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A Turkey for Thanksgiving
by Eve Bunting
This is an oldie but goodie. It's even our Storywalk book for November! Miss Carrie loves the surprise twist at the end. It won't be available for checkout because we are reading it for school and story time but you can come read it in the library! Mrs. Moose's suggestion to Mr. Moose that they have a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner ends in a surprising twist, in a humorous and cheerful tale captured in warm watercolors full of the hues of autumn. (Easy)
(Recommended by Miss Carrie)
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Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
by Dolly Parton
Showcasing the music legend's most unforgettable looks from the 1960s until now, this stunningly photographed book displays Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style along with entertaining personal anecdotes that, for the first time, reveal the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion.
This book spans her whole career using her own style and features her costumes across the decades. In Dolly fashion, she teaches being true to yourself. (Biography)
(Recommended by Denise)
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Popcorn
by Patrick Evans-Hylton
Popcorn is the great American munchie, and it deserves the creative gourmet treatment to rescue it from the pre-packaged microwave chemistry experiments available at every grocery store. Popcorn offers up nearly 70 tantalizing recipes-both savory and sweet-to ensure that popcorn is never boring again. Try tart and piquant Lemon-Pepper Popcorn or Classic Barbecue, or even Gorgonzola and Green Onion for something completely different. On the sweet side, the offerings include Hawaiian Luau (featuring coconut and white chocolate), Popcorn S'mores, and Bananas Foster (the popcorn version). Patrick Evans-Hylton also shows how to use popcorn as an ingredient in main course dishes such as Popcorn Shrimp and Fish Fry with Seasoned Popcorn which use popped popcorn as a coating ingredient. And the Chesapeake Crab Cakes are stunningly delicious! (Non-Fiction)
(Recommended by Kim)
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You're My Little Pumpkin Pie
by Nicola Edwards
A chunky, interactive board book celebrates the bond between caregivers and their little "pumpkin pie," combining season-themed illustrations with motor-skill-supporting shaped cutouts and raised elements. (Board Book)
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The Welcome Home
by Amy June Bates
Searching for the perfect pet, Mr. and Mrs. Gargleson-Bittle open their home to an array of critters, including a snail, an elephant and an aardvark, and still have room and love for more. (Easy)
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A Soft Place to Land
by Janae Marks
Twelve-year old Joy dreams of writing music for the movies, but first she has to survive her family's move into a small apartment when her father loses his job. (Fiction Junior)
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Bloodthirsty
by Flynn Meaney
Awkward, sun-allergic sixteen-year-old Finbar Frame decides that his only chance to get a girlfriend is to pretend to be a vampire, while his athletic, popular, fraternal twin brother tries to encourage him to be more "normal." (Teen)
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Amazing Grace Adams
by Fran Littlewood
Grace Adams, a once-amazing woman who is now 45, stalled, perimenopausal and losing it, leaves her car in the middle of traffic and sets out to win back her estranged teen daughter on her 16th birthday. (Fiction)
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Devil Makes Three
by Ben Fountain
Forced to abandon his beachfront scuba business after the 1991 Haitian coup d'état, an American expat teams up with his best friend to uncover legendary shipwrecks off the southern coast, running afoul of arms-traffickers and the CIA. (Fiction)
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Crow Mary: A Novel
by Kathleen Grissom
In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Mâetis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past, falls in love with her husband. The winter trading season passes peacefully. Then, on the eve of their return to Montana, a group of drunken whiskey traders slaughters forty Nakota--despite Farwell's efforts to stop them. Mary, hiding from the hail of bullets, sees the murderers, including Stiller, take five Nakota women back to their fort. She begs Farwell to save them, and when he refuses, Mary takes two guns, creeps into the fort, and saves the women from certain death. Thus, she sets off a whirlwind of colliding cultures that brings out the worst and best in the cast of unforgettable characters and pushes the love between Farwell and Crow Mary to the breaking point. (Large Print)
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The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
by Liza Mundy
In this thrilling new perspective on history, the New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls turns her attention the women of the CIA who fought to become operatives, transformed spy craft and provided the data analysis that helped track down Bin Laden in his Pakistani compound. (Non-Fiction)
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