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Cover of The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
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  • Vicki J Kondelik
The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
In this mystery novel set in a seaside town in England, Harbinder Kaur, a gay Sikh police detective, investigates the murder of a ninety-year-old woman who had served as a "murder consultant" to mystery authors: helping them come up with ways to murder people. As Harbinder and three friends of the victim try to solve the crime, Harbinder discovers the victim may have been involved in espionage in Russia. Did someone take revenge? The plot takes many twists and turns. Griffiths also paints a vivid portrait of the world of crime fiction and the publishing industry. Harbinder is a strong character who faces prejudice in the police and elsewhere.
Book cover with lime green background. Illustration of a girl with pink hair and glasses sitting inside a cereal bowl filled with colorful marshmallow its.
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  • Autumn Wetli-Staneluis
Summer Reading in OverDrive, Part Four
Enjoy some summer rest and relaxation reading with these recently acquired titles for the Library's OverDrive Collection.
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  • Autumn Wetli-Staneluis
International Day of Friendship
July 30th is International Day of Friendship. Check out these OverDrive titles on friendship: works that share the joys and challenges of staying connected, nurturing friendships, and creating community.
Book cover illustration of an open mouth with orange lips against a light green background. In place of teeth in the mouth is the book title "White Teeth."
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  • Autumn Wetli-Staneluis
Summer Reading in OverDrive, Part Three
Enjoy some summer rest and relaxation reading with these newly acquired titles in OverDrive.
Želmir Žilnik’s "Marble Ass"
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  • Brendan James Nieubuurt
Želmir Žilnik’s "Marble Ass": Pioneer of Post-Yugoslav LGBTQ+ Cinema
Directed by a master of the Yugoslov Black Wave movement, Marble Ass explores LGBTQ experience—in a part of Eastern Europe, moreover, often very hostile to non-normative identities and lifestyles—with an empathy and dignity rather ahead of its time. The film is also just a boisterous, darkly funny, and very satisfying watch.
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.