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Cover of Blood Sisters by Marilyn Yalom
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  • Vicki J Kondelik
Blood Sisters by Marilyn Yalom
In Blood Sisters, historian Marilyn Yalom tells the story of the French Revolution through the perspective of women’s memoirs. She studied the memoirs of over eighty women, of various ages and social classes, who lived through the French Revolution. Many of them were aristocratic or upper-class women, because they were more likely to be literate, but she also writes about memoirs by poor or working-class women that were dictated to someone else. All of the memoirs make for compelling stories.
Book cover of profile view of Black woman against a blue background. Woman is wearing a yellow earring shaped like an afro pick comb with a resistance fist as the handle.
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  • Autumn Wetli-Staneluis
Summer Reading in OverDrive, Part Two
Over the next couple of months, I’m going to post some new additions to the Library’s OverDrive Collection. Enjoy some summer rest and relaxation reading with the following books.
Cover of The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey
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  • Vicki J Kondelik
The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey
The Satapur Moonstone is a mystery featuring Perveen Mistry, a female lawyer in 1920s India. Perveen travels through the jungle to the princely state of Satapur to settle a dispute between the mother and grandmother of the ten-year-old maharaja over the boy's education. While there, she discovers a web of intrigue. The maharaja's mother thinks that someone is trying to poison her son, and that his older brother's death was no accident. Perveen confirms her suspicions, and realizes the boy is in danger. Will she be able to save him in time?
Book cover featuring a color photograph of two men embracing, their backs turned from the camera.
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  • Autumn Wetli-Staneluis
LGBTQA+ Book Highlights from OverDrive
June is Pride Month! Check out some of the LGBTQA+ books in the Library's OverDrive Collection.
Book cover with green background and pink vertical bar on the lefthand side. Black and white photograph of hands typing on a typewriter with a color blue and black piece of paper coming out with the book's title and author.
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  • Autumn Wetli-Staneluis
Summer Reading in OverDrive, Part One
Over the next couple of months, I’m going to post some recent additions to the Library’s OverDrive Collection. Enjoy some casual summer reading with these fiction titles.
Cover of Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
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  • Vicki J Kondelik
Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
Murder in Old Bombay is the first in a new mystery series by Nev March, set in colonial India in 1892. The main character, Captain Jim Agnihotri, is a wounded Anglo-Indian army officer who learns about the murder of two women from a prominent family while he is recovering in the hospital and reading the newspapers. After leaving the hospital, Jim uses the techniques of his hero, Sherlock Holmes, to help the family find the murderer. Along the way, he falls in love with the daughter of the family, even though their marriage is forbidden because of their differences in race and caste. Jim's investigation takes him all over India, and you learn many details about life in India in the late 19th century.
Blue tint photograph of an Asian American man splashing water on his face.
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  • Autumn Wetli-Staneluis
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2021
In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, check out contemporary Asian American writing available through the Library's OverDrive Collection.
Dark green background with four images at each corner, posters from the four movies in the post. In the top right there is a portrait of a woman in a yellow dress against a landscape background. In Upper left shows a woman walking across a rural background with sunset or sunrise sky. In the lower left is portrait of older man and young girl looking away from the camera. In the lower right there are three figures against a teal background. Two are standing with their hand on middle figures shoulders.
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  • Autumn Wetli-Staneluis
Oscar Winners and Nominees Based on Books
Check out these books, which inspired the Oscar winners and nominees of the same title!
Cover of One Fatal Flaw by Anne Perry
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  • Vicki J Kondelik
One Fatal Flaw by Anne Perry
One Fatal Flaw is a mystery/courtroom drama set in 1910 London, featuring young lawyer Daniel Pitt and his friend, forensic scientist Miriam fford Croft. Daniel defends a young man accused of arson and murder, and wins his case based on the expert testimony of Miriam's former teacher, Saltram. But when his client is murdered in the same way as the previous victim, Daniel realizes his expert witness was wrong, and this leads him to reopen the 20-year-old case that made Saltram's reputation. In doing so, he gains a powerful enemy.
Album cover featuring a portrait photograph Alice Coltrane, a Black woman with an afro wearing large dangling earrings. She is not looking at the camera.
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  • Autumn Wetli-Staneluis
Jazz Appreciation Month
April is Jazz Appreciation Month. Check out the music of various jazz artists through the Library's online collections.