Poet's Place Enhancement: Poem of the Month

Our Poet's Place webpage now has a new feature: Poem of the Month! Each month we will showcase the work of a local poet.

Our inaugural poet, is Lee McPhillips Radlo, and we're delighted to bring to you her poem Two Days in August. This poem will grace our website from now until the end of December, 2022.

To view it, click the following link and select Poem of the Month from the Poetry menu on the left: https://tinyurl.com/WPLPoetsPlace

New Releases: December Edition

Check out these highly anticipated December releases featuring fiction and nonfiction titles. Click on the title to request a copy or get your name on the waitlist. Don’t forget to watch for more featured releases next month! 

Fiction

Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy

Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator’s psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows 20-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin.

The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi

An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog's Day-esque campus chronicle. 

No one Left to Come Looking for You by Sam Lipsyte 

In Manhattan’s East Village in 1993, a young New Jersey rock musician searches for his bandmate who made off with his prized bass to feed his drug habit and encounters a colorful cast of characters as he uncovers a series of crimes tied to local real estate barons looking to remake NYC.

Nonfiction

Screaming on the Inside by Jessica Grose

In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today's mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communities.

Beaverland: How one weird rodent made America by Leila Philip

Traces the beaver's profound influence on our nation's history, culture and environment, from the early days of western expansion, as well as profiling a colorful group of people who have devoted their lives to the wonderfully weird rodent.

The Tudors in Love by Sarah Gristwood

Offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how the rules of romantic courtly love irrevocably shaped the politics and international diplomacy of the period. The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet too often they're dismissed as something existing only in books and song-those old legends of King Arthur and chivalric fantasy. Not so. In this ground-breaking history, Sarah Gristwood reveals the way courtly love made and marred the Tudor dynasty.

WooReads Fall Reading Challenge For Adults: Patron Book Reviews

Welcome to the WooReads Fall Reading Challenge for adults! In partnership with The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts, we are offering readers a chance to win a pair of tickets to A Christmas Carol, showing December 17 - 23, 2022 or Annie, showing February 23 - 26, 2023! 

Click here to log into your Beanstack account to start logging your books and reviews. If you don't have an account, you can create one today!

Read these patron book reviews submitted by your fellow WooReaders to get an idea of what to read next! 

Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs

This was a good book!! I’ve been reading the series and she almost lost me a few books back but I was determined to finish! Now I’m back in the groove and the books are back to being enjoyable. Kind of dry at first but got better about half way through. ~ Julia J. 

The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

Each girls’ story is heart wrenching and compelling. Ms. Johnson writes beautifully and effortlessly and brings the story full circle. I give this book a well-deserved 5 stars and I eagerly anticipate the next book by this author. ~ Lisa G. 

The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci

Interesting book. Intense read, keeps you turning the pages! ~ Debe B. 

A Duke for Diana by Sabrina Jeffries

This is a funny light reading with a great group of characters and a interesting story line. ~ Joan M. 

WooReads Fall Reading Challenge For Adults: Patron Book Reviews

 

Welcome to the WooReads Fall Reading Challenge for adults! In partnership with The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts, we are offering readers a chance to win a pair of tickets to A Christmas Carol, showing December 17 - 23, 2022 or Annie, showing February 23 - 26, 2023! 

Click here to log into your Beanstack account to start logging your books and reviews. If you don't have an account, you can create one today!

Read these patron book reviews submitted by your fellow WooReaders to get an idea of what to read next! 

Murder Thy Neighbor by James Patterson

A great read for fans of James Patterson; the smoothness of his fiction writing is transferred over to his non fiction series. The story line is an easy read, not cluttered with jargon that makes other fiction somewhat boring or hard to read. The characters grip you from the first page. You want to keep reading. ~Debe B. 

Memphis by Tara N. Stringfellow

This book was a funny, interesting book. This is a story of strong women and community. ~Joan M. 

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'I am my father's daughter', this is a beautiful book with a very personal description of the loss of a father. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes beautifully, and the story is extra special thanks to her descriptions of grief during covid times when travel and funerals were so much harder to organize.                    ~Heleen V. 

Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman

What an amazing book! I read this book through with students of mine and it absolutely held our combined attention! The way Paul navigates through the wide spectrum of characters is admirable and tying them all together is masterful! Great book! Highly recommended! ~Mario W. 

Big Library Read: A Snake Falls to Earth

From November 2-16 library users can participate in The Big Library Read featuring A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger. This e-book club connects readers with the same book at the same time without any waitlists or holds. Download the discussion guide to start a conversation with other readers. You can also visit the Overdrive discussion board to share your thoughts. 

The book follows Oli and Nina, two very different people in very different circumstances — Oli, a cottonmouth snake from the Reflecting World where animal people roam and Nina, a teenage Lipan Apache girl in our world. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli’s best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven’t been in centuries.

Listen to the Big Library Read interview with Darcie Little Badger

To borrow the title, go to mywpl.org. Under Resources, select eBooks and Digital Media. Click on OverDrive to check out A Snake Falls to Earth from the catalog. 

To read this book on a handheld device, download the Overdrive app or Libby app. 

Readers  have a chance to win a tablet, a blanket or Libby swag if they use #biglibraryread on social media from November 2-16.