number: FIC Gay

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Let It Snow [Electronic Resource] : Three Holiday Romances

John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle

Description: When a huge blizzard hits, Gracetown is completely snowed in. But even though it's cold outside, things are heating up inside, proving that the holiday season is magical when it comes to love. These three interconnected tales captures all the spirit of the holiday season.

Format: eBook

Date Added: May 22, 2020

Llama Llama Holiday Drama

Anna Dewdney

Description: Llama Llama becomes overwhelmed as Christmas preparations progress, until his mother reminds him of the real gift the holiday brings.

Call Number: E Dew

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 21, 2019

Lucy's Holiday Surprise

Ilene Cooper, Royce Fitzgerald

Description: With still unnamed twin baby sisters at home, Bobby, owner of a boisterous pet beagle, is worried that his parents will have no time to celebrate Christmas.

Call Number: J FIC Coo

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday [Electronic Resource] : My Life With Brian

Kim Johnson, Johnny Heller, Simon Vance

Description: In 1978, Kim "Howard" Johnson ran away to join the circus--Monty Python's Flying Circus, that is. The Pythons converged on Tunisia to film their timeless classic, Life of Brian, and Howard found himself in the thick of it, doubling for nearly all the Pythons, playing more roles in the film than John Cleese, and managing to ruin only one shot. He became the unit journalist, substitute still photographer, Roman soldier, peasant, double, near-stalker, and, ultimately, friend and confidant of the comedy legends. He also kept a detailed journal of what he saw and heard, on set and off, throughout those six weeks. The result is a unique eyewitness account that reveals the Pythons at work and at play in a way that nothing else written about them could do. Even the most diehard fans will get a fresh take on the comedy greats through some never-before-revealed nuggets of Python brilliance.--From publisher description.

Format: eAudiobook

Date Added: May 22, 2020

New Year's Eve Murder [Large Print]

Leslie Meier

Call Number: LP FIC Mei

Format: Large Print

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

New Year's Eve Thieves

Ron Roy, John Steven Gurney

Description: While investigating a mystery on New Year's Eve, four friends encounter a big surprise.

Call Number: J FIC Roy

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Npr Holiday Favorites [Electronic Resource].

Susan Stamberg, National Public Radio (U.S.), HighBridge Audio (Firm)

Description: National Public Radio's presents holiday classics. From David Sedaris' narrative on playing Santa's little helper at Macy's, to Baxter Black's apt description of the Christmas cookie no one could eat, these stories are both refreshing and nostalgic.

Format: eAudiobook

Date Added: May 22, 2020

Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The Choir : A Ruby, The Rabbi's Wife Mystery

Sharon Kahn

Call Number: FIC Kah

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 21, 2019

Resorting To Murder : Holiday Mysteries

Martin Edwards, Martin Edwards, Arthur Conan Doyle, E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung, Arnold Bennett

Call Number: FIC Res

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Santa Cruise : A Holiday Mystery At Sea

Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark

Description: Embarking on a mystery seminar cruise during the holiday season, amateur sleuth Alvirah, private detective Regan, and their family members find their voyage overshadowed by a ghost spotting, the disappearance of a fan, and an unexpected storm.

Call Number: FIC Cla

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Slappy New Year

R. L Stine

Description: In order to throw his New Year's Eve party, Ray promises not to scare his younger brother Brandon with his ventriloquist dummy Slappy, but when strange, mean-spirited things start happening, Ray suspects Slappy of foul play.

Call Number: J FIC Sti

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Super Simple Holiday Treats [Electronic Resource] : Easy No-bake Recipes For Kids

Nancy Tuminelly

Description: From "Chinese New Year Munch" to "Christmas Gumdrop Bars," this book presents step-by-step instructions for nine holiday treats.

Format: eBook

Date Added: May 22, 2020

The Berenstain Bears' Holiday Cookbook : Cub-friendly Cooking With An Adult

Mike Berenstain

Description: Presents forty recipes for holiday foods, including sweetheart chocolate cake for Valentine's Day and cozy hot cocoa for Christmas.

