My LINKcat AccountNational Library Week has been and gone, but the Library Bingo game begun last week continues on throughout this week. Remember! Complete a bingo and you can enter that card in a drawing for a $50 Amazon gift card; if you black out your card you can enter that card in a drawing for a $100 Amazon gift card. You can enter more than once! Thanks to the Friends of the DeForest Area Public Library for supplying the prizes for these drawings. The bingo contest ends on April 22nd at 5 p.m. So you still have time to get your card blacked out or to get a few more bingos and get those cards entered in the drawings. Mathematically, the more entries you have, the better your odds of winning.
Speaking of April 22nd, this is the day that Earth Day is celebrated. As many Wisconsinites know, the idea for Earth Day was that of Gaylord Nelson, the United States Senator from Wisconsin who tapped into the energy of the war protests of the 1960s to find common cause among myriad groups. These groups that were protesting everything from oil spills to pollution to toxic waste to the extinction of wildlife and loss of wilderness united on Earth Day that first Earth Day – April 20th, 1970 -- to talk about how to protect the environment. By the end of that year, the first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. Celebrate Earth Day by walking or bicycling to the library to hand in your bingo card(s), check out a book, magazine, dvd, cd, etc. Libraries have been reusing and recycling long before it was trendy. Here are some new book titles that you can borrow. Who knew you would be doing such a green thing? Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
Learn better : mastering the skills for success in life, business, and school, or, how to become an expert in just about anything / by Ulrich Boser. A journalist and education researcher demonstrates that how we learn can matter just as much as what we learn and maps out the new science of learning, showing how simple techniques like comprehension check-ins and making material personally relatable can help people gain expertise in dramatically better ways than just simple rote memorization.
The five invitations : discovering what death can teach us about living fully / by Frank Ostaseski. The co-founder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons of the dying that can help others live better by prioritizing the author's "Five Invitations" about being more receptive to friendship, approaching challenges with wholeness and making time for rest.
A colony in a nation / by Chris Hayes. An Emmy Award-winning news anchor and New York Times best-selling author argues that there are really two Americas—a Colony and a Nation.
The Cubs way : the zen of building the best team in baseball and breaking the curse / by Tom Verducci. With inside access and reporting, a Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey to become World Series champions.
New Fiction
Never let you go / by Chevy Stevens. Ending a marriage to an abusive man sentenced to prison, Lindsey starts over with a new business while raising a traumatized daughter who she is challenged to protect when her ex is released and someone begins stalking through their new hometown. By the award-winning author of “Still Missing”.
A perfect obsession / by Heather Graham. Investigating a serial killer who is leaving his victims gruesomely displayed in mausoleums and underground tombs, FBI Special Agent Craig Frasier and forensic psychologist Kieran Finnegan become increasingly desperate to track down the murderer, who may be targeting Kieran.
The Roanoke girls : a novel / by Amy Engel. Returning to her family's Kansas estate in the hopes of discovering the fate of her missing cousin, Lane reconnects with a young man from her past and is confronted by dark family secrets that prompted her to flee years earlier.
Say nothing : a novel / by Brad Parks. When their children are abducted by a man who blackmails them to follow instructions at the risk of the children's lives, a judge and his wife endure a terrorizing ordeal of no-holds-barred deceit and bond-breaking suspicions. By the award-winning author of “The Player”.
A simple favor : a novel / by Darcey Bell. A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes, an inexplicable event that prompts her to reach out to her blog readers and the missing woman's handsome husband before nightmarish realities come to light.
The twelve lives of Samuel Hawley : a novel / by Hannah Tinti. A once-professional killer protects his daughter from the legacy of his criminal past, an effort that is challenged by his daughter's struggles with the death of her mother and the reckoning of old enemies. By the prize-winning author of “The Good Thief”.
Mississippi blood : a novel / by Greg Iles. A conclusion to the best-selling trilogy that includes The Bone Tree finds a shattered Penn Cage shut out by his once-revered Southern doctor father, who is about to be tried for murder in the wake of revelations about a mixed-race child and KKK associations.