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The Good Stuff From the Staff of Driftwood Public Library APRIL 2024 |
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The malevolent volume by Justin Phillip ReedSubverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the exploited civilities of marginalized people. In these poems, Reed finds agency in the other-than-human identities assigned to those assaulted by savageries of the state. In doing so, he summons a retaliatory, counterviolent Black spirit to revolt and to inhabit the revolting.
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Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne BettsFelon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems-canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace -- and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of post-incarceration existence and examines prison not as a static space, but as a force that enacts pressure throughout a person's life. The poems move between traditional and newfound forms with power and agility-from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume's radiant conclusion. Drawing inspiration from lawsuits filed on behalf of the incarcerated, the redaction poems focus on the ways we exploit and erase the poor and imprisoned from public consciousness. Challenging the complexities of language, Betts animates what it means to be a "felon."
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Ain't burned all the brightby Jason ReynoldsThis smash-up of art and text visually captures what it is to be Black in America—and what it means to REALLY breathe. |
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Forest bathing: how trees can help you find health and happiness by Qing LiStudies have shown that spending mindful, intentional time around trees--what the Japanese call shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing--can promote health and happiness. Dr. Qing Li, the world's foremost expert in forest medicine, shows how forest bathing can reduce your stress levels and blood pressure, strengthen your immune and cardiovascular systems, boost your energy, mood, creativity, and concentration, and even help you lose weight and live longer.
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The hidden life of trees: what they feel, how they communicate: discoveries from a secret worldby Peter WohllebenThe forest is a social network. Trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. After reading this book about the complex life of trees, a walk in the woods will never be the same again. |
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Into the forest: the secret language of trees by Susan Tyler HitchcockIn this beautiful and revealing book, National Geographic combines legendary photography with cutting-edge science to illuminate exactly how trees influence the life of planet Earth -- from our personal lives to the weather cycle. They have provided for humanity on every level, from spiritual sanctuary to the raw material for our homes, books, and food.
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Finding the mother tree: discovering the wisdom of the forestby S. SimardTrees don't just stand there, Simard convincingly argues, but perceive, respond, connect, and converse. They are "linked by a system of underground channels" that create a "forest society," and among the mind-blowing discoveries she's made is that older trees are able to identify which saplings they're related to, and that they nurture younger trees through fungal threads that grow between cells of plant roots. A "Mother Tree" uses such a system to transfer nutrients to kin saplings. |
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Coffee first, then the world: one woman's record-breaking pedal around the planet by Jenny GrahamIn 2018, amateur cyclist Jenny Graham left family and friends behind in Scotland to become the fastest woman to cycle around the world. With infectious wit and honesty, Jenny brings readers into her remarkable Round the World adventure, as she takes on four continents, 16 countries--and countless cups of coffee. Tight on time and money, she resorts to fixing her bike on the fly, sleeping on roadsides and often riding through the night to stay on track and complete her mission.
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Around the world in 50 years: my adventure to every country on earthby Albert PodellIn an extraordinary tale of courage, persistence, determination and the uncanny ability to extricate himself from one dangerous situation after another, the author recounts the misunderstandings, detours, accidents, breakdowns, robberies, and even wars that he needed to overcome to visit every corner of Earth. With a wry, exuberant style, Podell's observations on the unusual and exotic places that lay beyond the usual tourist trails make this book a standout on the travel writing shelf. |
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A sailor, a chicken, an incredible voyage: the seafaring adventures of Guirec and Monique by Guirec SoudâeeWhen Guirec Soudâee was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only sailed a dinghy before. His only companion? His plucky pet hen, Monique. Guirec shows that all you have to do is believe to achieve something big. Photographs and maps show the epic voyage and provide breaks from this action-packed book.
