'poverty'

Making Mooo-lah

A Thinking Money for Kids Program

Wed, Jan 8 @ 4:00 PM

Ages 5-12 // Welcome to the farm! In this collaborative simulation, players work together to see if they can run a financially successful farm.

Money

Master the game, 7 simple steps to financial freedom 
by Anthony Robbins  

332.024 ROBBINS 

Based on extensive research and interviews with some of the most legendary investors at work today, Tony Robbins has created a 7-step blueprint for securing financial freedom. With advice about taking control of your financial decisions, to setting up a savings and investing plan, to destroying myths about what it takes to save and invest, to setting up a “lifetime income plan,” the book brims with advice and practices for making the financial game not only winnable, but providing financial freedom for the rest of your life. 

Bunny Money

by Rosemary Wells 

Easy WELLS Ruby & Max

It's Grandma's birthday, and Ruby knows exactly what Grandma would love-a beautiful ballerina box. Max also knows what she'd love-a scary pair of ooey-gooey vampire teeth. Ruby has saved up a walletful of bills, but as unexpected mishap after mishap occurs, money starts running through the bunnies' fingers.... Will they have enough left for the perfect present? 

The Power of Money

How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper
by P. Sherard 

332.4 SHEARD 2023 

Money permeates our everyday lives—it literally makes the economic world go round, and yet confusion and controversy about money abound. In The Power of Money, economist Paul Sheard distills what money is, how it comes into existence, and how it interacts with the real economy. 

It's a No-Money Day

by Kate Milner  

Easy MILNER 

Mum works really hard, but today there is no money left and no food in the cupboards. Forced to visit the local foodbank, Mum feels ashamed that they have to rely on the kindness of others, but her young daughter can still see all the good in her day like reading and drawing, and even the foodbank. Maybe one day things will be different but for now together they brighten up even the darkest of days. A moving insight into the sad rise and necessity of foodbanks from the perspective of society's most vulnerable, and an essential book to help develop empathy in younger readers. 

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3/25/2024

Let's play BINGO! If you win a game, you get a free book of your choice! Join us Tuesday, April 2nd @ 6:00 pm for Bingo for Books!

What Are the Risks of Vaping?

by Bev Crawford

Call Number: 362.296 CRAWFORD

"This book tackles where vaping came from, the effects it has on our bodies and the mental health risks that teens face from vaping"-- Publisher

Big Time

by Ben H. Winters

Call Number: Science Fiction WINTERS

Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure. Against orders and against common sense, Grace sets out to bring the girl to safety, and finds herself risking her job, her future, and her life on whether she can find the missing girl before an obsessive and violent mercenary who’s also looking.

The Meth Lunches

Food and longing in an American cityby Kim Foster

Call Number: 363.8 FOSTER

Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table?eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at that table? In this book, Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal the complex reality when poverty and food intersect.

The Encanto's Daughter

by Melissa de la Cruz

Call Number: Young Adult DE LA CRUZ

MJ Rodriguez has spent her life hiding in the human world, keeping a heavy secret: She’s half-encanto. As the only child of King Vivencio of the Sirena Court, she’s also next in line for the throne. And now, upon her estranged father’s sudden death, MJ must claim her place as rightful heir.

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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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