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Consider joining the summer reading program this summer! Programs and prizes available for all ages, including adults. To learn more about signing up you and your family for summer reading at the library, view the detailed web page here, or talk with one of our librarians during your next visit. The library district also has plenty of physical and digital reading resources available year-round. Browse the library catalog here, or find additional online reading resources here. The rest of this newsletter highlights a variety of new books released just in time for the start of this summer.
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Never leave the dogs behind : a memoir
by Brianna Madia
After the fallout of a painful, public divorce, the New York Times best-selling author, in her pared-down trailer with only her four precious dogs as company, reckons with her decision to be alone in the desert as she grapples with anger, despair and freedom that comes from being on her own.
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Birding to change the world : a memoir
by Trish O'Kane
A writer and educator specializing in environmental justice and climate change chronicles her bird-watching journey and shares what she has learned from each new bird she's observed about life, social change and protecting the environment. 75,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Traveling : on the path of Joni Mitchell
by Ann Powers
Kaleidoscopic in scope, and intimate in its detail, a celebrated music critic, through extensive interviews with Joni Mitchell's peers and deep archival research, charts the course of her musical evolution, ranging from early folk to jazz fusion to experimentation with pop synthetics.
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The trail of lost hearts
by Tracey Garvis Graves
After her fiance dies and she discovers that he was actually already married with children, Wren Waters escapes to the Pacific Northwest for a getaway and throws herself into the world of geocaching, a hobby for modern-day treasure hunters.
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The asteroid hunter : a scientist's journey to the dawn of our solar system
by D. S. Lauretta
The Principal Investigator of NASA's historic OSIRIS-Rex Asteroid Sample Return Mission offers a behind-the-scenes account of his team's daring quest to retrieve an asteroid sample—one that held the potential to not only unlock the secrets of life's origins but also to avert an unprecedented disaster.
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Pinquickle's Folly : The Buccaneers
by R. A. Salvatore
Returning to his signature world of Corona, introducing a dynamic new part of the southern coast, a fantasy author brings together a ragtag crew of Xoconi, dwarven Powrie pirates and human sailors—once enemies, now fierce friends with a common enemy and the spark of rebellion.
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Three kinds of lucky
by Kim Harrison
Working at the mages' university due to her rare ability to handle dross—the damaging, magical waste generated by spellwork—Petra Grady, after an unthinkable accident, seeks out an outcast exiled for the crime of using dross to cast spells, who convinces her to embrace her own hidden talents.
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Open wide : a cookbook for friends
by Benny Blanco
The pop music super-producer, artist and actor who's obsessed with food and cooking for friends teaches you everything you need to know, from kitchen basics to throwing the greatest dinner party of all time, through a crazy collection of recipes that will make cooking your new addiction. Illustrations.
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