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Try these book suggestions by the Library Staff October 2026 |
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Code Girls: The True Story of the American Women Who Secretly Broke Codes in World War II
by Liza Mundy
In the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Code
Girls is the amazing true story of the young American women who cracked German and Japanese military codes during World War II.
More than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II, recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to the nation's capital to learn the top secret art of code breaking. Through their work, the code girls helped save countless lives and were vital in ending the war. But due to the top secret nature of their accomplishments, these women have never been able to talk about their story--until now. Through dazzling research and countless interviews with the surviving code
girls, Liza Mundy brings their story to life with zeal, grace, and passion.
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Dolly All the Time
by Annabel Monaghan
Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn't solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep
her dad and brother from losing the family home. So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield--annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family--with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it's in her nature to help. But Stewart's proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as public dinners and high-society benefits turn into sunset
boat rides and kisses that hit her bloodstream like a ghost pepper,
Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She's never relied on anyone besides herself--can she really start now?
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Little Wonder
by Sophie Chen Keller
Song is a nobody, just a food delivery worker from a village in
Northeast China, but her son, River, is a little wonder. At the age of
four, he toddles to a piano and taps out his favorite song. At eight, he masters Liszt's three Liebestraume; at ten, he blazes through the complete set of Chopin's tudes. And at every step, through the valleys
of loss, illness, and poverty, Song is there to light his way--until finally,
at the age of eleven, River is invited to study with a preeminent teacher in Beijing. But in the chaos of Beijing Railway Station on the busiest
day of the year, Song faces every mother's nightmare: She loses her
grip on River's little hand and is unable to find him after a desperate, harrowing search. Over the next days, weeks, and eventually, years, Song and River fight to forge a path back to each other as they carve
out new lives that carry them farther apart. An evocative exploration of
a mother's love and a son's yearning, Little Wonder takes us on an extraordinary journey through a modern Beijing that pulses with the music of humanity and its impossible--and impossibly brave--hopes.
As every musician knows: You start in one key. You wander to other keys, strange and distant places. But in the end, you always come
back home.
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This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
by Craig Fehrman
From one of the most exciting new historians to emerge in the past decade, This Vast Enterprise offers a novel take on the expedition: a gripping narrative that draws on lost documents, stunning analysis,
and Native perspectives. Craig Fehrman spent five years visiting more than thirty archives, interviewing more than a hundred sources, and collecting oral history passed down over centuries. He came to see
that the success of Lewis and Clark depended on much more than just Lewis and Clark. We all know Sacajawea, and some of us know York,
the Black man Clark enslaved. But here we meet John Ordway, a working-class soldier who fought grizzlies and towed the captains' hulking barge. We hear from Wolf Calf, a Blackfoot teenager who watched his friend die in a battle with Lewis and his men. Each chapter moves to a different person's point of view, describing their desires and contradictions. In the end, the captains are men who needed help--from Sacajawea, from the Corps, and from each other. Mile after mile, the expedition pushes on through hailstorms and flash floods, frostbite and infections, rattlesnakes and rabid wolves, with the Spanish cavalry in fierce pursuit. Fehrman balances the story's adventure with the
humanity of its protagonists. The result is a thrilling reminder that even the most familiar moments in history can still surprise us.
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When Lemons Give You Life
by Anna Johnston
Michelin-star chef Griff Barlow has lost his appetite. He's done with
grief, guilt, and the beige slop they call food at Sunny Glen Aged Care Facility, where he resides. Six decades of life have handed him all the lemons he can handle, so he breaks into the nursing home kitchen to bake one last tart as his final meal. But the act of cooking stirs a
dormant joy, and soon he's sneaking in after dark to serve up flavor and comfort to fellow residents, who come alive with each bite--all while hiding a lie big enough to destroy the one thing he has left to protect. Lisa, Griff's younger sister and sole visitor, is navigating a midlife ADHD diagnosis, a new romance, and unexpected news that could change everything. Despite their fractured relationship, she keeps showing up, even with hope for reconciliation long buried in the silence between them. But the truth has a way of boiling over, and when secrets, souffles, and second chances collide, Griff and Lisa may discover a recipe for forgiveness.
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