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Mar 25

Book Notes 3/25/2024

Posted to Book Notes on March 25, 2024 at 12:41 PM by Genesis Gaule

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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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Mar 04

Book Notes 3/4/2024

Posted to Book Notes on March 4, 2024 at 12:19 PM by Genesis Gaule

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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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Nov 20

Book Notes 11/20/2023

Posted to Book Notes on November 20, 2023 at 10:25 AM by Genesis Gaule

Blog Book Notes

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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