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Jan 02

Book Notes 1/2/2024

Posted to Book Notes on January 2, 2024 at 3:23 PM by Genesis Gaule

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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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Tag(s): world politics, true crime, nonfiction, mystery, history, fiction, fantasy, book notes

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Dec 26

Book Notes 12/26/2023

Posted to Book Notes on December 26, 2023 at 11:10 AM by Genesis Gaule

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12/26/23

Explore your senses through play! Join us for Sensory Playdate on Friday, December 29 @ 10am! We'll provide sensory play stations for your babies and toddlers.

A Fever in the Heartland

The Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
by Timothy Egan

Call Number: 322.4209 EGAN

This book marries a propulsive drama to a powerful and page-turning reckoning with one of the darkest threads in American history.

All the Little Bird-Hearts

by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

Call Number: LLOYD-BARLOW

Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life. She does things differently from other people, but mostly it works. On her "quiet days" she must eat only white foods. For social situations, she has her etiquette hand book, and for solace her beloved treasury of Sicilian folklore. But the one thing very much out of her control is Dolly - beautiful, headstrong Dolly who is on the cusp of leaving home.

We May Dominate the World

Ambition, anxiety, and the rise of the American Colossus
by Sean A. Mirski

Call Number: 341.58 MIRSKI

Today, as China makes its own run at regional hegemony and nations like Russia and Iran grow more menacing, Mirski’s fresh look at the rise of the American colossus offers indispensable lessons for how to meet the challenges of our own century.

The Peasant King

by Tessa Afshar

Call Number: Large Print AFSHAR

When her mother, the Persian king’s famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary’s lands proves easier than escaping them. Fleeing through dangerous mountain passes, their survival depends on the skills of a stranger they free from prison: a mysterious prince named Asher.

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Tag(s): world politics, US history, racism, politics, nonfiction, history, fiction, fantasy, book notes

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Aug 28

Book Notes 8/28/2023

Posted to Book Notes on August 28, 2023 at 11:28 AM by Genesis Gaule

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8/28/2023

Come and create beautiful bookmarks using pressed flowers! All ages are welcome to join us on Tuesday, September 5 @ 6:30 pm.

Unshuttered

by Patricia Smith

Call Number: 811.6 SMITH

Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time.

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

Call Number: Science Fiction HEINLEIN

Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never seen another member of his species. Sent to Earth, he is a stranger who must learn what it is to be a man. But his own beliefs and his powers far exceed the limits of humankind, and as he teaches them about grokking and water-sharing, he also inspires a transformation that will alter Earth’s inhabitants forever...

Sky above Kharkiv

by Serhiy Zhadan

Call Number: MH 940.5 ZHADAN

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Serhiy Zhadan took to social media to coordinate a network of resistance workers and send messages of courage to his fellow Ukrainians. What began as a local organizing effort exploded onto the international stage as readers around the globe looked to Zhadan as a key eyewitness documenting Russian atrocities.

Legends & Lattes

by Travis Baldree

Call Number: Fantasy BALDREE Legends v.1

After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time. The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success — not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is. If Viv wants to put the blade behind her and make her plans a reality, she won't be able to go it alone.

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Tag(s): world politics, world history, US history, science fiction, poetry, photography, nonfiction, military history, fiction, fantasy, book notes, African Americans

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