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VOLUME 8, ISSUE 4

APRIL 2020 South Sioux City Public Library

Special Points of Interest:  Your Library and the Corona Virus  April is Read a Horror Book Month  April is National Poetry Month  National Library Week, April 19-25

YOUR LIBRARY AND THE CORONA VIRUS The South Sioux City Public library’s website. Library will be closed to the public from March 18th until  We have extended all re- further notice. While the lights newal periods for the next are off we are offering these four weeks. services. Reliable Resources  We have library staff avail-  Holds: Patrons may put able during regular busi- Coronavirus Tracker holds on all materials over ness hours to answer any the phone or online. Pa- questions that you have trons may pick up their during this time. Which states have declared holds on Thursday, Satur- states of emergency

day, and Monday from 2:00  If you have questions at Grab and Go Breakfasts and p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Pull up to other times email us at Lunches at SSC Schools the West Main Entrance of [email protected] the library and a staff member will bring out Disaster Unemployment Assis-  We will post further infor- tance your materials or answer mation on the Library’s questions. website and Facebook Individuals and Households page. Contact your librari-  We encourage you to do Program (IHP) - Other Needs ans with further questions, Assistance check out e-books and 402-494-7545. audiobooks from Nebraska Inside this issue:

Overdrive Libraries, as well as use our research and learning tools on the New Fiction (Detective & 1 Mystery Stories NEW FICTION (DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY FICTION) Cover to Cover 2

His bloody project : documents Thin Air by Lisa Gray Sleeping in the Ground by Peter New Audiobooks, DVDs, 3 relating to the case of Roderick Robinson and Music CDs Macrae, a historical thriller by Jar of Hearts by Jane Hillier Graeme Macrae Burnet Bark of Night by David Pulitzer Prize Nominees 4 The Burn by Kathleen Kent Rosenfelt A Dangerous Man by Robert Earth Day April 22nd, Ar- 5 Crais The Bridge to Belle Island by The Absolution by Yrsa bor Day April 24th

Julie Klassen Sigurðardóttir Run You Down by Julia Dahl New Nonfiction 5

Unspeakable Things by Jess Staff Recommendations 6 Queen of Bones by Teresa Lourey Dovelpage Page 2

BEYOND THE STACKS

COVER TO COVER TO DISCUSS STATION ELEVEN

Cover to Cover : Cover to early days as a film star to fifteen ry about the relationships that Cover will discuss Station Eleven years in the future, when a thea- sustain us, the ephemeral nature by Emily St. John Mandetl on ter troupe known as the Travel- of fame, and the beauty of the Monday, April 13th at 3:00 p.m. ing Symphony roams the waste- world as we know it"-- Provided In this book, "An audacious, dark- land of what remains-this sus- by publisher. ly glittering novel about art, fame, penseful, elegiac, spellbinding and ambition set in the eerie days novel charts the strange twists of ______of civilization's collapse, from the fate that connect five people: the author of three highly acclaimed actor, the man who tried to save Read-a-Lies previous novels. One snowy night him, the actor's first wife, his  Fools and Mortals by Bernard a famous Hollywood actor slumps oldest friend, and a young actress Cornwell over and dies onstage during a with the Traveling Symphony,  I Know Who You Are by Alice production of King Lear. Hours caught in the crosshairs of a dan- Feeney Station Eleven later, the world as we know it gerous self-proclaimed prophet.  P.S. From Paris by Marc Levy begins to dissolve. Moving back Sometimes terrifying, sometimes

and forth in time-from the actor's tender, Station Eleven tells a sto- COVER TO COVER DISCUSSES PACHINKO

