My LINKcat AccountToday is the antepenultimate day of National Library Week 2024. This means, among other things, that there are only three more days (including today) to celebrate your favorite week of the year! It also means that today, April 12th, is the eve of our National Library Week Open House. That’s right! Tomorrow you are invited to attend an open hours from 10 to 12. To top off the festivities Duke Otherwise will be performing a fun, musical program. There will be demonstrations of some the amazing equipment you can check out from your library. I have it on good authority that there will be demonstrations and/or product made using the equipment that includes metal detectors, the lefse maker, and some cake pans. There will be crafts to make, Stop by and find out about all the astonishing things available at your public library. And not only do we have an astonishing and expanding array of equipment and cool items for you to check out, we also have books. The spring book lists have been arriving steadily. Below you will find a sample of some of the recent titles available for you to check out – or at least to place a hold on. Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
“All You Need is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words…” by Peter Brown & Steven Gaines. An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews.
“Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine” by Damon Tweedy. From the New York Times best-selling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care within the mainstream of medicine.
“Life: My Story Through History” by Pope Francis translated by Aubrey Botsford. For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today.
“Rebel Rising: A Memoir” by Rebel Wilson. From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself.
“Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End” by Alua Arthur. A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America’s preeminent death doula.
New Fiction
“The Book That Broke the World, No.2 (The Library Trilogy)” by Mark Lawrence. Forced to flee the library by a ruthless enemy, Evar is thrust into the vastness of a world he’s never seen, while Livira, trapped in a ghost world, must recover the book she wrote—one which is the only true threat to the library’s existence.
“Ghost Station” by S.A. Barnes. While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of a space-borne madness.
“I Cheerfully Refuse” by Leif Enger. In a climate-ravaged America, a grieving musician sails a sentient Lake Superior, seeking his lost love amidst rising corpses, crumbling empires, and an unexpected rebellion sparked by his own gentle spirit.
“Star Wars: The Living Force” by John Jackson Miller. Sent on a goodwill mission to help the planet Kwenn, 12 Jedi Masters are met with an infestation of warring pirate factions who are intent on assassinating the Jedi Council members and wiling to destroy countless innocent lives to do so.
“The Alternatives” by Caoilinn Hughes. The four Flattery sisters—all single, all with PhDs—lead disparate, distanced lives until their oldest sister, a geologist, disappears, and together for the first time in years, they search the Irish countryside for a sister who doesn’t want to be found, while confronting old wounds and a desperately uncertain future.
“The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers” by Samuel Burr. Raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists, 20-something Clayton Summer, when the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in his life passes away, bestowing her final puzzle on him, embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets surrounding his birth, which will change him, and the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, forever.
“The Husbands” by Holly Gramazio. When she discovers the attic in her London flat is creating an infinite supply of husbands, waking up to a slightly altered life each day, Lauren confronts the question: if swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you’ve taken the right path?
“Wild Houses” by Colin Barrett. In Ballina, Ireland, introspective loner Dev, when Doll English, the younger brother of a small-time local dealer shows up on his doorstep in the clutches of Dev’s enforcer cousins, finds his quiet homelife upturned as he is quickly and unwittingly drawn into a revenge plot and a kidnapping gone awry.
“All We Were Promised” by Ashton Lattimore. A former enslaved housekeeper escapes to 1837 Philadelphia where she plays servant to her white-passing father and befriends a young abolitionist and ultimately risks everything to help another former slave, brought to the city by her plantation mistress.