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The first of Mark Jenkin's features to have been released on video. Shot in a gritty black-and-white, and winner of several awards, including a BAFTA & a British Independent Film Award, Bait is a riveting exploration of the tension between locals and visitors in a seaside town whose economy depends on tourist dollars (sound familiar?). Martin is a fisherman who struggles to make ends meet fishing without a boat, while his brother uses their late father's vessel to offer cruise trips to visiting tourists. Meanwhile, friction arises between Martin and the out-of-town family who bought a harbor-front cottage from him and his brother. They now use the bothers’ childhood home as a holiday retreat and rent it out short-term when they aren’t using it themselves. |
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Enys Men (2022)Jenkin’s most recent feature, which he shot, edited, wrote and directed himself, ended up being my favorite of all the movies that I viewed last year. Enys Men is an extreme slow-burn of an experimental/ folk-horror/ psychological freakout, set in 1973 (maybe) on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast. A wildlife volunteer's daily observations of a rare flower turns into a paranoia-tinged psychological journey that forces both her and the audience to question what is real and what is a nightmare brought on by spending months alone in a harsh landscape. Time in the movie appears to be fluid, with the only constants being the landscape, The Volunteer, and the flowers she’s studying. Everything else is questionable, including a lichen that begins growing simultaneously on both the flowers and on The Volunteer’s body, a sinister standing stone that seems to change location over the course of the movie, a teenage girl who may be either her daughter or her younger self, a mysterious preacher who may be her father, the phantom miners (both male and female) who haunt both the island's tunnels and bluffs, and The Boatman who may have once been her lover. Nothing is explained in the movie, you are simply immersed into the experience of a person who has experienced extreme solitude for far too long, and the experience is masterfully, beautifully unnerving.
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Hit the road (2021)Hit the Road is the debut movie from Panah Panahi, son of the legendary director Jafar Panahi ( This is Not a Film; No Bears). The 2021 comedy/drama, both written and directed by the younger Panahi, is an Iranian take on the road movie: a family (mother, father, younger son, and adult son; there is also mention of an absent sister) is driving to the border between Iran and Turkey in order to smuggle the older son, who has committed an unnamed crime, out of the country. The warm, loving, occasionally tense relationships within the family are developed over the course of the journey, with intermittent scenes of transcendent beauty. It’s an emotional movie, at the same time funny, sad, heartwarming, and frightening, featuring gorgeous performances, particularly from the actor who plays the younger brother. It’s a stunningly masterful achievement from a first-time storyteller.
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The word "Dalit" refers to someone belonging to an oppressed caste. Dutt provides an incriminating analysis of caste's influence in India over everything from entertainment to judicial systems and how this discrimination has carried over to US institutions. Her work sheds essential light on the significant influence caste-ism has across many aspects of US society. |
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by Brynn Tannehill
A Q&A format book of the most frequently asked questions by parents of trans children, answered by parents of trans children who have been there, and whose trans children are thriving. |
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Native nations: A millennium of indigenous change and persistenceby Kathleen DuValA millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size, but following a period of climate change and instability DuVal shows how numerous nations emerged from previously centralized civilizations. From this urban past, patterns of egalitarian government structures, complex economies and trade, and diplomacy spread across North America. The definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Indigenous nations has been a constant. |
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Grades 4-6 Find out about every dinosaur that's ever been discovered in this comprehensive illustrated dictionary. There's no dino left behind in this A-Z. |
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Minecraft: The crafter's kitchen: An official cookbook for young chefs and their families by Victoria GranofThis official Minecraft cookbook gives aspiring young chefs the tools needed to begin a lifelong love of cooking -- as well as lessons on environmental stewardship. The 60 step-by-step recipes are ideal for kitchen first-timers and kids learning to cook with their parents. Each chapter features a unique biome of the Minecraft world, from Deep Ocean to Crimson Forest.
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Graphic novel for ages 12 and above
Demystifying and destigmatizing emotional and mental health, this journey to the center of the brain explores what's really going on in the readers' head while discussing such crucial topics as depression, substance use and addiction, and suicide. |
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Two teen entrepreneurs interview 51 influential business leaders, giving readers access to top innovators, inventors and executives as they tell their stories about starting a business, finding success and other tips to a new generation of bosses.
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Told in varied narrative styles, this raw and bold memoir of author Stephanie Kuehnert's life includes journal entries, original illustrations, and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines describing her life as a struggling outsider who survived substance and relationship abuse to become a strong young woman after years and years trapped in a cycle that sometimes seemed to have no escape.
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The painter's daughters by Emily HowesThe daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s, Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are inseparable due to Molly's bouts of mental confusion, and as Peggy goes to great lengths to protect her sister's secret, she falls in love with a charming composer, which sparks the bitterest of betrayals when Molly betrays Peggy in the most unexpected of ways.
