Posts by Callie C

The long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale is on this week’s shelf along with a book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuses.   Akin by Emma Donoghue A funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy, born two generations apart, who unpick their painful story and…

  After the Flood by Kassandra Montag A tale set in an anarchic near-future America of mountaintop colonies surrounded by rising oceans finds an independent woman trading for supplies and information about the daughter who was stolen from her eight years earlier. Cold Storage by David Koepp A debut novel by the screenwriter of Jurassic…

Serious topics are on this week’s shelf of new books including domestic violence, impeachment, and mosqitoes which have had a deadly impact on humanity through the ages, along with the latest from Louis Penny, Danielle Steel, and David Lagercrantz.   The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri A beekeeper and his artist wife have their…

We recently completed our strategic plan document to guide the next three years.  This process started at the end of last year when we asked the community to complete a survey and then began holding focus groups.  We also created a Needs Assessment that included demographic information about the community, library statistics, our Edge benchmark…

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Creek Nation and was named United States Poet Laureate this year.  Her latest book of poetry, An American Sunrise, is on this week’s shelf of new books.  Harjo resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma.     American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race…

Some authors are known for spinning a good yarn.  Tea Obrecht, author of The Tiger’s Wife, has spun a new one that comes highly recommended and is on this week’s shelf.   The Bitterroots by C. J. Box Former police officer Cassie Dewell is starting over with her own private investigation firm and an old friend…

Don’t miss the Friends of the Library book sale held on Sept. 7th during the Designs of Autumn Festifall event in the 66 Cultural District.  Tables of books for no more than $1 each plus special deals on bags of books!

This week’s shelf has three new Christian fiction books, the latest by Robert Crais, Rhys Bowen, the ever prolific James Patterson, et. al., and several new suspense and historical novels by some names you may recognize.   All the Water in the World by Karen Raney Sixteen-year-old Maddy, who has cancer, grapples with her first…

Suspense awaits you on this week’s shelf.  Secrets from the past can be very dangerous whether they come to light through a blackmailer who has hacked your computer or whether you find yourself in a team-building excercise involving an escape room from which there is no escape.   America’s Reluctant Prince: The Life of John…