8/7/2023
Stop by the Friends of the Library Mini Book Sale during Heritage Days, August 1 & 13 at Heritage Village in East Grand Forks. Free admission for everyone!
A story of war, peace, and redemption in Vietnam
by George Black
Call Number: MH 959.7043 BLACK
George Black recounts the inspirational story of the small cast of characters—veterans, scientists, and Quaker-inspired pacifists, and their Vietnamese partners—who used their moral authority, scientific and political ingenuity, and sheer persistence to attempt to heal the horrors that were left in the wake of the military engagement in Southeast Asia.
by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: WHITEHEAD
This book is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family. Colson Whitehead’s kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is sure to stand as one of the all-time great evocations of a place and a time.
Seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope
by Sarah Bakewell
Call Number: 171.2 BAKEWELL
The humanistic worldview—as clear-eyed and enlightening as it is kaleidoscopic and richly ambiguous—has inspired people for centuries to make their choices by principles of freethinking, intellectual inquiry, fellow feeling, and optimism. In this sweeping new history, Sarah Bakewell, herself a lifelong humanist, illuminates the very personal, individual, and, well, human matter of humanism and takes readers on a grand intellectual adventure.
The Drowing Empire
by Andrea Stewart
Call Number: Fantasy STEWART Drowning v.1
Lin is the emperor's daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. When her father refuses to recognize her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet such power carries a great cost, and when the revolution reaches the gates of the palace, Lin must decide how far she is willing to go to claim her birthright - and save her people.
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