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Take a look at what we’ve got in this issue of the newsletter. And then come and see us. Browse around, Men’s Book Club talk with us, fill your void. We can’t wait to see you. 4th Monday of each month at 7 pm at RBTL Monday, August 22nd H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own STORY TIME goshawk. She buys Mabel on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she Tuesdays and Saturdays fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange at 10:30 am business of trying to train this wildest of animals. Grove $16. Join us as staff members share Monday, September 26th their favorite story books Marvel and a Wonder by Joe Meno with you and In the summer of 1995, a Korean War vet struggling to raise his sixteen-year-old grandson on your children! an Indiana farm receives a mysterious gift—a beautiful quarter horse—that upends their lives. The horse catches the attention of two meth-dealing brothers who steal and sell the animal. Grandfather and grandson pursue the criminals across the heartland, all the while confronting 2 the misperceptions of their own troubled relationship. Akashic $15.95. Provocative New Fiction Modern Lovers All is Not Forgotten by Emma Straub by Wendy Walker Friends and former bandmates Elizabeth, Andrew, and Zoe Everything seems perfect in Jenny’s small, affluent town have watched one another start businesses and families. But until the night she is attacked at a party and is given a con- nothing ages them like passing the torch of sexuality and troversial drug to erase her memory of the assault. In the independence to their offspring. As they near fifty, their months that follow, with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny children reach maturity (and start sleeping together), and struggles with her emotional memory. Her father becomes the adult lives unravel, revealing deeply held secrets. This is obsessed with finding her attacker while her mother seeks a book about neighbors, nosiness, ambition, the excitement denial. Fault lines within their marriage and community of youth, the shock of middle age, and the fact that our pas- emerge, and the relentless quest to find the monster drive sions never go away; they just evolve with us. Riverhead $26. this psychological thriller to a shocking conclusion. St. Martin’s $26.99.

The Fireman If You Left by Joe Hill by Ashley Prentice Norton NYT bestselling author Joe Hill delivers a chilling novel For most of their marriage, Althea has fluctuated between about a pandemic of spontaneous combustion and a band of depressive and manic states, and Oliver has steadied her. This heroes who battle to save civilization, led by one enigmatic summer, Althea decides to become a normal, loving wife and man known as the Fireman. Harper Grayson has contracted mother. But Oliver and her daughter Clem are resistant, and the virus, but she is determined to survive long enough to everything is just difficult, especially when she meets the new deliver her unborn baby. Her community in chaos, she dis- house painter. Darkly funny and compulsively readable, If You covers the Fireman, an afflicted madman who controls the Left explores the complexity of a bipolar marriage, and the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunt- possibility that to move forward, we might have to destroy the ed… and as a weapon to avenge the wronged. William things we’ve worked to build. Mariner $14.95. Morrow $28.99. Night of the Animals I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Bill Broun by Iain Reid In 2052, a homeless man named Cuthbert Handley sets out “Jake once said, ‘Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to on an astonishing quest: to release the animals of the reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do London Zoo. Believing he can communicate with animals, anything, but you can’t fake a thought.’ And here’s what I’m Cuthbert has heard voices since his brother’s childhood thinking: I don’t want to be here.” In this smart, suspenseful, death, and they have promised to reunite the two if he fulfills and intense literary thriller, debut novelist Iain Reid this request. To complicate matters is the rise of a suicide explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning con- cult set on destroying all animals along with themselves. As sciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the Cuthbert begins the releases, the cult’s members flood the limitations of solitude, pulling you in from the very first page streets. Has he sealed the animals’ fates? Ecco $27.99. and never letting you go. Gallery/Scout $22.95.

Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers Josie and her children’s father have split up, she’s lost her Deep summer is when dental practice, and she’s grieving a death. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée’s family, Josie laziness finds makes a run for Alaska. She and her kids rent an old RV, and at first it feels like a vacation: they see bears, eat hot dogs, respectability. and spend nights parked along icy cold rivers. But as they drive, pushed north by wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her family, — Sam Keen — even to the edge of civilization. Knopf $28.95.

