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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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3/4/2024

Come join us Saturday, March 9th @ noon for our Cookbook Club! Select a recipe from Indian(-ish) by Priya Krishna and bring your dish to share with the group!

My Father's Brain

Life in the shadow of Alzheimer's
by John Glatt

Call Number: 364.1523 GLATT

Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has catapulted the family into incredible wealth and local celebrity—but it was an unimaginable tragedy that would thrust them into the national spotlight. On June 7th, 2021, prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh discovered the bodies of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, on the grounds of their thousand-acre hunting lodge. The mystery deepened only months later when Alex himself was discovered shot in the head on a local roadside.

The Book of Love

by Kelly Link

Call Number: Fantasy LINK

Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves beneath the fluorescent lights of a high school classroom, almost a year after disappearing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, having long been presumed dead. Which, in fact, they are. With them in the room is their previously unremarkable high school music teacher, who seems to know something about their disappearance—and what has brought them back again. Desperate to reclaim their lives, the three agree to the terms of the bargain their music teacher proposes. They will be given a series of magical tasks; while they undertake them, they may return to their families and friends, but they can tell no one where they’ve been.

The Injustice of Place

Uncovering the legacy of poverty in America
by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, and Timothy J. Nelson

Call Number: 339.46 EDIN

The unfolding revelation in this book is not about what sets these places apart, but about what they have in common—a history of raw, intensive resource extraction and human exploitation. This history and its reverberations demand a reckoning and a commitment to wage a new War on Poverty, with the unrelenting focus on our nation’s places of deepest need.

Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear

by Robin Wasley

Call Number: Young Adult WASLEY

Fighting through hordes of living corpses and uncontrollable growths of forest, Sid and a ragtag crew of would-be heroes are the only thing standing between their town and the end of the world as they know it. Between magic, murderers, and burgeoning crushes, Sid must survive being a perfectly normal girl caught in a perfectly abnormal apocalypse. Only—how can someone so ordinary make it in such an extraordinary world?

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7/3/2023

Join us Tuesday, July 11 at 6pm for Art in the Park: Screen-printing with Heather from Lucy Girl! Meet at the Big Shelter in Sherlock Park. All supplies are provided.

The People's Hospital by Ricardo Nuila

Hope and peril in American medicine // Here, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital that prioritizes people over profit. As readers follow the moving twists and turns in each patient’s story, it’s impossible to deny that our system is broken—and that Ben Taub’s innovative model, where patient care is more important than insurance payments, could help light the path forward.

362.11 NUILA

Havenby Ceril N. Domace

Owen Williams wakes after a horrific car accident to find his wife is dead—and somehow turned into a gryphon—and his kids gone after a home invasion turned horribly wrong. Shattered and reeling, he vows to do whatever it takes to find them. With enemies on the horizon, Owen needs to set aside his fears and take up arms to defend their new home alongside the people he’s always been taught were monsters—or he’ll lose everyone he’s trying to protect.

Fantasy DOMACE Fae v.1

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.

362.50973 DESMOND 2023

The Grimoire of Grave Fates by Hester Fox

This book follows Galileo Academy’s best and brightest young magicians as they race to discover the truth behind Professor of Magical History Septimius Dropwort's mysterious death. Each one of them is confident that only they have the skills needed to unravel the web of secrets hidden within Galileo's halls. But they're about to discover that even for straight-A students, magic doesn't always play by the rules.

Young Adult ALKAF

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