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Inuit woman reading 'Woman's Home Companion' magazine, Alaska. [ca. 1903-1915] Photographed by Lomen Brothers, Nome, Alaska. Adult Fiction Whirlwind Gift of Truth by Rick Mofina by Robert Fleming A kind stranger helps protect a baby boy when a While visiting a fellow pastor in Alabama, New tornado rips through Dallas. But in the aftermath, York Pastor Clint Winwood witnesses a battle Jenna can't find her son or the woman who'd been between poor black farmers and rich white holding him. Reporter Kate Page, vows to planters and resolves to help prevent bloodshed determine what happened and uncovers troubling and find a solution. clues to a plot more sinister than anybody had Jewel and Amulet Dispute Over a Very Italian by Michael Moorcock Piglet by Amara Lakhous In an alternate far future, Dorian Hawkmoon is Enzo Laganà is an Italian journalist with a wry pulled unwillingly into a war against the armies of sense of humor and questionable ethics who, the Dark Empire. Antique cities, scientific sorcery, almost despite himself, get to the bottom of a and crystalline machines serve as a backdrop to series of gang murders. But before he does, he this high adventure, the first 2 novels in the has to settle a thorny issue concerning Gino, a Hawkmoon series. small pig belonging to his Nigerian neighbor. In the Shadow of Jezebel Lip Reading by Harry Kraus by Mesu Andrews Dr. Rebecca Jackson, a medical researcher, Set in Israel in the days of Elisha and Jezebel, this stands on the verge of a breakthrough that will story weaves a tale of powerful women, kingdom transform medicine. But she soon discovers the politics, and the protection and restoration of the reason behind the miraculous progress in her rightful heir to the Throne of David. research, and it leaves her with a nearly impossible choice and little time to decide.

Tide and Tempest The Island of Doves (Edge of Freedom Vol 3) by Kelly O’Connor McNees by Elizabeth Ludwig Susannah lives in one of Buffalo’s finest mansions, but her husband has made it a prison. When a Two years ago, Tillie's fiancé died crossing to mysterious woman offers to help her escape, America. Now Captain Keondric Morgan believes he Susannah boards a boat for Mackinac Island. But was murdered. Can he save Tillie from the same after being a dutiful daughter and obedient wife, fate? she realizes how unprepared she is for freedom. Rebels of the Kasbah Minister Without Portfolio by Joe O’Neill by Michael Winter When Tariq is captured from his safe life in a In a quest to find meaning in an emotionally arid Tangier orphanage and sold into slavery as a camel life, Henry travels to Afghanistan as an army- jockey, his adventures begin. Forced to compete in affiliated contractor. But everything changes during deadly camel races, and suffer the abuse of his a tragic roadside incursion. And Henry, who slave master, Tariq must rely on his wits and his survives, knows in his heart that he is responsible. newfound friendships to survive. Killer’s Instinct by Dawn Longarm and the Yuma Prison Dalton & Judith Graves by Tabor Evans Hope has always been a bit of a freak. But when Former lawman Tom Ray has been falsely convict- her mother crawls from her grave and her undead ed of murder and left to rot in Yuma Territorial Pris- corpse goes MIA, Hope's last thread of normal on, while the men who set him up steal his gold snaps with a vengeance. Enrolling in a militia-style claim. When Ray's daughter Jessica asks Longarm school for hunters seems her best bet for for help, the deputy marshal can't say no. He is not tracking down Mommy-dearest. about to let a good lawman die in a bad prison. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 2 Adult Fiction Shawn O’Brien, Town Tamer Devil’s Den (The Trailsman No. by William Johnstone 390) by Jon Sharpe As a town tamer, Shawn O’Brien takes the most After Sky Fargo runs afoul of the law, he's more dangerous, lawless towns in the West and makes than happy to be set free to work for a pair of pretty them safe for decent men, women, and children. sisters trying to operate a wagon run in the Ozarks. When a stagecoach accident leaves Shawn But when the competition gets deadly, the stranded in Holy Rood, Utah, it doesn't take long to Trailsman has to send a pack of savage killers realize he has landed in one ornery circle of hell. straight into the ground..." Wrath of the Savage Styxx by Sherrilyn Kenyon by Charles West As the twin to Acheron, the who saved the Unjustly court-martialed on a charge of cowardice, human race centuries ago, Styxx hasn't always former Lieutenant Brent Hollister and an old trapper been on his brother's side. But with an Atlantean named Coldiron rescue two women held captive by goddess bent on setting wrongs right, how do you Indians. find a way back from the darkness that wants to consume the entire world? One that wants to start by devouring your very soul?

Borderland Bloodbath Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore by Jon Sharpe Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, The Trailsman rides straight into trouble when he realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility of goes up against a robber baron's agent who is relying on advisors who surround her with lies as setting explosives to re-route the Rio Grande in an she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty- attempt to get his hands on valuable mining land. five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psycho- path with mind-altering abilities.

Magic Man by J. R. Roberts Ruler of the Realm (Faerie Clint Adams has seen plenty--but nothing quite like Wars bk. 3) by Herbie Brennan the magic man. After watching him take down three While simultaneously trying to prevent and prepare petty thieves with a pair of guns that appear out of for war between the Faeries of the Night and thin air, Clint decides to ride along and maybe even Faeries of the Light, Queen Holly Blue is kidnapped learn the tricks of his trade. But someone is from her Uncle Hairstreak's home by human Henry following close behind--someone convinced that the Atherton and learns she must face another, far magic man is no man at all, but the devil himself. greater enemy. Cotton’s Inferno: A Sheriff Faerie Lord (Faerie Wars Cotton Burke Western Chronicles bk. 4) by Phil Dunlap by Herbie Brennan When Carp Varner, a newcomer to Apache Springs, When a terrible plague takes over the faerie realm offers his services as a gunsmith, Sheriff Cotton and causes its inhabitants to age unnaturally Burke takes him up on his offer until he discovers quickly, Henry and Blue must find a cure in order to Varner's true nature and past crimes. save the realm.