Starred Reviews: Booklist Indie Next Kirkus Library Journal Publishers Weekly School Library Journal 3 Mystery & Intrigue The Altogether Unexpected The Girls in the Garden Disappearance of Atticus Craftsman by Lisa Jewell by Mamen Sanchez Imagine living on a picturesque garden square, where your Englishman Atticus Craftsman travels with his Earl Grey, children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You an electric kettle, and a teacup—so he packs them after his trust your neighbors. You think your children are safe. But father, publisher of Craftsman & Co., sends him to Madrid are they? On a midsummer night, during a neighborhood to shut down a failing literary magazine, Librarte. When party, preteen Pip discovers her thirteen-year-old sister Atticus disappears, his father puts Inspector Manchego on Grace lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of a the case, but he is blocked at every turn by the five fiery lush rose garden. What happened to her? And who is respon- Spanish women who run Librarte and who will do anything sible? Fans of Liane Moriarty will be captivated by this new to keep their jobs. A charming tale that is at once a humor- novel by NYT bestselling author Lisa Jewell. Atria $25. ous literary caper and a touching love story. Atria $24. Avail. 8/9 The Weekenders The Muse by Mary Kay Andrews by Jessie Burton A delightful novel by the NYT bestselling author of Beach Town. Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a cap- ferry, but is instead served with papers informing her that her tivating story of two young women—a Caribbean immigrant island home on Belle Isle is being foreclosed. And her hus- in 1960s London who discovers a painting by a young artist band is nowhere to be found. She turns to her island friends whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for for help, but each of them has their own secrets, and the decades, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain whose clock is ticking. Cocktail parties and crab boil aside, Riley friendship with the artist in question has consequences that must investigate the secrets of Belle Island and the husband echo into the years to come. Exquisitely detailed, The Muse she might not really know. St. Martin’s $27.99. is a tale of desire, ambition, and the ways in which the tides of history inevitably shape and define our lives. Ecco $27.99. Ink and Bone Wolf Lake by Lisa Unger Twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery can see the future and by John Verdon unconsciously uses her power to make supernatural things Could a nightmare be a weapon? That’s the question happen. She moves to The Hollows, a small town where her confronting Gurney in this new installment of the best- grandmother lives, a renowned seer who can teach Finley to selling Dave Gurney series. The former NYPD homicide control her gift. But Finley lands in the middle of a dangerous detective is called upon to solve a baffling puzzle: Four investigation involving a missing girl. And The Hollows begin seemingly unrelated people who live in different parts of to reveal its true colors. As Finley digs deeper into the town’s the country have had the same dream—a nightmare involv- endless layers, one thing becomes clear: The Hollows gets ing a bloody dagger with a carved wolf’s head on the han- what it wants, no matter what. Touchstone $24.99. dle. All are subsequently found with their wrists cut— apparent suicides—and the weapon used: a wolf’s head dagger. Counterpoint $25. Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay Tales of power and ambition and Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson’s fourteen- intrigue and betrayal and desire— year-old son, Tommy, vanishes in the local park. Living in a nightmare, Elizabeth is unprepared for the strange events when you’re telling those in a big that follow. She sees a ghostly shadow of Tommy in her bed- way, you automatically want to room, while her daughter and other residents see a shadow peering through their windows at night. Then, disturbing go to Shakespeare. pages from Tommy’s journal begin to appear. As the search grows desperate, no one is prepared for the truth about Tommy’s disappearance at Devil’s Rock. William Morrow — Beau Willimon — $25.99. 4 Hot New Picks in YA American Girls This Savage Song by Alison Umminger by Victoria Schwab Anna is fifteen years old, and she’s had it with her life at Kate and August are heirs to a divided city where violence home. So she runs away to join her half-sister in Los breeds actual monsters. Kate wants to be ruthless like her Angeles. But LA isn’t the glamorous escape Anna had father, who lets monsters roam free and makes humans pay imagined. As she spends her days on movie sets, she begins for his protection. August wants to be human, as good- researching the murderous Manson girls, finding parallels hearted as his own father, to protect the innocent, but he’s between herself and the lost girls of LA. In Anna’s singular a monster—one who can steal a soul with music. When the voice, we glimpse not only a picture of life on the B-list in chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, August jumps at it. LA, but also a clear-eyed reflection on being young, vul- But Kate discovers August’s secret, and after a failed assas- nerable, lost, and female in America—in short, on the B- sination attempt, the pair must flee for their lives…. list of life. Flatiron $17.99. Greenwillow $17.99.

