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Mentioned in the Media March & April 2024
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Historically Speaking: Hollywood Starlets
Thursday, March 14, 7:00 pm
Community Room
In the Library's Historically Speaking series, learn about a variety of historical topics throughout world history.In March's program, join us as we discuss the lives, loves, and careers of the most enduring Old Hollywood actresses: from the controversial Mae West, the child star Shirley Temple, the tragic Judy Garland, and more.
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The Rumor Game
by Thomas Mullen
When a reporter Anne Lemire's story about Nazi propaganda intersects with Special Agent Devon Mulvey's investigation into the death of a factory worker, they are led down a dangerous trail of espionage, organized crime and domestic fascism, which threatens to engulf the city in violence.
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Smoke Kings
by Jahmal Mayfield
After his little cousin is murdered, young Black political activist Nate Evers, along with three grief-stricken friends, kidnaps descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, forcing them to pay reparations to a community fund, until he confronts the wrong man.
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Owning Up
by George P. Pelecanos
Drawn together by themes of strife, violence and humanity, this searing collection of four stories introduces characters who defy the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil as they grapple with consequence, random chance and the many paths a life can take.
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Expiration Dates
by Rebecca Serle
Every time she meets a new man, Daphne Bell receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together; usually she is right, but when she meets Jake, her whole system is thrown for a loop.
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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.
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The Morningside
by Téa Obreht
Settling at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City, Silvia, struggling with her new reality, becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse and is determined to unravel the truth about this woman's life, and her own haunted past.
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The Divorcées
by Rowan Beaird
A novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch" explores the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future.
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
by RuPaul
From an international drag superstar and pop culture icon comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a deeply intimate memoir of growing up black, poor and queer in a broken home and discovering the power of performance, found family and self-acceptance.
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Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
Tracing the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 to the aftermath of Orvil Red Feather's shooting, Opal tries to hold her family together while Orvil becomes emotionally reliant on prescription medications, and his younger brother, suffering from PTSD, secretly enacts blood rituals to connect to his Cheyenne heritage.
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Big Time
by Ben H Winters
The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
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Exordia
by Seth Dickinson
A disaffected office worker has an unearthly close encounter and joins a team of civilians, soldiers and scientists to investigate a mysterious other-worldly broadcast.
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The Tusks of Extinction
by Ray Nayler
When her digitized consciousness is downloaded into the mind of a mammoth, which have been resurrected, Dr. Damira Khismatullina, who was brutally murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants, must teach them how to be mammoths to avoid dooming them to a new extinction.
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The New Naturals
by Gabriel Bump
After losing their child, a husband and wife construct a separate society, where everyone can feel loved and wanted, but when others hear about the place and want in, it doesn't take long for problems to develop, for conflicts to surface, and for the children to crave life beyond this place.
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The Split
by Kit Frick
When her sister Esme leaves her high-society husband and needs a ride, Jane Conner imagines one reality where she tells Esme to crash with a friend and then 24 hours later she disappears, and another reality where she brings Esme back to Connecticut where they must reckon with an explosive secret from their past.
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What Happened to Nina?
by Dervla McTiernan
Two families are pitted against each other—one seeking justice in the disappearance of their daughter, the other desperate to clear their son's name.
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Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
by Philippa Gregory
Drawing on an enormous archive of primary and secondary sources to rewrite history, focusing on the agency, persistence and effectiveness of everyday women throughout periods of social and cultural transition, the #1 New York Times best-selling historical novelist redefines "normal" female behavior to include heroism, rebellion, crime, treason, money-making and sainthood.
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The Book of Love
by Kelly Link
Brought back to life by their high school music teacher, Laura, Daniel and Mo, desperate to reclaim their lives, agree to perform a series of magical tasks, but when their resurrection attracts the notice of supernatural figures, they must solve the mystery of their deaths to save everything they love.
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The Kamogawa Food Detectives
by Hisashi Kashiwai
Down a quiet Kyoto backstreet,“food detectives” Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the proprietors of the Kamogawa Diner, through ingenious investigations, recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories, which hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness.
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I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
by Lucy Sante
The Belgian-born American writer shares the both the arc of her artistic journey as well as a step-by-step account of her 2021 transition to becoming a woman at the age of nearly 70.
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Cahokia Jazz
by Francis Spufford
A detective and his indigenous jazz pianist partner investigate a seemingly ordinary murder that ultimately threatens to unravel the peace and reveal hidden secrets in an alternate history version of 1920s America where Native American populations thrived.
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The Curse of Pietro Houdini
by Derek B. Miller
In 1943, 14-year-old Massimo, rescued by a mysterious man called Pietro Houdini who preserves the treasures within the Benedictine abbey's wall, accompanies him on a World War II art-heist adventure where they lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill and sin to survive, while smuggling Renaissance masterpieces they've rescued from the“safe keeping” of the Germans.
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Ways and Means
by Daniel Lefferts
Working for an enigmatic billionaire whose ambitions are far darker than he could've ever imagined, Alistair McCabe, forced to go on the run, bands together with his paramours, an older couple named Mark and Elijah, who are facing their own moral and financial dilemmas, to save each other and themselves.
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Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
by Jâozsef Debreczeni
This lost memoir from a Holocaust survivor, translated into English for the first time, provides an eyewitness account of his twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in World War II Nazi concentration camps.
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Who Own This Sentence: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
by David Bellos
Copyright is often defended as an immutable concept handed down through the generations, but this brisk and entertaining history outlines the truth of its complicated history and illuminates the ways in which it has increasingly been weaponized by contemporary corporations. A gem of narrative nonfiction with wide appeal, bound to be especially savored by anyone with a stake in the future of intellectual property.
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Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matter
by Charan Ranganath
Combining accessible language with cutting-edge research, eye-opening studies and examples from pop culture, a pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist unveils the hidden role memory plays throughout our lives and how once we understand its power, we can cut through the clutter to remember the things we want to remember.
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End of Story
by A. J. Finn
Invited by a reclusive mystery novelist to help draft his life story, a longtime correspondent and detective fiction expert finds herself in a real whodunnit when she learns the writer's first wife and son mysteriously vanished.
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Neighbors and Other Stories
by Diane Oliver
Filled with unforgettable characters dealing with the dangers of Jim Crow racism, this powerful story collection paints incisive and intimate portraits of African American families in everyday moments of anxiety and crisis that look at how they use agency to navigate their predicaments.
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Whiskey Tender
by Deborah Jackson Taffa
Reflecting on her past and present, the author, a citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo, reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the "melting pot" of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance.
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