Trackdown The Faeman Quest (Faerie by Lyle Brandt Wars bk. 5) by Herbie Brenan When U.S. Marshal Slade is ambushed by the Stubborn and feisty Mella, the half-faeire half- family one of the prisoners he is transporting to human daughter of Lord Henry and Queen Holly Leavenworth, Kansas, he will stop at nothing to Blue, has the power to determine the fate of both recapture the them. the faerie and "analogue world" when she travels to the country of Haleklind and discovers rebel forces preparing for war. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 3 Adult Fiction Marked: A Mindspace Distortion Investigations by Alex Hughes by Terri Blackstock Freelancing for the Atlanta PD isn’t a secure career; The second book in the Moonlighters series starts my job’s on the line almost as much as my life. off with a frightening incident and is filled with When my ex needs help, I head to the last place I actions from that point forward. A multilayered ever expected to set foot in again—Guild story of deception, greed and secrets unravels at a headquarters. Joining that group was a bad idea perfect pace to keep readers interested and the first time. entertained. The English Girl Spinning in Her Grave by Molly by Daniel Silva MacRae The wayward son of Israeli intelligence Kath Rutledge is settling in as the owner of the plunges into a high stakes game of murder, Weaver’s Cat, a fiber and fabric shop in Blue Plum, espionage, and corruption after a woman Tennessee. But nothing, not even the ghost haunt- vanishes on the island of Corsica, which ing her shop, prepares her for the mystery that will leave the whole town spinning. Book 3 in the threatens to destroy a prime minister's career. Haunted Yarn Mystery series. The Wicked How to Paint a Cat by Douglas Nicholas by Rebecca M. Hale The mesmerizing and highly anticipated sequel to Continuing the mystery surrounding the murder of Something Red transports readers to the harsh and the mayor's intern (in How To Tail a Cat), this fifth in enchanting world of thirteenth-century England, the clever San Francisco-based paranormal cozy where a group of unlikely heroes battles an ancient series leads up the Bohemian Highway. Perhaps the evil. An unforgettable blend of , mythology, city's famous New Deal-era murals will provide the and horror. necessary clues. Heritage of Lancaster County Valley of Fire by Beverly Lewis by Johnny D. Boggs Journey into the fascinating world of the Amish Micah's not in the habit of helping nuns, but it turns with the three-part story of a young woman who out the only true vow Sister Genevieve ever took must face her past in order to discover her future. was to get rich--and there's a fortune in gold buried Includes The Shunning, The Confession and The along with the sisters in the Valley of Fire, deep in Reckoning. the most lawless and perilous part of New Mexico Territory. We Are Here The Years of Rice and Salt by Michael Marshall by Kim Stanley Robinson Marshall combines mystery with urban fantasy to A thoughtful and powerful examination of cultures create an eerie, convoluted tale of shadow beings and the people who shape them. How might human living between the cracks of our world. Readers history be different if 14th-century Europe was comfortable with mixing genres will enjoy the ride. utterly wiped out by plague, and Islamic and Buddhist societies emerged as the world's dominant religious and political forces? The Miracle Thief Elizabeth’s Journey by Iris Anthony by Shirley Stephenson This tale of medieval pilgrimage is told from the An historically accurate novel based upon the true points of view of three very different women - a story of a courageous young widow who arrived in poor orphan seeking healing, a princess fleeing a Alaska Territory in the winter of 1918 and finds dreaded marriage, and a nun who must guard the her place among commercial fishermen, loggers, relics of St. Catherine against pagan invaders. miners, fox farmers, Indians, merchants, traveling salesmen and part-time politicians. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 4 Adult Fiction Ganymede by Cherie Priest Cockroaches: The 2nd Inspector The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, Harry Hole Novel by Jo Nesbo straighter. Although he's happy to run alcohol guns When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is wherever the money's good, he doesn't think the found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry world needs more sap, or its ugly side-effects. But Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the becoming legit is easier said than done, and Cly's case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this first legal gig―a supply run for the Seattle case is about much more than one random murder. Underground―will be paid for by sap money.