Enter Title Here The Hunt by Rahul Kanakia by Megan Shepherd Reshma is the top-ranked senior at her Silicon Valley high The Maze Runner meets Scott Westerfeld in the second school. But if she wants to get into Stanford, she needs a novel of the gripping and romantic Cage series, about teens hook. So Reshma sets out to write a novel, with herself as abducted from Earth by an otherworldly race. After their the protagonist. To make herself relatable, she decides to failed escape attempt, Cora, Lucky, and Mali have been do all the regular American stuff she normally ignores: demoted to the lowest level of human captives and placed make a friend, then get a boyfriend. But when the valedic- in a safari-themed environment called the Hunt, along with torian spot begins to slip from her grasp, Reshma has to wild animals and other human outcasts. Separated and con- weigh the value of relationships vs. success and decide how stantly under watch, they must struggle to stay alive, and to far she’ll go for her satisfying ending. Disney-Hyperion make their way back to each other. Balzer and Bray $17.99. $17.99. Avail. 8/2 Three Truths and a Lie Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana by Brent Hartinger As Tara’s junior year begins, a message from an alternate An innocent game of three truths and a lie goes horribly Earth is intercepted by NASA. Tara learns that on this other wrong in this psychological thriller filled with romantic sus- planet, there is another version of herself, one who could be pense. Truth #1: Rob is thrilled about the weekend. He’s burning a tiny bit brighter. And Tara’s life changes in small going to break out of his shell. Truth #2: Liam, Rob’s ways: she gets attention from cute Nick Osterman, and her boyfriend, is perfect. Perfect with Rob. Truth #3: Mia is mother plays hooky from work. But eventually those shifts Liam’s best friend. They get each other in a way Rob can’t swell, the discovery of the mirror planet like a black hole, understand. Truth #4: Galen, Mia’s boyfriend, is sweet and bending all the light around it. And nothing is the same as charming—a Golden Boy. Which one is the lie? And who this new era of scientific history dawns. Razorbill $17.99. won’t survive long enough to discover the truth? Simon Pulse $17.99. Avail. 8/2 The Killer in Me by Margot Harrison Seventeen-year-old Nina Barrows knows all about the Thief—how he stalks and kills at random and disposes the Books are more real bodies in an abandoned mine. Taking action, Nina tracks when you read the Thief to his home in New Mexico. But the man she meets there is nothing like the brutal sociopath she expect- them outside. ed. She begins to doubt that Dylan Shadwell is the Thief and wonders… what if there is no Thief at all? Which is more terrifying: the possibility that your nightmares are — Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver — real… or that they begin and end with you? Disney- Hyperion $17.99.

Starred Reviews: Booklist Indie Next Kirkus Library Journal Publishers Weekly School Library Journal 5 Tales for Tots The Pout-Pout Fish School’s First Day of School Undersea Alphabet by Adam Rex by Deborah Diesan A NYT bestselling author and illustrator team The star of bestselling picture bring you a fresh look at the first day of school, book The Pout-Pout Fish is back in this interactive this time from the school’s perspective. It’s the touch-and-feel alphabet board book in which “A” is for first day of school at Frederick Douglass “algae,” “B” is for “barrier reef,” “C” is for “clam.” Elementary and everyone’s just a little bit nerv- Board Babies and toddlers will love to look at the adorable ous, especially the school itself. What will the Book artwork of Mr. Fish’s undersea world as they learn children do once they come? Will they like the their letters from A to Z. Little hands will be eager to school? Will they be nice to him? The school has touch, feel, and explore the many different textures on a rough start, but as the day goes on, he soon each captivating spread. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux recovers when he sees that he’s not the only one $12.99. Ages 1-4. Avail. 8/16 going through first-day jitters. Roaring Brook $17.99. Ages 4-7. Little Green Peas by Keith Baker Pete the Cat’s Got Class The little green peas are back for a romp through a by James Dean rainbow of colors in this classic board book by New Pete the Cat is a class act—sharing his love of York Times bestselling author, Keith Baker! The peas math in and out of school in this cool new story. are here to celebrate the colorful world around them, When Pete’s friend Tom has a tough time with exploring seven color concepts plus black and white math, our favorite blue cat steps in to help him across bright, double-page spreads. Join the fun as out. With good friends, fun learning tools, and Board they fly red kites, sail blue boats, ski down purple some extra help, it all adds up. Pete the Cat Book mountains, and more! Bright and bold