We will discuss the first half of Sunja is saved when a young  Stay Up with Hugo Best by Pachinko on Monday April 27th tubercular minister offers to Erin Sommers at 3:00 p.m. In this book, "A marry and bring her to Japan. new tour de force from the So begins a sweeping saga of an  Here and Now and Then by bestselling author of Free Food exceptional family in exile from Mike Chen for Millionaires, for readers of its homeland and caught in the The Kite Runner and Cutting indifferent arc of history.  The Vexations by Caitlin for Stone. PACHINKO follows Through desperate struggles Horrocks one Korean family through the and hard-won triumphs, its generations, beginning in early members are bound together  Annihilation by Jeff Vander- 1900s Korea with Sunja, the by deep roots as they face en- Meer

prized daughter of a poor yet during questions of faith, family,  The last equation of Isaac Pachinko proud family, whose unplanned and identity"-- Provided by Severy : a novel in clues by pregnancy threatens to shame publisher. them all. Deserted by her lover, Nova Jacobs

APRIL IS READ A HORROR BOOK MONTH

April is Read a Horror book month  The Devil and the Deep edited by  Twelve Nights at Rotter House by on our 2020 reading challenge. Ellen Datlow J.W. Ocker Here are some spine tingling horror book suggestions!  Song of an Unraveling World by  Creature by Hunter Shea Brian Evenson  Apart in the Dark by Ania Ahlborn  Bedfellow by Jeremy Shipp  100 Fathoms Below by Steve Kent  Zero Day by Ezekiel Boone  Growing Things and Other Stories by  Cold Storage by David Koepp Paul Tremblay  The Boatman’s Daughter by Andy Davidson  Nightflyers by George R.R. Martin  The Beauty by Alyia Wheteley Read a Horror Book  The Chrysalis by Brendan Deneen  Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan  Anthony Bourdain’s Hungry Ghosts

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NEW AUDIOBOOKS/ DVD’S/ MUSIC CD’S

Audiobooks DVDs MUSIC CDs  When You See Me by Lisa  Parasite  Music to be Murdered By by Gardner  Arctic Dogs Eminem  The Big Lie by James  Zombieland: Double Tap  DNA by the Backstreet Grippando  The Good Liar Boys  Sisters by Choice by Susan  Harriet  Rare by Selena Gomez Mallery  The Nightingale  (Manic) by Halsey  Blindside by James  Terminator: Dark Fate  Signs by the Tedeschi Patterson  Big Little Lies the complete Trucks Band  Lost by James Patterson second season  Walls by Louis Tomlinson  Golden in Death by J.D.  Veep the final season Robb

When You See Me by  The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson Lisa Gardner

APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

National Poetry Month was Outlaw Trails: Fact, Fiction and Lore. Latest Poetry Books: inaugurated by the Academy of In this book you will discover American Poets in April 1996. history, legends and lore of the  If They Come for Us by Over the years, it has become the western movement through the Fatimah Asghar largest literary celebration in the storytelling genre of cowboy  I Know Your Kind by William  Gmorning, gnight! : little pep world with schools, publishers, poetry. The author places you on Brewer talks for me & you by Lin- libraries, booksellers, and poets consequential trails of outlaws,  The Virginia State Colony for Manuel Miranda celebrating poetry’s vital place in frontier law, sagacious men and Epileptics and  Contemporary Kazakh our culture. women. You will shadow somber Feebleminded by Molly literature. Poetry trails that cause reflection and Brown Marci Broyhill will have a book trace lighthearted trails that signing at the library on Monday, generate smiles.  Don’t Call Us Dead by Demaz Smith April 20th at 6:30 p.m. She will be reading from and signing ______copies of her book Nebraska’s

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK, APRIL 19-25 National Library Week is a time Coffee Break Celebration to celebrate the contributions of celebrating National Library April 25th at 3:00 p.m. our nation's libraries and librarians Week and the library’s 100th Celebrate 100 Years of Li- and to promote library use and anniversary is on Wednesday brary Service: 2020 is the Li- support. All types of libraries - April 22nd at 2:00 p.m. brary’s one hundredth anniversary school, public, academic and special of library service. Take a look - participate. Dorothy Pecaut Nature back on the last one hundred Center will be here on Thurs- years and forward to the next one National Library Week will be ob- day April 23rd at 6:30 p.m. hundred in this presentation, on served April 19-25, 2020 with the April 27th, at 6:30 p.m. We will theme, "Find Your Place at the Li- Siouxland Rocks rock painting look at the origins of the library as brary." is on Saturday April 25th from well as major changes that have 12:00 a.m.to 2:00 p.m. Read to Me Therapy Dogs will taken place over the years. National Library Week be here on Tuesday April 21st at Spoken Word Poetry pro-