The Spinning Heart The Orphans of Race Point by Donal Ryan By Patry Francis Irish author Ryan's debut takes readers to the Stretching over more than three decades, this is a 'heart' of hardscrabble life in Ireland in the era gripping tale of stubborn love, the legacy of after the economic boom and bust of 2008. The domestic violence, and the family secrets children novel received Book of the Year honors at the Irish keep. A sprawling, Dickensian novel that readers Book Awards. The book gives readers a story—or long for in this post-modern age. rather stories—told from multiple perspectives. A Table by the Window The Longest Ride by Hillary Manton Lodge by Nicholas Sparks Food writer Juliette adores her temperamental, Two couples with little in common, separated by trilingual family of restaurateurs, but she could do years and experience. Yet their lives will converge without their bossy skepticism of her online love with unexpected poignancy, reminding us all that interest, as she navigates a long-distance even the most difficult decisions can yield romance, career decisions, and a genealogical extraordinary journeys: beyond despair, beyond mystery. A delectable tale that includes recipes. death, to the farthest reaches of the human heart. The Burgess Boys Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Strout by Elizabeth Berg Hotshot lawyer Jim and bighearted Bob Burgess Any woman who has ever longed to shake off her come together over a politically incorrect prank -- life and embark on a road trip with female and discover that their distrust of each other has companions will love this book which has all the never really gone away. But then, neither has their ingredients for a satisfying read: a backroads love. Nobody does buried conflict and tortured journey, a testament to the power of female familial relations better than Strout. friendships, and the possibility of second chances. Death by the Book Hunting Season by Julianna Deering by Andrea Camilleri When the family lawyer is murdered and Hailing from the land of Umberto Eco and La Cosa discovered with an unusual clue, can Drew and Nostra, Inspector Montalbano can discuss a pointy- Madeline solve the case before the hatpin headed book as unflinchingly as he can pore over murderer strikes again? Fans of Agatha Christie crime-scene snuff photos. He throws together a need to make room on their bookshelves for the lunch of shrimp with lemon and oil as gracefully as Drew Farthering Mystery series. he dodges advances from attractive women. The Cold Song Lawless by Diana Palmer by Linn Ullmann Palmer, a romance writer whose steamy tales often Recounts the unfolding of a large tragedy that has center around stereotypically sexy, straight- already happened—the mysterious disappearance shooting lawmen and the virginal women who of Milla, an adolescent girl—while also showing the adore them, returns to the range with her latest smaller tragedy of a faltering marriage. Combining contemporary western fairy tale. Readers looking the tension of a whodunit with the subtlety of a for steamy, undemanding escapism will find this domestic drama. fits the bill. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 5 Adult Fiction The Striker by Clive Cussler Madam: A Novel of New It is 1902, and a bright, young man, only two years Orleans by Cari Lynn out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Filled with fascinating historical details and Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to cameos by Jelly Roll Morton, Louie Armstrong, and hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, photographer E. J. Bellocq, Madam is a fabulous he is witness to an accident that makes him think romp through The Big Easy and the irresistible tale something else is going on…that provocateurs are at of a woman's rise to influence and infamy in a work and bigger stakes are in play. world ruled by men. The Eye of God by James Rollins The Hit by David Baldacci Rollins’ latest Sigma Force thriller verges on science Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. fiction. A satellite crashes in Mongolia, but before it government to track down fellow assassin Jessica does, it transmits what appears to be an image of Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C., in ruins. Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be The image, it turns out, is time-shifted from the very concealing a larger threat that could impact the near future by about 90 hours. In four days, the whole world. end of the world begins. Death on Eat Street Alex Cross, Run by J. J. Cook by James Patterson Zoe Chase always wanted to own her own Detective Alex Cross arrests a renowned plastic restaurant—but first, she’ll have to serve up a surgeon for sleeping with teenage girls, but now he heaping helping of meals on wheels, with a is out of jail, and has given himself a new face. side of mystery. . . When three murder victims are discovered, rumors of a serial killer send Washington D.C. into a frenzy, but Alex’s investigations are going nowhere. A Second Helping of Murder The Long War by Terry by Christine Wenger Pratchett & Stephen Baxter Trixie Matkowski is warming up to running her A new America called Valhalla grows restless family’s diner in the small town of Sandy Harbor in under the controlling long arm of the Datum upstate New York. But the only thing more government, while all of the Long Earth is infused demanding than serving up piping-hot comfort food by the song of the trolls who are starting to react twenty-four hours a day is getting to the bottom of to humanity's thoughtless exploitation, bringing a double homicide.... humankind to the brink of war. Murder at Westminster Abbey Quesadillas by Amanda Carmack by Juan Pablo Villalobos As England celebrates the coronation of Queen Both profoundly moving and wildly funny, Mexican Elizabeth I, her friend and personal musician Kate author Juan Pablo Villalobos's Quesadillas is a Haywood must discover who is murdering redheads satiric masterpiece, chock-full of inseminated who resemble the new queen. cows, Polish immigrants, religious pilgrims, alien spacecraft, psychedelic watermelons, and many, many "your mama" insults. The Arnifour Affair Murder Simply Brewed by Gregory Harris by Vannetta Chapman In turn-of-the-20th-century London, aristocratic gay When coffee shop manager Ethan Gray is sleuth Colin Pendragon and his partner Ethan murdered in Middlebury's Amish Artisan Village, Pruitt try to solve the murder of Lady Arnifour's two women from different walks of life must join husband, as well as the disappearance of a street together to solve the mystery. Will God's grace urchin's sister. enable them to find the truth about Ethan's death?

Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 6 Adult Fiction Natural Causes The Whole Cat and Caboodle by James Oswald by Sofie Ryan Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony McLean is When Sarah's elderly friend Maddie is found with drawn into a set of cases separated by six the body of a dead man in her garden, the kindly old decades, but connected by a macabre and brutal lady becomes the prime suspect. It’s up to Sarah ritual killing. and her cat Elvis to clear her friend's name and make sure the real murderer doesn't get a second chance. The Third Hill North of Town The Shadow Protocol by Noah Bly by Andy McDermott When Julianna Dapper slips out of a mental Gray is a covert agent armed with a device that al- hospital in Bangor, Maine, on a June day in 1962, lows him to copy the brain patterns of the terrorists she knows she must go back to the tiny farming and operatives he meets in the field. For 24 hours he community in northern Missouri where she was can recall their memories and can be America's worst born and raised and the place where her life's enemy. Now Gray’s team is racing to stop a plot to course shifted irrevocably one night long ago. release a radioactive isotope that could kill millions. The Day of the Dead The Witnesses by Linda Byler by Maurizio de Giovanni The third novel in Amish novelist’s series, Believing that Matteo, a young boy from the streets "Lancaster Burning." Byler takes readers inside the of 1930s Naples, was murdered, Commissario home of the leader of the Amish community, Davey Ricciardi must conduct his investigation in secret Beiler, who finds himself at the center of mounting since his superiors are preparing for a state visit fear and controversy after fires destroy two more from Benito Mussolini. barns, and many farmers are asking for police protection, an unheard of action.

Harlequin’s Millions The Natural Order of Things By Bohumil Hrabal by Kevin Keating By the writer whom Milan Kundera called These 15 interconnected stories concern the Czechoslovakia's greatest contemporary adventures and exploits of a small group of writer comes a novel peopled with students, teachers, employees, and priests at a eccentric, unforgettable inhabitants of a Jesuit prep school in a dying industrial city. A novel home for the elderly who reminisce about in the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, their lives and their changing country. Ohio but with a gothic sensibility. Days of Wine and Roquefort My Year of Meats By Avery Aames by Ruth Ozeki Something is troubling the cheese shop owner’s Hired to produce a TV program aimed at Japanese secretive houseguest, and Charlotte's life is housewives extolling the pleasures of meat upended when she finds the sommelier dead. consumption, Jane has second thoughts about Charlotte has her pick of suspects, but she needs meat and the practices of the industry. Meanwhile to act fast--this is a mystery that only gets more an abused wife questions her role when viewing dangerous with age. the "Typical" Americans in the series. Throw in the Trowel Broken Bonds by Karen Harper by Kate Collins Book 3 in the Cold Creek series, a place with a dark Flower shop owner Abby Knight has just returned history, especially for the Lockwoods. Now adults, from a romantic honeymoon and there’s no reason the three sisters are still recovering from the events for the bloom to be off the rose just because she that led to the destruction of their family when they and Marco are returning to normal life. But when were children, and oldest sister Char is certain Marco discovers a skeleton buried in the basement something sinister is being covered up. of his bar, it is a bit of a mood killer. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 7 Adult Fiction Iron Axe: Books of Blood & The Day We Met by Rowan Iron by Steven Harper Coleman In this new series from the author of the Clockwork For fans of Jojo Moyes's Me Before You comes a Empire series, a hopeless outcast must answer beautifully written, heartwarming novel about Death's call and embark on an epic adventure. With mothers and daughters, husbands and wives. The his unlikely companions, Danr will brave fantastic Day We Met asks: Can you love someone you don't and dangerous creatures to find a weapon that remember falling in love with? could save the world--or destroy it. All for You Girl Before a Mirror by Susan Mallery, Lori Foster, by Liza Palmer Gena Showalter & Bella Andre Recently divorced 40-year-old advertising account Four unforgettable stories from the biggest names executive Anna Wyatt must learn how to be the in romance. heroine of her own life -- a journey that will teach her priceless lessons about love, friendship, family, work and her own heart.

