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Recommended for Children New NonFiction The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Mo Willems Call 920.967.3670 to place a hold on these books, ask Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, for a pack of books to be set aside for you to pick up. The Art of Screen Time: Connection, and Courage Fall Reading How Your Family Can by Kelly McGonigal Danger on the Reef Balance Digital Media and This book goes beyond familiar by Jake Maddox Real Life by Anya Kamenetz arguments in favor of exercise, to Prize pickup starts November 3. Prizes will be available Jasmine and her brother Arjun love This brief but powerful book forms the illustrate why movement is integral to for two weeks. exploring the coral reefs around Fiji, backbone of a philosophy that will both our happiness and our humanity. where their parent are marine help parents moderate technology in Readers will learn what they can do in

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Another sporting adventure from Family Story Times Jake Maddox. Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Mondays, November 2, 9, & 16, at 10:00am Your Money and Your Life Quintuplets by Sarah Miller Tuesdays, November 3, 10 & 17, at 10:00am Once Upon a Unicorn When the Dionne Quintuplets were A story time series perfect for children from birth through by Lou Anders by Bill Perkins born on May 28, 1934, no one Die with Zero presents a startling new age six with their caring adult. Stories, songs, learning, Take one unicorn who prefers expected them to live so much as an concepts, numbers, letters, shapes, large and small science experiments to magic. Add and provocative philosophy as well as hour. In an effort to protect them from motor skills, and fun are all part of this half hour event. one flaming horse who is a walking practical guide on how to get the most hucksters and showmen, the Ontario hazard. Stir in monsters and a out of your money—and out of your government took custody of the five life. It’s intended for those who place Mother Goose on the Loose pumpkin headed terror named Jack o’ identical babies, sequestering them in a lifelong memorable experiences far Story Time the Hunt. This unlikely pair of a horse private, custom-built hospital across the and a unicorn must team up to save ahead of simply making and road from their family--and then, in a Friday, November 6, at 10:00am Whisperwood and themselves. accumulating money for one’s stunning act of hypocrisy, proceeded to Catch this story time chock full of cultural literacy for so-called Golden Years. exploit them for the next nine years. preschoolers with a parent or caregiver. Stories of Mermaids by Russell Punter His Truth Is Marching On: Sisters in Hate: American Baby Story Time Dive into the undersea world of John Lewis and the Power Women on the Front Lines Friday, November 13, at 10:00am mermaids and join in the amazing of Hope by Jon Meacham of White Nationalism Rhymes, songs, and stories for babies adventures of Harmony, Marina, An intimate and revealing portrait of birth to two years old and their caregivers. by Seyward Darby and Coral. The mermaids encounter civil rights icon and longtime U.S. These story times provide preschool Journalist Seyward Darby's exposé seahorses, pirate graveyards, and congressman John Lewis, linking his readiness and build large motor skills. pulls back the curtain on modern racial King Neptune in this fun fiction for life to the painful quest for justice in and political extremism in America third grade readers. America from the 1950s to the telling the account of three women New: Pajama Story Time present. immersed in the white nationalist movement. Friday, November 20, at 7:00pm Join us for a bedtime/pajama story time premier. Wildlife According to Og How to Argue With a Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man the Frog by Betty Birney Racist: What Our Genes Do and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife Bilingual Story Time At Camp Happy Hollow it is (and Don't) Say About by Ariel Sabar Do you like stories read in English and Spanish? Check Humphrey’s first time in the wild. In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star out our Facebook page @BibliotecaPublicadeMenasha There is homesickness and Human Difference by Adam Rutherford professor at Harvard Divinity School, with Mr. Victor for stories, puppets, and projects. competition that goes a little too far. announced a blockbuster discovery: However, Og the Frog knows how to How to Argue With a Racist emphatically dismantles outdated She had found an ancient fragment of Take & Make a Craft help with his famous encouraging papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary songs. notions of race by illuminating what Call us at 920.967.3670 to register for the monthly Take Magdalene "my wife." This is the modern genetics actually can and & Make a Craft. For more information go to: gripping true story of a sensational www.menashalibrary.org/takeandmake The Winterhouse Mysteries can’t tell us about human difference. We now know that the racial categories still dividing us do not align religious forgery and the scandal that Let us know how many you need for your household. by Ben Guterson shook Harvard. Pick up your monthly craft at the library entrance. Free! Elizabeth and Freddy are drawn into with observable genetic differences.