Call Number: J 641.568 Ber

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

The Best Eid Ever

Asma Mobin-Uddin, Laura Jacobsen

Description: Aneesa and her grandmother come up with a plan to help two girls who are refugees celebrate Eid in America.

Call Number: E Mob

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 21, 2019

The Hunting Party : A Novel

Lucy (Novelist) Foley

Description: During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they've chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands--the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group's tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year's Eve, the cord holding them together snaps. On New Year's Day, one of them is dead, and another of them did it.

Call Number: FIC Fol

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

The Rainbow Magic Holiday Collection [Electronic Resource]

Daisy Meadows, Georgie Ripper, Daisy. Stella the star fairy Meadows, Daisy. Holly the Christmas fairy Meadows, Daisy. Gabriella the Snow Kingdom fairy Meadows

Description: The holidays have lost their shimmer. There's trouble in Fairyland. Jack Frost is up to his old tricks. Now the fairies are missing their special holiday magic. Will the holly-jolly holidays be changed forever? Or can Rachel and Kirsty help Holly, Stella, Gabriella, and Paige save the day?

Format: eBook

Date Added: May 22, 2020

The Shortest Day : Celebrating The Winter Solstice

Wendy Pfeffer, Jesse Reisch

Description: Describes how and why daylight grows shorter as winter approaches, the effect of shorter days on animals and people, and how the winter solstice has been celebrated throughout history. Includes activities.

Call Number: E Pfe

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 21, 2019

The Worst Noel : Hellish Holiday Tales.

Call Number: SC Wor

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Their Yuletide Promise

Stacy Connelly

Description: Workaholic Evie McClaren will do anything to prevent the sale of her family's hotel. Even fake a holiday romance! Wealthy charmer - and prospective buyer - Griffin James seems delighted to play along... providing steamy, realistic PDAs under the mistletoe. Wait. Was that last kiss real? All Evie wants for Christmas is the Hillcrest House Hotel. And all Griffin wants... is Evie by his side - for real.

Call Number: FIC Con

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Together At Midnight

Jennifer Castle

Description: Teens Kendall and Max witness a tragic accident during the holidays and, racked with guilt, accept a dare to perform seven random acts of kindness to strangers by New Year's Eve.

Call Number: YA FIC Cas

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

Town In A Pumpkin Bash

B. B Haywood

Description: As the town of Cape Willington prepares for their annual autumn festival, Candy Holliday, running this year's haunted hay ride, must find out who turned her holiday attraction into a real-life horror show when she discovers a dead body near some fake tombstones.

Call Number: FIC Hay

Format: Book

Date Added: Nov 25, 2019

November 2019 - True Crime

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True crime is a non-fiction literary genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people.

It's just the right kind of creepy for a cold winter night. Enjoy these curated picks for November.

