New Books Available This Week
Here's a sample of the new fiction and nonfiction titles recently added to the library's collection! Visit the new books page on our website, updated weekly, to keep up with what's new.
|
The Four Winds
By Hannah, Kristin
2021-02 - St. Martin's Press
9781250178602 Check Our Catalog
From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras--the Great Depression.
Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and …More
|
|
My Year Abroad
By Lee, Chang-Rae
2021-02 - Riverhead Books
9781594634574 Check Our Catalog
From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure - and about the human capacities for pleasure, pain, and connection.
"Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee today?" -- Los Angeles Times
"One of our …More
|
|
The Sanatorium
By Pearse, Sarah
2021-02 - Pamela Dorman Books
9780593296677 Check Our Catalog
Sarah Pearse's The Sanatorium is a knockout. --Karen Dionne, #1 international bestselling author of The Wicked Sister
An absolutely splendid Gothic thriller.--A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
Everyone's in danger. Anyone could be next.
Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet …More
|
|
Girl a
By Dean, Abigail
2021-02 - Viking
9780593295847 Check Our Catalog
"Nothing short of astonishing... Rarely does a novel offer up such unique plotting, such heart-stopping psychological drama, and such a rich portrayal of its inhabitants. A modern-day classic." --Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of The Goodbye Man and The Bone Collector
For readers of Room and Sharp Objects, a propulsive and …More
|
|
Prodigal Son: An Orphan X Novel
By Hurwitz, Gregg
2021-01 - Minotaur Books
9781250252289 Check Our Catalog
Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed--in Prodigal Son, the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X book from Gregg Hurwitz.
As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, …More
|
|
Milk Blood Heat
By Moniz, Dantiel W.
2021-02 - Grove Press
9780802158154 Check Our Catalog
A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of …More
|
|
The Nature of Fragile Things
By Meissner, Susan
2021-02 - Berkley Books
9780451492180 Check Our Catalog
April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed.
Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San …More
|
|
A Thousand Ships
By Haynes, Natalie
2021-01 - Harper
9780063065390 Check Our Catalog
"With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War."--Madeline Miller, author of Circe
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences--for fans of Madeline …More
|
|
Winter's Orbit
By Maxwell, Everina
2021-02 - Tor Books
9781250758835 Check Our Catalog
Ancillary Justice meets Red, White & Royal Blue in Winter's Orbit, Everina Maxwell's gut-wrenching and romantic debut.
A famously disappointing minor royal and the Emperor's least favorite grandchild, Prince Kiem is summoned before the Emperor and commanded to renew the empire's bonds with its newest vassal planet. The prince must marry Count Jainan, the recent …More
|
|
The Last Great American Bookstore
By Green, Elizabeth
2021-01 - Lake Union Publishing
9781542025850 Check Our Catalog
A heartening and uproariously funny novel of high hopes, bad choices, book love, and one woman's best--and worst--intentions.
Without question, Fawn Birchill knows that her used bookstore is the heart of West Philadelphia, a cornerstone of culture for a community that, for the past twenty years, has found the quirkiness absolutely charming. When an amicable young indie bookseller …More
|
|
Vengewar: Wake the Dragon #2
By Anderson, Kevin J.
2021-01 - Tor Books
9781250302137 Check Our Catalog
Kevin J. Anderson's sequel to Spine of The Dragon brings bitter rivalry and blood feud--that might be the downfall of the human kingdoms.
Two continents at war, the Three Kingdoms and Ishara, have been in conflict for a thousand years. But when an outside threat arises--the reawakening of a powerful ancient race that wants to remake the world--the two warring nations must …More
|
|
Shipped
By Hockman, Angie
2021-01 - Gallery Books
9781982151591 Check Our Catalog
The Unhoneymooners meets The Hating Game in this witty, clever, and swoonworthy novel following a workaholic marketing manager who is forced to go on a cruise with her arch-nemesis when they're up for the same promotion.
Between taking night classes for her MBA and her demanding day job at a cruise line, marketing manager Henley Evans barely has time for herself, let alone …More
|
|
Remote Control
By Okorafor, Nnedi
2021-01 - Tordotcom
9781250772800 Check Our Catalog
An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor
"She's the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own."
The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From …More
|
|
The Breaker
By Petrie, Nick
2021-01 - G.P. Putnam's Sons
9780525535478 Check Our Catalog
Nonstop action at a machine gun pace. If you aren't reading Nick Petrie, now is the time to start.--C.J. Box
Peter Ash tangles with dangerous enemies and terrifying technology in the newest thriller from bestselling author Nick Petrie.