illustrations fill knows you can’t hate math—you just don’t love it the pages of this delightful exploration of color. Little yet! The book comes complete with a poster, Simon $7.99. Ages 2-4. stickers, and a set of 20 punch-out flash cards that teach counting, adding, and subtracting! Best Frints in the Whole Universe Harper Collins $9.99. Ages 4-8. by Antoinette Portis Yelfred and Omek have been best frints since they Beauty and the Beast were little blobbies. They play and snack, and some- by Mahlon Craft times they even fight, all in a language similar to but The tale is as old as time: A man steals a rose slightly different from English. When Omek decides to from the garden of a beast. His beautiful daugh- borrow Yelfred’s new spaceship without asking (and ter sacrifices herself to a life in the beast’s castle then crashes it), it sparks a huge fight. Can these two to protect her father. The beast and the girl fall best frints make up and move on? Award-winning pic- in love. Award-winning team Mahlon and ture book creator Antoinette Portis delivers a new uni- Kinuko Craft bring us this beloved tale in the verse of cleverness in this hilarious, sweet, and other- spirit of the Crafts’ previous collaborations, their worldly book about friendship. Roaring Brook $16.99. acclaimed fairy-tale retellings of Cinderella and Ages 3-6. Sleeping Beauty. Full of sumptuous paintings and ornamental detail, this lush picture book will be Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn cherished again and again. Harper Collins by Kenard Pak $17.99. Ages 4-8. In a simple, cheerful conversation with nature, a young girl witnesses how the season changes from The Truth about My summer to autumn. As trees sway in the cool Unbelievable Summer… breeze, blue jays head south, and leaves change by Davide Cali their colors, everyone knows—autumn is on its What really happened over the summer break? A curious teacher wants to way! Join a young girl as she takes a walk through know. The epic explanation? What started out as a day at the beach turned forest and town, greeting all the signs of the com- into a globe-spanning treasure hunt with high-flying hijinks, exotic detours, ing season. In a series of conversations with every an outrageous cast of characters, and one very mischievous bird! Is this flower and creature and gust of wind, she says another tall tale, or is the truth just waiting to be revealed? From the team good-bye to summer and welcomes autumn. Henry behind A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School… comes a fast-paced Holt & Co. $17.99. Ages 4-7. Avail. 8/16 6 summer adventure that’s so unbelievable, it just might be true! Chronicle $12.99. Ages 6-9. Kids, Tweens, and Teens Dara Palmer’s Major Drama The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Emma Shevah by Kelly Barnhill Dara Palmer was meant to be on stage. But when The Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as Sound of Music is selected for the school musical, Dara a sacrifice to the witch Xan. But Xan is kind and gentle; isn’t cast as Maria—or at all. Is it because she’s different? she rescues the abandoned children and delivers them to Maybe it’s because she was adopted from Cambodia and families on the other side of the forest, feeding them doesn’t look like a typical fraulein…. So irrepressible Dara starlight. One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moon- comes up with a grand scheme to shake the school: write light instead, filling the child with magic. She raises the her own play about her own life. Then she’ll have to be the girl, naming her Luna. When Luna comes of age, a man star. “[T]his funny, charismatic heroine will capture her from the Protectorate determines to kill Xan, and now readers’ hearts.” —Kirkus. Sourcebooks Jaberwocky Luna must protect those who have protected her. $16.99. Ages 8-12. Algonquin YR $16.95. Ages 9-12. Avail. 8/9 Rookie of the Year Hundred Percent by Phil Blinder by Karen Romano Young Tiki, a new girl whose Egyptian dad is an animal-rights The last year of elementary school is big for every kid. In activist, has just joined Rip and Red’s fifth grade class. this funny, crushing, and honest novel, Christine Gouda She’s charismatic, and she’s got game! Rip has his world faces change at every turn, starting with her own nickname turned upside down as Tiki proves to be tough competi- Tink. Her voice rings with profound authenticity and nov- tion on the basketball team and leads a rebellion against elty, as she shares her year’s cringingly painful trials in nor- the new cafeteria food service. Red, a kid on the autism malcy: uncomfortable Halloween costumes, premature spectrum, is struggling with the upheavals as well. But as sleepover parties, crushed crushes, and changing friend- these two best friends discover, sometimes change is the ships. Throughout, Tink learns, what and how you call right move, on the court and off. Farrar, Straus & Giroux yourself has a lot to do with who you are. Chronicle $15.99. Ages 8-12. $16.99. Ages 10-12. Avail. 