A Mother's Reckoning : Living In The Aftermath Of Tragedy Sue Klebold 373.1782 Kle	No Angel [Large Print] : My Harrowing Undercover Journey To The Inner Circle Of The Hells Angels Jay Dobyns, Nils Johnson-Shelton LP 364.106 Dob
Aftermath, Inc. : Cleaning Up After Csi Goes Home Gil Reavill 363.25 Rea	The 57 Bus Dashka Slater YA 364.1555 Sla
American Overdose : The Opioid Tragedy In Three Acts Chris McGreal 362.29 McG	The Cadaver King And The Country Dentist [Audiobook] : A True Story Of Injustice In The American South Radley Balko, Tucker (W. Tucker) Carrington, Robert Fass 614.1 Bal
Billion Dollar Whale [Audiobook] : The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, And The World Tom (Wall Street Journal reporter) Wright, Bradley Hope, Will Collyer 364.163 Wri	The Chickenshit Club : Why The Justice Department Fails To Prosecute Executives Jesse Eisinger 345.7302 Eis
Black Klansman [Audiobook] Ron Stallworth 322.42 Sta	The Feather Thief : Beauty, Obsession, And The Natural History Heist Of The Century Kirk W. Johnson 364.162 Joh
City Of Devils : The Two Men Who Ruled The Underworld Of Old Shanghai Paul French 364.106 Fre	The Good Mothers : The True Story Of The Women Who Took On The World's Most Powerful Mafia Alex Perry 364.106 Per
Conan Doyle For The Defense : The True Story Of A Sensational British Murder, A Quest For Justice, And The World's Most Famous Detective Writer Margalit Fox 364.1523 Fox	The Less People Know About Us : A Mystery Of Betrayal, Family Secrets, And Stolen Identity Axton Betz-Hamilton ordered 091919
Death In The Air : The True Story Of A Serial Killer, The Great London Smog, And The Strangling Of A City Kate Winkler Dawson 364.1523 Daw	The Real Lolita : The Kidnapping Of Sally Horner And The Novel That Scandalized The World Sarah Weinman 362.88 Wei
Devil's Knot : The True Story Of The West Memphis Three Mara Leveritt 364.1523 Lev	The Truffle Underground : A Tale Of Mystery, Mayhem, And Manipulation In The Shadowy Market Of The World's Most Expensive Fungus Ryan McMahon Jacobs 381.4158 Jac
Filthy Rich : A Powerful Billionaire, The Sex Scandal That Undid Him, And All The Justice That Money Can Buy : The Shocking True Story Of Jeffrey Epstein James Patterson, John Connolly, Tim (Journalist) Malloy 364.153 Pat	The Wicked Boy : The Mystery Of A Victorian Child Murderer Kate Summerscale 364.1523 Sum
Furious Hours [Audiobook] : Murder, Fraud, And The Last Trial Of Harper Lee Casey N. Cep, Hillary Huber 364.15232 Cep	The Year We Disappeared : A Father-daughter Memoir Cylin Busby, John Busby 920 Bus
Missoula : Rape And The Justice System In A College Town Jon Krakauer 362.883 Kra	To The Bridge : A True Story Of Motherhood And Murder Nancy Rommelmann 364.1523 Rom
My Friend Anna : The True Story Of A Fake Heiress Rachel DeLoache Williams 364.163 Wil

A Mother's Reckoning : Living In The Aftermath Of Tragedy

Sue Klebold

Description: On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. In a matter of minutes, they killed twelve students and a teacher and wounded twenty-four others before taking their own lives. For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. How could her child, the promising young man she had loved and raised, be responsible for such horror? And how, as his mother, had she not known something was wrong? Here she chronicles her journey as a mother trying to come to terms with the incomprehensible, shedding light on one of the most pressing issues of our time.--Adapted from book jacket.

Call Number: 373.1782 Kle

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

Aftermath, Inc. : Cleaning Up After Csi Goes Home

Gil Reavill

Call Number: 363.25 Rea

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

American Overdose : The Opioid Tragedy In Three Acts

Chris McGreal

Description: Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the opioid epidemic, McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs, but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it. A few physicians warned of impending disaster, but the forces they were up against-- including the pharmaceutical industry's coopting of the Food and Drug Administration and Congress in the drive to push painkillers-- resulted in the resurgence of heroin cartels in the American heartland. McGreal shows how its ruinous consequences will stretch years into the future. -- adapted from jacket.

Call Number: 362.29 McG

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

Billion Dollar Whale [Audiobook] : The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, And The World

Tom (Wall Street Journal reporter) Wright, Bradley Hope, Will Collyer

Description: Presents the story of Jho Low, who in 2009 convinced the prime minister of Malaysia to create an investment fund which Low spent the next decade siphoning off billions of dollars from.

Call Number: 364.163 Wri

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

Black Klansman [Audiobook]

Ron Stallworth

Description: In 1978 detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, answered an ad recruiting for the Ku Klux Klan. A few weeks later, his office phone rang and the man on the other end of the line asked, "Do you want to join our cause?" This launched Ron into an incredible undercover investigation, with his white partner playing "Ron" in person, while he took the phone calls, eventually befriending David Duke himself.

