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Book Notes 8/28/2023

Posted on August 28, 2023 at 11:28 AM by Genesis Gaule

Blog Book Notes

8/28/2023

Come and create beautiful bookmarks using pressed flowers! All ages are welcome to join us on Tuesday, September 5 @ 6:30 pm.


Unshuttered

by Patricia Smith

Call Number: 811.6 SMITH

Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time.


Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

Call Number: Science Fiction HEINLEIN

Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never seen another member of his species. Sent to Earth, he is a stranger who must learn what it is to be a man. But his own beliefs and his powers far exceed the limits of humankind, and as he teaches them about grokking and water-sharing, he also inspires a transformation that will alter Earth’s inhabitants forever...


Sky above Kharkiv

by Serhiy Zhadan

Call Number: MH 940.5 ZHADAN

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Serhiy Zhadan took to social media to coordinate a network of resistance workers and send messages of courage to his fellow Ukrainians. What began as a local organizing effort exploded onto the international stage as readers around the globe looked to Zhadan as a key eyewitness documenting Russian atrocities.


Legends & Lattes

by Travis Baldree

Call Number: Fantasy BALDREE Legends v.1

After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time. The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success — not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is. If Viv wants to put the blade behind her and make her plans a reality, she won't be able to go it alone.


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