April 26, 2021
Adult Fiction
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly.
On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal life - Caroline's interest in aiding the war effort in France grows and she eventually comes to hear about the dire situation at the Ravensbruck all-female concentration camp. At the same time, Kasia's carefree youth is quickly slipping away, only to be replaced by a fervor for the Polish resistance movement. Through Ravensbruck - and the horrific atrocities taking place there told in part by an infamous German surgeon, Herta Oberheuser - the two women's lives will converge in unprecedented ways and a novel of redemption and hope emerges that is breathtaking in scope and depth.
Someone Like Me by M. R. Carey.
Liz Kendall wouldn't hurt a fly. Even when times get tough, she's devoted to bringing up her two kids in a loving home. But there's another side to Liz -- one that's dark and malicious. She will do anything to get her way, no matter how extreme. And when this other side of her takes control, the consequences are devastating.
Greenwood by Michael Christie.
It's 2038 and Jacinda
(Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide
babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining
forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back
after a workplace fall, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty
mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked
up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at
atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violent timber empire.
It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple-syrup camp
squat, when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in
the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for
decades.
Adult Non-Fiction
The Unofficial Disney
Parks Cookbook by Ashley Craft.
Stroll right down the middle of Main Street USA, journey from Adventureland to Infinity and Beyond at Pixar Pier, and explore every avenue in between to taste the flavors of the Disney Parks...all without leaving your kitchen. With The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook you can bring the magic of Disneyland and Walt Disney World snacks and treats right to your home. Recreate favorites like the classic Dole Whip and Mickey Pretzels to new favorites like blue milk from Star Wars land and Jack Jack's Cookie Num Nums from Pixar Pier. These 100 recipes inspired by iconic yummies are perfect whether you are a forever Disney fan or just love a good snack. Now you can feel as if you shared a snack with Mickey himself right from the comfort of your own home!
Just Us by Claudia Rankine.
As everyday white
supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how
best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to
do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this
divisive and stuck moment in American history. Just Us is an invitation to
discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in
breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of
whiteness. Rankine's questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture's
liminal and private spaces--the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the
voting booth--where neutrality and politeness live on the surface of differing
commitments, beliefs, and prejudices as our public and private lives intersect.
This brilliant arrangement of essays, poems, and images includes the voices and
rebuttals of others: white men in first class responding to, and with, their
white male privilege; a friend's explanation of her infuriating behavior at a
play; and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond,
all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements
Rankine's own text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last
word.
Easy/Juvenile/Young Adult/Graphic Novel
A Wild Winter Swan by Gregory Maguire.
YA
Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative's financial aid to save the family store.
Twins by Varian Johnson & Shannon Wright. J GN
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