8/2 Darkstalker For Magnus Chase: Hotel Valhalla by Tui Sutherland Guide to the Norse Worlds Before the battle of the SandWing queens; before the by Rick Riordan prophecy; a long, long time ago… evil was born. In alter- This “who’s who” guide to the gods, goddesses, and other nating chapters, this Wings of Fire special edition takes important figures of Norse mythology was commissioned readers back to the very beginning, when powerful, myth- by Helgi, who, after more than a millennium as manager ical dragons Clearsight, Fathom, and Darkstalker—the of Hotel Valhalla, became fed up with answering the same most dangerous dragon of all—were just dragonets. When questions from newly deceased heroes at check-in. The the future was bright and uncertain, when no one had profiles provide essential stats, interviews, and personal been betrayed or had their heart broken. This is the origin reflections so you can identify the gods and avoid those story that changes everything. Scholastic $17.99. Ages 9- awkward introductions. Handy facts about other beings 12. round out this go-to tome. Disney-Hyperion $9.99. Ages 10-13. Avail. 8/16 An Author’s Odyssey by Chris Colfer The Cresswell Plot The fifth book in Chris Colfer’s #1 NYT bestselling series by Eliza Wass The Land of Stories! In the highly anticipated continuation Castella Cresswell and her siblings know they are differ- of the series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the ent. For years, their world has been confined to their ram- Masked Man’s literary army is “inside his own short sto- shackle home deep in the woods. They abide by the strict ries.” When the twins and their friends enter worlds craft- rule of God, whose messages come from their father. And ed from Conner’s imagination, finding allies no one else then Castley meets George, who shows her a life with free- could have ever dreamed of, the race begins the end of the dom and choice, and Castley’s world expands beyond the Masked Man’s reign of terror. Can the twins finally restore beliefs she thought were truths. But time is running out, peace in the fairy tale world? Little, Brown BYR $19.99. because her father makes a chilling announcement: the Ages 9-12. Cresswells will soon return to their home in heaven. Disney-Hyperion $17.99. Ages 13-17.

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Church of Marvels The Rocks by Leslie Parry by Peter Nichols New York, 1895. Sylvan finds an abandoned baby in the muck behind some tene- Set against dramatic Mediterranean Sea views and lush olive groves, The Rocks ment houses. Odile and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised within The Church opens with a secret: What was the catastrophic event that drove two honeymooners of Marvels, their mother’s Coney Island sideshow. But the Church burned, their apart so suddenly and absolutely in 1948 that they never spoke again despite living mother died, and Belle vanished. Alphie is trapped in a lunatic asylum. On the on the same island for sixty more years? How did their history shape the Romeo ward she meets a woman of ethereal beauty who does not speak, but has a talent and Juliet like romance of their (unrelated) children decades later? Nichols pres- that might save them both. As these lives become connected, their secrets unfold ents a double love story that begins with a mystery, then moves backward in time, in turn-of-the-century New York. Ecco $15.99. era by era, to unravel the past. Riverhead $16. Circling the Sun Prince by Paula McLain by Ronin Ro Brought to Kenya from England as a child, Beryl is raised by her father and the Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks gives full treatment to the rock icon’s 35 year native Kipsigis tribe. Her upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman career. Music journalist Ronin Ro traces Prince’s rise in the late 70s, to his stardom with a love of all things wild. But it’s the charismatic Denys Finch Hatton who helps in the 80s, and his reemergence in the 21st century as an artistic icon. Along the Beryl navigate the territory of her own heart. The intensity of their love reveals way, Prince confronted labels, fostered other talents, and took ownership of his Beryl’s truest self and her fate: to fly. Set in the landscape of early-20th-century music. In this updated edition, Ro includes a new introduction and chapter that Africa, McLain’s tale reveals the adventures of a woman before her time, and the cover the last five years of Prince’s life and work and his untimely death in April joy and cost of freedom. Ballantine $16. 2016. St. Martin’s $16.99. Avail. 8/2 How to Start a Fire Numero Zero by Lisa Lutz by Umberto Eco When college roommates Anna and Kate find Georgiana Leoni passed out on a 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are shot by local partisans. 