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Mentioned in the Media December 2022 & January 2023 |
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Wrapping Up the Holidays
Saturday, December 17, 11:00 am
Community Room
Need a place to wrap your holiday presents away from prying eyes? Stop-in and join us for an afternoon of gift wrapping. Wrapping paper will be provided - all you need to do is just bring your gifts and be ready to wrap!
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The Color of Acceptance
by Carol Siyahi Hicks
The Color of Acceptance is a tale of prejudice, passion, and perseverance. An adopted biracial child struggling for acceptance begins a journey to discover the truth of her identity. It's a story of ongoing discrimination. Of loves found and lost. Of an overwhelming challenge that weds her fervor from social justice to her art, testing her commitment, her skills as an artist, and her sanity.
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Township: Stories
by Jamie Lyn Smith
Set in Appalachian Ohio, Jamie Lyn Smith's debut short story collection, Township explores a region and the rotating cast of characters who call it home.
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Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match
by Sally Thorne
The younger sister of Victor Frankenstein embarks on her own project, resurrecting an intended beau who is more intent on uncovering his forgotten identity than in romance.
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Before I Let Go
by Kennedy Ryan
After a devastating tragedy, a married couple, Yasmen and Wade, discover that love isnt enough to save their marriage, but it eventually might be enough to bring them back together for a second time around.
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Mistakes Were Made
by Meryl Wilsner
College senior Cassie Klein, after hooking up with a hot, older woman, discovers that she slept with her friend's mom, and as this one-time fling turns into something more, they must decide if being honest about the love between them is worth risking everything.
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Two Wrongs Make a Right
by Chloe Liese
Becoming allies to get back at their matchmaking friends, Jamie Westenberg and Bea Wilmot must convince the meddlers they are madly in love, and then break upspectacularly, dashing their hopes, but soon these two polar opposites begin to wonder if Cupid’s arrow wasn’t so off the mark.
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Before You Knew My Name
by Jacqueline Bublitz
A psychological suspense novel about two young women who have recently moved to New York City: Alice, who is brutally murdered, and Ruby, who finds Alice and investigates her death.
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White Horse
by Erika T. Wurth
A gritty, vibrant debut novel about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mothers spirit.
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Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music
by Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch
Warsaw-Fan Rauch blows through the cobwebs of elitism and exclusion and invites everyone to love and hate this music as much as she does. She offers a backstage tour of the industry and equips you for every listening scenario, covering: the 7 main compositional periods, a breakdown of the instruments and their associated personality types, what it's like to be a musician at the highest level, how to steal a Stradivarius, and when to clap during a live performance (also: when not to).
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A Heart That Works
by Rob Delaney
The co-creator and co-star of the hit series Catastrophe presents a deeply personal memoir about the death of his young son from a brain tumor and takes readers through the grief and pain that followed.
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Dawnlands
by Philippa Gregory
The Fairmile series continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in 17th-century England.
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The Rabbit Hutch
by Tess Gunty
Set in the post-industrial Midwest, this story of loneliness and community, entrapment and freedom, follows Blandine, who lives with three other teens in a run-down apartment building known as the Rabbit Hutch, as she embarks on a quest for transcendence that culminates in a shocking act of violence.
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Presenting revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, drawing on his own experience as a researcher, doctor and prolific reader, explores medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells.
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Leech
by Hiron Ennes
In an isolated chateau housing the Interprovincial Medical Institute, which has replaced every human practitioner of medicine, a parasite invades this fortress, spreading madness in this already dark pit of secrets, lies, violence and fear, and making a battlefield of the body where humanity will lose again.
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China after Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
by Frank Dikötter
An internationally renowned historian presents a history of China from the death of Chairman Mao in 1976 to the present, including recovery from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution and unprecedented four-decade economic transformation.
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The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
by Jeff Pearlman
Drawing on 720 original interviews, a New York Times best-selling sportswriter captures as never before the elusive truth about the greatest athlete of all time who took the world by storm from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s and then, almost overnight, disappeared.
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
by Malcolm Gaskill
Taking readers back in time to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1651 by drawing on rich, previously unexplored source material, this gripping narrative combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology to evoke a strange past, one where lives were steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in omens, curses and enchantments.
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
by Maria Ressa
A Philippine Journalist who received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize presents strategies for speaking truth to power, challenging corruption and standing up against authoritarians to battle information and lies.
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One Jump at a Time
by Nathan Chen
The three-time World Champion, Olympic gold medalist and the first Asian-American man to stand at the highest podium in figure skating reflects on the events that led him to where he is today, in this testament to the love of a family and the power of persistence, grit and passion.
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Number One is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions
by Steve Martin
In this illustrated memoir of his forty years in the movie biz, the Academy Award-winning actor, using his unparalleled wit, shares anecdotes from the sets of his beloved films, bringing readers directly into his world, capturing the everyday moments that make up a movie stars life.
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Centerville Library
111 W. Spring Valley Rd.
Centerville, OH 45458
(937) 433-8091
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6060 Far Hills Avenue Centerville, OH 45459
(937) 435-3700
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