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NATIONAL NEBRASKA DAY, APRIL 5TH

On April 5, The Cornhusker  Nebraska : a photographic  A Time to Heal: the State gains recognition for its celebration Autobiography of Gerald R. wide open spaces and scenic by-  Nebraska : a pictorial history Ford ways. by Bruce Hilton Nicol  A warrior of the people : how

 "I am a man" : Chief Standing Susan La Flesche overcame Nebraska joined the union as the Bear's journey for justice by racial and gender inequality to 37th state on March 1st, 1867. Joe Starita become America's first Indian doctor by Joe Starita Pioneers migrating westward  Brando: Songs My Mother  The Autobiography of Malcolm along the Oregon, California and Taught Me by Marlon Brando X Mormon Trails would mark on  The snowball : Warren Buffett their journey by the sights they and the business of life by  Malcolm X: a Life in could recognize along t Alice Schroeder Reinvention by Manning he way. One such landmark  Buffett : the making of an Marable National Nebraska was Scotts Bluff. American capitalist by Robert Day, April 5th, 2020 Lowenstein To learn about our state you may  Fonda by Henry Fonda enjoy these books.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1968, APRIL 11TH

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was  American Prophets: seven  Give Us the Ballot: the mod- passed in the midst of the riots religious radicals and their ern struggle for voting rights in following the assassination of struggle for social and political America by Ari Berman Martin Luther King Jr. It provide justice by Albert  The Making of a Dream: how for civil rights for Native Ameri- J. Raboteau a group of young undocument- cans, Fair Housing, and Anti-Riot  He had a dream : Martin ed immigrants helped change legislation. Luther King, Jr., and the civil what it means to be American rights movement by Flip by Laura Wides-Munoz In memory of this legislation, we Schulke  Reporting Civil Rights offer these books on perspec-  The Rights of the People: how tives on the Civil Rights Move-  Frederick Douglass Prophet of our search for safety invades ment. Freedom by David W. Blight our liberties by David K. Ship-  My Life, My Love, My Legacy ley by Coretta Scott King

PULITZER PRIZE NOMINEES ANNOUNCED APRIL 15

The 2020 Pulitzer Prize nominees  The Orphan Master’s Son by  Swamplandia! By Karen will be announced on April 15th. Adam Johnson Russell Until then, catch up on some of  The Moor’s Account by Laila  The woman who lost her soul the former nominees. Lalami by Bob Shacochis

 Get into Trouble: Stories by  The Goldfinch by Donna  The Idiot by Elif Bautman Kelly Link Tartt  What we Talk about When  The Great Believers by  The Underground Railroad by We Talk About Anne Frank by Rebecca Makkai Colson Whitehead Nathan Englander  The Son by Philipp Meyer  Less by Andrew Sean Greer  The Sympathizer by Viet  Imagine Me Gone by Mark Thanh Nguyen Haslett  There There by Tommy  The Snow Child, by Eowyn Orange Ivey  The Overstory by Richard

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FEED YOUR SPORTS HUNGER

April usually has NBA  Mindful running : how  Quarterback : inside the most  The ultimate guide to basketball, NHL Hockey, and meditative running can important position in the waterfowl hunting : tips, the beginning of Major League improve performance and National Football League by tactics, and techniques for Baseball. Since these sports are make you a happier, more John Feinstein ducks and geese by Tom not available at the time of this fulfilled person by Mackenzie Airhart article, we recommend these L. Harvey  Big game : the NFL in books.  1,500 stretches : the dangerous times by Mark complete guide to flexibility Leibovich  Start by believing : Larry and movement by Hollis  One goal : a coach, a team, Nassar's crimes, the Lance Liebman and the game that brought a institutions that enabled him,  How college athletics are divided town together by and the brave women who hurting girls' sports : the pay- Amy Bass stopped a monster by John to-play pipeline by Rick  The first major : the inside Barr Eckstein story of the 2016 Ryder Cup