an ominous new mystery. There Watercolor the Easy Way: Step-by-Step are odd guests at the hotel and How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do―And Tutorials for 50 Beautiful Elizabeth’s manifest in new Motifs Including Plants, Tumble Book Library—for kids up to those in 6th Grade and frightening ways. When she What It Says About You by Talking books, read-along chapter books, videos, & more. hears cries for help from an enemy Flowers, Animals & More Katherine Kinzler that she thought was dead and From pioneering psychologist by Sara Berrenson www.menashalibrary.org/stories buried, what should Elizabeth do? www.menashalibrary.org/cuentes Katherine Kinzler, a groundbreaking Quickly learn the fundamentals of color A rare book, an ancient ritual, and a examination of how speech causes mixing, brushstrokes, and more. Best ghost trying to rise complicate the some of our deepest social divides— of all, the projects can be completed in plot. and how it can help us overcome them. 30 minutes! New Fiction The Evening and the New Arrivals Morning by Ken Follett The Abstainer A prequel to the best-selling The Place a hold on any of these books in the catalog using your library card or call us at by Ian McGuire Pillars of the Earth follows the 920.967.3690 to make arrangements to pick them up at the library. An Irish-American veteran of the Civil War, experiences of a young boatbuilder, a

Stephan Doyle, return to England where he scholarly monk and a Norman noble- Young Adult New Large Print woman against a backdrop of the joins a secret society intent on ending The Conference of the Birds The Empty Nesters British rule in Ireland by any means Viking attacks at the end of the 10th necessary and must choose sides out of century in England. by Ransom Riggs by Carolyn Brown when his nephew arrives on his doorstep A latest entry in the best-selling series The worst of times calls for the best of from America, imperiling his new life. The Invention of Sound continues the story of Jacob Portman, friends in this sassy novel about starting by Chuck Palahniuk who takes a brave leap into The over, from New York Times bestselling Conference of the Birds while pursued by author Carolyn Brown. A father on the brink of uncovering his Anxious People dangerous enemies. by Fredrik Backman missing daughter’s fate and a talented Foley sound artist find themselves on Enamored by J.S. Scott Taken hostage by a failed bank robber a collision course with Hollywood’s Faith Taking Flight Like his brothers and sisters, Seth Sinclair while attending an open house, eight by Julie Murphy went from blue-collar to billionaire anxiety-prone strangers—including a violent underworld. A plus-sized high school senior who overnight, and he’s decided to invest in redemption-seeking bank director, two cou- hides a secret ability to fly pursues an what he knows best: construction. There’s ples who would fix their marriages and a The Last Agent unexpected romantic relationship with only one thing in his way - the endangered plucky octogenarian—discover their the heroine star of her favorite teen birds nesting on a piece of prime beachfront unexpected common traits. by Robert Dugoni drama before her investigation into a real estate. And fighting for the birds is Riley A spy who was convicted of treason travels to Russia after receiving a tip new recreational drug puts those she Montgomery, a stubborn, gorgeous The Book of Two Ways that the agent who sacrificed her life loves in danger. environmental lawyer. by Jodi Picoult to save his might still be alive, in the Nick and June Were Here Experiencing memories of a man other than second novel of the series following In an Absent Dream her husband while surviving a plane crash, The Eight Sister. by Shalanda Stanley an end-of-life doula on the brink of a fateful Told in two voices, Nick, a sometimes by Seanan McGuire decision envisions two disparate paths that Monogamy by Sue Miller artist who steals cars to support his aunt, Traces the origin story of studious Lundy, who discovers a world founded on logic, find her staying with her family or Derailed by the sudden passing of her and June, who has been hiding her reconnecting with the past symptoms of schizophrenia, run away reason and riddles before making a fateful husband of 30 years, an artist on the bargain. brink of a gallery opening struggles to together.

