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Jan 02

Book Notes 1/2/2024

Posted on January 2, 2024 at 3:23 PM by Genesis Gaule

Blog Book Notes

1/2/2024

Our January Book Club pick is Yellowface by R.F. Kuang.  Check it out and then join us on January 30 at 6 pm to discuss.


Spies

The epic intelligence war between East and West
by Calder Walton

Call Number: 327.12 WALTON

Mining hitherto secret archives in multiple languages, Calder Walton shows that the Cold War started earlier than commonly assumed, that it continued even after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, and that Britain and America’s clandestine struggle with the Soviet government provided key lessons for countering China today.


The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

by Sean Lusk

Call Number: Fantasy LUSK

Since his accident, Zachary is plagued by visions that reveal the hearts and minds of those around him. A gift at times and a curse at others, it is nonetheless these visions that will help him complete a journey that he was always destined to make - to travel across Europe to Constantinople and find out what happened to his father all those years ago.


Little, Crazy Children

A true crime tragedy
by James Renner

Call Number: 364.1523 RENNER

In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett, a poetry lover and member of a church youth group, was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend, when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy’s home. With a fresh perspective and painstaking research culled from police files, court records, transcripts, uncollected evidence, and new interviews, James Renner reconstructs the events leading up to and following that heartbreaking night. What emerges is a portrait of a community seething with dark undercurrents—its single-minded authorities, protective status-conscious parents, and the deeply peer-pressured teens within Lisa’s circle.


Into the Fire

by Irene Hannon

Call Number: Mystery HANNON Courage v.1 LP

As a former smokejumper, arson investigator Bri Tucker knows her way around fires. But after a mysterious blaze takes the life of a former colleague, Bri inherits a curious puzzle from him that raises questions about several fiery deaths. Someone, however, doesn't want her picking up where he left off in search of answers.


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