What's New @ the Library
Week of February 24 through February 29, 2020
Fiction
The Orphan Thief
by Glynis Peters

 
Dead to her : a novel
by Sarah Pinborough

Navigating her new husband’s complicated social circle and wandering eye, a mistress-turned-wife becomes ruthless when her husband begins an affair with his boss’s own second wife. By the best-selling author of Behind Her Eyes. 150,000 first printing.
Last day
by Luanne Rice

When her sister is murdered amid the theft of a valuable painting, an eerie echo of their mother’s murder 20 years earlier, pilot Beth teams up with the case’s original detective and childhood friends to identify a killer.
The look-alike
by Erica Spindler

A decade after stumbling on a murdered classmate in college, a woman caring for her mentally ill mother begins receiving threatening phone calls before spotting a white van outside her home. By the best-selling author of Justice for Sara.
Non-Fiction
Half broke : a memoir
by Ginger Gaffney

A top-ranked horse trainer at an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico describes how her work rehabilitating abandoned horses and traumatized inmates helped her form profound bonds and overcome difficult personal challenges.
Ready or not : preparing our kids to thrive in an uncertain and rapidly changing world
by Madeline Levine

The best-selling author of The Price of Privilege explores how today’s parenting and educational systems are failing to prepare children for adult responsibilities, sharing insight on how to raise kids without high pressure and anxiety. 100,000 first printing.
A game of birds and wolves : the ingenious young women whose secret board game helped win World War II
by Simon Parkin

Tells the triumphant story of a group of young women who helped devise a winning strategy to defeat the Nazi U-boats and deliver a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic. (military history). 25,000 first printing.
Fewer, richer, greener : prospects for humanity in an age of abundance
by Laurence B Siegel

""The quality of [his] thinking and [his] writing is...second to none in the world of finance."--Jack Bogle, founder, Vanguard "That great explainer of everything to everybody." --Richard Flannery, CEO, The Investment Fund for Foundations Our world is burdened with disappearing economic growth, a deteriorating environment, limited natural resources, and not just too many people, but too many old people. Really? While such pessimism may mark you as a wise soul at the neighborhood cocktail party, it isn't supported by the facts. Yes, there are reasons to worry, as there have always been. But there are far more reasons to be optimistic, as author Laurence Siegel explains in his fascinating look at the future, Fewer, Richer, Greener. The recent dramatic slowing in global population growth will allow prosperity to spread from the developed to the developing world. Prosperity is mostly based on technology in the broadest sense of that word--meaning "the techniques we use for getting the most out of what we have." That technology is cumulative. We have what we had yesterday, plus whatever new technology is developed today. Except in times of massive economic dislocation, the present is better than the past--and the future will be better still. Using narrative, data, biography and interviews with leading thinkers, Fewer, Greener, Richer, traces the history of economic progress and explosres its consequences for human life around the world. We are, as Siegel explains, at the turning point where the economic development of the past 200 years in the first world has begun to spread to the rest of the globe. Using sources ranging from the Old Testament to the latest writings on economics, biology, and philosophy, Siegel tells the story of how we arrived at this point, and lays out a vision for the progress we are about to witness. This future will not be without problems, but we will have the knowledge and technology to solve those problems in ways that would have be unimaginable only a few decades ago"