LibraryAware Multicultural Authors Oct 2021

Adult's Night Out: Halloween Trivia and Movie Night
Friday, October 22, 5:00 pm
Community Room
Join us for some Halloween trivia and a screening of Beetlejuice (1988 with a PG rating and 1 hour 32 minute run time).Trivia will be held from 5 - 6 and the movie screening will begin at 6. Snacks and refreshments will be provided but you are welcome to bring your own as well. Open to anyone 16+. Effective September 1, masks are required at in-person library programs held indoors. Please do not participate if you feel ill or are exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms. If conditions warrant, programs may be offered virtually or cancelled.

New & Notable

The Opium Prince
by Jasmine Aimaq

Accidentally killing a young Kochi girl while driving through Kabul, an Afghan-American foreign-aid worker is confronted by an opium dealer’s threats, the loss of his marriage and wrenching guilt over the local regime’s indifference. A first novel.

Leave the World Behind : A Novel
by Rumaan Alam

Sheltering in a New York beach house with a couple that has taken refuge during a massive blackout, a family struggles for information about the power failure while wondering if the cut-off property is actually safe.

The Third Sister
by Sara Blaedel

A high-action conclusion to the best-selling series finds Ilka Jensen embarking on a formidable journey when an astonishing revelation pulls her into a violent world where she confronts the answers she has been seeking.

The Others
by Sarah Blau

"As soon as Sheila hears the news, she knows the police will be calling. Dina Kaminer--one of Israel's preeminent feminist scholars and Sheila's oldest friend--has been found murdered, the word 'mother' carved into her forehead and a baby doll fixed to her hands. For Sheila, that word is a warning. Two decades before, she and Dina had joined a group of women who swore they would never have children. Instead, they would follow the example of the Others, women the Torah considered childless, but they saw as willingly child-free. Sheila has upheld her vow year after year, even as her friendship with Dina fell apart. But now, as more women turn up dead, each transformed into a mother against her will, Sheila must decide if she's made the right choice . . . and who might want to make her pay the ultimate price."

Cowboy Graves : Three Novellas
by Roberto Bolaño

Three novellas from the author of The Savage Detectives include the tales of a Chilean man who tries to convert his friends to socialism and a surprised teenager who is recruited into a secret artist’s society in the Paris sewers.

No Heaven for Good Boys : A Novel
by Keisha Bush

Forced by an unscrupulous teacher to join a pack of child beggars, a Senegalese boy works beside his cousin to survive Dakar’s black-market organ traders, rival thieves and student protests. A first novel.

The Cook of the Halcyon
by Andrea Camilleri

Investigating two suspicious deaths involving a recently laid-off suicide victim and an unscrupulous businessman, Inspector Montalbano follows leads to the Halcyon, a mysterious ship with no passengers. By the best-selling author of A Beam of Light.

Land of Big Numbers
by Te-Ping Chen

A debut collection inspired by the culture and diversity of China depicts the experiences of such protagonists as twins who pursue radically different careers and a government call-center worker who is stalked by a violent ex.

Even As We Breathe : A Novel
by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

"Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in Europe, the inn is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners of war. Soon, Cowney's refuge becomes a cage when the daughter of one of the residents goes missing and he finds himself accused of abduction and murder. Even As We Breathe invokes the elements of bone, blood, and flesh as Cowney navigates difficult social, cultural, and ethnic divides. After leaving the seclusion of the Cherokee reservation, he is able to explore a future free from the consequences of his family's choices and to construct a new worldview, for a time. However, prejudice and persecution in the white world of the resort eventually compel Cowney to free himself from larger forces that hold him back as he struggles to unearth evidence of his innocence and clear his name."

What's Mine and Yours : A Novel
by Naima Coster

Integrated into a predominantly white high school, an anxious young Black student and a half-Latina whose mother would have her pass as white join a bridge-building school play that shapes the trajectory of their adult lives.

The Death of Vivek Oji
by Akwaeke Emezi

In the wake of a southeastern Nigerian mother's discovery of her son's body on her doorstep, a family struggles to understand the enigmatic nature of a youth shaped by disorienting blackouts, diverse friendships and a cousin's worldly influence.

Of Women and Salt
by Gabriela Garcia

The daughter of a Cuban immigrant battles addiction and the fallout of her decision to take in the child of an ICE detainee, while her mother wrestles with displacement trauma and complicated family ties. A first novel.

We Were the Lucky Ones
by Georgia Hunter

A novel based on the true story of a Jewish-Polish family recounts how the Kurcs are scattered throughout the world by the horrors of World War II and fight respective hardships to survive, reach safety and find each other. Includes a family tree.

The Committed
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

A sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer finds the unnamed “man of two minds” and his blood brother dealing drugs in 1980s Paris, where he navigates the worlds of privileged clients while trying to reconcile two politically polarized friends.

Sharks in the Time of Saviors
by Kawai Strong Washburn

When a child falls overboard and is returned safely to his mother by a shark, his miraculous rescue is hailed as a sign from ancient Hawaiian gods, complicating his family’s troubles amid a collapsing sugarcane industry. A first novel.

The Orphanage : A Novel
by Serhiĭ ZHadan

"A searing novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine."

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