My LINKcat AccountIt seems to me the months of May and April have been reversed this year. April showers are supposed to bring May flowers and admitted, there are flowers and it is May, but this past week has been May showers bringing May flowers. And what, pray tell, is with the freeze warnings? I mean, really. Aren’t freeze warnings more apropos to April? Shouldn’t we be able to have some plants – admittedly of a hardier variety—outside and not have to keep dragging them inside every few days when the temperatures decide to dip into the frost zone? Frost is one thing. I can live with frost in mid-May. Frost is harmful only to the most delicate of flowers, but a freeze warning? That’s serious business. But I’m sure, by next week we’ll have high temperatures near 80 degrees and high humidity and be waxing nostalgic for those cooler days of only a week ago. In the meantime, there are a number of new books described below that you might find of interest. These are by no means the only books that have been added to the library’s collection recently. This is a mere sampling. Why not stop by and check out (meaning to see what we might have) the new books at the library and if you see anything you like, you can check out (meaning to borrow from the library using your library card) those books too. Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
First, break all the rules : what the world's greatest managers do differently by The Gallup Press. Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its revolutionary study of more than 80,000 managers, revealing what the world’s greatest managers do differently and providing vital performance and career lessons and ideas for how to apply them.
The bridge ladies : a memoir / by Betsy Lerner. A 50-year-old bridge game, and the secrets it held, provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between the author and her mother.
Elizabeth : the forgotten years / by John Guy. Based on new archival material, an autobiography of the ambitious Tudor queen focuses on her life at the height of her power, including revolts in Ireland, riots in the streets of London and a conspiracy to overthrow her.
Her again : becoming Meryl Streep / by Michael Schulman. A thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep—nominated for 19 Oscars, winning three—explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling with love, feminism and her astonishing talent.
Missing man : the American spy who vanished in Iran / by Barry Meier. A real-life thriller looks at the disappearance of a CIA contractor from Iran and the international manhunt to find him.
Paul McCartney : the life / by Philip Norman. An official biography approved by the former Beatle himself covers the whole span of his life, from losing his mother in childhood to his often troubled partnership with John Lennon to his personal trauma after The Beatles' breakup, as well as his time with Wings and his marriage to Linda McCarthy and time spent dealing with her death.
New Fiction
The Fireman : a novel / by Joe Hill. When a bizarre virulent plague breaks out throughout the world's major cities, causing victims to spontaneously combust, a dedicated nurse resolves to survive until her baby is born and receives protection from a mysterious infected man who uses his fire symptoms to help others. By the award-winning author of the Locke & Key comic series.
The apartment : a novel / by Danielle Steel. Four friends sharing a beautiful loft apartment in New York City's Hell's Kitchen reveal in the glamour of city life before new relationships, job opportunities and surprising circumstances test the strength of their bond.
The curious charms of Arthur Pepper / by Phaedra Patrick. Finding a mysterious bracelet among his late wife's possessions, 69-year-old Arthur Pepper breaks from his routine life for the first time since her death and embarks on a quest to learn about his wife's life before their marriage, a journey that leads to unexpected self-discoveries.
Everybody's fool / Richard Russo. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns readers to the setting of Nobody's Fool and finds Sully confronting a daunting health prognosis, which he hides from his loved ones, including his longtime mistress, an increasingly distant best friend and an obsessive chief of police.
Happy people read & drink coffee / by Agnes Martin-Lugand. After suffering a deeply tragic personal loss, the owner of a cozy book cafe in Paris moves to a small Irish coastal town where she finds herself at odds with the abrasive and unwelcoming, but handsome, photographer next door.
Heat and light / by Jennifer Haigh. A latest tale set in the Pennsylvania town depicted in Baker Towers finds an agreement to lease mineral rights to frackers causing unexpected complications in the life of farmer Rich Devilin, his family members and his neighbors throughout Bakerton
Imagine me gone : a novel / by Adam Haslett. Electing to marry the fiancé who is hospitalized for depression, a woman commits to decades of love and faith involving their brilliant musical eldest son, their responsible daughter and a tightly controlled younger son who help her care for her increasingly troubled husband. By the Pulitzer Prize finalist author of You Are Not a Stranger Here.