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The Good Stuff From the Staff of Driftwood Public Library June 2025 |
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Kirsten's Picks for Pride |
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Legends & lattes: a novel of high fantasy and low stakes by Travis BaldreeWorn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv, the orc barbarian, cashes out of the warrior's life with one final score. A forgotten legend and a fabled artifact lead her to the streets of Thune, where she plans to open the city's first coffee shop. Old frenemies and Thune's shady underbelly may just upset her plans. To finally build something that will last, Viv will need some new partners, and a different kind of resolve. |
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Queer as folklore: the hidden queer history of myths and monsters by Sacha CowardQueer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new. To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past and Queer as Folklore is a celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before.
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Graphic novel
The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay, Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal party that tears reality apart. These are just some of the comics you'll find in this anthology from The Nib, a print periodical. Filled with dozens of comics about LGBTQIA+ experiences, ranging from personal stories to queer history to cutting satire about pronoun panic, this book features more than 30 of today's top indie cartoonists
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Bury your gays by Chuck TingleAn Oscar-nominated showrunner of a long-running streaming series fights studio pressure to kill off the gay characters in the season finale while fighting real-life monsters from his horror movie days who are stalking him and his friends through the Hollywood Hills. |
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Meanby Myriam GurbaMyriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. Sisterhood is powerful, but being mean is more exhilarating. Being mean isn't for everybody. Being mean is best practiced by those who understand it as an art form. These virtuosos live closer to the divine than the rest of humanity. They're queers. Myriam Gurba is a queer spoken-word performer, visual artist, and writer. |
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Trollhunter (DVD)When bears are found dead in Norway, students from Volda University (Thomas, Johanna and cameraman Kalle) decide to investigate. They stalk the trail of the mysterious hunter Hans, expecting to find an explanation for the killings. The reluctant Hans tries to flee from the youngsters but then agrees to let them film him in action where they learn that Hans is actually working for a secret government agency. |
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The #1 dad book: be the best dad you can be in 1 hour!by James Patterson"I did the homework, so you don't have to do as much. I talked to lots of experts, and lots of dads, and lots of experts who are also dads. I read everything I could. Then I wrote and rewrote this book, filled with steps you can take to become a better dad. ... [This book] is filled with stories and advice that will unlock the mysteries of fatherhood both for new dads and for those looking to up their dad game." |
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The project: how Project 2025 is reshaping America by David A. Graham"In The Project, award-winning journalist David A. Graham distills the essential elements of this sprawling document. Breaking down the Project's strategy for transforming -- and radically empowering -- the executive branch, Graham explains what the architects behind Project 2025 are doing with that power: enforcing traditional gender norms, decimating the civil service, performing mass deportations, and more.
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Who deserves your love: how to create boundaries to start, strengthen, or end any relationshipby KC DavisA practical and gentle guide to navigating the difficult relationships that shape your life by offering a framework for relationships, especially for those who feel overwhelmed, sensitive, or stuck with family dynamics, friendships or romances. With a focus on emotional regulation and decision-making, KC Davis provides clarity on when to stay and when to step away from a relationship. |
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Class clown: the memoirs of a professional wiseassby Dave BarryIn Class Clown, Dave Barry takes us on a hilarious ride, starting with a childhood largely spent throwing rocks for entertainment -- there was no Internet -- and preparing for nuclear war by hiding under a classroom desk. After literally getting elected class clown in high school, he went to college, where, as an English major, he read snippets of great literature when he was not busy playing in a rock band (it was the sixties). This isn't just a memoir; it's a celebration of a life rich with humor, absurdity, joy, and sadness.
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Careless people: a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealismby Sarah Wynn-WilliamsAn insider account charting one woman's career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them. |
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The warrior: Rafael Nadal and his kingdom of clay by Christopher ClareyNadal has won big on tennis's many surfaces en route to becoming one of the greatest players of all time. But clay, the slowest and grittiest of the game's playgrounds, is where it all comes together best for his tactical skills, whipping topspin forehand and gladiatorial mindset. Clay is to Rafael Nadal what water is to Michael Phelps, which helps explain one of the most impressive individual sports achievements of the 21st century.
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As news quickly spread that the four officers accused of using excessive force in the beating of Rodney King in 1992 received "not guilty" verdicts, protests and violence unfolded across Los Angeles. The city on fire and loss of life was just the culmination of years of unrest and racial tensions. Yoo explores the historical and social contributions to the riots, anchoring the narrative through the lives of King; Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old girl shot by a Korean store owner; and Eddie Lee, who was shot and killed during the uprising.
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Interabled follows the lives of several couples as they navigate their love story in an ableist world. Sometimes tear-jerking, sometimes funny, but always heartwarming, this inspiring and true story collection comprised of interviews and short stories will have readers laughing and sobbing as they discover the stories of love and commitment of interabled couples.
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Ages 4-8
With striking, large acrylic artwork and poetic short text, Pumphrey and Wynter collaborate to show the history and meaning of Juneteenth. Back pages include a history of what Juneteenth honors and how it has been celebrated through the years, including it becoming a national holiday in 2021. |
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An ancient catfish becomes a fossil, and as the lake where it lived dries up, the fossil turns to dust -- but this isn't ordinary dust. This dust begins in Chad, West Africa, but winds carry it across the continent, over the Atlantic Ocean, to nourish and replenish the Amazon rain forest and beyond. A gift of dust takes readers on a journey that shows just how interconnected our planet is, and how something so small can have such a huge impact.