The Life of Eudora pick up the pieces of her life before A River of Royal Blood Honeysett by Annie Lyons discovering harrowing evidence of her The Last Train to London husband’s affair. by Amanda Joy by Meg Waite Clayton Wanting to organize an assisted death on A debut set in a North Africa-inspired A tale inspired by the Kindertransports of her own terms, a world-weary octogenarian fantasy world finds two powerfully forges an unexpected bond with an World War II finds a Jewish teen's life shat- magical sisters forced to battle each tered by the Nazi takeover before he joins a exuberant 10-year-old who drags her to tea other to win the crown, a rivalry that is The Secret Lives of Church Ladies member of the Dutch resistance in a life- parties, shopping sprees and other social complicated by an assassination by Deesha Philyaw risking effort to escape Germany. excursions. attempt, a fey instructor of mythic The Secret Lives of Church Ladies proportions and a handsome prince. explores the raw and tender places

where black women and girls dare Out of the Attic Call of the Raven Splinters of by Wilbur Smith to follow their desires and pursue by V.C. Andrews a momentary reprieve from being by Emily Bain Murphy An action-packed and gripping adventure Picking up where Beneath the Attic left good. The nine stories in this In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an by bestselling author, Wilbur Smith, about off, Out of the Attic goes back two collection feature four generations of orphaned seamstress goes to work for a generations before Corrine Foxworth one man's quest for revenge, the brutality characters grappling with who they of slavery in America and the imbalance retired ballerina and uses her magic to locked her children in the attic. See how want to be in the world, caught as investigate her father's mysterious death between humans that can drive - or defeat the twisted, beloved Dollanganger legend they are between the church's while working for the same family years – us. came to be. double standards and their own needs and passions. ago.

Salt River Dear Ann Total Power by Vince Flynn We Are Not Free by Bobbie Ann Mason When an ISIS plot devastates by Traci Chee by Randy Wayne White A woman facing a life crisis reflects on her America’s power grid, Mitch Rapp Growing up together in the community When his reckless bachelor friend reveals past as a naïve graduate student who set and his CIA team race to find the of Japantown, San Francisco, four that he has fathered numerous children aside her educational ambitions at the height responsible cyberterrorists to prevent second-generation Japanese American through sperm-bank donations, Doc of the Summer of Love to pursue an the nation from succumbing to total teens find their bond tested by wide- Ford races to prevent his friend's past obsessive relationship. collapse. spread discrimination and the mass misdeeds from turning deadly during an incarcerations of people of Japanese impromptu family reunion. ancestry during World War II. New Mysteries DVDs Murder in Season by Jessica Fletcher The King of Staten Island Choppy Water by Stuart Woods With work on the reconstruction A twenty-something burnout must Stone Barrington and his friends are of her home almost complete, Blood Quantum confront the traumatic death of his vacationing in Maine when their leisure is Jessica Fletcher spearheads the The dead are coming back to father during his childhood after his suddenly disrupted by extreme weather. annual Christmas pageant, life outside the isolated Mi'gMaq mother brings home a churlish new reserve of Red Crow, except for its boyfriend. To make matters worse, the inclement supervises the Friends of the conditions allow for a menacing adversary Library's toy drive, and prepares Indigenous inhabitants who are to sneak in unnoticed and deliver a chilling for her nephew Grady and his strangely immune to the zombie message. Soon it becomes clear that the family to come to town. The only plague. target of the incident is one of Stone’s thing dampening the holiday Love, Fall & Order closest companions, and that these cheer is the discovery of two sets Deep Blue Sea 3 When Claire goes home to save her enemies have a grander scheme in mind. of bones- one set ancient, the Dr. Emma Collins and her team are dad's annual Fall Fest on her family's other only a few weeks old. They spending their third summer studying pumpkin farm, sparks fly with an old were both placed there during the construction, and the effect of climate change on the rival, the opposing lawyer she now A Christmas Resolution Jessica suspects the remains might be connected. great white sharks who come every faces in court. by Anne Perry year to give birth. Along with the last A smitten woman is about to marry a The Lantern Men: A Ruth Galloway two inhabitants of this former fishing dangerous man—unless Detective Hooper village, their peaceful life is disrupted One Night in Bangkok and his new wife, Celia, can prevent it—in Mystery by Elly Griffiths when a 'scientific' team led by her ex In this chilling noir thriller starring this wickedly tangled holiday mystery. When a convicted murderer offers -boyfriend and marine biologist Mark Dacascos and Kane Kosugi, a to lead her to the bodies of four Richard show up looking for three hitman on an all-night murder job additional cold-case victims, Ruth sharks who they learn aren't just any hires a female cabbie as his driver. Galloway embarks on a search in sharks. Will she survive? Will he? a fens-bordering village reputed to Fortune and Glory be haunted by mysterious lantern- The High Note by Janet Evanovich carrying beings. A superstar singer and her When Stephanie's beloved Grandma The Outpost overworked personal assistant are Based on true events. A team of U.S. Mazur's new husband died on their presented with a choice that could wedding night, the only thing he left her was soldiers stationed at the The Shadows by Alex North alter the course of their respective deadliest outpost in Afghanistan is a beat-up old easy chair...and the keys to a careers. life-changing fortune. You knew a teenager like Charlie relentlessly attacked by an Crabtree. A dark imagination, a overwhelming force of Taliban

