My LINKcat AccountWhat a difference a couple of weeks make. I hadn’t been outside of the village environs for a week to ten days and at the end of last week I had a meeting on the opposite side of the county. Not only did I get to experience that Wisconsin season that last from March to November known as construction, but I got to take a gander at the countryside. Boy have things changed. A couple of weeks of dry weather and a couple of weeks further into September and suddenly the all the vegetation is browning off or yellowing. The corn and soybeans and tomatoes and vine-y vegetables are turning sere. The sumac is starting to turn that brilliant almost-neon red it gets and some trees and really thinking hard about putting on their pretty fall ensembles. Some – myself included—consider this the best time of year. The night is coming earlier and getting cooler, the humidity levels – for the most part—have dropped to comfortable levels, it is neither hot enough for air-conditioning nor cold enough for heat, and we are poised between the seasons. Many birds are still around doing practice flights for migration but it isn’t time to go yet. It is a very pleasant time of year and to add to that enjoyment, we have the fall book lists arriving en masse – or at least that’s how it seems at times. Below are some of the new titles that arrived recently at the library. Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
“Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth” by Sarah Smarsh. Reveals one woman's experience of working-class poverty with a startlingly observed, eye-opening and topical personal story.
“If You Love Me: A Mother’s Journey Through Her Daughter’s Opioid Addiction” by Maureen Cavanagh. The founder of the Magnolia New Beginnings nonprofit peer-support group shares the gripping story of her confrontation with the opioid epidemic in the wake of her daughter's sudden and brutal battle with substance abuse.
“Live Long and …: What I Learned Long the Way” by William Shatner. The Star Trek legend and New York Times best-selling author reflects on his career and the health scare that informed and reinforced his beliefs about living a good life, sharing engaging stories about his childhood, personal setbacks and iconic successes.
“Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father” by Stephen Fried. A portrait of the medical pioneer and Founding Father discusses his creation of America's national healthcare system and provocative advocacy of changes to treatments for patients with mental illness and addiction. By the award-winning author of “Appetite for America”.
“Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most” by Steven Johnson. The best-selling author of “How We Got to Now” and “Where Good Ideas Come From” presents a book about making once-in-a-lifetime decisions.
New Fiction
Stygian, No. 29 (Dark Hunter)” by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Traces the story of an Urian who questions his predatory role and travels to the depths of Hades to save the woman he loves, at the risk of multiple worlds. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of “Styxx”.
“Texas Free, No.5 (Tylers of Texas)” by Janet Dailey. A woman seeking refuge on her inherited ranch and a Special Ranger posing as a rugged cowhand navigate doubts about each other while investigating an outbreak of cattle rustling. By a New York Times best-selling author.
“The Other Woman” by Sandie Jones A blissful romance between Adam and Emily is challenged by Adam's manipulative mother, who resorts to dire measures to keep all other women out of her son's life. A first novel.
“Swift Vengeance” by T. Jefferson Parker. Tracking a mysterious killer who has been targeting drone operators, PI Roland Ford strikes an uneasy alliance with an FBI agent who is haunted by Bureau failures. By the New York Times best-selling author of “The Room of White Fire “
“Trust Me” by Hank Ryan. An unlikely alliance between an accused killer who swears she is innocent and a grieving journalist who would rebuild her shattered life leads to a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse. By the award-winning author of “Say No More”.
“In His Father’s Footsteps” by Danielle Steel. Two courageous World War II concentration-camp survivors build a life together before their son resolves to be his own person as a first-generation American. By the best-selling author of “The Right Time”.
“Sea Prayer” by Khaled Hosseini. The #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Kite Runner presents an evocatively illustrated tribute to the tragic human realities of today's refugee crisis in the form of a father's letter to his young son on the eve of a dangerous journey.
“The Tattooist of Auschwitz” by Heather Morris. An international best-seller based on the true story of an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor traces the experiences of a Jewish Slovakian who uses his position as a concentration-camp tattooist to secure food for his fellow prisoners.