My LINKcat AccountNow the countdowns have begun in earnest. If you are reading this on Friday, the 8th of December, you are less than 24 hours away from Santa’s visit to the library. The large, jolly elf will be visiting the library from 10 until noon on Saturday, December 9th. Plan on attending. You don’t want to get on the naughty list now, do you? Sunday, December 10th, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Solstice Brass will be preforming holiday music from the library mezzanine. Cookies and a hot beverage will be provided by the Friends of the DeForest Area Public Library. The countdown to Christmas passes the 16 day mark on the 8th, so you have a little more than 2 weeks to get it all done. & days after that puts us at New Year’s Eve. For those of you who keep track of hours (and minutes) of daylight, the really great news is that after December 10th is past, we start gaining daylight at the evening end of the day. Sure, we continue to lose time in the morning (actual 10 minutes until the latest sunrise of 7:29 a.m. rolls around on the 30th), but I prefer my daylight at the end of the day. While you’re keeping track of all this days and dates, remember that the Winter Reading Program starts on December 16th. Below you will find a number of the new books which recently arrived at the library. Check them out! Read them! Record them for the Winter Reading Program! And enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
“How to Be the Love You Seek: Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships” by Nicole Lepera. The author of the #1 New York Times best-seller “How to Do the Work” returns with a guide to strengthening relationships, beginning with the one we have with ourselves.
“Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You” by Phil Stutz. In this profound collection of short essays he’s been writing since the late 1990s, the famed therapist and subject of the
Netflix documentary “Stutz” addresses real-world circumstances and offers a new way to think about life itself in culture that denies the nature of reality.
“Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature’s Toxins—from Spices to Vices” by Noah Whitman. Based on cutting-edge science in the fields of evolution, chemistry and neuroscience, an evolutionary biologist reveals the origins of natural toxins produced by plants, mushrooms, microbes and even some animals, discussing how and why they evolved and the biological basis for our attraction—and addiction—to them.
“Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury” by Ray Bradbury edited by Jonathan Eller. From the iconic author of “Fahrenheit 451”, “The Martian Chronicles”, and “Something Wicked This Way Comes” comes a collection of his letters that illuminate the story of his life in new ways.
“Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo” by Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns. This visually stunning work of natural history tells the epic saga of the American buffalo, from prehistoric times to today, capturing a young republic’s heedless rush to conquer the continent and the dawn of the conservation era, which saved our nation’s official mammal from extinction.
New Fiction
“The Prospectors” by Ariel Djanikian. One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
“Someone Always Nearby” by Susan Wittig Albert. An evocative historical novel that explores the dimensions of friendship and the debts we incur to those who make our lives easier focuses on painter Georgia O'Keeffe and the woman who managed a house of hers in New Mexico.
“Uhtred’s Feast: Inside the World of the Last Kingdom” by Bernard Cornwell. In this exciting companion book to the epic “The Last Kingdom” series, three exclusive short stories introduce the iconic Uhtred of Babbanburgm the Saxon-born, Norse-raised warrior and rebel, immersing readers in Anglo-Saxon life in all its splendor, danger and beauty.
“Murder Checks Out (Blue Ridge Library Mysteries)” by Victoria Gilbert. It’s not all snowflakes and sugarplums when murder crashes Taylorsford’s first Winterfest.
“Murder in a Cup, No. 29 (A Crystals & Curiositieas Mystery)” by Lauren Elliott. When her first group reading ends in murder, self-taught “seer” Shay, the descendant of an Irish witch and owner of a New Age tea shop, with her assistant suspected of committing coldblooded murder, finds her business in hot water as she works to exonerate her employee by following the signs to a manipulative murderer.
“Murder in Williamstown, No. 22 (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)” by Kerry Greenwood. The Honorable Miss Phryne Fisher, troubled by recent events, is enlisted to help find the teenaged sister-in-law of her longtime lover Lin Chung—a disappearance she believes may be linked to a recent murder.
“The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid)” by Nita Prose. The esteemed Head Maid of the 5star Regency Grand Hotel, Molly Gray, when a world-renowned mystery author drops dead, matches wits with her old foe, Detective Stark, to solve this case, which not only threatens the hotel’s pristine.
“Robert B. Parker’s Broken Trust, No. 51 (Spenser)” by Mike Lupica. When the beautiful wife of a brilliant scientist, whose groundbreaking work with lithium has made him a billionaire, asks him to look into her husband’s past due to his recent paranoia and violent behavior, Spenser makes a discovery that causes him to question his own views on morality.
“The Edge, No.2 (6:20 Man)” by David Baldacci. Sent to a small coastal town in
Maine to solve the murder of a CIA operative who was in possession of countless state secrets, ex-Army ranger Travis Devine, with no one to trust, must unravel a long history of secrets while evading those who want him dead.