Foxglove Summer Dog Crazy by Meg Donohue by Ben Aaronovitch As a pet bereavement counselor, Maggie helps When two young girls go missing in rural patients come to terms with losing their four-legged Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in- friends, but she's struggling with problems of her training Peter Grant is sent out of London to check own. When she meets a woman who claims her that nothing supernatural is involved. dog is not dead, but missing, Maggie finds herself entangled in a mystery that will force her to face her biggest fear--and maybe find new love.

In Hot Water by J.J. Cook All the Pretty Horses Stella Griffin should joyful now that she's the full- by Cormac McCarthy time fire chief of Sweet Pepper, except trouble is A 16-year-old dispossessed Texan and his pal brewing on her doorstep. An angry resident has cross the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949. The purchased her cabin, and is ready to tear it down. two precocious horsemen pick up a laughable but But as Stella worries over the fate of her home and deadly marksman, encounter adventures on their Eric, her ghostly roommate, there's soon an even way south and arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda greater cause for alarm where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. The Music of What Happens The Globe: Science of Discworld by John Straley II by Terry Pratchett In Alaska, a child custody fight leads to murder. A In this second installment of the miniseries, Terry mother accuses a state senator of conspiracy with Pratchett, Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart weave the her ex-husband to deny her custody of their child. history of the human mind, culture, language, art She confronts the senator, he is killed and she is and science into a story in which the wizards arrested. Did she do it, or was she framed? PI compete with the elves for control of Roundworld Younger investigates. and grapple with the nature of Good and Evil. The Forgetting Place Satan’s Lullaby by John Burley by Priscilla Royal A female psychiatrist at a state mental hospital Abbess Isabeau has sent Father Etienne Davoir to finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy inspect Tyndall Priory from its morals to its roofs. in this dark and twisting tale of psychological Surely she would not have chosen her own brother suspense. for this unless the cause was serious and she had reasons to fear intervention from Rome. Prioress Eleanor knows something is terribly amiss. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 8 Adult Fiction Things Half in Shadow Feed (bk 1 in the Newsflesh by Alan Finn trilogy) by Mira Grant Postbellum America makes for a haunting backdrop The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had in this historical and supernatural tale of moonlit beaten the common cold. But in doing so we had cemeteries, masked balls, cunning mediums, and created something terrible that no one could stop. terrifying secrets waiting to be unearthed by an The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies intrepid crime reporter in 1869 Philadelphia. and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.

The Boatmaker Deadline (bk 2 in the Newsflesh by John Benditt trilogy) by Mira Grant A man wakes from a dream compelled to build a When a CDC researcher, after faking her own death, boat and sail away from the small island where he arrives on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of was born to a bigger, island where he struggles to in tow, Shaun Mason, the head of a news understand the intricacies of a larger society and organization, is plunged into the biggest story of his its dark underworld and uncovers truths that allow life. him to redirect the course of his destiny. A Memory of Violets Blackout (bk 3 in the Newsflesh by Hazel Gaynor trilogy) by Mira Grant Step into the world of Victorian London, where In 2041, Georgia Mason, held hostage by a team of wealth and poverty exist side by side. This is the CDC researchers, must find her way back to Shaun story of two long-lost sisters, whose lives take Mason, who is dealing with his own problems, such as different paths, and the young woman who will be bears, mad scientists and rogue government transformed by their experiences. agencies, before things get worse in her post-zombie, post-resurrection America. After the War is Over The Woman Who Married a By Jennifer Robson Bear by John Straley The International bestselling author of Somewhere In Sitka, Alaska, the bizarre death of a big-game in France returns with her sweeping second hunter years before is investigated by Cecil novel—a tale of class, love, and freedom—in which Younger, who uncovers a many-layered mystery a young woman must find her place in a world involving the folklore and mythology of the local forever changed. A good read for fans of Downton Tlingit Indians. Abbey. The Diabolical Miss Hyde The Curious Eat Themselves By Viola Carr by John Straley Forensic science, magic, mystery, and romance Cecil Younger is a defense investigator in Sitka, mix in this edgy fantasy—a retelling of Alaska but this client is the victim of a crime who the horror classic, in which Dr. Eliza Jekyll, wants Younger to break through corporate cover- daughter of the infamous Dr. Henry Jekyll—pursues ups and police apathy to find evidence against the a dangerous murderer in an alternate Victorian man who raped her. But before she can tell him the London. details, her throat is slashed. The Martian by Andy Weir Cold Water Burning This gripping and startlingly plausible novel tells a by John Straley story mostly through the log entries of astronaut Three years ago someone killed 4 people on the Mark Watney, who has been stranded alone on scow Mygirl and, in court, Cecil Younger helped fee Mars. It chronicles his efforts to survive: making the accused. Now that man has disappeared and 2 the prefab habitat livable and finding a way to grow people connected with the case die in separate food, make water, and get himself off the planet. and bizarre explosions of gunfire. Younger is certain someone is trying to finish the grisly job. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 9 Adult Fiction Murder with Fried Chicken Undercity by Catherine Asaro and Waffles by A.L. Herbert Major Bhaajan, a former military officer with Halia Watkins, the owner of a well-loved soul food Imperial Space Command, is now a P.I. with a load restaurant in Prince George's County, Maryland, of baggage to deal with, and clients with woes investigates after a smooth-talking, shady sometimes personal, sometimes galaxy- entrepreneur turns up murdered in her kitchen, shattering. Bhaajan must sift through the shadows right next to her cast iron frying pan. of dark and dangerous Undercity—the enormous capital of a vast star empire—to find answers.