 Coach Wooden and me : our by John Feinstein

50-year friendship on and off

the court by Kareem Abdul-

Jabbar

EARTH DAY APRIL 22 ARBOR DAY APRIL 24TH

Earth Day & Arbor Day are two  A new garden ethic : cultivating  101 organic gardening hacks : occasions that we remember the defiant compassion for an eco-friendly solutions to importance of taking care of the uncertain future by Benjamin improve any garden by earth. The following are books Vogt Shawna Coronado and movies that celebrate the  Simple acts to save our planet :  Sustainable home : an importance of taking care of our 500+ ways to make a inspirational guide to earth. difference by Michelle Neff maintaining a sustainable

 No one is too small to make a household by Christine Liu  The nature fix : why nature difference by Greta Thunberg  Our Planet by Alastair Fothgill makes us happier, healthier,  How to give up plastic : a  Wildlife photographer of the and more creative by guide to changing the world, year Florence Williams one plastic bottle at a time by

Will McCallum

NEW NONFICTION

Ghost-Hunting for Dummies by The rule : how I beat the odds in Kill Reply All by Victoria Turk Zak Baggans the markets and life-and you can too by Larry Hite Beginner's guide to screen A black women's history of the printing : 12 beautiful printing United States by Daina Berry ASVAB prep 2020-2021 : 4 projects with templates by Erin practice tests + proven strategies Lacy Wilmington's lie : the murderous + online coup of 1898 and the rise of white Frommer's easyguide to New York supremacy by David Zucchino GED test prep 2020 City 2020 by Pauline Frommer

The passion economy : the new The last negroes at Harvard : the rules for thriving in the twenty-first class of 1963 and the 18 young century by Adam Davidson men who changed Harvard forever by Kent Garrett Kill Reply All

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STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS Holy Hannah by Will Dinski This Blues Reviews: This month Three CCM Titles CCM, Haven’t Seen It Yet by Danny Gokey is is a graphic novel that tells the we recommend two blues al- Contemporary Christian Music the greatest surprise to me. It had story of Hannah, a reclusive bums from Buddy Guy Born to is a popular alternative for posi- been a nominee for a Grammy. The programmer, who creates a Play the Guitar and The Blues is tive, popular music. Jeremy album is full of great cuts with a nice mobile app. The tale brings Alive and Well. Camp is a mainstay of the genre. beat. Hannah in contact with a church I Still Believe the number one Col- that is brought beck together by Born to Play the Guitar has a dark lection is full of popular titles the app. The novel hits on top- feel to me. The title cut intro- from the last two decades. I Still duces the artist to the new lis- ics of loneliness, community, and Believe is my favorite. the power of cults. I enjoyed tener. Back Up Mama is a fun this book intensely. I am a re- song to hear. (Baby) You’ve Deeper Roots: Where the Blue- clusive person by nature. I like Got What it Takes with Joss grass Grows is the lasts recording everybody, but find close rela- Stone is a fun track, Finally from Steven Curtis Chapman tionships heard. This is a recipe Come Back Muddy is a tribute to The title cut is an original re- for toxic relationships, psycho- the great Muddy Waters. Van cording. Dive is a bluegrass ver- logically unhealthy churches, and Morrison and others join Buddy sion of one of Chapman’s Con- the danger of cults. I was wor- on several cuts. temporary Christian days. The rest of the songs are bluegrass ried about cults, when I was in The Blues is Alive and Well is a my teens. This book hearkens takes on some of the great more upbeat offering. Buddy is hymns of the faith. By far this is Staff Recommendations back to that era and the times joined by Mick Jagger, Keith the best CD on the list. we live in today. Richards, Jeff Beck and others. Key cuts on this CD are the title

cut, Cognac, You Do the Time, Guilty as Charged, and The End of the Line.