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Parker Memorial Library April 27, 2024

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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s More Info  Borrow
By Doris Kearns Goodwin. From Simon & Schuster.
(39 reviews)  
 
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life.

Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier.
Princess Peach: Showtime! [Nintendo Switch] More Info  Borrow
From Nintendo.
 
Transform to fit the role and use showstopping abilities to save the day

Fend off the Sour Bunch with sensational swordplay as a swordfighter...en garde! In another role, Peach puts on her detective hat to find out whodunnit in a museum mystery. From kung fu master to pastry chef, Peach’s roles give you distinctly powerful ways to save the play!

What other transformations are just behind the curtain?
The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts More Info  Borrow
By Mary Claire Haver. From Rodale Books.
(19 reviews)  
 
Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her hormonal transition and beyond, as well as the tools to help her take charge of her health at this pivotal life stage—by the bestselling author of The Galveston Diet.

Menopause is inevitable, but suffering through it is not! This is the empowering approach to self-advocacy that pioneering women’s health advocate Dr. Mary Claire Haver takes for women in the midst of hormonal change in The New Menopause.
The Beekeeper More Info  Borrow
From Studio Distribution Services.
 
Adam Clay (Jason Statham), a former operative of a powerful organization known as Beekeepers, upends his covert life and embarks on a brutal revenge mission to dismantle corruption at the highest levels of our society.
Who Is Taylor Swift? More Info  Borrow
By Kirsten Anderson and Who HQ. From Penguin Workshop.
(35 reviews)  
 
Learn how a young girl who lived on a Christmas tree farm grew up to become one of the most celebrated musical artists of the twenty-first century in this addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Series.

Taylor Swift always knew she wanted to be a country music artist, so at age thirteen, she convinced her parents to move their family out of Pennsylvania to Nashville.
Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It More Info  Borrow
By Ari Berman. From Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
(5 reviews)  
 
A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power―and the movement to stop them.

The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. But this crisis didn’t begin or end with Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: The Final Season More Info  Borrow
From PARAMOUNT.
 
In the final season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Jack (4x Emmy Award Nominee, John Krasinski) is promoted to the new CIA Acting Deputy Director and finds himself on his most dangerous mission yet! He is appointed the daunting task of unearthing internal corruption. As he investigates, Jack discovers the convergence of a drug cartel with a terrorist organization, ultimately revealing a conspiracy much closer to home and testing our hero’s belief in the system he has always fought to protect.
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse More Info  Borrow
By Charlie Mackesy. From HarperOne.
(26,850 reviews)  
 
From the revered British illustrator, a modern fable for all ages that explores life’s universal lessons, featuring 100 color and black-and-white drawings.

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” asked the mole.

“Kind,” said the boy.

Charlie Mackesy offers inspiration and hope in uncertain times in this beautiful book based on his famous quartet of characters. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse explores their unlikely friendship and the poignant, universal lessons they learn together.
The Young Forever Cookbook: More Than 100 Delicious Recipes for Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life More Info  Borrow
By Mark Hyman. From Little, Brown Spark.
 
The companion cookbook to Dr. Hyman's #1 New York Times bestseller Young Forever, featuring more than 100 delicious recipes to support a long, youthful life.

Dr. Mark Hyman’s revolutionary book Young Forever revealed how to reverse the biological hallmarks of aging through easy and accessible dietary, lifestyle, and longevity strategies. In this companion cookbook, Dr. Hyman shares more than 100 satisfying recipes to help you eat your way to a longer life.
Sociopath: A Memoir More Info  Borrow
By Patric Gagne. From Simon & Schuster.
(870 reviews)  
 
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.

Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn’t understand. She suspected it was because she didn’t feel things the way other kids did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and empathy eluded her. For the most part, she felt nothing. And she didn’t like the way that “nothing” felt.
The Forever Dog Life: Over 120 Recipes, Longevity Tips, and New Science for Better Bowls and Healthier Homes More Info  Borrow
By Rodney Habib and Karen Shaw Becker. From Harper.