Call Number: 322.42 Sta

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

City Of Devils : The Two Men Who Ruled The Underworld Of Old Shanghai

Paul French

Description: Shanghai, 1930s; it was a haven for outlaws from all over the world: a place where pasts could beforgotten, fascism and communism outrun, names invented, and fortunes made--and lost. "Lucky" Jack Riley was the most notorious of those outlaws. An ex-U.S. Navy boxing champion, he escaped from prison and rose to become the Slots King of Shanghai. "Dapper" Joe Farren--a Jewish boy who fed Vienna's ghetto--ruled the nightclubs. His chorus lines rivalled Ziegfeld's. In 1940, Lucky Jack and Dapper Joe bestrode the Shanghai Badlands like kings, while all around the Solitary Island was poverty, starvation, and war. They thought they ruled Shanghai, but the city had other ideas. This is the story of their rise to power, their downfall, and the trail of destruction left in their wake.

Call Number: 364.106 Fre

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

Conan Doyle For The Defense : The True Story Of A Sensational British Murder, A Quest For Justice, And The World's Most Famous Detective Writer

Margalit Fox

Description: "In 1908 an elderly woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow apartment. The police found a convenient but innocent suspect in Oscar Slater--a Jewish cardsharp--who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already the world-famous creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Over the years he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and police diaries, meticulously noting myriad holes and inconsistencies. Finally, in 1927, his work won Slater's freedom. Conan Doyle for the Defense immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection, telling the story of how Conan Doyle managed to get this murder conviction overturned by employing the methods of his most famous creation. Along the way, Fox illuminates a watershed moment in the history of criminal justice when reflexive prejudice began gradually to be replaced by reason and the scientific method"-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: 364.1523 Fox

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

Death In The Air : The True Story Of A Serial Killer, The Great London Smog, And The Strangling Of A City

Kate Winkler Dawson

Description: In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and 12,000 people died. That same month, there was another killer at large in London: John Reginald Christie, who murdered at least six women. In a braided narrative that draws on extensive interviews, never-before-published material, and archival research, Dawson captivatingly recounts the intersecting stories of the these two killers and their longstanding impact on modern history.

Call Number: 364.1523 Daw

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

Devil's Knot : The True Story Of The West Memphis Three

Mara Leveritt

Call Number: 364.1523 Lev

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

Filthy Rich : A Powerful Billionaire, The Sex Scandal That Undid Him, And All The Justice That Money Can Buy : The Shocking True Story Of Jeffrey Epstein

James Patterson, John Connolly, Tim (Journalist) Malloy

Description: "Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. And that unceasing desire--especially a taste for young girls--resulted in his stunning fall from grace. From Epstein himself, to the girls he employed as masseuses at his home, to the cops investigating the appalling charges against him, Filthy Rich examines all sides of a case that scandalized one of America's richest communities."--Amazon.com.

Call Number: 364.153 Pat

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

Furious Hours [Audiobook] : Murder, Fraud, And The Last Trial Of Harper Lee

Casey N. Cep, Hillary Huber

Description: Casey Cep brings this nearly inconceivable, gripping story to life on the page: from the shocking murders to the chicanery of insurance fraud to the courtroom drama. At the same time, it is a vividly told, elegiac account of Harper Lee's quest to write a second book after To Kill a Mockingbird, and a deeply moving portrait of this beloved writer's struggle with fame, success, and the mysteries of artistic creativity.

Call Number: 364.15232 Cep

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

Missoula : Rape And The Justice System In A College Town

Jon Krakauer

Description: "In Missoula, Krakauer chronicles the searing experiences of several women in Missoula--the nights when they were raped; their fear and self-doubt in the aftermath; the way they were treated by the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys; the public vilification and private anguish; their bravery in pushing forward and what it cost them"--Book jacket.

Call Number: 362.883 Kra

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

My Friend Anna : The True Story Of A Fake Heiress

Rachel DeLoache Williams

Description: "From a photo editor at Vanity Fair comes the true account of her friendship with "Anna Delvey"--a woman posing as a German heiress who conned her out of $62,000--and her quest to obtain justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: 364.163 Wil

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

No Angel [Large Print] : My Harrowing Undercover Journey To The Inner Circle Of The Hells Angels

Jay Dobyns, Nils Johnson-Shelton

Description: The first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the Hells Angels, Dobyns finally tells the inside story of the 21-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life.

