'historical fiction'

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New Year, New Books - Stop in and check out some of the new titles we have recently added to our collection! 

A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer

by Maxie Dara 

Mystery DARA S.C.Y.T.H.E. v.1

It’s not like it used to be. Modern-day grim reapers wear business casual, not black cloaks, and they don’t carry scythes, they work for S.C.Y.T.H.E. where the Department of Natural Causes is the least exciting gig. And that’s how Kathy Valence likes it: boring and predictable. Then, she goes to pick up a new client and finds his soul is missing. When she finally tracks down Conner Ortiz, he angrily insists he was murdered, and he refuses to move on until Kathy finds out why and by whom. 

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

by J. Ryan Stradal 

STRADAL

Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband, Ned, is having an identity crisis; her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day; and her mother, Florence, is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she’s been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in Mariel’s family for decades, but it also caused a rift between mother and daughter that never quite healed. Ned is also an heir, to a chain of home-style diners, and he knows his family's chain could provide a better future than his wife's fading restaurant. In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, Ned and Mariel lose almost everything they hold dear. Can they find a way to rebuild their lives, and will the Lakeside Supper Club be their salvation? 

The Story of the Forest

by Linda Grant 

GRANT 

It’s 1913 when Mina, the young and carefree daughter of a Jewish merchant, roams into a forest on the edge of the Baltic Sea looking for mushrooms. Instead, she encounters a gang of unruly, charismatic Bolsheviks, an adventure that will become the stuff of familial lore for generations to come. Intending to save her from further corruption, and in an act that forever changes the trajectory of their family’s life, Mina and her eldest brother, Jossel, board a ship to England. 

Cher: The Memoir (Part 1)

by Cher 

MEMOIR - Perform - - CHER 2024

After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir. Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center. She is a lifelong activist and philanthropist. As a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous, Cher was raised in often-chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors, and a mother who inspired her in spite of their difficult relationship. With her trademark honesty and humor, Cher: The Memoir traces how this diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century. 

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3/11/2024

Looking to get your hands dirty? Join us Tuesday, March 19 @ 5:30pm for our Potting Party! Help rejuvenate and re-pot the library's plants! Feel free to bring in your own overgrown houseplants and empty pots.

Fear Is Just a Word

A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeanceby Azam Ahmed

Call Number: 364.1523 AHMED

This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. It's an unforgettable and moving portrait of a woman, a town, and a country, and of what can happen when violent forces leave people to seek justice on their own.

The Fox Wife

by Yangsze Choo

Call Number: CHOO

In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman’s identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they’ve remained tantalizingly out of reach?until, perhaps, now.

Gaa-izhi-miinigoowizid a’aw Anishinaabe (What We Were Given as Anishinaabe)

by Lee Obizaan Staples as told to Chato Ombishkebines Gonzalez

Call Number: 299.783 STAPLES

The Ojibwe have many ways of marking important moments in an Ojibwe child’s life. Customs surrounding pregnancy and childbirth. Handling of a baby’s belly button. A child’s first moccasins. What happens when a child first touches the ground. Naming ceremonies. What to do the first time a baby is brought into a ceremonial dance. With warm and friendly stories and instructions, Lee Obizan Staples recounts these and many other ceremonies and traditions of an Ojibwe childhood. Text in Ojibwe and English.

Yours from the Tower

by Sally Nicholls

Call Number: Young Adult NICHOLLS

Tirzah, Sophia, and Polly are best friends who’ve left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. The year is 1896, and Polly is teaching in an orphanage, Sophia is scouting for a rich husband at the London Season, and Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters buzzing with atmosphere and drama, the friends air their dreams, hopes, frustrations, and romances. Can this trio of very different young women—one industrious, one artful, and one in exile—find happiness and love near the dawn of the Edwardian era?

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1/16/2024

Kids in Kindergarten-5th Grade are welcome to join us Tuesday, January 23rd @ 5:30 pm for Grossology! Get your hands dirty with all things disgusting--snot, slime, germs, and more!

Too Much Sea for Their Decks

Shipwrecks of Minnesota's north shore and Isle Royale
by Michael Schumacher

Call Number: 917.7 SCHUMACHER

Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping, this book chronicles shipwrecked schooners, wooden freighters, early steel-hulled steamers, whalebacks, and bulk carriers—some well-known, some unknown or forgotten—all lost in the frigid waters of Lake Superior.

The Time of Contempt

by Andrezej Sapkowski

Call Number: Fantasy SAPKOWSKI Witcher v.2

Geralt is a Witcher: guardian of the innocent; protector of those in need; a defender in dark times against some of the most frightening creatures of myth and legend. His task now is to protect Ciri. A child of prophecy, she will have the power to change the world for good or for ill—but only if she lives to use it.

Under the Eye of Power

How fear of secret societies shapes American democracy 
by Colin Dickey

Call Number: 366 DICKEY

In this book, Dickey charts the history of America through its paranoias and fears of secret societies, while seeking to explain why so many people—including some of the most powerful people in the country—continue to subscribe to these conspiracy theories. Paradoxically, he finds, belief in the fantastical and conspiratorial can be more soothing than what we fear the most: the chaos and randomness of history, the rising and falling of fortunes in America, and the messiness of democracy. Only in seeing the cycle of this history, Dickey says, can we break it.

Bluebird

by Genevieve Graham

Call Number: GRAHAM

Cassie Simmons, a museum curator, is enthusiastic about solving mysteries from the past, and she has a personal interest in the history of the rumrunners who ferried illegal booze across the Detroit River during Prohibition. So when a cache of whisky labeled Bailey Brothers’ Best is unearthed during a local home renovation, Cassie hopes to find the answers she’s been searching for about the legendary family of bootleggers.

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