 
In this beautifully illustrated guide, the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Forever Dog show how to create a thriving, sustainable lifestyle and environment to help your dog live a longer, happier, and healthier life In The Forever Dog, Rodney Habib and Dr. Karen Becker explained that your dog’s longevity starts with proper nourishment.
Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor More Info  Borrow
By Alan Gratz. From Scholastic Press.
(218 reviews)  
 
December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain America, and other stars of the Golden Age of Comics. Maybe they'll even get their comic published someday.
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar More Info  Borrow
By Cheryl Strayed. From Vintage.
(12,241 reviews)  
 
An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of Wild—featuring a new preface and six additional columns. Soon to be a Hulu Original series.

For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the pseudonym of bestselling author Cheryl Strayed—first through her online column at The Rumpus, later through her hit podcast, Dear Sugars, and now through her popular Substack newsletter.
Cooking in Real Life: Delicious & Doable Recipes for Every Day More Info  Borrow
By Lidey Heuck. From S&S/Simon Element.
(23 reviews)  
 
As any Ina Garten fan will attest, Lidey Heuck landed the most plum after-college job—working for Ina in her East Hampton kitchen. There, she learned how to develop recipes that work every time and how to put together dishes that are at once special and unfussy.

Cooking in Real Life represents the golden middle ground that new and experienced home cooks crave: recipes that are inventive but not overly complicated, that use familiar ingredients but encourage us to do things a little bit differently. They are designed to be low-effort, practical, and high-reward.
Who's Afraid of Gender? More Info  Borrow
By Judith Butler. From Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
(106 reviews)  
 
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.

Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic book Gender Trouble redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on “gender” that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed “anti-gender ideology movements” that are dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous, perhaps diabolical, threat to families, local cultures, civilization―and even “man” himself.
Kaplan's LSAT Prep Plus 2024: Strategies for Every Section More Info  Borrow
By Kaplan Test Prep. From Kaplan Test Prep.
 
Kaplan's LSAT Prep Plus 2024 is the single, most up-to-date resource that you need to face the LSAT exam with confidence
  • Fully compatible with the LSAT testmaker’s digital practice tool
  • Official LSAT practice questions and practice exam
  • Instructor-led online workshops and expert video instruction
  • Up-to-date for the Digital LSAT
  • In-depth test-taking strategies to help you score higher
We are so certain that LSAT Prep Plus 2024 offers all the knowledge you need to excel on the LSAT that we guarantee it: after studying with the online resources and book, you'll score higher on the LSAT—or you'll get your money back.
The Ikaria Way: 100 Delicious Plant-Based Recipes Inspired by My Homeland, the Greek Island of Longevity More Info  Borrow
By Diane Kochilas. From St. Martin's Griffin.
(2 reviews)  
 
Diane Kochilas' new cookbook that brings the plant-based cuisine of Ikaria to your dinner table.

Ikaria is an island in Greece where people live to a ripe old age, sometimes living well past 100. Diane Kochilas, host of the television series My Greek Table, is a daughter of Ikaria. The Ikaria Way is her latest cookbook and is filled with easy, contemporary recipes rooted in her background and steeped in the ancient Greek traditions of plant-based cuisine.

As Diane says, Greeks are almost vegan, but they’d never call themselves that.
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess More Info  Borrow
By Becca Rothfeld. From Metropolitan Books.
(37 reviews)  
 
A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.

In her debut essay collection, “brilliant and stylish” (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a culture that is flattened and sanitized, purged of ugliness, excess, and provocation.

Our embrace of minimalism has left us spiritually impoverished.
The Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami More Info  Borrow
By Vince Houghton and Eric Driggs. From PublicAffairs.
(5 reviews)  
 
Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage.
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry More Info  Borrow
By Austin Frerick. From Island Press.
(27 reviews)  
 
“In this eye-opening debut study, Frerick, an agricultural policy fellow at Yale University, reveals the ill-gained stranglehold that a handful of companies have on America’s food economy…It’s a disquieting critique of private monopolization of public necessities.”
--Publishers Weekly, starred

Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, Chairman of Fair Oaks Farms.
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