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Feb 21

Book Notes 2/21/2023

Posted to Campbell Unclassified on February 21, 2023 at 10:53 AM by Genesis Gaule

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2/21/2023

Join us Monday, February 27 from 5:00-6:30 pm for Board Game Night. Come and play some board games! Play one from the library's collection or bring your own. All ages welcome!

The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield

A True Story Retold for Young Readers // In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering they endured, there was one constant that kept them alive: the love between father and son.

940.5318 KLEINMANN

Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

An Uplifting and Unforgettable Love Story // Longtime personal assistant Georgie Mulcahy has made a career out of putting others before herself. When an unexpected upheaval sends her away from her hectic job in L.A. and back to her hometown in Virginia, Georgie comes across a forgotten artifact: a 'friendfic' diary she wrote as a teenager. Making their way through her wishlist, Georgie begins to realize that what she truly wants might not be in the pages of her diary after all.

CLAYBORN

My Selma by Willie Mae Brown

souls speak

True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement // This book captures the voice and vision of a fascinating young person--perspicacious, impetuous, resourceful, and even mystical in her ways of seeing the world around her--who gifts us with a loving portrayal of her hometown while also delivering a no-holds-barred indictment of the time and place.

305.896 BROWN

My Darkest Prayer by S. A. Cosby

What starts out as an easy payday soon descends into a maze of mayhem filled with wannabe gangsters, vicious crime lords, porn stars, crooked police officers, and a particularly treacherous preacher and his mysterious wife. Nathan Waymaker must use all his varied skills and some of his wit to navigate the murky waters of small-town corruption even as dark secrets of his own threaten to come to the surface

Mystery COSBY

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Tag(s): young adult nonfictionnonfiction, World War II, US history, romance, mystery, history, fiction, book notes, African Americans

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Feb 06

Book Notes 2/6/2023

Posted to Campbell Unclassified on February 6, 2023 at 11:59 AM by Genesis Gaule

Blog Book Notes

2/6/2023

Join us Tuesday, February 14 @ 5:30 pm for Crafty Card Making! Learn how to make creative handmade cards using stamps, cardstock, and our Silhouette Cameo! More information...

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness by Robin Coste Lewis

From the National-Book-Award-winning poet who changed the way we see the Black female figure, a continuation of that journey in a genre-bending coming together of poem and photography, toward a new definition of human migration.

811.6 LEWIS

Going Dark by Melissa de la Cruz

When 19-year-old Josh returns from Rome without his budding influencer girlfriend Amelia, he immediately becomes a suspect in her disappearance, but as college sophomore and hacker Harper attempts to clear his name, she unearths secrets from both Josh and Amelia's past.

Young Adult DE LA CRUZ

Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster

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Eighty thousand wounded and forty thousand dead, or one hundred and twenty thousand ambulance calls and emergency room cases for every twelve-month tick of the clock, but the toll of gun violence goes far beyond the pierced and bloodied bodies of the victims themselves. However, with the vast brigade of lives touched by the presence of a single person who lives or has lived among them- the number of Americans directly or indirectly marked by gun violence every year must be tallied in the millions.

363.3309 AUSTER

In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas

Traveling along the path of the Underground Railroad from Virginia to Michigan, from the Indigenous nations around the Great Lakes, to the Black refugee communities of Canada, In the Upper Country weaves together unlikely stories of love, survival, and familial upheaval that map the interconnected history of the peoples of North America in an entirely new and resonant way.

THOMAS

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Tag(s): young adult fiction, politics, poetry, nonfiction, mystery, history, historical fiction, fiction, current events, book notes, African Americans

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Jan 30

Book Notes 1/30/2023

Posted to Campbell Unclassified on January 30, 2023 at 11:47 AM by Genesis Gaule

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1/30/2023

Come to the library Monday, February 6 at 5:30 pm to meet a few furry friends and learn about some of the great programs at the Circle of Friends Animal Shelter! More information...

Myth America by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer

istorians take on the biggest legends and lies about our past // In this book, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of historians to provide textured analysis that explains what we get wrong about the past.

973 MYTH

The House of Wolves by James Patterson and Mike Lupica

The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head--thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she hopes to solve her father's murder.

Mystery PATTERSON Wolves v.1

The Nazi Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch

souls speak

The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill // With all the hallmarks of a Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch page-turner, this book examines the great political minds of the 20th century, exploring the early years of the war in gripping detail. This meeting of The Big Three changed the course of World War II. Here's the inside story of how it all almost went terribly wrong.

MH 940.531 MELTZER

Sleep No More by Jayne Ann Krentz

The Lost Night Files // Seven months ago Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers-- strangers to each other-- stayed at the Lucent Springs Hotel. An earthquake and a fire destroyed the hotel-- and left the women with no memory of their time there. Now they cohost a podcast, The Lost Night Files. Each is searching for a lost night-- but there are others who are not happy about their questions. Someone who is willing to keep to keep the truth from coming out...

Mystery KRENTZ Lost v.1

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Tag(s): World War II, US history, nonfiction, mystery, history, fiction, book notes

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