Lost and Found in Prague Longing by Mary Balogh By Kelly Jones The illegitimate daughter of an English lord, Sian The author of The Woman Who Heard Color abandoned her heritage to live in amongst Welsh transports readers to a dreary Good Friday in coal miners and is engaged to the leader fighting Prague in an intriguing thriller as the mysterious the tyranny of English mine owners. But Sian’s death of a nun sets off a tangled chain of events principles are shaken when she becomes the that inexorably draws three strangers together— governess for the Marquess, the oppressive and forever changes their lives… symbol of everything she has come to resist. The Love Book Recipe for Disaster by Nina Solomon by Stacey Ballis Four women on a singles' bike trip through A delicious broth of a novel about a woman whose Normandy discover a mysterious red book about perfect life falls apart in spectacular fashion leaving love. Magical words, spells, conjurations, and a little her with a house to restore, an antique cookbook dose of synchronicity abound as the women embark (but no cooking talent), and one very unhappy on a soul mate seeking journey. schnauzer. For fans of Jen Lancaster, Jennifer Weiner, and Emily Giffin. Gwendolen by Diana Souhami Leaving Amarillo (Neon Diana Souhami performs a bold feat of Dreams bk 1) by Caisey Quinn imagination: what would happen if George Eliot's Nashville meets New Adult in this dramatic, sexy Daniel Deronda was retold from the perspective of series from a bestselling author about a country its beautiful, complicated, circumscribed heroine? band’s rocky road to fame—and the ambition, Both an arresting interpretation of Eliot's work and dreams, and love of the people who make the a compelling fiction in its own right, Souhami has music. breathed fresh life into a classic.

The Darkside War (Icarus Take Down by James Swain Corps bk 1) by Zachary Brown There are hundreds of casinos in Las Vegas, and Aliens have conquered Earth, but they haven’t Billy Cunningham knows how to rip off every one. conquered humanity—yet. A young army conscript His scams are so perfectly orchestrated that battles for survival in this action-packed futuristic onlookers believe he and his crew are winning fair thriller that will appeal to fans of Halo and and square. In a town where bosses will kill to Inglorious Bastards. protect profits, Billy can’t afford to make mistakes, but even the best-laid plans can go wrong . . .

Beyond All Dreams Wastelands 2 by Elizabeth Camden edited by John Joseph Adams In 1897 Washington, D.C., Anna O'Brien, a librarian This companion volume to the critically acclaimed at the Library of Congress, assists charismatic Wastelands offers thirty of the finest examples of young congressman Luke Callahan, but the more post-apocalyptic short fiction, chiefly by American political secrets they uncover the more their authors. growing trust is strained.

Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 10 Adult Fiction Love Gently Falling Fry Another Day by J.J. Cook By Melody Carlson With a few loyal friends in tow--including her Rita returns home to Chicago to run her family’s handsome attorney, Miguel, and her cat, Crème business while her mother recovers after a stroke. Brûlée--Zoe drives the Biscuit Bowl to Charlotte, At the skating rink, Rita renews friendships with North Carolina, to enter a nationally televised food her childhood best friend and her classmate truck race. The contest features challenges across Johnny. With romance kindling in the air and on the the Southeast, and with a fifty-thousand-dollar ice, their friendship may just fall into something grand prize, competition isn't just fierce--it's killer. Love by the Book Slayed on the Slopes (A Pacific by Melissa Pimentel Northwest Mystery) Why can't Lauren convince the men she's seeing by Kate Dyer-Seeley that she really isn't after anything more serious After talking her way into a job writing for Portland's than good sex? Determined to break the curse, Northwest Extreme magazine, Meg Reed may now Lauren turns her love life into an experiment: each really be in over her head. Actually, about 8,000 month she'll follow a different dating guide until feet over her head. . . she discovers the science behind being a siren. Shadows Over Paradise Assault and Pepper by Isabel Wolff by Leslie Budewitz When ghostwriter Jenni Clark agrees to pen the The Agatha Award-winning author of Crime Rib is memoir of an elderly farm owner, she expects proud to introduce Pepper Reece, the owner of the nothing more than the ordinary, quiet tale of a life Seattle Spice Shop who thinks she can handle any well-lived. But Klara's life has been far from quiet; kind of salty customer-until a murderer ends up in and as she narrates her story of World War II, Jenni the mix ... finds herself forced to face her own ghosts. God’s Formula Together Again by James LePore by Debbie Macomber The sequel to No Dawn for Men but a standalone Two older favorites from this popular romance story by itself. A scientist in Nazi Germany has writer known for her honest portrayals of ordinary discovered the formula to quickly enrich uranium, women in small-town America; The Trouble with but does not want Hitler to have this information. Caasi and Reflections of Yesterday. Using his son to slip the formula out of Germany starts a race to capture the boy and formula. The House that Jack Built The Angels Will Not Care by Jakob Melander by John Straley The first book in the crime series featuring Lars Following a series of unexplained deaths on Winkler: loner, dad, former squatter, and drug board a luxury cruise , PI Cecil Younger of addict--and the most dedicated detective in Copen- Alaska is hired to investigate the ship's doctor. hagen. While tracking his city’s most sadistic serial Suspicion is he may be offering assisted suicides. killer to date, Lars’ past--which has long been kept secret-- is slowly catching up to him. If We Lived Here Unworthy by Kirsten Beyer by Lindsey Palmer After the Borg are absorbed into the Caeliar gestalt, After three years of dating and trading nights at the Starship Voyager leads a fleet into the home their respective New York City apartments, Emma quadrant of the one remaining Borg to get answers, and Nick are moving in together. Or they will be, as find new allies, and resolve old enmities, but things soon as they find the right place. For two happily-in do not go as planned. Based on the Star Trek: -love professionals how hard can it be? As it turns Voyager series. out, very--in ways that are completely unexpected. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 11 Juvenile Books DVD’s Theodore Boone: The Accused Something Borrowed by John Grisham Rachel is a generous and loyal pal to her engaged best friend Darcy. But after celebrating Trouble is brewing for Theodore Boone. While her 30th birthday, perpetual good girl Rachel Strattenburg awaits the trial of a murder suspect, unexpectedly ends up in the arms of Dex, the guy problems arise for their own kid lawyer. There's she's had a crush on since law school, and who been a robbery and Theo is the accused. Will he happens to be Darcy's fiancé. PG-13 do whatever it takes to prove his innocence even if it means breaking a few rules? Grades 5-8. We the Children (Keepers of the Jonathan Strange & Mr. School #1) by Andrew Clements Norrell (Season 1) Ben life is full of unhappy changes --his parents' This fantasy series tells the alternative history of separation and the plan to demolish his school to 19th-century England, where magic once existed build an amusement park--but when the janitor and has returned with two men who pit their gives him a tarnished coin with old engravings skills against the might of Napoleon, the mythical and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep Raven King and death. the school from destruction. Grades 5-8.

