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4/1/2024

All ages are welcome Tuesday, April 16 @ 5:30 pm to join the Wild Rumpus! Drop in for some Maurice Sendak inspired activities for all ages.

Starkweather

The untold story of the killing spree that changed America
by Harry N. MacLean

Call Number: 364.1523 MACLEAN

On January 21, 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather changed the course of crime in the United States when he murdered the parents and sister of his fourteen-year-old girlfriend (and possible accomplice), Caril Ann Fugate, in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby town of Bennet, where a farmer was robbed and killed. When Starkweather's car broke down, the teenagers who stopped to help were murdered and jammed into a storm cellar. By the time the dust settled, ten innocent people were dead and the city of Lincoln was in a state of terror.

The Phoenix Crown

by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang

Call Number: Mystery QUINN

San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing’s fallen Summer Palace.

Endgame

Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy 's fight for survival
by Omid Scobie

Call Number: 941.086 SCOBIE

Relying on his vast experience as a royal reporter and over a decade of conversations and interviews with current and former Palace staff, trusted friends of the royals and even the family members themselves, Scobie pulls back the curtain on an institution in turmoil to show what the monarchy must change in order to survive.

East

by Edith Pattou

Call Number: Young Adult PATTOU East v.1

Rose has always longed for adventure, so when an enormous white bear appears one evening and makes her a mysterious offer, she accepts. In exchange for health and prosperity for her ailing family, she must live with the white bear in a distant castle. But Rose soon realizes that all isn’t as it seems.

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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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1/2/2024

Our January Book Club pick is Yellowface by R.F. Kuang.  Check it out and then join us on January 30 at 6 pm to discuss.

Spies

The epic intelligence war between East and West
by Calder Walton

Call Number: 327.12 WALTON

Mining hitherto secret archives in multiple languages, Calder Walton shows that the Cold War started earlier than commonly assumed, that it continued even after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, and that Britain and America’s clandestine struggle with the Soviet government provided key lessons for countering China today.

The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

by Sean Lusk

Call Number: Fantasy LUSK

Since his accident, Zachary is plagued by visions that reveal the hearts and minds of those around him. A gift at times and a curse at others, it is nonetheless these visions that will help him complete a journey that he was always destined to make - to travel across Europe to Constantinople and find out what happened to his father all those years ago.

Little, Crazy Children

A true crime tragedy
by James Renner

Call Number: 364.1523 RENNER

In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett, a poetry lover and member of a church youth group, was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend, when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy’s home. With a fresh perspective and painstaking research culled from police files, court records, transcripts, uncollected evidence, and new interviews, James Renner reconstructs the events leading up to and following that heartbreaking night. What emerges is a portrait of a community seething with dark undercurrents—its single-minded authorities, protective status-conscious parents, and the deeply peer-pressured teens within Lisa’s circle.

Into the Fire

by Irene Hannon

Call Number: Mystery HANNON Courage v.1 LP

As a former smokejumper, arson investigator Bri Tucker knows her way around fires. But after a mysterious blaze takes the life of a former colleague, Bri inherits a curious puzzle from him that raises questions about several fiery deaths. Someone, however, doesn't want her picking up where he left off in search of answers.

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