Call Number: LP 364.106 Dob

Format: Large Print

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

The 57 Bus

Dashka Slater

Description: "One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. The case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight." -- Amazon.com

Call Number: YA 364.1555 Sla

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

The Cadaver King And The Country Dentist [Audiobook] : A True Story Of Injustice In The American South

Radley Balko, Tucker (W. Tucker) Carrington, Robert Fass

Description: In this account of two tragedies, Dr. Steven Hayne was a medical examiner in Mississippi and Dr. Michael West a dentist and self-styled "bite-mark specialist." The second tragedy is of two black men wrongly convicted by Hayne's and West's reports. The authors reveal how this tragedy happened and how to prevent its happening again.

Call Number: 614.1 Bal

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

The Chickenshit Club : Why The Justice Department Fails To Prosecute Executives

Jesse Eisinger

Description: Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing with impunity? The problem goes beyond banks deemed "Too Big to Fail" to almost every large corporation in America-- to pharmaceutical companies and auto manufacturers and beyond. The Chickenshit Club--an inside reference to prosecutors too scared of failure and too daunted by legal impediments to do their jobs--explains why. The book tells the story from inside the Department of Justice--a story that spans the last decade and a half of prosecutorial fiascos, corporate lobbying, trial losses, and culture shifts that have stripped the government of the will and ability to prosecute top corporate executives. Exposing one of the most important scandals of our time, this book explains how our Justice Department has come to avoid, bungle, and mismanage the fight to bring these alleged criminals to justice.--From statement at Amazon.

Call Number: 345.7302 Eis

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

The Feather Thief : Beauty, Obsession, And The Natural History Heist Of The Century

Kirk W. Johnson

Description: On a cool June evening in 2009, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist grabbed hundreds of bird skins--some collected 150 years earlier--and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? This is the gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice.

Call Number: 364.162 Joh

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

The Good Mothers : The True Story Of The Women Who Took On The World's Most Powerful Mafia

Alex Perry

Description: "An unprecedented look inside a ruthless and obscenely wealthy branch of the Italian Mafia and the electrifying story of the brave women who decided to fight back"-- Provided by publisher.

Call Number: 364.106 Per

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

The Less People Know About Us : A Mystery Of Betrayal, Family Secrets, And Stolen Identity

Axton Betz-Hamilton

Description: In a powerful memoir, identity theft expert Betz-Hamilton tells the shocking and unsettling story of her family, betrayal, and deceit. Convinced that the thief had to be someone they knew, Axton and her parents completely cut off the outside world, isolating themselves from friends and family.

Call Number: ordered 091919

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

The Real Lolita : The Kidnapping Of Sally Horner And The Novel That Scandalized The World

Sarah Weinman

Description: "In 1948, Sally Horner was just eleven years old when she was kidnapped by a man claiming to be an FBI agent. Seven years later, Vladimir Nabokov published Lolita, perhaps the most seminal novel of the twentieth century. Sarah Weinman's investigation into how the two are connected is a thrilling, heartbreaking mix of literary scholarship and true-crime writing."--back cover.

Call Number: 362.88 Wei

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

The Truffle Underground : A Tale Of Mystery, Mayhem, And Manipulation In The Shadowy Market Of The World's Most Expensive Fungus

Ryan McMahon Jacobs

Description: Beneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, the truffle supply chain is touched by theft, secrecy, sabotage, and fraud. Farmers patrol their fields with rifles and fear losing trade secrets to spies. Hunters plant poisoned meatballs to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Naive buyers and even knowledgeable experts are duped by liars and counterfeits. This exposé documents the dark, sometimes deadly crimes at each level of the truffle's path from ground to plate, making sense of an industry that traffics in scarcity, seduction, and cash. Through it all, a question lingers: What, other than money, draws people to these dirt-covered knobs?

Call Number: 381.4158 Jac

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

The Wicked Boy : The Mystery Of A Victorian Child Murderer

Kate Summerscale

Description: In East London in the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age thirteen) and his brother Nattie (age twelve) were arrested for matricide and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. Robert confessed to having stabbed his mother, but his lawyers argued that he was insane. The judge sentenced him to detention in Broadmoor, the most infamous criminal lunatic asylum in the land. Shockingly, Broadmoor turned out to be the beginning of a new life for Robert. At a time of great tumult and uncertainty, Robert Coombes's case crystallized contemporary anxieties about the education of the working classes, the dangers of pulp fiction, and evolving theories of criminality, childhood, and insanity. With riveting detail and rich atmosphere, Summerscale re-creates this terrible crime and its aftermath, uncovering an extraordinary story of man's capacity to overcome the past.--Adapted from book jacket.