sinister smile--always on the insurgents. Their fight for survival is outside of the group. Some part the ultimate display of American A Galway Epiphany of you suspected he might be Irresistible valor. by Ken Bruen capable of doing something A Democratic strategist assists a Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair awful. Twenty-five years ago, retired veteran run for mayor in a Rogue of his violent life in Galway in favor of a qui- Crabtree did just that, committing small, conservative Midwest town. Team leader O'Hara leads a lively et retirement in the country with his friend a murder so shocking that it’s squad of soldiers on a daring Keefer, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and attracted that strange kind of mission: rescue hostages from a falcon named Maeve. But on a day trip infamy that only exists on the their captors in remote Africa. But back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack darkest corners of the internet-- as the mission goes awry and is hit by a truck in front of Galway’s Famine and inspired more than one copycat. Just my Type Pop culture writer and aspiring the team is stranded, O'Hara's Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously squad must face a bloody, brutal without a scratch on him. novelist Vanessa Sills lands the interview of a lifetime with the encounter with a gang of rebels, The Suicide House illustrious, elusive and reclusive and the horde of ravenous, Moonflower Murders by Charlie Donlea mystery author Martin Clayborne in enraged lions they encounter. by Anthony Horowitz Inside the walls of Indiana’s elite his quaint rural town only to realize

Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Westmont Preparatory High School, her own aspirations, dreams, and Suffolk on the east coast of England. It is expectations run high and rules are romantic life have taken a back A Summer Romance also the site of the murder of Frank Parris, a strictly enforced. But in the woods seat along the way. When Vanessa Samantha's Montana ranch is retired advertising executive. Stefan beyond the manicured campus and returns home to Portland and a her family's legacy, so when a Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, playing fields sits an abandoned mysterious gift arrives from Martin, developer shows up to buy it, Sam is arrested after police discover blood boarding house that is infamous she then makes a surprise decision. isn't interested. But as he tries to win spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is among Westmont’s students as a her trust and her ranch, Sam finds found guilty and sentenced to eight years in late-night hangout. Here, only one rule applies: he might also be winning her heart. prison. It appears to be an open-and-shut don’t let your candle go out—unless you want the case, but there is more to it than meets the Man in the Mirror to find you. . . eye.