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First ence on social media and rising retail bookstore sales. published in 1946, Zorba the Greek, is, on one hand, the story of a Greek working man named Zorba, a lover of life, the unnamed narrator who he accompanies to Crete, and the townspeople where they At the time of this letter, we had bookstore retail settle. On the other hand, it is the story of God and man, The Devil and the Saints; the struggle of reports on the first ten months of 2016; eight of those men to find their souls and purpose in life. This is one of the greatest life-affirming novels of our time. months showed increases over the previous year. We Simon & Schuster $16. are dazzled by the information age. And we also want to engage deeply. Evening Book Club This makes our task as booksellers increasingly vital 3rd Monday of each month at 7 pm at RBTL to the future of our communities and society as a Monday, February 20 whole. We carefully curate the books we feel you’ll enjoy and find meaning in. The books that will make Jimmy Bluefeather by Kim Heacox Old Keb Wisting is around ninety-five years old, and thinks he wants to die. Part Tlingit Native and you think, see the world from a new perspective, or part Norwegian, he’s the last living canoe carver in Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, even just help you get lost in another world for awhile. James, a basketball player, ruins his leg in an accident and feels life is over, Old Keb comes alive and finishes his last canoe, with James’ help. Together with friends they embark on a great journey. They In this issue, we’ve collected titles to both inform and paddle deep into wild Alaska, but mostly into the human heart, in a story of adventure, love, and rec- entertain, with interesting journeys, edge-of-your-seat onciliation. Alaska Northwest $16.99. thrillers, and explorations in science, business, and Monday, March 20 memoir. We’re particularly excited about Neil Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Gaiman’s Norse Mythology, Laurie Frankel’s This is Enjoy this instant New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture! The phenomenal How it Always Is, and Girl Rising by Tanya Lee Stone, true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil which explores how education can break the cycle of rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. poverty. A powerful, revelatory contribution that is as essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America as Between the World and Me and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. HarperLuxe $15.99. Though we’re excited about the titles we’re featuring here, we are equally eager to help you with your own unique interests. So come in to Read Between the Men’s Book Club Lynes and let’s chat and find something that will 4th Monday of each month at 7 pm at RBTL deepen your understanding of our world. We look for- Wanted: Men looking to join a no pressure men’s book club ward to exploring together! featuring titles that YOU want to read! Monday, February 27 The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot Dulles’s decade as director of the CIA was a dark time in American politics. Dulles saw himself as above the law, subverting American presidents in the pursuit of personal interests, colluding with Nazi-controlled cartels and German war criminals in the process. Targeting foreign leaders for assas- sination and overthrowing governments not in line with his politics, Dulles employed these same tac- tics at home, Talbot charges, offering shocking new evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Harper Perennial $19.99. Monday, March 27 STORY TIME Empire of Fear by Andrew Hosken Based on extensive reporting across the Middle East, this vital and timely book charts the rise of the Tuesdays and Saturdays at 10:30 am most threatening strand of radical Islam to occur in the modern era. It is a totalitarian regime run from Join us as staff members share their favorite the back of pick-up trucks with a propaganda machine built on smart phones. By unpicking the brutal ideology and exterminationist methods against which the West now fights, Andrew Hosken explores how the Islamic State story books with you and your children! 2 could be defeated, not just territorially, but also in the minds of those who support it. One World $14.99. Exciting New Fiction This is How it Always Is If You Are There by Laurie Frankel by Susan Sherman This is Claude. He’s five years old, the youngest of five broth- Set in the early 1900s, the novel follows young Lucia ers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also dreams of Rutkowski who escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work for two being a princess. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to disorganized, poor married scientists. Lucia soon bonds with be a girl. Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude her eccentric employers, watching them rise to fame for their wants to be. They’re just not sure they’re ready to share that work with radioactive materials as the great Marie and Pierre with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude’s Curie. Thanks to the Curies, Lucia meets Eusapia Palladino, secret… until it explodes. This is a novel about revelations, a world famous medium, and eventually leaves the Curies to transformations, and family. And how families with secrets travel with her. And ultimately, Lucia is placed in the don’t get to keep them forever. Flatiron $25.99. crosshairs of faith versus science. Counterpoint $26.

