My LINKcat AccountI hope you all shall (or already have had depending on when you are reading this) have had a good Thanksgiving Day. I hope you spent it with friends and family and were thankful and grateful for all the members of your family and your circle of friends. I hope you had enough to eat and had a warm place to spend the day. We here at the library are thankful for you. We have books, dvds, cds, and a plethora of different formats of items for you. We are grateful that you follow us on social media. We are thankful that you visit us often and checkout the materials we have. We are thankful for your support.
On the day after Thanksgiving, now known far and wide as “Black Friday” we will be open. Now, you do know (at least the most popular explanation) the reason this day is called “Black Friday” is because the retail stores make enough money with all the “sales” on this day and going forward to put them in the black on the ledger -- the black being the profit side of things. Retailers may go into the black on this first day of the big Christmas shopping season, but a lot of us shoppers end up going into the red. The library offers you an alternative to shopping and the red side. Stop by and check out something to read. After you have finished it, it will be read. Get a scratch--off coupon (while supplies last) which may win you a cookie or a free rental or who knows? In the meantime, below are some new books that can be read or which you may read. Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
“Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts” by Brene Brown. Based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers and culture shifters, a #1 New York Times best-selling author shows readers how dare greatly, rise strong and brave the wilderness so that they can step up and lead.
“The Global Economy as You’ve Never Seen It: 99 Ingenious Infographics That Put It All Together” by Thomas Ramge. A fully visual infographic tour of the global economy and its key components explains the complex network that connects the worlds of business and finance, sharing illuminating insights into everything from labor and theory to consumer choices and product development.
“Blend: The Secret to Co-Parenting and Creating a Balanced Family” by Mashonda Tifrere. Draws on expert advice and personal experience to counsel readers on the effective strategies employed by the ArtLeadHer co-founder author, her music producer ex and his new wife, music artist Alicia Keyes, to maintain a healthy co-parenting team.
“Brief Answers to Big Questions” by Stephen Hawking. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 best-selling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe’s biggest questions in a posthumous work.
“In My Father’s House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family” by Fox Butterfield. A Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times journalist follows a family in Oregon, the Bogles, with a generations-spanning history of criminal behavior, aiming to debunk long-held stereotypes about race and crime and using these insights to highlight new efforts at reform.
“Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents” by Pete Souza. The former official White House photographer compares the most recent two administrations via photos of Barack Obama side-by-side with tweets, headlines and quotes from the Trump administration. By the author of the #1 best-seller “Obama: An Intimate Portrait”.
New Fiction
“Alice Isn’t Dead” by Joseph Fink. Spotting her late wife in news-report backgrounds, truck driver Keisha Taylor stumbles into an otherworldly conflict on the nation's highway systems. By the New York Times best-selling author.
“The Clockmaker’s Daughter” by Kate Morton. More than 150 years after an artist's retreat on the banks of the Upper Thames ends in murder, theft and ruin, a London archivist is drawn by a striking photograph and a sketchbook to discover a manor's secrets. By a New York Times best-selling author.
“Bright Young Dead, No. 2 (Mitford Murders Mysteries)” by Jessica Fellowes. When a wealthy young bully falls to his death from a church bell tower during a media-covered birthday party in 1920s Mitford, ex-criminal chaperone Louisa Cannon endeavors to exonerate an innocent suspect. By a New York Times best-selling author.
“Deck the Hounds, No. 18 (Andy Carpenter Mysteries)” by David Rosenfelt. Helping a hospitalized homeless man whose dog has been quarantined for protecting him during an assault, lawyer Andy Carpenter discovers that his new friend is a wrongful suspect in a two-year-old murder case. By the national best-selling author of “The Twelve Dogs of Christmas”.
“Lark! The Herald Angels Sing, No. 24 ( Meg Langslow Mysteries)” by Donna Andrews. Discovering an abandoned infant in a live Nativity display with a note claiming her brother is the father, Meg learns that the baby is also connected to a crime that must be stopped. By the New York Times best-selling author of “How the Finch Stole Christmas”.
“Mycroft and Sherlock” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse. Rising War Office star Mycroft Holmes persuades his brother, Sherlock, to volunteer at a best friend's orphanage, where the suspicious death of a street urchin and a mysterious Chinese woman lead the brothers into the London opium trade's dark underside.
“Six Cats a Slayin’, No 10 ( Cats in the Stacks)” by Miranda James. An unexpected delivery and a shocking murder shake up the holiday season for Charlie Harris and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel, in a latest entry in the best-selling series that includes “Twelve Angry Librarians”.