1992, lawn, they wheel her to their dorm in a shopping cart. Twenty years later, they gath- Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered to ghostwrite a book. His sub- er around a campfire at a New England mansion. What happens in between the ject: a fledgling newspaper financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna web of adventures, jealousies, and tragedies is charted with sharp wit and aching gets to know the team, he learns of the editor’s paranoid theory that Mussolini’s sadness. In this meticulously constructed novel about three intelligent, distinctive, corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It’s the scoop the news- and deeply real women, Lutz pays homage to the abiding, irrational love we share paper desperately needs. Farcical, serious, satiric, and tragic, Numero Zero is the with the family we choose. Mariner $14.95. work of a master storyteller. Mariner $14.95. Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal When Lars Thorvald’s wife, Cynthia, falls in love a dashing sommelier, he’s left to Celebrate summer… raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He passes his love of food to his daughter; as Eva sun-drenched days grows, she finds salvation in the flavors of her native Minnesota and becomes the star chef behind a legendary pop-up supper club. Each chapter in this original and starlit nights. debut tells the story of a single dish and character, at once capturing the zeitgeist of the Midwest, the rise of foodie culture, and delving into the ways food creates community and a sense of identity. Penguin $16. — Gooseberry Patch —

8 The World Around Us The View from the Cheap Seats Grace Without God by Neil Gaiman by Katherine Ozment An inquisitive observer and assiduous craftsman, Neil In this exploration of secular America, journalist Gaiman is celebrated for the intellect and imagination Katherine Ozment studies the trends and ramifications that informs his bestselling fiction. Now, The View from of a nation in flight from organized religion. The quest the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction brings together more began with her son’s own questions. She traversed than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. Analytical American secular life, sought guidance in science and the yet playful, this cornucopia explores topics including humanities, and wrestled with her family’s journey. Grace authors; music; storytelling; bookshops; inspiration; trav- Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and el; fairy tales; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, which Belonging in a Secular Age is a personal and critical explo- recounts the author’s experiences at the 2010 Academy ration of the ways nonreligious Americans find meaning Awards. William Morrow $26.99. and connection after religion. HarperWave $25.99.

Chaos Monkeys City of Sedition by Antonio Garcia Martinez by John Strausbaugh After stints on Wall Street, Garcia Martinez worked for City of Sedition: The History of New York City During the both Facebook and . Now, he reveals how social Civil War tells the story of the conflicted role New York media and online marketing are invading our lives. City played in the Civil War. Without his New York sup- Weighing in on everything from social media monetiza- porters, it’s unlikely Lincoln would have made it to the tion to digital privacy, Martinez takes us on a humorous, White House. Yet, because of the city’s business ties to subversive tour of the insular tech industry. Chaos the South, the majority of New Yorkers were hostile to Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon him. City of Sedition looks at New York’s politics, eco- Valley lays bare the hijinks and trade secrets of the nomics, and history during the war, bringing many play- visionaries, grunts, and sociopaths who are revolutioniz- ers to life, from to John Wilkes Booth. ing our world. Harper $29.99. Twelve $30. Avail 8/2

Waking the Spirit The Wicked Boy by Andrew Schulman by Kate Summerscale Andrew Schulman, a fifty-seven-year-old guitarist, had a In 1895, Robert (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12) close brush with death in 2009. Afterwards, he dedicated were arrested for killing their mother. Nattie gave evi- his life to bringing music to critically ill patients. In this dence against his brother, who showed no remorse and book, you’ll learn the story of the people he’s met and was sent to Broadmoor, an infamous criminal lunatic inspired. Now working as a medical musician, he shares asylum. Yet Broadmoor turned out to be the beginning the cutting-edge science and medical theories that illu- of a shocking life for Robert. With riveting detail, Kate minate this exciting field. Waking the Spirit: A Musician’s Summerscale recreates the crime and aftermath, uncov- Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul explores the power ering the story of man’s capacity to overcome the past in of music to heal the body and waken the spirit. Picador The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child $25. Avail. 8/2 Murderer. Penguin $28.