A man wanted by two governments, Peter Ash has found a simple, low-profile life in Milwaukee, living with his girlfriend June and renovating old …More
|
|
Cathedral
By Hopkins, Ben
2021-01 - Europa Editions
9781609456115 Check Our Catalog
Deftly combining historical fiction and a tale of adventure and intrigue, this novel is centered around a cathedral whose design and construction in the 12th and 13th centuries unites a vast array of characters whose fortunes are inseparable from the shifting political factions and economic interests vying for supremacy. …More
|
|
Land of Big Numbers: Stories
By Chen, Te-Ping
2021-02 - Mariner Books
9780358272557 Check Our Catalog
"Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen's remarkable debut lies a question all too relevant in 21st Century America: What is freedom?" --Jennifer Egan
"Immensely rewarding, from the first sentence to the last...An exceptional collection." --Charles Yu
A debut collection from an emerging "fiction powerhouse," vivid portrayals of the men and women of …More
|
|
Truly Like Lightning
By Duchovny, David
2021-02 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
9780374277741 Check Our Catalog
From the New York Times-bestselling author David Duchovny, an epic adventure that asks how we make sense of right and wrong in a world of extremes
For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, …More
|
|
The Survivors
By Harper, Jane
2021-02 - Flatiron Books
9781250232427 Check Our Catalog
Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets in The Survivors, a thrilling mystery by New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper
Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences.
The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home. …More
|
|
The Shadow Box
By Rice, Luanne
2021-02 - Thomas & Mercer
9781542025188 Check Our Catalog
The Amazon Charts bestselling author of Last Day delivers a haunting thriller about how far one wife is willing to go to expose the truth--and the lengths someone will go to stop her.
After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn't know who she can trust. But her well-connected husband, Griffin--who is running …More
|
|
The Russian
By Patterson, James
Author Born, James O.
2021-01 - Little Brown and Company
9780316420389 Check Our Catalog
A serial killer crashes Detective Michael Bennett's wedding.
Weeks before NYPD Detective Michael Bennett is to marry his longtime love, Mary Catherine, an assassin announces his presence in the city with a string of grisly murders. Each victim is a young woman. And each has been killed in a manner as precise as it was gruesome.
Tasked with working alongside the FBI, …More
|
|
Lone Stars
By Deabler, Justin
2021-02 - St. Martin's Press
9781250256102 Check Our Catalog
"Generous and epic.... Deabler's] Lone Stars takes us through generations of a singular family, whose loves and losses also tell us a story about America itself..."*
Lone Stars follows the arc of four generations of a Texan family in a changing America. Julian Warner, a father at last, wrestles with a question his husband posed: what will you tell our son about the …More
|
|
A Vineyard Morning
By Stone, Jean
2021-01 - Kensington Publishing Corporation
9781496728838 Check Our Catalog
In Jean Stone's third Vineyard Novel, a visit from her biological mother threatens to upend bestselling novelist and island transplant Annie Sutton's new life on Martha's Vineyard.
Life is usually quiet during the off-season on Martha's Vineyard, but not for island newbie and bestselling novelist Annie Sutton...
Finally settled into her adopted island home, Annie is looking forward …More
|
|
If I Disappear
By Brazier, Eliza Jane
2021-01 - Berkley Books
9780593198223 Check Our Catalog
"Blending the true crime compulsion of Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark with the immersive creepy-craziness of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, Brazier creates a heady, pitch-dark cocktail all her own"--Publisher's Weekly
"A slick, smart thriller you don't want to miss."--Samantha Downing, bestselling author of My Lovely Wife …More
|
|
Irish Parade Murder
By Meier, Leslie
2021-01 - Kensington Publishing Corporation
9781496710390 Check Our Catalog
Lucy Stone's late-winter blues usually vanish by the time Tinker's Cove goes green for its annual St. Patrick's Day celebration. There's just one wee problem that not even the luck of the Irish can fix--murder
After returning from her father-in-law's funeral in Florida, Lucy can almost hear the death knell of her part-time reporter job the instant she meets new hire Rob Callahan. He's …More
|
|
Beneath the Keep: A Novel of the Tearling
By Johansen, Erika
2021-02 - Dutton Books
9781524742720 Check Our Catalog
A suspenseful, multi-layered tale of how the sparks of revolution are kindled, and of those who strive to ignite them.
--Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author
As a kingdom descends into darkness and new alliances are forged under fire, a battle begins over a prophecy that will change the course of history in this much-anticipated stand-alone prequel to the …More
|
|
All Fall Down
By Brabazon, James
2021-02 - Berkley Books
9780440001515 Check Our Catalog
British intelligence operative and hardened assassin Max McLean must discover who's killing the members of his team in this new electrifying thriller from James Brabazon, author of The Break Line.
Soldier, assassin, and special agent--Max McLean works for a highly secretive unit called The Unknown: a black ops team which delivers off-the-books justice on behalf of the …More
|
|
The Unwilling
By Hart, John
2021-02 - St. Martin's Press
9781250167729 Check Our Catalog
"We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful." --Unknown Soldier
Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, The Unwilling combines crime, suspense and searing glimpses into the human mind and soul in New York Times bestselling author John Hart's singular style.
Gibby's older brothers …More
|
|
A History of What Comes Next
By Neuvel, Sylvain
2021-02 - Tordotcom
9781250262066 Check Our Catalog
Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, Sylvain Neuvel weaves a sci-fi thriller reminiscent of Blake Crouch and Andy Weir, blending a fast moving, darkly satirical look at 1940s rocketry with an exploration of the amorality of progress and the nature of violence in A History of What Comes Next.
Always run, never fight.
Preserve the knowledge.
…More
|
|
A Perfect Amish Romance, Volume 1
By Gray, Shelley Shepard
2021-01 - Gallery Books
9781982148393 Check Our Catalog
From New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray comes a new series that follows a bookmobile driver-turned-matchmaker who learns that her Amish patrons need a whole lot more than just new books to read.
Aaron Coblentz has a secret: he's been studying to take the GED to get promoted at work. But he can't let his Amish family know, not when his older brother already …More
|
|
The Paradise Affair: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery
By Pronzini, Bill
2021-01 - Forge
9781250216502 Check Our Catalog
Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini's next historical mystery The Paradise Affair, perfect for fans of Peaky Blinders and The Alienist.
The latest Carpenter & Quincannon mystery: "Attractive characters, a finely tuned plot, and fascinating snippets of California history. Who could ask for more?"--Publishers Weekly on The Stolen Gold …More
|
|
We Could Be Heroes
By Chen, Mike
2021-01 - Mira Books
9780778331391 Check Our Catalog
An extraordinary and emotional adventure about unlikely friends and the power of choosing who you want to be.
Jamie woke up in an empty apartment with no memory and only a few clues to his identity, but with the ability to read and erase other people's memories--a power he uses to hold up banks to buy coffee, cat food and books.
Zoe is also searching for her past, and …More
|
|
The Ex Talk
By Solomon, Rachel Lynn
2021-01 - Berkley Books
9780593200124 Check Our Catalog
Public radio co-hosts navigate mixed signals in Rachel Lynn Solomon's sparkling romantic comedy debut.
Shay Goldstein has been a producer at her Seattle public radio station for nearly a decade, and she can't imagine working anywhere else. But lately it's been a constant clash between her and her newest colleague, Dominic Yun, who's fresh off a journalism master's program and convinced …More
|
|
Tropic of Stupid
By Dorsey, Tim
2021-01 - William Morrow & Company
9780062967503 Check Our Catalog
Serge A. Storms embarks on a tour to meet his long-lost relatives in this latest madcap entry in the bestselling series from Florida's "compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny" (Boston Globe) Tim Dorsey.
Devoted Floridaphile Serge Storms is a lover of history, so he's decided to investigate his own using one of those DNA services from late-night TV. …More
|
|
What Could Be Saved
By Schwarz, Liese O'Halloran
2021-01 - Atria Books
9781982150617 Check Our Catalog
"A harrowing tale of the lies of omission and the lies of commission that can break a family apart, What Could Be Saved is a delicious hybrid of mystery, drama, and elegance: rich with detail, lush in language, and capable of keeping you on the edge of your seat." --Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author …More
|
|
Robert Ludlum's the Treadstone Exile
By Hood, Joshua
2021-02 - G.P. Putnam's Sons
9780525542629 Check Our Catalog
Former Treadstone Operative Adam Hayes finds himself at the center of a web of warring factions and high-level secrets in the second novel in the Treadstone series, the newest addition to the Robert Ludlum universe.
