|
|
|
Ella : a novel
by Diane Richards
Follows the life of legendary singer Ella Fitzgerald from her escape from an infamous training school/prison that forced her to dance on the street for money to her 1934 first amateur appearance at the Apollo Theatre.
|
|
|
The Age of Magical Overthinking : Notes on Modern Irrationality
by Amanda Montell
Utilizing her linguistic insights and sociological explorations, the best-selling author of Cultish and host of the podcast "Sounds Like a Cult" delves into the cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains, including “magical thinking,” offering a prevailing message of hope, empathy and forgiveness for our anxiety-riddled human selves.
|
|
|
How To Read a Book : a novel
by Monica Wood
"Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed. When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland, their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways."
|
|
|
There's Always This Year : On Basketball and Ascension
by Hanif Abdurraqib
One of our culture's most insightful critics and most of all, an Ohioan, reflects on the golden era of basketball during the 1990s and explores what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation and the very notion of role models.
|
|
|
The Happiness Blueprint
by Ally Zetterberg
When her dad is diagnosed with cancer, Klara begrudgingly agrees to run his construction company while he undergoes treatment and, way out of her comfort zone, meets Alex, a carpenter whose life has been upended by his brother's untimely death, and together they navigate life, family and unexpected changes.
|
|
|
Did I ever tell you? : a memoir
by Genevieve Kingston
Based on the author's “Modern Love” essay in The New Yorker, this life-affirming memoir tells the story of the gifts and letters left behind by her mother who passed away during her childhood.
|
|
|
Rochester Hills Public Library 500 Olde Towne Rd Rochester, Michigan 48307 248-656-2900www.rhpl.org/ |
|
|
|