I’m Your Biggest Fan by Kate Coyne How far that little candle The Executive Editor of People Magazine provides a throws his beams! hilarious look at her life alongside the rich and famous. I’m Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters and Assorted So shines a good deed Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism chronicles her in a weary world. journey from red-carpet reporter to upper-level editor. Featuring A-listers such as Michael Douglas, Tom Cruise, and Tom Hanks (who, yes, is wonderful) Coyne’s ― William Shakespeare, stories reveal insights about pop culture’s biggest icons—and the journalist who has followed their every The Merchant of Venice — move. Hachette $26. Starred Reviews: Booklist Indie Next Kirkus Library Journal Publishers Weekly School Library Journal 9 Popular Science Fascinating Lives Grunt The Hero’s Body by Mary Roach by William Giraldi Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War tackles the William Giraldi’s father was killed in a motorcycle crash, science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging forever altering the young Giraldi. Now he explores the adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and intro- two generations of men from the working-class town of duces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldi’s own forays into Along the way, Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs a obsessive bodybuilding as a teenager desperate to be wor- WWII stink bomb, and stays with a crew tending nuclear thy of his family’s codes of manhood. A memoir of sorrow, submarine missiles. She also answers unusual questions— a son’s tale of a lost father and the ancient family stric- Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown tures of masculinity, The Hero’s Body: A Memoir is a work like a bomb suit?—giving us new perspective on our of lasting beauty by one of our most fearless writers. nation’s defenders. Norton $26.95. Liveright $25.95. Avail. 8/9 I Contain Multitudes All at Sea by by Decca Aitkenhead I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a When Decca Aitkenhead’s four-year-old son was swept to Grander View of Life is a fascinating examination of the sea, she watched as her partner Tony drowned while sav- most significant revolution in biology since Darwin. Many ing their son’s life. When Decca and Tony met, a decade people think of microbes as germs to be eradicated, but earlier, she was a journalist; he a criminal. No one thought the microbiome actually builds our bodies, protects our the romance would last, but it did until Tony’s death, health, shapes our identities, and grants us incredible abil- plunging Decca into a chasm of tragedy. Exploring race, ities. In this astonishing book, Young takes us on a grand privilege, and redemption, All at Sea: A Memoir is the tour through our microbial partners, and introduces us to story of how one couple changed each other’s life, and of the scientists on the front lines of discovery. Ecco $27.99. what a sudden death can do to the people who survive. Avail. 8/9 Nan Talese $25. Avail. 8/16 Venomous Some Enchanted Evenings by Christie Wilcox by David Kaurman In Venomous: How Earth’s Deadliest Creatures Mastered Growing up in Texas, Mary Martin married, divorced, and Biochemistry, molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investi- ended up in New York, where she became the Toast of gates venoms and the animals that use them, revealing Broadway. In NYC, she married Richard Halliday, a clos- how they can revolutionize biochemistry and medicine. eted upper-class homosexual who adored her and Wilcox meets the scientists who risk their lives studying Broadway; they were a powerful twosome. Peopled with a these lethal beasts, and puts her own life on the line to cast of thousands, Some Enchanted Evenings: The examine the species up close. She reveals that these ani- Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin is the delectable mals we fear hold the keys to a deeper understanding of story a woman who described herself as a chicken farmer evolution, adaptation, and immunity. Scientific American from Texas only to become Peter Pan and capture $26. Avail. 8/9 America’s heart. St. Martin’s $29.99. And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind Not Pretty Enough by Bill Streever by Gerri Hirshey Bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme When Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single to explore wind by traveling right through it. Narrating Girl in 1962, it helped usher in the self-affirmation of sec- from a sailboat, Streever leads readers through forecasts, ond wave feminism. The effects of her outspokenness Chaos Theory, and a future affected by climate change; about sex and friendships between women can still be he shares stories of wind-sculpted landscapes, wind-gen- seen today. Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of erated power, and the interactions between wind and Helen Gurley Brown is full of accounts from friends wars. Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of including Gloria Vanderbilt and Barbara Walters, and Moving Air is an effortless narrative featuring the keen writing from the woman herself, shining new light on one observations, scientific rigor, and whimsy that readers of the most incomparable women of the 20th century. love. Little, Brown $26. Sarah Crichton $27.