Call Number: 364.1523 Sum

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

The Year We Disappeared : A Father-daughter Memoir

Cylin Busby, John Busby

Description: Cylin and John Busby share the challenges they faced after their family was forced into hiding to protect themselves from a killer who had already shot John, a police officer, and was determined to finish the job.

Call Number: 920 Bus

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

To The Bridge : A True Story Of Motherhood And Murder

Nancy Rommelmann

Description: On May 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the middle of the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped her two children into the Willamette River. Rommelmann traced the roots of Amanda's fury and desperation through pages of records, withheld documents, meetings with lawyers and convicts, and interviews with friends and family who felt shocked, confused, and emotionally swindled by a woman whose entire life was now defined by an unspeakable crime. At the heart of that crime: a tempestuous marriage, a family on the fast track to self-destruction, and a myriad of secrets and lies as dark and turbulent as the Willamette River.

Call Number: 364.1523 Rom

Format: Book

Date Added: Oct 15, 2019

October 2019 - Adventures!

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Are you ready for an adventure? Bags are packed? Destination set? Then we've got books for you.

October's Year In Reading Challenge is Adventure, so hang on to your hat, because we're about to get started!

A Blade So Black L. L. (Leatrice L.) McKinney, Lewis Carroll YA FIC McK	I Almost Died. Again Alison DeCamp J FIC DeC
Air Force One Is Down John Dennis, Alistair MacLean FIC Den	I Am Still Alive Kate Alice Marshall YA FIC Mar
Altar Of Eden [Large Print] James Rollins LP FIC Rol	Metro 2033 [Audiobook] Dmitriĭ Glukhovskiĭ, Rupert Degas FIC Glu
Angels & Demons Dan Brown FIC Bro	Night Flights Philip Reeve, Ian McQue YA FIC Ree
Around The World In 80 Dates Jennifer Cox 306.73 Cox	Nightmare Army Don Pendleton FIC Pen
Assassin's Creed : Renaissance Oliver Bowden FIC Bow	Pearl Harbor [Audiobook] : From Infamy To Greatness Craig Nelson, George Guidall 940.5426 Nel
Battle In The Overworld Winter Morgan J FIC Mor	The Adventure Zone. Here There Be Gerblins Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Justin McElroy, Carey Pietsch YA FIC McE
Breaking Trail : A Climbing Life Arlene Blum B Blu	The Atlantis Code Charles Brokaw FIC Bro
Echoes Of Massacre Canyon [Large Print] Ben Tyler LP FIC Tyl	The Gathering Storm H. K. Varian J FIC Var
Emergence John Birmingham FIC Bir	The Innocent David Baldacci FIC Bal
Empire Of The Sun J. G. Ballard FIC Bal	The Living Matt de la Peña YA FIC De L
Flat Stanley At Bat Lori Haskins Houran, Macky Pamintuan, Jeff Brown Ei Hou	The Madwoman Upstairs : A Novel Catherine Lowell FIC Low
High Adventure : Our Ascent Of The Everest Edmund Hillary 796.522 Hil 2013	The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves The World Again A. C Wise FIC Wis
Hooked On Murder [Audiobook] Betty Hechtman, Margaret Strom FIC Hec

A Blade So Black

L. L. (Leatrice L.) McKinney, Lewis Carroll

Description: "The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew. Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and a slipping GPA. Keeping the Nightmares at bay is turning into a full-time job. But when Alice's handsome and mysterious mentor is poisoned, she has to find the antidote by venturing deeper into Wonderland than she's ever gone before. And she'll need to use everything she's learned in both worlds to keep from losing her head, literally."--Amazon.

Call Number: YA FIC McK

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Air Force One Is Down

John Dennis, Alistair MacLean

Description: They answer to no one - officially they don't exist. Created to battle a growing army of super-criminals and international terrorists, the United Nations Anti-Crime Organization comprises elite specialists from around the world.

