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4/22/2024

Celebrate National Poetry Month on Thursday, April 25 at 6:30pm with our Poetry Potluck! Share a poem that you love during the Poetry Potluck and then enjoy a reading from poet Brendan Stermer.

Spectral Evidence: Poems

by Gregory Pardlo

Call Number: 811.6 PARDLO

At times cerebral and at other times warm, inviting and deeply personal, this book compels us to consider how we think about devotion, beauty and art; about the criminalization and death of Black bodies; about justice—and about how these have been inscribed into our present, our history, and the Western canon: “If I could be / the forensic dreamer / . . . / . . . my art would be a mortician’s / paints.”

The Tainted Cup

Shadow of the Leviathan v.1
by Robert Jackson Bennett

Call Number: Fantasy BENNETT

In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire’s borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it’s a death both terrifying and impossible.

The War Below

Lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives
by Ernest Scheyder

Call Number: 333.816 SCHEYDER

This book reveals the explosive brawl among industry titans, conservationists, community groups, policymakers, and many others over whether some places are too special to mine or whether the habitats of rare plants, sensitive ecosystems, Indigenous holy sites, and other places should be dug up for their riches.

One in a Million

by Janet Dailey

Call Number: Mystery DAILEY

Frank Culhane may be the wealthy patriarch of one of Texas’ most prestigious families, but his party girl daughter, Jasmine, is only interested in the money the ranch brings in—and the cowboys. Until the day she heads to the stables in search of their hot horse trainer and instead discovers her daddy’s body in their prize stallion’s box stall.

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1/29/2024

Our February Book Club pick is "An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good" by Helene Tursten. Check it out and then join us on February 27th at 6 pm to discuss.

Wasteland

The secret world of waste and the urgent search for a cleaner future
by Oliver Franklin-Wallis

Call Number: 363.728 FRANKLIN-WALLIS

With this mesmerizing, thought-provoking, and occasionally terrifying investigation, Oliver Franklin-Wallis tells a new story of humanity based on what we leave behind, and along the way, he shares a blueprint for building a healthier, more sustainable world—before we’re all buried in trash.

Holmes, Marple & Poe

by James Patterson and Brian Sitts

Call Number: Mystery PATTERSON

In New York City, three intriguing, smart, and stylish private investigators open Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. Who are these detectives with famous names and mysterious, untraceable pasts?

Jackie

Public, private, secret
by J. Randy Taraborrelli

Call Number: BIO - - - ONASSIS

Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period?as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library?Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable new portrait of a woman whose flaws and contradictions only serve to make her even more iconic.

Star Wars. The Mandalorian

adapted by Yusuke Osawa

Call Number: Young Adult Graphic Novel STAR WARS Mandalorian v.1

Years after the fall of the Galactic Empire, a solitary bounty hunter is given a simple mission. Find and return the Child to the Imperial Remnant, all that remains of the once all-powerful Empire. This mysterious orphan has a power that can possibly turn events in their favor, and acquisition of that power is paramount. Instead, the bounty hunter goes on the run with the Child to protect him from the forces that would do him harm. Here is the story of The Mandalorian, and his desperate quest to save the Child and himself.

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10/31/2022

Join us on Tuesday, November 8 @ 5:30 pm for the opening reception of Arts for Vets: In Memoriam--An art exhibit featuring the work of deceased veterans. More information...

Poster Girl by Veronica Roth

Sonya, former poster girl for the Delegation, has been imprisoned for ten years when an old enemy comes to her with a deal: find a missing girl who was stolen from her parents by the old regime, and earn her freedom.

Science Fiction ROTH

The Alpha Female Wolf by Rick McIntyre

The Fierce Legacy of Yellowstone's 06 // In his latest book, award-winning author and renowned wolf researcher Rick McIntyre turns his spotting scope on 06 and more remarkable female wolves, telling the dramatic true story of five generations of female leaders in Yellowstone National Park. As Rick shows us, female wolves, not their male counterparts, play the most pivotal roles in pack life. They choose who may mate with them and where their pack will hunt and raise pups. They negotiate treaties and fiercely defend their families. The only opponent they cannot defeat is a human with a gun.

599.773 MCINTYRE

Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland

Laura and Skylark are sent off on their first mission together into the heart of the country's oldest and most mysterious Blight, and they discover the work of mages not encountered since the darkest period in America's past, when Black mages were killed for their power.

Young Adult IRELAND

The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

1989: A lonely boy named Gil is sent to live off the coast of Western Australia among the seasonal fishing community where his late mother once resided. There, on the tiny reef-shrouded island, he discovers the story of an infamous shipwreck.

KIDD

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