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Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show, "One Lucky Winner." Completely secluded on an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and zero contact with the outside world, the competitors start to feel a little too isolated. When long-kept secrets begin to rise to the surface, the contestants realize this is no longer just a reality show--someone is out for blood. |
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A debut novel that follows two twenty-something siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world about to suffer great change. It's March of 2019, and Jules Gold-anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed-has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she'd marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. As the year shambles on and a new decade looms near, Jules and Poppy -- comrades, competitors, permanent fixtures in each other's lives -- must ask themselves what they want their futures to look like, and whether they'll spend them together or apart. |
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The angel of Indian Lakeby Stephen Graham JonesIt's been four years in prison since Jade Daniels last saw her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, the day she took the fall, protecting her friend Letha and her family from incrimination. There's a lot of unfinished business in Proofrock, from serial killer cultists to the rich trying to buy Western authenticity. But there's one aspect of Proofrock no one wants to confront... until Jade comes back to town. The curse of the Lake Witch is waiting, and now is the time for the final stand |
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Feline fatale: A Mrs. Murphy mystery by Rita Mae BrownMary Minor “Harry” Harristeen investigates the death under mysterious circumstances of a young page who assists the Statehouse delegates. With help from her feline sidekicks, Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, as well as Tee Tucker the corgi and Irish Greyhound Pirate, Harry is determined to find the answers and restore order once more to the Capitol. |
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Close to deathby Anthony HorowitzRiverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The residents enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility. It is the perfect idyll, until the Kentworthy family arrives, with their four giant, gas-guzzling cars, gaggle of shrieking children, and plans for a garish swimming pool in the backyard. They quickly offend every last one of the neighbors. When Giles Kentworthy is found dead on his doorstep, Detective Hawthorne is called in to solve the case. |
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The Wharton plotby Mariah FredericksDashing novelist David Graham Phillips - a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women's place in it - is shot to death outside the Princeton Club. His sister is convinced Graham was killed by someone determined to stop the publication of his next book, which promised to uncover secrets that powerful people would rather stayed hidden. Though unconvinced, Edith Wharton is curious. What kind of book could push someone to kill? Inspired by a true story, The Wharton plot follows Edith through the fading years of the Gilded Age telling a taut tale of fame, love, and murder.
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What cannot be saidby C. S. HarrisIn 1815, when Lady McInnis and her daughter are found brutally murdered in Richmond Park, their bodies displayed in grotesque poses, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, explores a host of unsavory suspects and is drawn to a conclusion far more horrific than he ever could've imagined. |
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A collection of 19 personal essays, forewords, insightful interviews and genre-bending short stories from the Hugo Award winning science fiction writer. The format, mixing nonfiction with short stories, all translated by multiple contributors, will give new context to old fans while introducing new readers to a true genius of the genre. |
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Scales is a mechanic and enforcer in Ashtown, working under the powerful, deadly Emperor to help keep balance in their desert town. When a close friend dies horrifically in front of Scales, she is tasked with finding out the truth about their violent death--especially when there was no murderer in sight. When it is discovered that more deaths have occurred, Scales must work with two frustrating men--her Emperor-compliant partner Cross and annoyingly brilliant scientist Adam--to discover what is killing people. As the truth is uncovered, so is the buried past that Scales has tried to overcome, one of blood and secrets. |
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Fantasy
Daughter of a conquered world and cursed with the power of Death, Ruying, when her Gift is discovered by an enemy prince, is offered an impossible deal: be his private assassin and her family will never suffer harm again, forcing her to decide if saving her family is worth betraying her country. Are the evils of this agreement really in the service of a much greater good or will she betray her entire nation by protecting those she loves the most?
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Fantasy
In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor--but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex and intrigue. In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare medicine, only to unleash an otherworldly terror instead. And in present-day Los Angeles, a college student meets a beautiful stranger and cannot shake the feeling they've met before. Across these seemingly unrelated timelines woven together only by the twists and turns of fate, two men are reborn, lifetime after lifetime.
