Anthony Bourdain, 1956-2018

June 8, 2018 | Patton

For decades, he worked 13-hour days as a line cook in restaurants in New York and the Northeast before he became executive chef in the 1990s...until his "madcap" memoir about the dark corners of New York’s restaurants made him into a celebrity chef and touched off a nearly two-decade career as a globe-trotting television host.

“We have lost someone who was in my opinion the sharpest and keenest observer of culture that I have ever known,” [Andrew Zimmern] said. “When we were alone his hopes and dreams extended into amazing areas.” - New York Times

Free and confidential suicide prevention hotlines

  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255 (Open 24 hours a day, every day, for everyone. Ayuda En Español)
  • Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741741
  • The Trevor Project: 866-488-7386 (for LGBT youth)
  • Trans Lifeline: U.S.: 877-565-8860 | Canada: 877-330-6366 (for transgender people with transgender staff)

 

Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain, no reservations. Discs 1 & 2 [videodisc]

Chef and author Anthony Bourdain travels the world sampling local foods and culture.

Celebrate Pride Month with Graphic Novels

June 1, 2018 | Patton

To celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride in the month of June, we wanted to highlight some graphic novels in our YA and Adult collections. From comic book heroes to real-life heroes, introverts and extroverts, butt-kickers, heart-melters, and heart-breakers. For more titles and information, check out the new Queer Comics Database.

Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world by Pénélope Bagieu

Profiles of inspiring women, some who are world famous and some who are little known in graphic format, including Nellie Bly, Hedy Lamarr, Josephine Baker, Tove Janssen, and Naziq al-Abid.

Taproot : a story about a gardener and a ghost by Keezy Young

Blue is having a hard time moving on. He's in love with his best friend. He's also dead. Luckily, Hamal can see ghosts, leaving Blue free to haunt him to his heart's content. But something eerie is happening in town, leaving the local afterlife unsettled, and when Blue realizes Hamal's strange ability may be putting him in danger, Blue has to find a way to protect him, even if it means...leaving him.

Philip Roth, 20th Century Novelist, 1933-2018

May 23, 2018 | Patton

"Mr. Roth was the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers — Saul Bellow and John Updike were the others — who towered over American letters in the second half of the 20th century. Outliving both and borne aloft by an extraordinary second wind, Mr. Roth wrote more novels than either of them. In 2005 he became only the third living writer (after Bellow and Eudora Welty) to have his books enshrined in the Library of America." - New York Times

American pastoral by Philip Roth
Also available in: audiobook

Seymour "Swede" Levov, a hard working man who came of age in triumphant postwar America, must give up his dreams of a peaceful life when his daughter grows up to be a 1960s revolutionary terrorist.

Why write? : collected nonfiction 1960-2013 by Philip Roth

Tracing the full span of Philip Roth's career - from the early controversies surrounding the stories in Goodbye, Columbus to his recent assessments of his work and corrections of the record - this retrospective summation of his essays and interviews shows at every turn the vigour, acuity, and persuasive power of our most celebrated living novelist.

June 1st is National Trails Day ® CANCELLED

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American Hiking Society’s National Trails Day® (NTD) is a celebration of America’s magnificent Trail System, occurring annually on the first Saturday in June. 

The event takes place on Saturday, June 1st, 9am-12pm. Attendees can start at the Lower Rouge Trailhead, located down Morton Taylor Rd. off Michigan Ave. A librarian from Canton Public Library will be stationed along the trail with information as well as some freebies to help you on your journey. Check out our display in the front lobby, visit cantonfun.org, or call 734-394-5460 for more information. This is a FREE family and pet-friendly event.

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Tom Wolfe, Literary Phenom, 1931-2018

May 15, 2018 | Patton

"An innovative journalist and novelist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, astronauts and Manhattan’s moneyed status-seekers in works like 'The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,' 'The Right Stuff' and 'Bonfire of the Vanities'..." - New York Times

The electric kool-aid acid test by Tom Wolfe

In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live long in the counter-culture canon of American literature.

The bonfire of the vanities by Tom Wolfe

Sherman McCoy, a young investment banker in Manhattan, finds himself arrested following a freak accident and becomes involved with prosecutors, politicians, the press, and assorted hustlers..

Eisner Comic Book Award Nominees

May 2, 2018 | Patton

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are considered the "Oscars" of the comics world. Below is a taste from the long list of categories. Visit the San Diego Comic-Con International website for the complete list of nominees for each category. Check out the award winners at world renowned Comic-Con in July.

"Face front, true believers!" - Stan Lee

Best Continuing Series

Black Hammer. Vol. 2 : the event by Jeff Lemire

When a visitor from the outside world arrives on the Farm, looking for the Black Hammer and bringing news of Spiral City to its Golden Age heroes, everything changes. Her arrival stirs up old memories and awakens new hope in the marooned heroes and they make a new attempt to escape their strange prison

Pulitzer Prize Winners 2018

April 17, 2018 | Patton

You can discover all of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning materials as well as the finalists in the Letters, Drama, and Music category at Canton Public Library. 

Winners:

  • Fiction: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
  • History: The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis
  • Biography: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
  • Poetry: Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart
  • General Nonfiction: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman, Jr.
  • Music: DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar
Less : a novel by Andrew Sean Greer

Best in Fiction

Graphic Novel To Big Screen

April 7, 2018 | Patton

These graphic novels have inspired some of your favorite films and TV shows in the 21st century.

The death of Stalin by Fabien Nury

Currently in theaters starring Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor.

I kill giants by Joe Kelly
Also available in: e-book

Coming to DVD soon!

If You Liked Black Panther...

February 20, 2018 | Patton

Everybody is talking about Black Panther: the actors, the director, the characters, the rivalries, the music, the clothing, the politics. Take a look at some of the library materials featuring the filmmaker and cast, artists on the soundtrack, and the writers of the comic series, as well as other graphic novels and books about African and African-American history, heroes, and icons.

Black Panther : a nation under our feet. Book 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates

MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winner T- Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me) takes the helm, confronting T'Challa with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda. When a superhuman terrorist group that calls itself The People sparks a violent uprising, the land famed for its incredible technology and proud warrior traditions will be thrown into turmoil. If Wakanda is to survive, it must adapt - but can its monarch survive the necessary change? Collecting: Black Panther 1-4

Ctrl [sound recording] by SZA

Acclaimed alternative R&B artist SZA releases a brand new album. The first single, Love Galore, features Travis Scott. The album also includes the track Drew Barrymore and appearances from Kendrick Lamar and RZA..

2017 Tax Materials Now Available

February 12, 2018 | Patton

The following Federal and State of MI 2017 tax year materials are now available:

  • Federal 1040 Tax Forms 
  • Federal 1040 Tax Instruction Booklets
  • MI-1040 Individual Income Tax Forms and Instructions
  • MI-1040CR-7 Home Heating Credit Claim Booklet

These are the only pre-printed materials distributed to the library. If you require additional forms and instructions please speak with a librarian at the Information Desk. You may also contact the IRS by phone at 1-800-829-3676 or online at www.irs.gov/forms-instructions.

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