I’m not going to spin you a long yarn, or needle you with all the knitty gritty details – you’ve got places to be and don’t want the wool pulled over your eyes. The Knitting Circle is pretty cool (I’m out of puns). They’ve been making a lot of hats, a blanket, I’ve heard tell…
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A selection of new books, but come visit to check out everything that’s new on the shelves! – the Librarians The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman Permanent Record by Edward Snowden The Dutch House by Ann Patchett The Education of…
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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (based on a shamefully true story) is about a reform school for boys in the 1960s where the laws of the Jim Crow South never died, and where the black children consigned there were abused, beaten, and at times murdered. This we learn within the first few pages. There…
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The Testaments Margaret Atwood Sequels (or prequels) – we all know this – are often a disaster. Look at Alexandra Ripley’s Scarlett, the awful attempt at a follow-up for Gone With the Wind. At Lois Lowry’s ruinous sequels to The Giver. At Harper Lee’s Go Tell a Watchman, a book which she obviously never wanted to see the light…
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Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton The world as we know it has ended, and the apocalypse is narrated by S.T. (for Shit Turd), a brilliant, if extremely profane, domesticated crow. S.T.’s owner, Big Jim, has succumbed to the deadly virus that is turning all humans into zombies. So S.T. – along with Dennis, an…
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Hoo boy! Summer is not officially over but, yeah, it’s over. We know the school year can be difficult, so we’re trying to regularize our afterschool programs: Monday through Wednesday, 3:30 – 5:30. For more information on programs and how to sign up for bussing from the school to the library, click HERE.
Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins You’ve all heard this type of story before: a commoner somehow finds themselves hanging out with royalty and falling in love with each other. But instead of it being your typical normal girl finds her prince, we have a normal girl finding her princess! Her Royal Highness is about…
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Knife by Jo Nesbo The newest entry into the Scandinavian crime series starring Harry Hole (which I will never stop snickering about) in which our titular detective wakes up, hungover, hands covered in blood. is HE the murderer?! …Probably not but, like all Swedish mysteries, I’m sure it’ll be just as dark and disturbing as…
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Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron This book made me cry, and cry, and cry again. Last Bus to Everland is about Brody Fair who feels like nothing is going right in his life and that nobody understands him. That is until he meets Nico, a boy who shows him Everland. Everland is a…
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