'graphic novel'

4/29/2024

Support your library at the Friends of the Library Book Sale on May 3rd and 4th! Please bring your bags and boxes for your purchases. 

Dying at Home

A family guide for caregiving
by Andrea Sankar with CM Cassady 

Call Number: 616.029 SANKAR 

This book is an intimate account based on extensive interviews with family and professional caregivers as well as with other family members, friends, and patients. The author addresses the concerns and problems of those who face the decision of whether to care for a dying loved one at home, including preparing the home environment for caregiving; how to use professional caregivers in the home setting; managing the patient's pain, agitation, and other conditions; and how to recognize impending death and what to do immediately after death. She draws from stories that represent a wide range of circumstances and causes of death. 

Before She Disappeared

A Frankie Elkin Novel
by Lisa Gardner 

Call Number: Mystery GARDNER Elkin v.1 // Also in Large Print

Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. 

Untangle Your Emotions

Naming what you feel and knowing what to do about it
by Jennie Allen 

Call Number: 248.4 ALLEN 

In this book, Jennie Allen uses scientific research, biblical insight, and her own story to help you exchange stuffing, dismissing, or minimizing your emotions for a five-step process to know what you feel and what to do about it, debunk the myth that feelings are sinful by learning how emotional maturity leads to deeper connection with God and others, live emotionally healthy by applying biblical wisdom and therapeutic research that works whether you self-identify as “emotional” or not, and sit with feelings that are confusing and painful by discovering the depth of God’s love and compassion for you. 

Alice in Borderland

by Haro Aso 

Call Number: Graphic Novel ASO 

Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future feels like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can’t be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn’t an empty paradise, it’s a vicious game. And the only way to survive is to play. 

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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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11/13/2023

Our November Book Club pick is The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane. Check it out and then join us on Tuesday, November 28 at 6 pm to discuss.

The Teachers

A year inside America's most vulnerable, important profession
by Alexandra Robbins

Call Number: 371.100973 ROBBINS

Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year in the classroom.

12 Months to Live

by James Patterson and Mike Lupica

Call Number: Mystery PATTERSON Jane Smith v.1

Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might’ve committed several murders. She’s also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn’t have much time. She’s just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she’s murdered before her expiration date.

The Wager

A tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder
by David Grann

Call Number: 910.9164 GRANN // also in CD audio

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story.

Tooth and Claw

by Kurt Busiek

Call Number: Graphic Novel BUSIEK Autumnlands v.1

When a secret conclave of wizards brings a legendary hero back from the forgotten past to save their dying world, they get a hero unlike anything they expected, and trigger a crisis none of them may survive.

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