Nonfiction Book Group September 2018

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Pale rider : the Spanish flu of 1918 and how it changed the world by Laura Spinney
Also available in: audiobook | e-audiobook

The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth--from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus travelled across the globe, exposing mankind's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test.

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eBook Big Library Read July 2018

July 9, 2018 | daviscrl

The Big Library Read is a “global eBook club,” connecting readers around the world who read the same eBook at the same time. The 2018 summer selection is:  Cowboy Pride by Lacy Williams. This wild west version of Pride and Prejudice was selected through popular vote by OverDrive readers from around the world.  

The Big Library Read runs from July 9 through 23, and during this time OverDrive offers unlimited checkouts on the title. No hold list and no waiting!

62 Days of Summer "Best" Books on OverDrive

June 29, 2018 | daviscrl
Year's best fantasy [electronic resource]
The best of me [electronic resource] by Nicholas Sparks
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Best friends forever [electronic resource] by Kimberla Lawson Roby

Nonfiction Book Group August 2018

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Road through time : the story of humanity on the move by Mary Soderstrom

Road Through Time begins with the story of how anatomically modern humans left Africa to populate the world. She then carries us along the Silk Road in Central Asia, and tells of roads built for war in Persia, the Andes, and the Roman Empire. She sails across the seas, and introduces the first railways, all before plunking us down in the middle of a massive, modern freeway. The book closes with a view from the end of the road, literally and figuratively, asking, can we meet the challenges presented by a mode of travel dependent on hydrocarbons, or will we decline, like so many civilizations that have come before us?

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Frothy Fun Fiction

June 18, 2018 | daviscrl
The little teashop of lost and found by Trisha Ashley
Also available in: e-book

Alice Rose is a foundling, discovered on the Yorkshire moors above Haworth as a baby. Adopted but then later rejected again by a horrid step-mother, Alice struggles to find a place where she belongs. Only baking - the scent of cinnamon and citrus and the feel of butter and flour between her fingers - brings a comforting sense of home. So it seems natural that when she finally decides to return to Haworth, Alice turns to baking again, taking over a run-down little teashop and working to set up an afternoon tea emporium. Luckily she soon makes friends - including a Grecian god-like neighbour - who help her both set up home and try to solve the mystery of who she is.

Cupcakes & confetti : the little wedding shop by the sea by Jane Linfoot
Also available in: e-book

Brides by the Sea, the cutest little wedding shop in all of Cornwall, has it all, including cake baker Poppy who lives upstairs. When her best friend Cate's wedding planner walks out and Poppy takes over, she finds out wedding planning is not a piece of cake. Double-booked venues, 'rustic' locations and gorgeous but grumpy farmer Rafe have this wedding pro feeling like the wedding, the shop and the cake might all come crashing down on her.

The café by the sea : a novel by Jenny Colgan
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook | large print

Years ago Flora fled the quiet Scottish island where she grew up-- and she hasn't looked back. In bright, bustling London, she can be anonymous, ambitious...and hopelessly in love with her boss. But when fate brings Flora back to the island, she's suddenly swept once more into life with her brothers-- all strapping, loud, and seemingly incapable of basic housework-- and her father. Yet even amid the chaos of their reunion, Flora discovers a passion for cooking - and finds herself restoring a dusty little pink-fronted shop on the harbour: a café by the sea.

Canton Public Library Book Purchase Enrichment Fund

June 12, 2018 | daviscrl

In 2017 the Canton Public Library Book Purchase Enrichment Fund was created through a generous anonymous donation from appreciative readers. This donation enhances our print collection through the purchase of literary fiction and literary genre fiction; or quality narrative nonfiction primarily in the areas of science, social science, the humanities, literary biographies, and history. If you're interested in contributing to the Canton Public Library Book Purchase Enrichment Fund, contact the fund's administrator, the Canton Community Foundation. Following are just a few of the books this thoughtful donation has allowed us to purchase in 2018. To find a complete list of books librarians have purchased with this money, keyword search the terms Book Purchase Enrichment Fund in our catalog.