Fear Itself (Keepers of the School Definitely, Maybe Book 2) by Andrew Clements In this PG-13 rated romantic comedy, a political As the new Keepers of the School, sixth-graders consultant tries to explain his impending divorce Ben and Jill must decipher a handful of clues and past relationships to his 11-year-old written as maritime riddles to save their school daughter. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz, from demolition by a greedy company. Grades 5-8. and Abigail Breslin.

The Whites of Their Eyes The First Grader (Keepers of the School Book 3) In Kenya in 1953 there was a violent uprising by Andrew Clements against British colonial rule led by the Mau Mau. Thousands were killed or imprisoned, although With a key to the Oakes School in his possession the conflict did eventually lead to independence Benjamin and his friends continue to seek ways to for Kenya. Based on a true story, this tells the protect the school and their town but Lyman, the tale of how an 84-year-old Kenyan villager fights janitor and a spy, has new tricks up his sleeve. for his right to go to school for the first time. Grades 5-8. In Harm’s Way (Keepers of the People of the Seal School Book 4) Explores the centuries-old connection between by Andrew ClementsI the northern fur seal and the Unangan natives of Alaska's Pribilof and Aleutian Islands in the middle As Benjamin and his friends continue their efforts of Alaska's Bering Sea. Aquilina Lestenkof traces to save their school, they find themselves dodging five generations of her own family's history in this two evil janitors, but their team has also grown remote part of the world, weaving together native, and now has a secret fund of millions of dollars. Russian, and American cultural threads. Grades 5-8. We Hold These Truths Outlander, Season One (Keepers of the School book 5) A TV adaptation of the Diana Gabaldon books— by Andrew ClementsI Claire is a married combat nurse from 1945 who is swept back in time to 1743. Thrown into a The Keepers of the School--known to their friends world where her life is threatened, she is forced to as Ben, Jill, and Robert--have one last chance to marry a chivalrous and romantic Scottish warrior, save their school before it's torn down to make and a passionate affair is ignited that tears her room for a seaside amusement park. Grades 5-8. heart between two men in two irreconcilable lives. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 12 Food & Cooking The Whole Life Nutrition Salad Love Cookbook by David Bez by Alissa Segersten Salads take the spotlight in this visually arrest- Over 300 delicious whole foods recipes, ing cookbook that showcases a year's worth of including gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, and weekday recipes so exciting you'll want to eat egg-free dishes. salads every day. With an emphasis on the freshest ingredients and new flavor combina- tions, these salads truly excite and inspire. Almonds Every Which Way: The Great Big Pressure more than 150 almond Cooker Book milk/flour/butter recipes by Bruce Weinstein by Brooke McLay The ultimate in pressure cooker books--with A cookbook dedicated to almond and almond- recipes for breakfasts, soups, mains, grains, based ingredients, which are often used in vegetables, and desserts--each adapted for vegan, paleo, and gluten-free diets. stovetop or electric models.

Alaska Roadhouse Recipes Mug Meals: Delicious from the Editors of Milepost Microwave Recipes Memorable recipes from roadhouses, lodges, bed By Dina Cheney and breakfasts, cafés, restaurants and Cheney shows you how to throw a handful of campgrounds along the highways and byways of ingredients into a mug, and create a satisfying Alaska and Canada. meal in about five minutes. The perfect solution for busy people with crazy schedules!

Cooking with Microgreens The Cabot Creamery by Sal Gilbertie Cookbook Microgreens are young plants that are by Melissa Pasanen harvested a few weeks after germination. An honest-to-goodness collection of recipes Did you know that the microgreen versions and stories from real dairy farmers, who of many plants hold anywhere from 4 to 50 have always understood that good food times the nutrients per volume as the same begins with great ingredients. plants in mature form?

1,000 Foods to Eat Before you In Season: Culinary Adventures Die by Mimi Sheraton of a Pacific Northwest Chef A food lover’s life list of 1000 foods from all over by Greg Atkinson the world. It’s the marriage of an irresistible In this reissued book of essays and recipes, subject with the perfect writer, Mimi Greg describes his appreciation of the Sheraton―award-winning cookbook author, passage of the seasons, the joys of young grande dame of food journalism, and former family life, and, of course, local food. restaurant critic for The New York Times. Cake My Day! Haute Dogs by Karen Tack by Russel Van Kraayenburg A collection of cake recipes which can be Handcraft your own top-notch dogs, buns, and made for a variety of special occasions and condiments with step-by-step from-scratch holidays, with detailed instructions for instructions, and brush up on your hot dog adding comical animal and accessory history with an in-depth look at tasty traditions decorations designed to make each cake an from the U.S. and beyond. original creation. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 13 Crafts & How-To-Do Cats in Hats by Sara Thomas Fun Figures A collection of 30 hat patterns to knit or by Lorraine McKay crochet to fit every feline friend in your home. This gorgeous book guides you through McKay's distinctive sugar art style, showing you how to create cute, characterful sugar figures for 10 special occasion cakes, from weddings and graduations to baby showers and birthdays.

Super Stitches Sewing Happy-gurumi : 20 super by Nicole Vasbinder cute amigurumi toys to This essential guide to machine and hand crochet by Vanessa Chan stitches will teach you how to use any and every A collection of 20 patterns in three themes: stitch for professional-looking seams, hems, party time, animal friends, and the great gathers, darts, and more. Complete with outdoors. Crochet everything from a friend- detailed step-by-step tutorials and illustrations. ly dog and funny frog to a hot air balloon.

