My LINKcat AccountThe weather certainly has been a rollercoaster lately. Monday was in the low 60s, Tuesday in the high 60s, and Wednesday, forecast to struggle to make it to the high 20s.and then back to close to 70 degrees by the weekend. I keep asking people if it’s still February and up until today (assuming the publication date of Friday, March 1st) the answer has been in the affirmative. The high school boys and girls basketball final tournaments are yet to be played and we all know that those tournaments, in the past, have acted as a snow-storm magnet. Who knows if that will be the cast this year? In the meantime the grass continues to green and new birds are migrating back into the area almost daily (I saw a migratory flock of starlings over the weekend and while starlings tend to hang around most of the year they do come south to find warmer temperatures and more available food and they do flock-up when they make these moves). Speaking of books, the spring titles are flocking to our shelves almost as quickly as the birds. Below you will find some of the new titles which recently arrived at the library.
Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
“3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool” by James Kaplan. The story of how three legends—Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans—came together in 1959 to create Kind of Blue, which is widely considered the great jazz album of time.
“Burn Book: A Tech Love Story” by Kara Swisher, From an award-winning journalist comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
“The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle” by Anna Shechtman. A renowned puzzle creator’s offers a memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest.
“The Waltham Murders: One Woman’s Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tradgety” by Susan Clare Zalkind. A crusade to find a killer becomes a gripping, intensely personal investigation into a shocking cold case and the radicalization of a terrorist.
New Fiction
“After Annie” by Ann Quindlen. After Annie Brown dies suddenly, her family and her best friend struggle to maintain their lives and eventually discover that they are able to grow, change and become stronger due to their memories and the lasting power of love.
“American Spirits” by Russell Banks. Three interlocking tales about the locals in a rural New York town, including two criminals who kidnap an elderly couple to blackmail their grandson and a man who is hounded on social media after selling his property to a stranger.
“Anita De Monte Laughs Last” by Xochitl Gonzalez. A first-generation Ivy League student uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death
“The Great Divide” by Cristina Henriquez. An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved and labored there.
“Mona of the Manor, No. 10 (Tales of the City)” by Armistead Maupin. In the early 1990s, Mona Ramsey, now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in Britain’s golden Cotswolds, and her fabulous adopted son Wilfred come to the aid of an American visitor with a troubling secret.
“The Tower” by Flora Carr. In 1567 Scotland, Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned in the isolated Lochleven Castle along with her two inconspicuous serving women and after reluctantly surrendering her throne, is joined by her closest friend Lady Seton, and they all hatch a perilous getaway plan, forming a bond that transcends class and religion.
“Listen for the Lie” by Amy Tintara. When Lucy's friend Savvy is murdered, anyone could be the killer, even Lucy, and soon enough a true-crime podcast comes investigating.
“The Woman Who Lowered the Boom” by David Handler. A beloved ghostwriter-sleuth is finally on the precipice of reclaiming his previous literary fame when threats against his editor appear to put both his career and her life in jeopardy.
”Blessed Water, No.1 (A Sister Holiday Mystery)” by Margot Douaihy. A tattooed nun who moonlights at a detective agency feels she is called on by God to find the killer after discovering a dead priest in the second novel of the series following Scorched Grace.