Call Number: FIC Den

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Altar Of Eden [Large Print]

James Rollins

Description: Pregnant veterinarian Maura Kelly, along with U.S. Marshall Jack Menard, risks everything, including the life of her unborn child, to unravel the mystery of a smuggler's cache of mutated animals, a puzzle that involves fractal intelligence, stem-cell research, and a secret history of the Book of Genesis.

Call Number: LP FIC Rol

Format: Large Print

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Angels & Demons

Dan Brown

Description: "World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization--the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Longdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth ... the long-forgotten Illuminati lair."--P. [4] of cover.

Call Number: FIC Bro

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Around The World In 80 Dates

Jennifer Cox

Call Number: 306.73 Cox

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Assassin's Creed : Renaissance

Oliver Bowden

Description: Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, Ezio vows to exact his revenge and restore his family's honor by using the skills he has learned from such great minds as Da Vinci and Macchiavelli to become a righteous assassin.

Call Number: FIC Bow

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Battle In The Overworld

Winter Morgan

Description: When a TNT explosion destroys the academy on graduation day, it's up to Lucy, Jane, and Phoebe to use their training to battle the evil force that is taking over the Overworld.

Call Number: J FIC Mor

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Breaking Trail : A Climbing Life

Arlene Blum

Call Number: B Blu

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Echoes Of Massacre Canyon [Large Print]

Ben Tyler

Description: The year is 1881. Clint Ramsay is a renowned troubleshooter for the Underwood Detective Agency. He has been summoned to San Reale, Texas, by an old friend who needs his help. Ramsay soon discovers that danger is lurking behind every bush and rock in the small cattle town. He finds himself drawn into a complex web of treachery, greed, and murder. Who can he trust? And what is the secret everyone but him seems to know?

Call Number: LP FIC Tyl

Format: Large Print

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Emergence

John Birmingham

Description: Dave Hooper has a hangover from hell, a horrible ex-wife, and the fangs of the IRS deep in his side. The last thing he needs is an explosion at work. A real explosion. On his off-shore oil rig. But this is no accident, and despite the news reports, Dave knows that terrorists aren't to blame. He knows because he killed one of the things responsible. Killing a seven-foot-tall, tattooed demon has transformed the overweight, balding safety manager into something else entirely. A foul-mouthed, beer-loving monster slayer, and humanity's least worthy Champion.

Call Number: FIC Bir

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Empire Of The Sun

J. G. Ballard

Call Number: FIC Bal

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Flat Stanley At Bat

Lori Haskins Houran, Macky Pamintuan, Jeff Brown

Description: A latest early reader tale starring the whimsical Flat Stanley finds him trying out for the baseball team and outwitting the best players until the fairness of his "flat-vantage" is called into question.

Call Number: Ei Hou

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

High Adventure : Our Ascent Of The Everest

Edmund Hillary

Call Number: 796.522 Hil 2013

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Hooked On Murder [Audiobook]

Betty Hechtman, Margaret Strom

Description: When Molly Pink stumbles across the dead body of Ellen Sheridan, the leader of a weekly crochet group, her complicated past with Ellen makes her a prime suspect. But while Molly's fending off a detective with a personal grudge, the killer is at large.

Call Number: FIC Hec

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

I Almost Died. Again

Alison DeCamp

Description: In 1895 Michigan, Stan, eleven, will do almost anything to help his mother financially, even babysitting, but his long-lost father shows up and proves to be a big disappointment.

Call Number: J FIC DeC

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

I Am Still Alive

Kate Alice Marshall

Description: "Jess hadn't seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Just as Jess was beginning to get to know him, a secret from his past paid them a visit, leaving her father dead and Jess stranded. With only her father's dog for company, Jess must forage and hunt for food, build shelter, and keep herself warm. Some days it feels like the wild is out to destroy her, but she's stronger than she ever imagined. Jess will survive. She has to. She knows who killed her father . . . and she wants revenge."--Provided by publisher.