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The reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly JacksonWhen her mother, who disappeared 16 years before, reappears while a true crime documentary about her case is being filmed, 18-year-old Bel, not buying her mom's unbelievable story about what happened to her, must uncover the real reason Rachel Price is back from the dead. |
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The one that got away with murderby Trish LundyHoping for a fresh start in Happy Valley, PA after moving from California, new girl Lauren O'Brian starts seeing Robbie Crestmont, whom the town believes is a killer, and when invited to his lake house, finds enough evidence to prove his guilt, but soon discovers there's a town full of suspects. Lauren decides she must solve the murders and, in doing so, her own mysterious past slowly comes to light |
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After wandering out to the river near their homes, five teens decide to build a fire and exchange horror stories. One by one, the teens try to outdo each other, and the evening evolves into an impromptu storytelling competition. On certain nights, if you walk along Loon River and peer under the bridge, you might spot a fire. You might hear a laugh. You might hear a scream. Inspired by Cree folklore and modern Cree life.
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The no-girlfriend ruleby Christen RandallWhen her boyfriend excludes her from participating in a roleplaying game, high school senior Hollis joins an all-girls group. With her character as armor, Hollis starts to believe that maybe she can be more than just fat, anxious, and a little lost. But then an in-game crush develops between Hollis's character and the bard played by charismatic Aini. As their gentle flirting sparks into something deeper, Hollis is no longer sure what she wants. |
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Call Forth a Fox by Markelle GraboOne winter night, on her way home from foraging, Ro encounters a bear attacking a fox. She fights the bear to save the fox's life, only to see the bear turn into a boy. When the boy wakes, he has no memory of who he is. He only remembers that he has to kill the fox. Ro never believed in the faeries from her father's stories, but she can't deny both the boy and the fox are victims of a faerie curse. She'll have to remember everything her father taught her in order to keep her precious fox out of harm's way.
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The heart never forgets by Ana OtaruAttending the first West African masquerade without Grandpa, with each member of the family carrying something that honors him, a young girl brings with her a special memory shared only between the two of them.
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The last zookeeperby Aaron BeckerBracing for the next storm, NOA, a compassionate construction robot who is the caretaker of the Earth's remaining zoo, builds an ark from the wreckage in search of new land and a new home, only to discover something even more profound. |
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Mama in the moon by Doreen CroninTumbling from his mama's arms into a soft patch of leaves far below their tree branch, Baby Sloth, with the help of his clever mama, is reassured and distracted by using his senses of sight, sound, smell and touch until she can get to him. |
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A letter for Bobby Kim RogersSince Mom and Dad brought Bob home from the car dealership, Bob has been a part of Katie's family. Bob has taken them all over, from powwows to vacations to time spent with faraway family. Bob has been there for some of the family's most treasured memories. But after many miles, it's time for the family to say goodbye to Bob.... |
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In this body-positive picture book, a young boy shares his love for his mother's panza (belly), which is capable of remarkable things, including a place to hide and rest, and she loves it as an important part of herself.
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Lightningbornby Julie KagawaSearching for a True Dragon in order to save humanity, one capable of intelligent thought and the ability to use magic, Princess Gem finds fate intervening in the form of Remy and his rare dragon, Storm, who are the targets of an evil pirate. |
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The secret language of birds by Lynne KellyNina is used to feeling like the odd one out but while trying to fit in at summer camp, she discovers something even more peculiar: two rare, majestic birds have built a nest in the marsh. When Nina reports the sighting to wildlife officials, more questions arise when experts can't identify the birds she found. Nina sets out to discover who the mystery birds really are.
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With his best friend Gnome's 133rd birthday fast approaching, Rat feels a little left out since he doesn't have a day of his own to celebrate until they come up with an entirely new holiday, discovering they'll always have something special to celebrate: each other.
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Mascot by Charles WatersAn eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether their high school's mascot should stay or change. Told from several perspectives, this timely novel follows six middle-schoolers, all with different backgrounds and beliefs, as they learn about identity, tradition and what it means to stand up for real change when their mascot is seen as racist.
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Bunny and Clydeby Megan McDonaldA rabbit and a chipmunk, are sick and tired of being good. They want to know what it's like to be baddies, and they want thrills and excitement, but they're going to need some experience making mischief. Next thing you know, they're shelving books in un-alphabetical order and borrowing markers without asking. In no time they'll be hardened criminals but their best attempts go hilariously awry. |
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Fiction by James Lee Burke |
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