6/26/2023
Come join us Saturday, July 8 @ noon for our Cookbook Club! Select a recipe from Watermelon & Red Birds by Nicolge Taylor, and bring your dish to share with the group. More information...
Arsenic, a midwife, and modern history's most astonishing murder ring // The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other—a 1920s midwife who may have been the century's most prolific killer leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men. At the center of it all was a sharp-minded village midwife, a "smiling Buddha" known as Auntie Suzy, who distilled arsenic from flypaper and distributed it to the women of Nagyrév who used the deadly solution to free themselves of cruel and abusive spouses and sickly relatives.
364.1523 MCCRACKEN
Tom Hazard has just moved back to London, his old home, to settle down and become a high school history teacher. And on his first day at school, he meets a captivating French teacher at his school who seems fascinated by him. But Tom has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. Though the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love.
Science Fiction HAIG
Liberating ourselves from the American Dream // An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled. The promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is central to the story of the American Dream. This is a powerful examination of what ails us at a societal level and a plan for how we can free ourselves from these self-defeating narratives.
305.5 QUART
With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she’s descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home.
Large Print FOX
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