Call Number: YA FIC Mar

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Metro 2033 [Audiobook]

Dmitriĭ Glukhovskiĭ, Rupert Degas

Description: "The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct and the half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind, but the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory. Man has handed over stewardship of the Earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiaiton, they are better adapted to the new world. A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on Earth, living in the Moscow Metro--the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people united around ideas, religions, water-filters, or the need to repulse enemy incursion. VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line, one of the Metro's best stations and secure. But a new and terrible threat has appeared. Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro to alert everyone to the danger and to get help. He holds the future of his station in his hands, the whole Metro--and maybe the whole of humanity."--Container.

Call Number: FIC Glu

Format: Audiobook

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Night Flights

Philip Reeve, Ian McQue

Description: "In a dangerous future world where gigantic, motorized cities attack and devour each other, London hunts where no other predator dares. But Anna Fang -- pilot, adventurer, spy -- isn't afraid. These three stories show gripping, moving, exciting moments in Anna Fang's life: her childhood as a slave aboard the moving city Arkangel, a showdown against a robotic Stalker that is terrifyingly out of control, and her free life as an intelligence agent for the Anti-Traction league."--Provided by publisher.

Call Number: YA FIC Ree

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Nightmare Army

Don Pendleton

Description: "Attacked by a horde of feral, rampaging villagers infected by a synthetic virus, Mack Bolan barely escapes the isolated mountain town in time to witness a mysterious black ops team as they raze the place and kill all its inhabitants. Determined to find the source of this powerful bioweapon, Bolan tracks the virus to a secret facility, where scientists are working to make the infected victims stronger, swifter and more deadly. But the wealthy industrialist who turns out to be funding this research has his sights set on all-out toxic warfare. Now that it's ready, the germ will be unleashed on a mass scale across the European Union, targeting specific ethnic groups for destruction. With millions of lives at stake, Bolan has no choice but to embark on a seek-and-destroy mission"--provided by publisher.

Call Number: FIC Pen

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

Pearl Harbor [Audiobook] : From Infamy To Greatness

Craig Nelson, George Guidall

Description: The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly and savagely attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men—and forced America’s entry into World War II. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness follows, moment by moment, the sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, emperor, and president as they engineer, fight, and react to this stunningly dramatic moment in world history.

Call Number: 940.5426 Nel

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

The Adventure Zone. Here There Be Gerblins

Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Justin McElroy, Carey Pietsch

Description: "Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided ("guided") by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that, like the smash-hit podcast it's based on, will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance." -- Amazon.com.

Call Number: YA FIC McE

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

The Atlantis Code

Charles Brokaw

Description: When the ancient ruins of Atlantis are discovered along the Spanish coast, linguist and archaeologist Thomas Lourds joins a violent competition to be the first of its explorers, an effort marked by a series of puzzles that must be solved in order to gainentry into the lost civilization.

Call Number: FIC Bro

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

The Gathering Storm

H. K. Varian

Description: When four middle schoolers start developing powers, including the ability to transform into mythological animals, they discover they are part of a line of magical shapeshifters who must save their town from a powerful warlock.

Call Number: J FIC Var

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

The Innocent

David Baldacci

Description: Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.

Call Number: FIC Bal

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

The Living

Matt de la Peña

Description: After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.

Call Number: YA FIC De L

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

The Madwoman Upstairs : A Novel

Catherine Lowell

Description: Since Samantha Whipple's father died, she is the presumed heir to a long-rumored trove of diaries, paintings, letters, and early novel drafts passed down from the Brontë family-- a trove which may be just another fiction. When Samantha enrolls at Oxford University, long lost objects from the past begin rematerializing in her life. Her father’s distinctive copy of Jane Eyre, which should have perished in the fire that claimed his life, is the first of many clues in an elaborate scavenger hunt derived from the world's greatest literature.

Call Number: FIC Low

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves The World Again

A. C Wise

Description: "Who are the Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron? If you need to ask then you have not been anywhere near a television, computer, or disco recently. No other superheroes are as dedicated or dazzling as these gals. Some of them tuck, some of them are pure trout, but they kick ass in high heels and rollerskates. A.C. Wise's debut collection of heroic tales is half whimsy and half 1950s pulp reborn for the 21st century"--from Amazon page.

Call Number: FIC Wis

Format: Book

Date Added: Sep 26, 2019

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