After the revival of Operation Treadstone, former agent Adam Hayes has retreated to Africa, determined to leave behind the black-ops CIA program behind for good. As a …More
|
|
The Mask Falling
By Shannon, Samantha
2021-01 - Bloomsbury Publishing
9781635570328 Check Our Catalog
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Season and The Priory of the Orange Tree, the stunning fourth novel set in the world of Scion.
Dreamwalker Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she finds herself caught between those factions that seek Scion's …More
|
|
Just as I Am
By Tyson, Cicely
2021-01 - HarperCollins Publishers
9780062931061 Check Our Catalog
"In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only exceeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history." -President Barack Obama, 2016 Presidential Medal of Honor ceremony
Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed …More
|
|
The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
By Blow, Charles M.
2021-01 - Harper
9780062914668 Check Our Catalog
From journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action for Black Americans to amass political power and fight white supremacy.
Race, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. The point here is not to impose a new racial hierarchy, but to remove …More
|
|
Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again
By TerKeurst, Lysa
2020-11 - Thomas Nelson
9780718039875 Check Our Catalog
*#1 New York Times Bestseller*
You deserve to stop suffering because of what other people have done to you.
Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind? You know you can't go on like this, but you don't know what to do next. Lysa TerKeurst has wrestled through this journey. But in …More
|
|
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
By Kross, Ethan
2021-01 - Crown Publishing Group (NY)
9780525575238 Check Our Catalog
An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how we can harness it to live a healthier, more satisfying, and more productive life.
Tell a stranger that you talk to yourself, and you're likely to get written off as eccentric. But the truth is that we all have a voice in our head. When we talk to ourselves, we often hope to tap into our inner …More
|
|
War of Shadows: Code Breakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
By Gorenberg, Gershom
2021-01 - PublicAffairs
9781610396271 Check Our Catalog
The author shares the cinematic story of the race for information in the North African theater of World War II, set against intrigues that spanned the Middle East. Years in the making, this book is a feat of historical research and storytelling. …More
|
|
Craft: An American History
By Adamson, Glenn
2021-01 - Bloomsbury Publishing
9781635574586 Check Our Catalog
A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day.
At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry and technology-while craftspeople and handmade objects are relegated to a bygone past. Renowned historian Glenn Adamson turns that narrative …More
|
|
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By Didion, Joan
2021-01 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780593318485 Check Our Catalog
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt.
These twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary …More
|
|
Ida B. the Queen
By Duster, Michelle
2021-01 - Atria/One Signal Publishers
9781982129811 Check Our Catalog
Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize.
Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a "dangerous negro agitator." In the annals of history, it makes her an icon.
Ida B. the Queen tells the …More
|
|
Get What's Yours for Health Care: How to Get the Best Care at the Right Price
By Moeller, Philip
2021-01 - Simon & Schuster
9781982134259 Check Our Catalog
At a time when healthcare and medical insurance are more important than ever comes this authoritative, unbiased new volume in the acclaimed Get What's Yours series.
Healthcare expert Philip Moeller has written a reliable, concise guide to healthcare and health insurance basics. He provides tools that patients need before, during, and after they get medical care. He describes the care we …More
|
|
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
By Mantel, Hilary
2020-10 - Fourth Estate
9780008429973 Check Our Catalog
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy …More
|
|
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
By Winchester, Simon
2021-01 - Harper
9780062938336 Check Our Catalog
The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property--our proprietary relationship with the land--through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future.
Land--whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city--is central to our existence. It …More
|
|
The Mission: A True Story
By Brown, David W.
2021-01 - Custom House
9780062654427 Check Our Catalog
A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep-space mission to Europa--the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in the solar system--powered by a motley team of obsessives and eccentrics.ccentrics. …More
|
|
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
By Grinker, Roy R.
2021-01 - W. W. Norton & Company
9780393531640 Check Our Catalog
For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma--from the eighteenth century, through America's major wars, and into today's high-tech economy.
Nobody's Normal argues …More
|
|
The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make
By Lieber, Ron
2021-01 - Harper
9780062867308 Check Our Catalog
The hugely popular New York Times "Your Money" columnist and author of the bestselling The Opposite of Spoiled offers a deeply reported and emotionally honest approach to the biggest financial decision families will ever make: what to pay for college.
Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than …More
|
|
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
By Nti-Asare-Tubbs, Anna
2021-02 - Flatiron Books
9781250756121 Check Our Catalog
Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them.
