Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist by Jane Rosenberg
Rosenberg’s fascinating debut offers a front row seat to some of the most high-profile criminal cases of the last four decades. Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down.
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-- Cathy Grace, Library Assistant
You Are Here by David Nicholls
When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of ten-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse. Until, of course, they discover exactly what they've been looking for. Michael and Marnie are on the precipice of a bright future... if they can survive the journey.
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-- Marni Siegal, Operations Manager
Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery by Theodore H. Schwartz
Told through anecdote and clear explanation, this is the ultimate cultural and scientific history of a literally mind-blowing human endeavor, one that cuts to the core of who we are.
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-- Cathy Grace, Library Assistant
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
As a private security officer, Amy Wheeler doesn't stay still long enough for habits or routines. She's currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie D'Antonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job... Then a dead body, a bag of money, and a killer with their sights on Amy have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a lethal enemy?
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-- Marni Siegal, Operations Manager
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck is arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Her new novel tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after.
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-- Elektra Greer, Director, Nederland Community Library
The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts
In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, embarked on an impossible journey. She had no relatives left, she'd lost her family farm to back taxes, and her doctor had just given her two years to live--but only if she "lived restfully." He offered her a spot in the county's charity home. Instead, she decided she wanted to see the Pacific Ocean just once before she died. She bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men's dungarees, loaded up her horse, and headed out from Maine in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow. She had no map, no GPS, no phone. But she had her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness.
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-- Kay Turnbaugh, Webmaster
Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom by Pam Houston
With equal parts candor and lyricism, Pam Houston illuminates the interconnected histories of abortion in the United States and in her own life during the decades when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land. Houston guides us through the shifting landscapes of politics, the law, and self-determination in a country where access to medical care and the power to decide your own destiny are increasingly--and once again--dependent on geography and circumstance.
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-- Amy LaRue, Library Assistant
Attack of the Black Rectangles by A.S. King
Juvenile Fiction
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's
The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
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-- Analisa Manzione, Library Assistant
Principles of (E)motion by Sara Read
Mathematical genius Dr. Meg Brightwood has just completed her life's work—a proof of a problem so impenetrable it's nicknamed the Impossible Theorem. Reclusive and burdened by anxiety, Meg has long since been dismissed by academia. Now everyone wants to get their hands on what she alone possesses—especially her own mathematician father.
Having grown up a prodigy in a field plagued by sexism and plagiarism, Meg opts for a public presentation so there will be no doubt of her authorship. But a panic attack obliterates her plans. A romance, and an incredible STEMinist read.
--Kay Turnbaugh, Webmaster
True Biz by Sara Novic
This coming-of-age story about students at the River Valley School for the Deaf is one of sign language and lip-reading, cochlear implants and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.
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-- Analisa Manzione, Library Assistant
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
by Adam Higginbotham
On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven people on board. Millions of Americans witnessed the tragic deaths of the crew, which included New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. Like the assassination of JFK, the Challenger disaster is a defining moment in twentieth-century history—one that forever changed the way America thought of itself and its optimistic view of the future. Yet the full story of what happened, and why, has never been told, until now.
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--Elektra Greer, Director, Nederland Community Library
Rocky Start by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
Rose Malone’s landlord and employer has just died and now she has no idea if she has a job or if she and her daughter, Poppy, have a place to live, and that’s on top of the arrest warrant that’s been out for her for nineteen years. She’s inherited a junk shop in Rocky Start, a wacky town full of retired spies, including a suspicious sheriff, a sly-eyed moocher, a knife-wielding bakery owner, a stranger who looks like she drinks the blood of the damned, and a conniving teenager. When Max Reddy, a former elite covert operative who is walking the Appalachian trail with his dog Maggs, ‘saves’ Rose from a jerk, she picks his pocket to find out who he is. By nightfall, she’s invited him under her roof for her own protection, and the jam-packed adventure begins.
--Kay Turnbaugh, Webmaster
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
Juvenile Fiction
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him. A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place called the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures we tell of in myth live and breed and thrive alongside humans.
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--Kelly Detzel Hess, Library Assistant
Reckless: Book 2 of the Powerless Trilogy by Lauren Roberts
Young Adult Fiction
After surviving the Purging Trials, Ordinary-born Paedyn Gray has killed the King and kickstarted a Resistance throughout the land. Now she's running from the one person she had wanted to run to. Kai Azer is now Ilya's Enforcer, loyal to his brother Kitt, the new King. He has vowed to find Paedyn and bring her to justice. Across the deadly Scorches, and deep into the hostile city of Dor, Kai pursues the one person he wishes he didn't have to. But in a city without Elites, the balance between the hunter and hunted shifts--and the battle between duty and desire is deadly.
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--Kelly Detzel Hess, Library Assistant