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— Continued from Back Page — 2nd Fridays on the Square Come enjoy visual art displays and trunk sales, along with entertainment roaming the streets of downtown Woodstock, from Food for Thought 6 pm to 9 pm the second Friday of each month (June through September), coordi- nated by the Northwest Area Arts Council Check out our weekly drink specials! and business volunteers. Now serving milkshakes and You are Your fruit tea smoothies! Stories: Pick up your favorite Farmer’s Market An Introduction to products 7 days a week, including: Memoir Writing Prairie Pure Cheese Six Thursdays: September 8 through October 13, 7 to 9 pm Sunny Hill Honey Class Fee: $175 / Class size is limited to 10. Advanced registration is required. Idle Hour Maple Syrup For more information or to register, call Pam Sourelis: 815-351-8155.

Your life is a rich collection of stories: painful stories, funny stories, stories about your little sister, your best friend in high school, your first job, stories about crazy adventures and about boredom, stories about loyalty and betrayal, stories about love, about routine, about deep personal discovery. You have this urge, this itch, to write these stories down. You want to share them. Maybe you want to record stories for your children or grandchil- dren. Maybe you want to publish personal essays or even a full-length book. But where to begin? In this six-week class, you won’t be asked to complete a piece of writing. Instead, the in-class writing exercises will help you to explore your memo- ries, introduce (or re-introduce) you to the practice of writing; and encour- age you to play with the basic elements of memoir writing. While you will be asked to share your work, you don’t need to worry about it being handled roughly. The atmosphere will be friendly and open, and will nurture your creative spirit. You will look at the process of writing about your life from the inside out, as a writer rather than a reader.

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Midwest Mozart Festival Woodstock Celebrates Mozart Sundays, August 7 and August 14, 3 pm Woodstock Opera House Mozart returns to Woodstock as the Midwest Community Clean Up Day Mozart Festival continues the tradition of memo- Saturday, August 6, 8 am to 1 pm rable chamber orchestra performances featuring the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Led by Matrix 4 Maestro Brian Groner, the superb Midwest Mozart Join us for Woodstock’s first annual Community Clean musicians that you have come to know over the years breathe new life into the greatest Up Day, a free family-friendly event to promote a clean music ever written. Come see why these performances are considered a must-see sum- community. mertime event for classical music fans! Tickets are available in person and online at the Woodstock Opera House Box Office. The morning begins with registration and a continental breakfast at Matrix 4, 610 E. Judd Street in Woodstock. Paula Garner After registration, volunteers are given garbage bags, gloves and a location assignment, to venture out into (YA Debut Author) community streets, neighborhoods and parks, and to Phantom Limbs clean up the trash left behind. After collection efforts, participants are invited to return to the registration site Saturday, September 24, 2 pm for a hot lunch of freshly grilled hot dogs, chips, soda, Read Between the Lynes and more! How do you move on from an irreplaceable loss? In a poignant There is no minimum age for participation; all are wel- debut, a sixteen-year-old boy must learn to swim against an under- come, including children accompanied by a parent or current of grief—or be swept away by it. guardian. This is a “rain or shine” event; please dress appropriately for the weather. It is suggested that you Otis and Meg were inseparable until her family abruptly moved carry your own bottled water to your clean-up destina- away after the terrible accident that left Otis’s little brother dead tion. and both of their families changed forever. Since then, it’s been three years of radio silence, during which time Otis has become Attendees are encouraged to register online in advance the unlikely protégé of eighteen-year-old Dara—part drill ser- at Volunteer Spot; however you are welcome to simply geant, part friend—who’s hell-bent on transforming Otis into the show up the morning of the event. If you have a large Olympic swimmer she can no longer be. But when Otis learns that group, please sign up by contacting the Woodstock Meg is coming back to town, he must face some difficult truths about the girl he’s never Chamber at 815-338-2436 or emailing keepwoodstock- forgotten and the brother he’s never stopped grieving. As it becomes achingly clear that [email protected]. More information is available on he and Meg are not the same people they were, Otis must decide what to hold on to and the “Keep Woodstock Beautiful” Facebook page. what to leave behind. Quietly affecting, this compulsively readable debut novel captures all the confusion, heartbreak, and fragile hope of three teens struggling to accept pro- found absences in their lives. Candlewick $16.99.

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