Transit The Evening Road by Rachel Cusk by Laird Hunt In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw: quick of mind, she navigates a young sons move to London. In the city, she is made to stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in 1930 consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and an odyssey across the countryside. Meet Calla Destry: renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, a young woman desperate to escape her town’s violence and and believe in, life. Filtered through its intelligent protago- to find the lover who has promised her a new life. On this nist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes day, the countryside of Jim Crow-era Indiana is no place for first raised in her acclaimed novel, Outline, and reflect on either. Reminiscent of the works of Louise Erdrich and the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal Edward P. Jones, this is the story of two women on the move responsibility, and the mystery of change. Farrar, Straus, & through an America riven by fear and hatred. Little, Brown Giroux $26. $26. Avail. 2/7

Pachinko Selection Day by Min Jin Lee by Aravind Adiga Profoundly moving, Pachinko follows a Korean family Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea Mumbai. He knows that he fears his domineering and crick- with Sunja, the daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose et-obsessed father, admires his talented sibling, Radha, and unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them. Betrayed by is fascinated by scientific facts and the world of CSI. But her wealthy lover, Sunja finds unexpected salvation when a there are many things, about himself and the world, that he young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her doesn’t know. When Manju meets Radha’s great rival, a to Japan to start a new life. So begins a sweeping saga of privileged and confident Muslim boy, everything in Manju’s exceptional people in exile from a homeland they never world begins to change, and he is faced by decisions that will knew and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Grand challenge his understanding of it, as well as his own self. Central $27. Avail. 2/7 Scribner $26.

4 3 2 1 Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Paul Auster by Kathleen Rooney On March 3, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson is born. From She took 1930s New York by storm, becoming the highest that beginning, life takes four simultaneous and independ- paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she ent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons go on to lead says, both saved her life, and ruined it. Now it’s 1984 and four parallel and entirely different lives. Fortunes, athletic Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp, is on her way to a party. skills, friendships, and intellectual passions contrast. Each On a walk through the city, she meets bartenders, clerks, Ferguson falls for Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and security guards, and criminals, reviewing a life of passion and Ferguson have a unique relationship. Meanwhile, readers heartbreak, and illuminating the ways New York has and has- take in each Ferguson’s pleasures and pains, as the plot of n’t changed. This is a love letter to city life in all its guts and each life unfolds. Henry Holt & Co. $32.50. grandeur, and a portrait of a remarkable woman. Martin’s $25.99

Starred Reviews: Booklist Indie Next Kirkus Library Journal Publishers Weekly School Library Journal 3 Thrilling Page Turners Behind Her Eyes History of Wolves by Sarah Pinborough by Emily Fridlund On a rare night out, single mom Louise meets a man in a Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in northern bar, and sparks fly. When Louise arrives at work on Minnesota, in a nearly abandoned commune. She is isolated Monday, she meets her new boss, David… the man from the at home and an outlander at school. And then a new family bar… who is very married and says the kiss was a mistake, moves in, and Linda begins babysitting their little boy. though he can’t keep his eyes off Louise. Later Louise Though she gains a new sense of belonging, she is also meets Adele, who’s new to town and in need of a friend. drawn into secrets she doesn’t understand. And as she And she’s also David’s wife. Sarah Pinborough has written struggles to find a way out of her sequestered world, Linda a novel that takes the modern day love