Category: Readers’ Cafe
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We Recommend – Frightening Finds
Give yourself a scare this October with some of these frighteningly good, horror-able reads! Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined, until now. But the journals of resident Kate Holland,…
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Librarian’s Choice – The Last Human
The galaxy depicted in The Last Human, by Zack Jordan, is huge, home to countless trillions of beings and connected by an unimaginably complex communications and transportation network. Sarya, who’s considered just barely legally sentient, couldn’t possibly begin to understand the vastness of the galaxy, nor the network that binds it together. But despite her…
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We Recommend — Hispanic Heritage Month Reads
So many great authors and titles to choose from. Here are a few to get you started! Afterlife: A Novel Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts:…
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We Recommend – Fresh Mysteries
Whodunit? Find out in these recent mysteries! Blood Oath: A Novel Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit is finally back at work following a leave of absence. With more women feeling empowered to name their abusers, Alex is eager to return to the courtroom to do what she does best. As…
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Librarian’s Choice – Small Town Fiction
By Lisa Navidi, Davis Library Small town fiction has always appealed to me, maybe because I grew up in several small towns. I especially enjoy the characters and the way they interact with each other…or not. They say all politics is local. And whoever has lived in a small town knows that for sure. Experience…
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We Recommend — A More Perfect Union
On this most unusual Independence Day, here are some books about an ever changing, increasingly diverse America. American Like Me In American Like Me, America Ferrera invites thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about life between cultures. We know them as actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, artists, and writers. However, they…
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Librarian’s Choice – Lost But Not Forgotten
Review by Elizabeth Lang, Public Services I recently read the Wired.com article “Why Humans Totally Freak Out When They Get Lost” by Michael Bond. I learned that when we get disoriented, we panic, often leaving the area where anyone might expect to find us, and that we tend to do this even when we know…
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If You Miss Your Library
The Library Book by Susan Orlean—When Susan Orlean started to write about the Los Angeles Public Library fire in 1986, she didn’t realize how deep into library culture and history it would take her. If you too want to delve deeper into library culture and history, here are some other books about libraries, librarians and…
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Read With Us! We Miss You!
Someone once said, “Being apart teaches us how to grow together.” And this has definitely been the case of libraries and librarians everywhere. It’s been a long couple of months and we miss our patrons just as much as you all miss the library. But we hope, through virtual programming and access to digital resources,…
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Summer Read & Learn 2020
June means it’s time for Montgomery County Public Libraries’ annual Summer Read & Learn program. We’re excited to announce that this year the entire program can be done online, which means you can join in even if you can’t visit an MCPL branch in person. And it’s all free! This summer’s theme is Imagine Your…
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We Recommend — Getting Away from It All
From Tokyo to the Scottish countryside and locales in between, experience a slice of life beyond your neighborhood in these novels with a strong sense of place. Bookshop on the Corner Until yesterday, Nina Redmond was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more. Determined to make a…
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Librarian’s Choice – Let Sleeping Giants Lie
If a giant robot hand was found near your backyard, how would your national government react? Would it tell the world, seek other nations’ help to find the other parts, and use what they learned for the betterment of all? Nah, mine neither. Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel begins when a girl falls into a…