Essential Road Bike Five-Minute Relationship Maintenance Handbook Repair by Susan Campbell by Todd Downs Advice for handling emotional 'triggers,' building Distills the core fundamentals and is a guide to communication skills, fostering empathy, and repairing and maintaining one's bike, with step-by changing reactive habits, including sample scripts. -step photos, links to videos, troubleshooting tips, Addresses vulnerability, security, sexuality, self- and helpful sidebar material. inquiry, and healing.

How to Build Cabins, Lodges, Celebrating Birch and Bungalows by North House Folk School from the editors of Popular Introduces a history of the birch - from its biology and ecology to its place in the practical Science Monthly and spiritual aspects of many northern cultures. A complete manual of constructing, decorating, and Included are 20 beautiful and practical projects furnishing homes for recreation or profit. to create, including a woven bark basket, carved box, and turned wooden bowl. Less Doing, More Living Making Bent Willow by Ari Meisel Furniture by Brenda & Efficiency expert Meisel gives readers Brian Cameron new tools and techniques for Includes instructions for creating such items streamlining their workload, being more as a chair, quilt ladder, children's table & efficient in their day-to-day activities, and chair, hanging baskets, loveseat, bed making everything in life easier. headboard, and wheelbarrow plant stand.

Bass Guitar for Dummies Banjo for Dummies by Patrick Pfeiffer by Bill Evans Contains expert advice on the basics, like Written by Bill Evans, an accomplished five- deciding what kind of bass to buy, plus step-by- string banjo player, teacher, writer, and step instructions for getting started, from how historian, this book includes access to "how-to" to hold your bass to reading notation and videos and is ideal for anyone who wants to understanding chords, scales, and octaves to learn to play this classic instrument. playing solos and fills. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 14 Health: Human and the Earth Happy Hormones Fitness Steps to Success by Kristy Vermeulen by Nancy Naternicola Discover the breakthrough treatment program for Packed with group and home exercises, better hormonal health: natural treatment recreational activities, yoga, balance work, core programs for weight loss, PMS, menopause, work and nutrition essentials, Fitness: Steps to fatigue, and irritability. Success provides a variety of options to create perfect, individual fitness programs.

The Doctor’s Book of Natural Ecology and Experience Health Remedies by Richard Borden by Peg Moline A philosophical and narrative memoir, this is a With health care costs rising, insurance systems thoughtful, engaging recounting of the author’s in flux, doctors and hospitals overwhelmed, the life entwined in an overview of the intellectual and only person who can really take charge of your institutional history of human ecology—a story of health and the health of your family is you. life wrapped in a life story.

The Gift of Healing Herbs Earth Calling: A Climate by Robin Rose Bennett Change Handbook for the 21st Guides and inspires readers to explore herbal Century by Ellen Gunter remedies and home recipes for health and The Silent Spring for today's environmental encourages readers to discover the personal, activists, this book offers an invitation to symbolic story that lies underneath manifestations reestablish our relationship with nature to repair of illness. our damaged environment.

The Good Sleeper Modern Pioneering by Janet Kennedy by Georgia Pellegrini This book is a straightforward answer to one of A cookbook and backyard gardening and the biggest challenges new parents face when homesteading guide for those who want to they welcome a new baby home. This research- grow food efficiently, cook seasonal recipes, or based book teaches the basics of sleep science, even try foraging, camping, and living off the how and when to intervene, and provides tools to land. solve even the most impossible sleep problems. The Women’s Health Little Seed Libraries Book of Exercises by Cindy Conner by Adam Campbell Whoever controls the seeds controls the food sup- This portable handbook offers readers step-by- ply. Preserving and protecting the genetic diversity step instructions (and color photos) on how to of the harvest is the first step towards reclaiming perfectly execute the best fat-torching, muscle- our self-reliance while enhancing food security and toning exercises ever choreographed. ensuring that the future of food is healthy, vibrant, tasty, and nutritious. The Men’s Health Little This Book Was a Tree Book of Exercises by Marcia Chambers Cuff by Adam Campfell Cuff issues a call for a new era of pioneers--not Complete with fast, effective workouts for leathery, backwoods deerskin-wearing salt pork home use or to take to the gym, this easy-to and hominy pioneers, but strong-minded, clever, -tote packages gives readers access to their crafty, mudpie-making, fort-building individuals favorite routines wherever they go. committed to examining the natural world and deciphering nature's perplexing puzzles. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 15 Interesting People Our Voices Selected Speeches and Writings edited by James Ruppert of Theodore Roosevelt 20 storytellers representing Athabaskan and edited by Gordon Hunter related languages of Alaska and the Yukon recount A collection of the twenty-sixth president's writings tales of ancient times that describe the origins of reflects his views on topics ranging from public social institutions and cultural values, as well as policy and immigration to international politics and meaningful and intimate stories about their own the environment.in the . lives and families or the history of their people. Crazy for You Dog Man by Martin Buser by Michael Fleeman Join mushing legend Martin Buser as he reveals The true story of a family man's murder, a wife's his life's journey and takes the reader with him on secret, and a deadly obsession. An interesting story the adventures, misadventures, and lessons of murder and mayhem. Not so much a " who done learned from his devoted relationship with his it " as an attempt to find the why. canine friends.

A Brief History of Walt Disney The Sinatra Club by Brian Robb by Salvatore Polisi Animator, innovator, and business magnate, Walt Polisi was raised as a member of the Colombos, Disney undeniably had a huge impact on American one of the New York Mob's feared Five Families, culture. Here Robb presents both an illuminating and came of age when the Mafia was at the height account of Disney's own significant artistic of its power. Here, he paints a picture of the inner creations and an insightful history of the workings of an extensive and secret underworld entertainment behemoth he created. that, thanks to guys like him, no longer exists. Corruption Office Jeffrey Sachs by Japhy Wilson by Gary Heyward Sachs is one of the most prominent intellectuals in In this shocking memoir from a former corrections the Western world, shaping mainstream economic officer, Gary Heyward shares an eye-opening, gritty, theory, advising governments on development and devastating account of his descent into policy, and appearing as a talking head in major criminal life, contraband inside the media outlets. This is an account of how he infamous Rikers Island jails. rebranded himself as an evangelical development expert and savior of the Third World.