triangle and rein- confronts the life-and-death consequences of the things vents it in a way that will leave readers reeling. What an people do—and fail to do—for the people they love. ending! Flatiron $25.99. Atlantic Monthly $25. Little Deaths Take Back the Sky by Emma Flint by Greg Bear It’s 1965 in Queens, NY, and Ruth Malone—a single moth- The conclusion to an epic interstellar trilogy of war from er who works long hours as a cocktail waitress—wakes to master of science fiction, Greg Bear. Marooned beneath discover her two children are missing. When their bodies the crust of Saturn’s moon, Skyrine Michael Venn and his are found murdered, Ruth is suspected. Pete Wonicke is comrades face double danger from Earth and from the a reporter covering the murders. His interest develops into Antagonists. Haunted by their dead and by the archives of an obsession with Ruth, and he comes to believe there’s our ancestors, they must team up with their enemies and more to the woman whom prosecutors and the press have journey beyond Pluto to the fabled Planet X. It’s here that painted as a promiscuous femme fatale. Did Ruth kill her Master Sergeant Venn will finally understand his destiny own children, or is there something more sinister at play? and the destiny of every intelligent being in the solar system. Hachette $26. Orbit $26. All Our Wrong Todays Rather Be the Devil by Elan Mastai by Ian Rankin The future that people in the 1950s imagined is Tom As he settles into an uneasy retirement, Rebus has given up Barren’s reality. In his 2016, humanity thrives in a techno- his favorite vices. There’s just one habit he can’t shake: he utopian paradise of flying cars and moon bases, where punk can’t let go of an unsolved case. But when Rebus reexam- rock never existed, because it wasn’t necessary. In a time- ines the long-ago murder of a woman at a luxurious hotel— travel mishap, Tom becomes stranded in our “real world” on the same night a famous rock star and his entourage 2016, which seems to him like a dystopian wasteland. But were also staying there—the past comes roaring back to life when he discovers wonderfully unexpected versions of his with a vengeance. A twisted tale of power, corruption, and family, career, and soul mate, Tom must decide: should he rivalries in the heart of Edinburgh, Rather Be the Devil fix history, or forge a new life in our messy reality? Dutton showcases Rankin and Rebus at their unstoppable best. $26. Avail. 2/7 Little, Brown $27. Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner Eight years ago, Sharlah May Nash’s older brother Telly beat their drunken father to death with a baseball bat in A book must be the axe order to save both of their lives. Now thirteen, Sharlah has moved on and is about to be adopted by retired FBI profiler for the frozen sea within Pierce Quincy and his partner, Rainie Conner. But a rash of murders lead Quincy and Rainie to suspect that Telly is us. That is my belief. killing again. Though he once saved her life, Sharlah won- ders: is her brother a hero or a killer? And how much will it cost her new family before they learn the final, shattering – Franz Kafka truth? Dutton $27.

4 Hot New Picks in YA Windwitch History is All You Left Me by Susan Dennard by Adam Silvera On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with When Griffin’s first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in an a “witchery,” a magical skill. This follow-up to NYT best- accident, his universe implodes. Even though Theo had selling Truthwitch continues the tale of Merik—cunning moved away and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never privateer, prince, and windwitch, whom the world believes doubted Theo would come back to him one day. To make died at sea. But Merik lives, and is determined to prove things worse, the only person who truly understands his his sister’s treachery. Upon reaching the royal capital, heartache is Jackson. But no matter how much they open crowded with refugees, he haunts the streets, fighting for up to each other, Griffin’s downward spiral of obsessive the weak—which leads to whispers of a disfigured compulsions and destructive choices continues. If Griffin is demigod, the Fury, who brings justice to the oppressed. Tor to rebuild his future, he must confront his heartbreaking Teen $18.99. history. Soho Teen $18.99. How to Break a Boy Wintersong by Laurie Devore by S. Jae-Jones Olivia Clayton is a master of tearing others down to stay on All her