The annotated African American folktales

Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history.

Big deal : Bob Fosse and dance in the American musical by Kevin Winkler

A consideration of Fosse's career in the context of changes in the Broadway musical theater over four decades. The book traces his early dance years and the importance of early mentors George Abbott and Jerome Robbins on his work. It examines how each of the important women in his adult life - all dancers - impacted his career and influenced his dance aesthetic. Finally, the book investigates how his evolution as both artist and individual mirrored the social and political climate of his era and allowed him to comfortably ride a wave of cultural changes. 

Historical Fiction

June 5, 2018 | daviscrl
The autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb : a novel by Melanie Benjamin
Also available in: e-book

As a child, Mercy Lavinia "Vinnie" Bump was encouraged to live a life hidden away from the public. Instead, she reached out to the immortal impresario P. T. Barnum, married the tiny superstar General Tom Thumb in the wedding of the century, and transformed into the world's most unexpected celebrity.
 

Woman enters left by Jessica Brockmole

In the 1950s, movie star Louise Wilde is caught between an unfulfilling acting career and a shaky marriage when she receives an out-of-the-blue phone call: She has inherited the estate of Florence "Florrie" Daniels, a Hollywood screenwriter she barely recalls meeting. Among Florrie's possessions are several unproduced screenplays, personal journals, and--inexplicably--old photographs of Louise's mother, Ethel. On an impulse, Louise leaves a film shoot in Las Vegas and sets off for her father's house on the East Coast, hoping for answers about the curious inheritance and, perhaps, about her own troubled marriage.

The things we cherished by Pam Jenoff
Also available in: e-book

An ambitious novel that spans decades and continents, The Things We Cherished tells the story of Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington, two fiercely independent attor­neys who find themselves slowly falling for one another while working to defend the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of World War II-era war crimes.
 

Nonfiction Book Group July 2018

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Grocery : the buying and selling of food in America by Michael Ruhlman
Also available in: e-book | e-audiobook

Using the human story of the family-run Midwestern chain Heinen's as an anchor, the narrative dives into the mysterious world of supermarkets and the ways in which we produce, consume, and distribute food. Grocery examines how rapidly supermarkets-and our food and culture-have changed since the days of your friendly neighborhood grocer. But rather than waxing nostalgic for the age of mom-and-pop shops, Ruhlman seeks to understand how our food needs have shifted since the mid-twentieth century, and how these needs mirror our cultural ones.

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New E-books on OverDrive for May 2018

May 23, 2018 | daviscrl

If you are looking for fresh titles to add to your phone, tablet or reader, take a look at some of the newer additions to our OverDrive e-book collection. We add new titles almost every week, so there are many more on OverDrive to explore. If you are new to e-books, you can get learn how to get started on our E-media page.

Exit strategy [electronic resource] : a novel by Charlton Pettus

With just one call, Exit Strategy helps wealthy-but-wanted types disappear completely. They can fake your death, give you a new name and face, and launder whatever ill-gotten funds you need to establish a new life on the other side of the world.When Jordan Parrish, the brilliant founder of a medical technology start-up, made the call, he thought he had no other way out. But after his exit, he began to wonder about the circumstances that led him to make that momentous decision: was someone, in fact, working against him? To find out, Jordan will have to break the cardinal rule of Exit Strategy: you can never, ever go back.

Gale force [electronic resource] by Owen Laukkanen

McKenna Rhodes has never been able to get the sight of her father's death out of her mind. A freak maritime accident has made her the captain of the salvage boat Gale Force, but it's also made her cautious, sticking closer to the Alaska coastline. She and her crew are just scraping by, when the freighter Pacific Lion, out of Yokohama, founders two hundred miles out in a storm. This job is their last chance—but there is even more at stake than they know. Unlisted on any manifest, the Lion's crew includes a man on the run carrying fifty million dollars in stolen Yakuza bearer bonds.

Nonfiction Book Group June 2018

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River of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey by Candice Millard
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After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller.

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