In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and …More
|
|
Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
By Chammah, Maurice
2021-01 - Crown Publishing Group (NY)
9781524760267 Check Our Catalog
A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas--and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America
"Remarkably intimate, fair-minded, and trustworthy reporting on the people arguing over the fate of human life."--Robert Kolker, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
WINNER OF …More
|
|
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By Nimura, Janice P.
2021-01 - W. W. Norton & Company
9780393635546 Check Our Catalog
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her …More
|
|
Pain Killer: Catching New York's Deadliest Doctor
By Bismuth, Charlotte
2021-01 - Atria/One Signal Publishers
9781982116422 Check Our Catalog
The shocking story of New York's most infamous pill-pushing doctor, written by the prosecutor who brought him down in a landmark and precedent-setting case in the fight against opioid addiction. …More
|
|
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
By Seidule, Ty
2021-01 - St. Martin's Press
9781250239266 Check Our Catalog
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy--and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed.
Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. …More
|
|
Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic--And How to Get Healthy Again
By Phillips, Steven
Author Parish, Dana
2021-02 - Houghton Mifflin
9780358064718 Check Our Catalog
Autoimmune disease and chronic illness is a global pandemic. What is fueling it?
In this timely book, Steven Phillips, MD, and his former patient, Sony singer-songwriter Dana Parish, reveal striking evidence that a broad range of common infections, from COVID-19 to Lyme and many others, cause a variety of autoimmune, psychiatric, and chronic conditions. Chronic explores the …More
|
|
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
By Ghazvinian, John
2021-01 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780307271815 Check Our Catalog
An important, urgently needed book--a hugely ambitious, illuminating portrait of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and America, and the first book to examine, in all its aspects, the rich and fraught relations between these two powers--once allies, now adversaries. By an admired historian and the author of Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil (he would do Graham Greene …More
|
|
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes
By Wilcox, Claire
2021-01 - Bloomsbury Publishing
9781526614391 Check Our Catalog
An expert and intimate exploration of a life in clothes: their memories and stories, enchantments and spells.
A linen sheet, smooth with age. A box of buttons, mother-of-pearl and plastic, metal and glass, rattling and untethered. A hundred-year-old pin, forgotten in a hem. Fragile silks and fugitive dyes, fans and crinolines, and the faint mark on leather from a buckle now lost. …More
|
|
This Is the Voice
By Colapinto, John
2021-01 - Simon & Schuster
9781982128746 Check Our Catalog
A New York Times bestselling writer explores what our unique sonic signature reveals about our species, our culture, and each one of us. Finally, a vital topic that has never had its own book gets its due.
There's no shortage of books about public speaking or language or song. But until now, there has been no book about the miracle that underlies them all--the human voice itself. …More
|
|
|
Weekly Children's Room Newsletter
Our Children's Librarian Emily is sending out a new weekly email newsletter for families. To sign up, email Emily at elapierre@clamsnet.org, or just reply to this email and ask to be added to the children's email list. You can follow this link to view this week's issue: Heart Mobile, DIY Pop-Up Card, English Muffin Pizza!
Weekly Children's Programs
Each week our Youth Services librarians create "Take & Make" bags filled with themed educational activities. Virtual Storytime and video tutorials on our Facebook and YouTube pages enhance the Take & Make bag activities. Bags are available for pickup weekly on Sundays from 3pm - 5pm (on a first come basis while supplies last). For more information, contact Emily our Children's Librarian! Teen "Take & Make" craft bags are also available weekly, Young Adult Librarian Jennifer can provide the details!
For program announcements follow our Kids & Young Adults Facebook Page, and check out our new YouTube channel. Books are now available from the library through contactless pickup, and eBooks are available through our digital library resources for kids.
|
|
Hours & Contact Information
Call: (508) 696-4210
Email: vhpl_mail@clamsnet.org
Staff Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 AM - 5 PM
Contactless Pickup Hours:
Monday-Saturday, 12 PM - 5 PM, & until 6 PM Thursday
The Library Building is temporarily closed to the public. Contactless pickup of books, movies, CDs, magazines, and other library material is available 6 days a week. Items must be requested in advance. We cannot fill walk-up requests at this time, but we will do our best to fill same day holds placed by 2pm. Learn more: http://www.vhlibrary.org/contactless.shtml
For the latest information on library services and programs, visit our website http://vhlibrary.org/ or follow our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/vhlibrary/.
|
|
Programming at Vineyard Haven Public Library is supported by the Friends of the Library, the Bergman Foundation, and by bequests from Ruth Redding and Stephen C. Luce.
|
|
|
|
|
|