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National Poetry Month We are excited to celebrate poetry this month! Come check out our collection in the nonfiction room to find some classic poetry or find a new favorite poet. Our staff are big poetry fans so ask for their recommendations. Be sure to look at our Book Spine Poetry display and take a guess at which staff member created which book poem. Soon there will be a Black Out Poetry Take and Make for you all to work your creative muscles at home for a chance to win a great prize. Also check our socials for poetry collection highlights, "Poem Of The Day" and so much more. We hope you join in on all the fun!
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April Virtual Book Club Tuesday April, 27 @ 7:00pm This month, we will be reading “The Sacrament" by Olaf Olafsson. "The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims. A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter's day, a young student at the school watches the school's headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades later, the child-now a grown man, haunted by the past-calls the nun back to the scene of the crime. Seeking peace and calm in her twilight years at a convent in France, she has no choice to make a trip to Iceland again, a trip that brings her former visit, as well as her years as a young woman in Paris, powerfully and sometimes painfully to life. In Paris, she met an Icelandic girl who she has not seen since, but whose acquaintance changed her life, a relationship she relives all while reckoning with the mystery of August Franz's death and the abuses of power that may have brought it on. Zoom information- Meeting ID: 367 869 4581 Passcode: 691207 The book is available through our streaming service, Hoopla, in audiobook and ebook formats. It can also be placed on hold through 4cls.org.
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HML Writer's Group Saturdays, 1:30-3:30pm HML Writers is back (virtually)! Meetings are on Saturdays from 1:30-3:30 pm on Google Meet, where we come together to chat about making our way through the writing world, and get some words on the page with timed writing prompts. We strive to have a welcoming environment for writers of all interests and skill levels, whether they’re writing a novel or writing their memoir. Contact Jen at HMLwriters@gmail.com if you’re interested in joining the group, or if you have further questions.
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Don't Miss Out On Niche Academy Get 24/7 access (even when the library is closed) to tutorials on almost anything including how to set up an account with the library's streaming services Hoopla, Libby/Overdrive and Flipster. Learn how to use the entire Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Still getting used to Zoom or want to use it to connect with friends and family? No problem, we have a tutorial for that too and many more. These tutorials are easy to use and access. Find the website here to get started or find them on our Digital Resources tab under Downloads on the "Help Tutorials" side bar. Happy learning!
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The Souvenir Museum : Stories by Elizabeth McCrackenThe award-winning author of The Giant’s House presents a story collection that includes entries about a fear-testing Texas water park venture, a widower’s puffin search and a villain actress’s New Year celebration.
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The Foreign Girls by Sergio Olguín"Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in Yacanto del Valle, northern Argentina. Their bodies are found in a field near sacrificial offerings, apparently from a black magic ritual. Verónica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong Buenos Aires journalist with a proclivity for sexual adventure, could never have imagined that her holiday would end with her two friends dead. Not trusting the local police, she decides to investigate for herself"
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Riot Baby by Tochi OnyebuchiThe author of the award-winning young-adult novel Beasts Made of Night tackles youth, race and the carceral state with magical flair, in his adult-science-fiction debut.
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We Are the Land : A History of Native California by Damon B. AkinsBefore there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it.
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Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin"A young woman juggles pursuing her dream job in radio while helping her family compete with the new halal restaurant across the street, in this sparkling new rom-com by the author of Ayesha at Last. Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto. Hana waitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on the radio. If she can just outshine her fellow intern at the city radio station, she may have a chance at landing a job. In the meantime, Hana pours her thoughts and dreams into a podcast, where she forms a lively relationship with one of her listeners. But soon she'll need all the support she can get: a new competing restaurant, a more upscale halal place, is about to open in the Golden Crescent, threatening her mother's restaurant. When her mysterious aunt and her teenage cousin arrive from India for a surprise visit, they draw Hana into a long-buried family secret. A hate-motivated attack on their neighborhood complicates the situation further, as does Hana's growing attraction for Aydin, the young owner of the rival restaurant-who might not be a complete stranger after all. As life on the Golden Crescent unravels, Hana must learn to use her voice, draw on the strength of her community and decide what her future should be"
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Subdivisionby J. Robert LennonChecking into a guesthouse under the care of two eccentric owners, an unnamed narrator is aided by her unusually assertive digital assistant through a series of darkly comic encounters reminiscent of Gulliver’s Travels.
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Malice by Heather WalterIn this darkly magical retelling of Sleeping Beauty, Alyce, an evil sorceress, finds an ally in Princess Aurora and wonders if she can lift Aurora’s curse so that together they can forge a new world.
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