Black Elk Speaks Teaching at the Top of the by Black Elk World by Marilyn Forrester The story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer An adventurous woman's frightful and humorous and his people during momentous twilight years of tales - the characters she met, life on the Trans- the nineteenth century. Whether appreciated as Alaska pipeline, and teaching in Alaska Bush the poignant tale of a Lakota life, a history of a villages. Native nation, or an enduring spiritual testament, the book is unforgettable. Not I: Memoirs of a German The Winter Walk Childhood by Joachim Fest by Loretta Outwater Cox The historian shares the story of his childhood and Cox, an Inupiat Eskimo woman, tells the true youth during which he experienced World War II in a story of her great-grandmother's desperate bid for German household opposed to the Nazis and was survival after her husband died, leaving her forced to come to terms with his father's strong stranded far from their village with two young political convictions. children and a baby on the way.

Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 16 More Non-Fiction I’ll Have What She’s Having The Good Samaritan Strikes by Rebecca Harrington Again by Patrick McManus A hilarious look at the eating habits of the fit and More witty cautionary tales of outdoor life, by famous--from Gwyneth's goji berry and quail egg everybody's favorite expert on the subject. concoctions to Jackie Kennedy's baked potato and Beluga caviar regimen--Harrington leaves no cabbage soup unstirred in her wickedly funny, wildly absurd quest to diet like the stars. On the Reproduction of World War One: 1914-1918 Capitalism by Louis Althusser (Graphic Novel) by Alan Cowsill The book addresses the question: in a society that From the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand proclaims its attachment to the ideals of liberty to the armistice of 1918, this is the story of the war and equality, why do we witness the ever-renewed that shaped the modern world from the viewpoint reproduction of relations of domination? It is both of the servicemen who fought in it, a graphic a conceptually innovative text and a key theoretical history of one of the most destructive conflicts of tool for activists. all time. Yellow Peril! Jig Fishing for Steelhead & Edited by John Kuo Wei Tchen Salmon by Dave Vedder A comprehensive repository of anti-Asian images All the information you need to find and catch and writing, pop culture artifacts and political steelhead, coho, chinook, pink and chum polemic written by two leading scholars. This book salmon in rivers as well as complete chapters is a unique and fascinating archive and a modern on making your own jigs and on fishing lead analysis of one of the most long-standing and jigs in the ocean for salmon. pervasive racist ideas in Western culture. Profiting Without Producing 300 Tips to More Salmon and by Costas Lapavitsas Steelhead by Scott Haugen Puts forth a distinctive view defining Short, concise, tips to help improve the odds of financialization in terms of the fundamental catching more salmon and steelhead with the conduct of non-financial enterprises, banks and purpose of increasing angler catch rates on river households. Its most prominent feature is the rise -running steelhead and salmon. If looking to of financial profit, in part extracted from maximize your fishing time, and catch more fish, households through financial expropriation. this book is a must. Cat High the Yearbook I Never Knew That about New by Terry Gruber York by Christopher Winn This hilarious parody yearbook explores the ups Take a delightful journey from the bottom of the and downs of a year in the life of the senior island of Manhattan to the top and discover class cats at Paw Paw High School. extraordinary facts about New York along the way. You’ll find yourself saying, “I never knew that about New York!”

Dreamscapes Fantasy Worlds: Beating the Devil’s Game Create Engaging Scenes and by Katherine Ramsland Landscapes in Watercolor Dr. Ramsland, renowned expert in criminology, by Stephanie Law traces the history of forensic science, from thirteenth-century Chinese studies of Law leads you, step-by-step, in the creation of the decomposition through the Renaissance and the forests, mountains, skies, stars and vistas in era of Newtonian physics to the marvels of the which heroes and heroines seek their fortunes. present day intersection of science and the law. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 17 Odds & Ends The Raven’s Gift Behind Every Great Man by Don Rearden by Marlene Wagman-Geller After a deadly epidemic strikes a Yup'ik village, Discover the women who put the world's alpha- newly widowed teacher John Morgan must make males on the map-- the overlooked wives and the thousand-mile trek across the Alaskan companions who are just as instrumental in wilderness for help and encounters a blind Yup'ik shaping the destinies of their famous-- and girl and an elderly woman who need his protection. infamous-- men.

Frankenstein, or The Modern Into the Nest: Intimate Prometheus Views of the Courting, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Parenting, and Family Lives of The classic story of a scientist who discovers the Birds by Laura Erickson secret of generating life from lifeless matter and Explains bird courting, mating, egg-laying, puts this knowledge to use by creating a monster nest-building, and chick-rearing with being. clarity and stunning photographs.

Imagine Living in a Socialist The Art of LEGO Design: USA edited by Frances Goldin Creative Ways to Build Amazing This anthology features essays by revolutionary Models by Jordan Schwartz thinkers, activists, and artists addressing various The wide-ranging collection of creative aspects of a new society and how to get from techniques will help you craft your own amazing where we are now to where we want to be, living in models as you learn to see the world through a society that is truly fair and just. the eyes of some of the greatest LEGO builders.

The Other Side by Alfred Kubin The National Home Expressionist illustrator Kubin wrote his only Maintenance Manual literary work in 1908. A town named Pearl is the setting for his hallucinatory vision of a society by David MacLellan founded on instinct over reason. Culminating This practical guide offers a comprehensive list apocalyptically - plagues of insects, mountains of of home maintenance guidelines that lets the corpses and orgies in the street - it is worth reading homeowner know when and how often to for its dizzying surrealism alone. perform essential maintenance tasks.

The Woman’s Guide to How A Calculus of Color: The Men Think by Shawn Smith Integration of Baseball’s American This isn't a male-bashing book about how men League by Robert McGregor should be more like women, but a book about Examines the integration of baseball and finds how men actually are, and how women can use only a limited shift in racial values. The teams this understanding to get what they need from accepted few black players but did not alter their relationships. management structures, leaving an institution still governed by tradition-bound owners. On the Pleasure Principle in Rattlesnakes and Bald Eagles: Culture by Robert Pfaller Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail In this fascinating work of cultural theory and by Chris Townsend philosophy, Robert Pfaller challenges the myth of The author recounts not only his own six-month the "post-belief society" and explores the hidden walk but also the longer story of the trail, and cost of our contemporary approach to pleasure, shares his ideas on how it is developing and where belief and illusion. it is all going.

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