life, tales of the Goblin King have enraptured Liesl’s top. She and her best friend, Adrienne, rule their small mind and inspired her musical compositions. Now eighteen town… until Olivia suffers a family tragedy and catches and helping to run her family’s inn, Liesl feels her child- Adrienne sleeping with her boyfriend. Olivia decides to hood dreams are slipping. But when her sister is taken by make a change, but not before taking down Adrienne one the Goblin King, Liesl journeys to the Underground to save last time. Olivia convinces Whit Du Rant to be her tutor her. Drawn to the strange world and the mysterious man and fake boyfriend. But it starts to feel real, and Whit gets who rules it, she faces an impossible decision. Liesl must caught up in Olivia and Adrienne’s war. Olivia won’t go discover who she truly is before time runs out and her fate down without a fight—not if it means losing Whit. Or is sealed. Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin’s Griffin what’s left of herself. Imprint $17.99. $18.99. Avail. 2/7 The Edge of Everything Carve the Mark by Jeff Giles by Veronica Roth It’s been a shattering year for seventeen-year-old Zoe, Fans of Star Wars and Divergent will revel in internationally who’s reeling from her father’s death and her neighbors’ bestselling author Veronica Roth’s stunning new science- disappearance. Then on a terrifying, blizzardy night, she fiction fantasy series. On a planet where violence and and her brother are attacked in the woods—and rescued vengeance rule, where some are favored by fate, everyone by a bounty hunter they call X. X is from a hell called the develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape the Lowlands, sent to claim the soul of Zoe’s evil attacker. He future. While most benefit from their currentgifts, Akos is forbidden from revealing himself, but he casts aside the and Cyra don’t; theirs make them vulnerable to others’ con- rules for Zoe. And as they learn more about their colliding trol. Can they reclaim their gifts, their fates, and their lives, worlds, they begin to question the past, their fate, and their and reset the balance of power in this world? Katherine future. Bloomsbury $18.99. Tegan $22.99.

City of Saints and Thieves Wires and Nerve by Natalie C. Anderson by Marisa Meyer After fleeing the Congo as refugees, Tina and her mother In her first graphic novel, Marissa Meyer extends the world arrived in Kenya seeking a new life. Her mother found of the Lunar Chronicles with a brand-new, action-packed work as a maid for the prominent Greyhill family. But Tina story about Iko, the android with a heart of (mechanized) soon learns that the Greyhill fortune was built from crime, gold. When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the and her mother is found dead in Greyhill’s study. After peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko hunts down the four years, Tina finally gets her chance for revenge, and leader. She is soon working with a handsome royal guard finds her own life at stake. But uncovering the incredible who forces her to question everything she knows about love, truth about who killed her mother—and why—keeps her loyalty, and her own humanity. With appearances by Cinder holding on in this nail-biting thriller. GP Putnam’s Sons and the rest of the Rampion crew! Feiwel & Friends $21.99. BYR $18.99.

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Dormouse Dreams Heart to Heart by Karma Wilson by Lois Ehlert As Dormouse dreams his way through winter, he From beloved artist Lois Ehlert comes a clever and imagines going on adventures with his best dormouse funny valentine celebrating love and friendship. friend. Whimsical illustrations feature other animals Readers of all ages will go bananas for this pun-filled entertaining themselves with dart games, cross-coun- and sweet story filled with rebuses and love. Alphabet try skiing, and more while Dormouse hibernates. letters and bold, graphic images of fruits and vegeta- Readers can also follow the friend’s journey to bles come together in this playful book that is perfect Dormouse’s house, where she wakes him up for some for sharing. “While there is the occasional groaner tucked real life pleasures, including daydreaming. This is the in here and there (“We could [celery]brate”), only the surliest readers won’t perfect bedtime book to snuggle up with when spring crack a smile as they turn the pages.”–Publishers Weekly. Beach Lane Books isn’t coming fast enough. Disney-Hyperion $16.99. $9.99. Ages 3-6. Ages 2-5. Avail. 