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Nov 27

Book Notes 11/27/2023

Posted to Book Notes on November 27, 2023 at 10:52 AM by Genesis Gaule

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11/27/2023

All-ages are welcome to drop in Tuesday, December 5 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm for License to Chill! Take a break from the hubbub of winter with an evening of fun indoor activities at the Campbell Library!


All the Gold Stars

Reimagining ambition and the ways we strive
by Rainesford Stauffer

Call Number: 302.54 STAUFFER

This book looks at how the cultural, personal, and societal expectations around ambition are driving the burnout epidemic by funneling our worth into productivity, limiting our imaginations, and pushing us further apart.


Hot Pot Murder

L.A. night market mysteries
by Jennifer J. Chow

Call Number: Mystery CHOW L.A. Large Print

Yale and Celine Yee’s food stall business is going so well that they’ve been invited to join an exclusive dinner with the local restaurant owner's association. The members gather together for a relaxing hot pot feast…until Jeffery Vue, president of the group, receives a literal shock to his system and dies.


Pageboy

A Memoir
by Elliot Page

Call Number: 791.4302 PAGE

Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, this book is a love letter to the power of being seen.


A Stranger in the Citadel

by Tobias S. Buckell

Call Number: Fantasy BUCKELL

The life of the youngest musketress of Ninetha has been one of hard training. But Lilith’s days have also contained many pleasures, the royal privileges of her family’s guardianship of the Cornucopia, a mystical source of limitless bounty. Lilith has never seen a book, and she never expects to encounter one within the safety of the citadel. When Ishmael, an outcast librarian, shows up outside the Afriq Gate, Lilith saves him from immediate execution by her father’s second-in-command, the zealot Kira. As Lilith’s curiosity draws her to Ishmael, she lets slip her family’s most dangerous secret, sparking a deadly rebellion and an unexpected journey full of stunning revelations.


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Sep 05

Book Notes 9/5/2023

Posted to Book Notes on September 5, 2023 at 10:21 AM by Genesis Gaule

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9/5/2023

All ages are welcome to make your own solar eclipse pinhole viewer Tuesday, September 12 @ 6:00 pm so you'll be able to use them to safely watch the solar eclipse happening on October 14!


Leading Meetings and Teams

by Masumi Tani

Call Number: 658.456 TANI

Shigeo, an employee of a building material manufacturing company, is sent to a regional office to improve sales. Along the way, he encounters challenges engaging with the local team but, with advice from a helpful facilitation specialist, Mayumi, he eventually learns to build the skills of his colleagues and cobble together a high-performing team.


The Puzzle Master

by Danielle Trussoni

Call Number: Mystery TRUSSONI

All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink—a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor—understands its patterns like no one else. Everything changes after Brink meets Jess Price, a woman serving thirty years in prison for murder who hasn’t spoken a word since her arrest five years before. When Price draws a perplexing puzzle, her psychiatrist believes it will explain her crime and calls Brink to solve it. What begins as a desire to crack an alluring cipher quickly morphs into an obsession with Price herself. She soon reveals that there is something more urgent, and more dangerous, behind her silence, thrusting Brink into a hunt for the truth.


The Joy of Politics

by Amy Klobuchar

Call Number: 328.73092 KLOBUCHAR

In her candid, honest, and at times bitingly funny memoir, the pragmatic senator shares insider stories from some historic moments, while also inviting readers into her personal life.


Thornhedge

by T. Kingfisher

Call Number: Fantasy KINGFISHER

Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right? But nothing with fairies is ever simple.


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Jul 25

Book Notes 7/24/2023

Posted to Book Notes on July 25, 2023 at 10:06 AM by Genesis Gaule

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7/24/2023

Come join us Saturday, August 12 @ noon for our Cookbook Club! Select a recipe from The Complete Small Plates Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen, and bring your dish to share with the group! More information...


Ghosts of the Orphanage

A story of mysterious deaths, a conspiracy of silence, and a search for justice
by Christine Kenneally

362.732 KENNEALLY

For much of the twentieth century, a series of terrible events—abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths—took places inside orphanages. The survivors have been trying to tell their astonishing stories for a long time, but disbelief, secrecy, and trauma have kept them from breaking through. For ten years, Christine Kenneally has been on a quest to uncover the harrowing truth.


Palazzo

by Danielle Steel

STEEL

After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family’s haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings: Allegra, who survived the tragedy that killed their parents with scars and a spinal injury, and Luca, who has a penchant for wild parties, pretty women, and poker tables.


The Best Strangers in the World

Stories from a life spent listening
by Ari Shapiro

070.43092 SHAPIRO

In his first book, broadcaster Ari Shapiro takes us around the globe to reveal the stories behind narratives that are sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, but always poignant. He details his time traveling on Air Force One with President Obama, or following the path of Syrian refugees fleeing war, or learning from those fighting for social justice both at home and abroad.


The Forever War

by Joe Haldeman

Science Fiction HALDEMAN Forever v.1

Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties and do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But "home" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries...


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