Can American Democracy Survive Another Pandemic?
Adam Tooze’s “Shutdown” warns that we are ill equipped to deal with another health crisis or other immense problems that may challenge us.
Sally Rooney's New Book Tries To Find Meaning In An Increasingly Troubled World
Beautiful World, Where Are You? follows two women, college friends now on the cusp of 30, as they struggle to live and find meaning in a world that's become increasingly unlivable on many levels.
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The Best-Seller List Welcomes Oprah’s Latest Pick and an Eyebrow-Raising Gadget
September is a brisk month for big books. This week’s standouts include “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” and “Dopamine Nation.”
Sandra Cisneros Loves to Read About Women Waging Battle
“These are not your typical war stories.”
'Toxic' Trinkets Fit Together To Form A Frightening Puzzle In This New Thriller
In Rachel Howzell Hall's new These Toxic Things, a "digital archaeologist" working with a client's collection of memorabilia finds herself caught up in a dangerous web when her client turns up dead.
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LibraryReads: September 2021
A monthly list featuring the top ten books loved by librarians across the U.S.
Delivered: 9/2/2021 12:00:00 AM
Delivered: 9/2/2021 12:00:00 AM
Refugees Are Suffering. This Novelist Won’t Look Away.
Rabih Alameddine writes about topics many would rather forget. In his new book, “The Wrong End of the Telescope,” he tells the story of a transgender doctor attempting to care for people fleeing war-torn Syria.
Book Review: ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You,” by Sally Rooney
In “Beautiful World, Where Are You,” the novelist and her stand-ins chew over questions about fame, sex, idealism and other subjects.
Newly Published, From Water Statues to the Supreme Court
A selection of books published this week.
Book Review: ‘Matrix,’ by Lauren Groff
“Matrix” tells the life story of an orphan who is cast out of the royal court and put in charge of an impoverished abbey.
‘Three Rooms,’ by Jo Hamya: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Three Rooms,” by Jo Hamya
Intimacy Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of In Helen Hoang's Powerful New Romance
Fans of Hoang's work will be happy to see Quan — a side character in previous novels — come back for his own Happy Ever After with Anna, a violinist grappling with burnout and family issues.
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The Stenographer Who Married Dostoyevsky — and Saved Him From Ruin
“The Gambler Wife,” by Andrew D. Kaufman, recounts the life of Anna Dostoyevskaya, the Russian writer’s second wife, who took dictation of his books, endured his gambling addiction and eventually published his work herself.
The Lager Queen of Minnesota
UnCovered
review by Filomena Scotto DiVetta, ACLS Galloway Branch
I listened to “The Lager Queen of Minnesota” by J. Ryan Stradal on the Libby app that the library provides. It was fun listening to it on my way to and from work. I was so intrigued by the story that I also listened to it around my house!
This book is about two sisters, Edith and Helen, who are raised on a farm in Minnesota. As the years go by they grow apart - each one with their own differences and struggles. Helen is more rigid than her sister Edith, who is always taking care of people in her life. Helen inherits the farm with a plan to make her dream come true of owning a successful brewery. This puts a strain between the sisters who go years without talking. Diana, Edith’s granddaughter, ends up living with her grandmother and develops the same interest for running a brewery as her great-aunt Helen.
This book will make you laugh and cry. You will enjoy getting to read or listen to the characters as they go through life. The author does an amazing job of making the characters unique and different from each other.
Borrow eBooks, eAudiobook, and eMagazines from the ACSL Overdrive digital collection for free with the Libby app. Go to www.atlanticlibrary.org/overdrive to how.
This Sweet, Mid-Grade Story Is Perfect For Budding Romance Fans
If your kids aren't quite old enough for classic teen love stories, Just Be Cool, Jenna Sakai is a just-right read with a heroine who still spends Saturday nights playing board games with her family.
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'Image Control' Is A Plea For Artistic Ethics In What Author Calls 'Fascist Times'
In order to track Patrick Nathan's ideas, one must to get on board with his habit of invoking fascism broadly, emphasizing its aesthetic and imaginative tendencies over its concrete manifestations.
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This YA Yarn Would Be A Bit More Bewitching If Its Witch Made Better Choices
Laura Sibson's Edie in Between follows our heroine as she learns her own magic and unravels a family mystery. If only we didn't have to keep yelling at her to stay out of the metaphorical basement.
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In A Poet's Fiction Debut, One Woman's Story Guides A Journey Through Black History
Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers spent more than a decade working on her debut novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, which follows Ailey Pearl Garfield as she unearths the truths of her family.
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After Troy Falls, The Women Of This Novel Wait, Watch And Wish Things Were Different
Pat Barker returns to the scene of the Trojan War in The Women of Troy, but this time after the city has fallen and its women are grieving their old lives while trying to figure out their new ones.
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Well Educated, Well Employed, and a Paycheck Away From Disaster
Jo Hamya’s debut novel, “Three Rooms,” exposes the precarious state of life for a woman of color in publishing.
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