2/7 Ballet Cat This & That What’s Your Favorite Favorite? by Mem Fox by Bob Shea This & That reunites bestselling picture book author Mem Fox with illustrator Judy Horacek, following Ballet Cat and her cousin Goat are preparing a show for Grandma. Each is trying to outdo the other— their most recent collaboration on Good Night, Sleep Ballet Cat with an elaborate dance routine (of Tight. In this delightful tale, two mice set off on a sto- rytelling adventure that takes them through cavernous course), and Goat with his amazing (amazingly lame, caves, atop crazy giraffes, and over palace walls until that is) magic tricks. Neither act goes off quite as they return safely home to the comfort of their beds. A planned, but it doesn’t matter… because Grandma falls asleep during the performance! Oh well, at sweet, rhyming story, This & That is perfect for helping children develop their sequencing skills! Scholastic least Ballet Cat and Goat learn how to cooperate. $17.99. Ages 2-5. (But Ballet Cat cooperates better!) Disney- Hyperion $9.99. Ages 4-8. Avail. 2/7 Spunky Little Monkey Egg by Bill Martin, Jr. “Sleepy little monkey won’t get out of bed. Mama by Kevin Henkes called the Doctor and the Doctor said: ‘Apple Juice, This masterful picture book introduces young chil- Orange Juice, Gooseberry Pies—Monkey needs some dren to four eggs. One is blue, one is pink, one is exercise!’” Sleepy little monkeys everywhere will yellow, and one is green. Three of the eggs hatch, stomp, shake, and cheer—while chanting this rhyth- revealing baby birds who fly away. But the green mic, energetic dance song based on a popular play- egg does not hatch. Why not? When the three birds ground game. As they move their heads, hands, hips, return to investigate, they’re in for a big surprise! and feet, everyone will be bursting with clapping ener- With a compelling mix of comic-like panels, word- gy… and ready to start a new day! Filled with humor, less pages and spreads, and a short text featuring word repetition, surprise, and high energy, and Bill Martin Jr.’s trademark rhythm. suspense, Egg is an ideal book for emergent readers, as well as for sharing in a Scholastic $17.99. Ages 3-5. group. Greenwillow $17.99. Ages 4-8. Hug It Out! Bad Kitty Takes the Test by Louis Thomas by Nick Bruel Mom has had enough of Woody and Annie’s incessant Based on her previous bad behavior, the Society of Cat fighting. When her pleas for sharing and apologizing Aptitude has determined that Kitty is not only a bad are ignored, she demands they “hug it out.” At first, kitty but a bad cat. In order to redeem her feline status, the warring siblings are confused. Hugging? But after Kitty must take an aptitude test to determine if she a long afternoon of forced embraces, the brother and deserves to be a cat. If she fails, she will no longer be sister decide to call a truce to avoid yet another icky able to be a cat. With the help of Chatty Kitty, who is hug. However, it doesn’t take long for them to miss the instructor at Cat School, and Uncle Murray, who that newfound closeness. And soon they’re looking for thinks he’s just there to renew his driver’s license, Kitty learns all about being something to fight about so they can hug it out once a cat and a little about herself. Roaring Brook $13.99. Ages 7-10. 6 more! Farrar, Straus & Giroux BYR $16.99. Ages 3-6. Kids, Tweens, and Teens Stef Soto, Taco Queen Love and First Sight by Jennifer Torres by Josh Sundquist Estefania “Stef” Soto is itching to shake off Tia Perla, her Blind sixteen-year-old Will Porter gets an opportunity for family’s taco truck. She wants nothing more than for Papi an experimental surgery that could give him eyesight for to get a normal job. Then maybe everyone at school will the first time in his life. But learning to see is more difficult stop seeing her as the Taco Queen. But when her family’s than Will imagined. It turns out that Cecily, the girl he’s livelihood is threatened, and it looks like her wish will had a crush on, doesn’t meet traditional definitions of come true, Stef surprises everyone (including herself) by beauty—in fact, everything he’d heard about her appear- becoming the truck’s unlikely champion. In this fun and ance was a lie engineered by their so-called friends to get heartfelt novel, Stef will discover what matters and the two of them together. Does it matter what Cecily looks embrace an identity that even includes old Tia Perla. like? No, not