Monthly Archives: May 2021

When You Trap a Tiger – Tae Keller

May 31, 2021
Children
WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER OF THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother. Some stories refuse to stay bottled up… When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni’s Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. ...

Persist – Elizabeth Warren

May 30, 2021
Society
The inspiring, influential senator and bestselling author mixes vivid personal stories with a passionate plea for political transformation. Elizabeth Warren is a beacon for everyone who believes that real change can improve the lives of all Americans. Committed, fearless, and famously persistent, she brings her best game to every battle she wages. In Persist, Warren writes about six perspectives that have influenced her life and advocacy. She’s a mother who learned from wrenching personal experience why child care is so essential. She’s a teacher who has ...

The Devil May Dance – Jake Tapper

May 29, 2021
Historical
Charlie and Margaret discover the dark side of Hollywood in Jake Tapper’s follow-up to New York Times bestseller The Hellfire Club—an “excellent” cocktail of corruption and ambition (Publishers Weekly). Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation’s capital can operate. But while they long to settle into the comforts of home, Attorney General Robert Kennedy has other plans. He needs them to look into a potential threat not only to the presidency, but to the ...

The Girls Are All So Nice Here – Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

May 28, 2021
Young Adult
Two former best friends return to their college reunion to find that they’re being circled by someone who wants revenge for what they did ten years before—and will stop at nothing to get it—in this shocking psychological thriller about ambition, toxic friendship, and deadly desire. A lot has changed in the years since Ambrosia Wellington graduated from college, and she’s worked hard to create a new life for herself. But then an invitation to her ten-year reunion arrives in the mail, along with an anonymous ...

Ariadne – Jennifer Saint

May 27, 2021
Fantasy
A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe. Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid’s stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not a threat but an escape. Defying the gods, betraying her family and country, and risking ...

A Stormful of Pickles – Elliott Fassbinder

May 27, 2021
Comedy
A quirky, dark comedic novel about loneliness and the search for spiritual meaning. Essentially a tale about the absurdity of the human condition. The year is 2016, a week before Christmas, and the worst storm in twenty years is about to descend up Maidstone. Mrs. Francesca Dobbs, is thirty-three years old, a dinner lady, and a regular churchgoer. Ten years earlier, to escape her father, an overbearing and controlling Lutheran Pastor, she agreed to marry Mr. Edward Dobbs. A dull, lumbering, and pious fellow. A ...

Yes, Fluffy! Yes! – Mrs. Ani

May 27, 2021
Children
RUFF! ARF! RUFF! ARF! Fluffy, an adorable dog, won over the love of his whole family. However, the family quickly learned that puppy training is not so simple after all. In this second book, Fluffy is back from puppy school. Read along and enjoy this beautiful and engaging children’s picture book. Great beginner’s book for young children and dog lovers!

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet – John Green

May 26, 2021
Society
A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green. The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale—from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar. Funny, complex, and rich with detail, the reviews chart the contradictions of contemporary humanity. As a ...

Badass Pix with a Cheap-Ass Camera – Annie Mack

May 26, 2021
Non-Fiction
Badass and Badass Pix is not a genre. It’s an attitude, an approach, a vibe. More than anything, it’s Art Photography, which is an h-u-g-e and diverse categorization. It’s you being a photoartist, not just a photographer. It’s having the self-confidence to take risks, break the rules, and venture outside norms. Badass can be photojournalism, scenery, portraits. It is fun to screw around with all of those and add twists that baffle viewers. Badass is futzing around outside the boundaries of technology, good taste, or ...

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment – Daniel Kahneman

May 25, 2021
Business
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones–“a tour de force” (New York Times).  Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients—or that two judges in the same courthouse give markedly different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Suppose that different interviewers at the same firm make different decisions about indistinguishable job applicants—or that when a company is handling customer complaints, the resolution ...

I Know You By Heart: Navigating the Dementia Journey – Angie Swetland

May 25, 2021
Health
In the U.S. today, over 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s Disease or related dementia. Each of these individuals has a story. And each one has caregivers, with stories of their own. You have questions – so many questions about what is happening now, and what is to come. How do I cope with this new manifestation of the disease? How do I prepare for an uncertain future? This is especially true when just navigating your way through each day can be overwhelming. Contained ...

Frightfully Fortune – Jana DeLeon

May 24, 2021
Mystery
Rest when you’re dead? It’s time for the annual Halloween festival in Sinful, and Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie can’t wait to suit up and enjoy the food and activities. But when a dead man gallops through the park on a black stallion and slides to a decapitated stop right in front of Swamp Team 3, they know another festival is about to be turned on its head…so to speak. Gil Forrest never won any popularity contests and his dramatic and somewhat horrifying ride isn’t ...

Anomalous Intrusions – Robert Gaspari

May 24, 2021
Science Fiction
When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) came online in Europe for the first time, the lunatic fringe concocted fantastic conspiracy theories. The internet troll army mobilized and online bullies the world over tried to link every unexplained incident to the LHC. Could this colossal atom smashing behemoth wreak havoc on our planet? Could it create miniature black holes or tiny hot spots? Increasing incidents of spatial distortions caused the government to create an agency to track and oppose what came through these dimensional portals. This ...

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story – Michael Lewis

May 23, 2021
Health
For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. The ...