really. But why does Will feel so betrayed? Little, Brown BYR $16.99. Ages 8-11. Little, Brown BYR $17.99. Ages 13-17. Short A List of Cages by Holly Goldberg Sloan by Robin Roe Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the sum- For his senior year elective, Adam Blake is serving as an mer run of The Wizard of Oz, she’ll realize how big she is aide to the school psychologist. When the doctor asks him inside. When the director of Oz casts her as a Munchkin, to track down a troubled freshman, Adam discovers that she becomes friendly with wise Olive, one of the adults the boy is Julian—his former foster brother. At first, Julian with dwarfism who’s sharing a Munchkin role, and with seems like the boy Adam once knew. He’s still kind heart- Mrs. Chang, her artistic neighbor. Julia’s sense of self as ed and writes stories. But soon, Adam realizes Julian is an artist grows, and her director has more big plans for keeping secrets, like where he hides during the day, and her! Bubbling over with humor and tenderness, this is a what’s going on inside his house. Adam wants to help, but story of self-discovery and of the role models who change his involvement could cost both boys their lives. Disney- us. Dial $16.99. Ages 8-12. Hyperion $17.99. Ages 14-17. Dragon Captives Wayfarer by Lisa McMann by Alexandra Bracken In this new sequel series to The Unwanteds, identical twins In this stunning conclusion to the Passenger series, Etta Fifer and Thisbe have amazing yet uncontrollable magical Spencer doesn’t discover she’s a traveler until the day she abilities. They’re naturally more gifted than even their emerged both miles and years from her home. Now, Etta brother, Alex, the head mage of Artime, who finds them is stranded, cut off from the eighteenth century privateer reckless. Seeking his good opinion, the twins leave to help she loves and her natural time. When Etta stumbles into Hux, a dragon whose siblings have been enslaved by the the heart of the Thorns, the renegade travelers who stole evil Revinir, ruler of the dragon land. But will their the astrolabe, she vows to destroy the astrolabe once and untrained abilities be enough to save the dragons and for all. Instead, she’s blindsided by a bombshell revelation themselves when they come face-to-face with the Revinir? from their leader, Henry Hemlock: he is her father. Aladdin $17.99. Ages 8-12. Avail. 2/7 Disney-Hyperion $17.99. Ages 14-17. The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner Girl Rising and Other Stories by Tanya Lee Stone by Terry Pratchet Worldwide, over 62 million girls are not in school. Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls’ education, created a The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner is the second fabulously funny film chronicling the stories of nine girls in the developing short-story collection from the late acclaimed storyteller world and exploring how education can break the cycle Terry Pratchett. A follow-up to Dragons at Crumbling of poverty. Now, Tanya Lee Stone illuminates the facts Castle, this second batch of storytelling gems features sto- behind the film, examining barriers to education and the ries written when Sir Terry was just seventeen years old community benefits of removing these barriers. Girl and working as a junior reporter. In these pages, new Rising will inspire readers of all ages to support this Pratchett fans will find wonder, mayhem, sorcery, and growing movement and help change the world. Wendy delight and loyal readers will recognize the seeds of ideas Lamb $22.99. Ages 14+. 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Starred Reviews: Booklist Indie Next Kirkus Library Journal Publishers Weekly School Library Journal 7 New in Paperback Hidden Figures Thomas Jefferson and the by Margot Lee Shetterly Tripoli Pirates Now a major motion picture! Before John Glenn or Neil by Brian Kilmeade Armstrong, a group of female mathematicians known as When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, human computers ran the calculations that would launch America was in debt, with its economy and dignity under rockets and astronauts into space. Among them was a attack. Pirates from North Africa’s Barbary Coast routine- group of African American women, some of the brightest ly captured American merchant ships and held the sailors minds of their generation. Even as they were segregated for ransom far beyond the country’s means. 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