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The butcher's daughter: the hitherto untold story of Mrs. Lovettby David DemchukIn 1887 London, journalist Miss Emily Gibson is missing. The investigating constables find a series of letters exchanged with a woman whom Miss Gibson believed may have been Mrs. Margery Lovett (accomplice of Sweeney Todd). As Miss Gibson pursues the truth, her correspondent reveals the events of her life. It's an account of poverty, oppression, and the macabre, graduating from the mundane violence of the butcher shop of her childhood to the doctor's house where she went into service after her father's untimely death. |
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King of ashes: a novel by S. A. CosbyWhen eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father's car accident, he finds his younger brother Dante in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister Neveah exhausted from holding the family and its business together. Neveah and their father run the Carruthers Crematorium and see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dante's recklessness has placed them all in real danger.
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The manor of dreams: a novelby Christina LiA haunting novel about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese-American families fighting to inherit it. |
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Housemates: a novel by Emma Copley EisenbergAfter becoming housemates in Philadelphia, Leah volunteers to accompany Bernie on a road trip to settle a complicated inheritance. What ensues is an unexpected journey into the heart of America as the duo try to make sense of the times they are living in—falling in love with each other and rediscovering the power of making art along the way. |
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Death at the White Hartby Chris ChibnallNothing keeps coastal village of Fleetcombe together like secrets. A man is found dead, tied to a chair in the middle of the road, a stag's antlers on his head. The victim is identified as Jim Tiernan, who ran the White Hart pub. Detective Nicola Bridge grew up in Fleetcombe and has just returned. And now, in the place she thought she knew so well, the Detective is asking questions. Is she ready for what she's about to find? |
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Murder takes a vacation: a novel by Laura LippmanFormer private investigator and middle-aged widow Muriel Blossom's vacation on a Parisian river cruise turns into a deadly international mystery… that only she can solve. By the time the clever conclusion rolls around, readers will be sad to see this trip come to an end |
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by Catherine Mack
A threatening note announcing that "someone is going to die at the wedding" sends a mystery writer into investigative mode to protect those closest to her from danger. Clever thinking and a knack for storytelling make author Eleanor Dash the perfect fit for her job.
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Monk's Hood*by Ellis PetersIn this medieval mystery, Brother Cadfael, a skilled herbalist, faces suspicion when Gervase Bonel, a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey, takes ill. Cadfael hurries to the man's bedside, only to be confronted with two surprises: Master Bonel's wife, whom he loved before he took his vows -- and Master Bonel's fatal poisoning by monk's-hood oil from Cadfael's stores. Using his knowledge of both herbs and the human heart, Cadfael deciphers a deadly recipe for murder. *Look for more books recently added in the Brother Cadfael series. |
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Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions. Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It's her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe. And it's possible the entity Walden most needs to keep her school safe from -- is herself.
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Fantasy
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1827. Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth. Three young women with stories of grief and loss, of freedom and madness, of death and blood, become entwined with each other through the centuries in this memorable vampire story. |
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Leona Griffin is at the height of her career as a para-archeologist. Her high profile attracts the attention of an organization of elite, secretive collectors. They want her to authenticate the artifacts that aspiring members submit. At the glittering reception Leona is shocked to discover that one of the relics is a powerful Old-World object known as Pandora's Box. But she's not the only one interested in that artifact. |
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Perennially single, socially awkward, and drowning in debt, Michael Lincoln finds his life has turned out nothing like the intergalactic lives of the pulp heroes of his youth. But he has a higher calling, and that is to preserve for all posterity the greatest sci-fi series in the history of the written word: The Star Rot Chronicles. Metallic realms is a work of fiction that's about the act of writing a work of fiction, about people who are changed by the fiction they are writing.
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Ages 13 and up.
After discovering a camera memory card with hundreds of photos of teenage girls, some disturbing, seventeen-year-olds Willow and Dare set out to find some of them who have gone missing.
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Ages 14 and up.
Wren Nightingale, unexpectedly gaining elemental powers on her eighteenth birthday, faces deception and danger as she seeks to restore fractured magick while navigating conflicting factions and the complexities of her ally Lee Young's struggles within a mystical hierarchy. |
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Graphic novel ; Ages 12 and up.
After losing his best friend to cancer, grieving Theo navigates a haunting alternate reality that embodies his depression, where he faces a shape-shifting monster and teams up with a mysterious girl to survive in a world where everyone has vanished |
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Born with paper-white skin, Martino is an outcast. To the villagers, albinism is a curse. Bullied and shunned, Martino seeks refuge in the deep woods -- and finds it in Viviana. Powerful and beautiful, Viviana belongs to a sisterhood of outcast women. Martino is welcomed into the fold and, drawing on the magic of the forest, is reborn. A medieval fantasy steeped in mystery -- a haunting and hopeful tale of transformation and found family. |
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Ages 4 and up.
Duncan's crayons have left his room to make friends--from Red Crayon wanting to drive a firetruck, to Blue Crayon meeting a fashion doll, to Esteban off to tame a teddy bear, each crayon has a story to share |
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The Pigeon had better graduate, as he did the work, paid attention to the little details and overcame some big obstacles, or did he(?), in an uplifting, hilarious and inspirational graduation picture book.
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Ages 4 and up.
When three mysterious visitors from "Europe" crash-land in Mr. Li's field, he does what any good host would: he invites them back to his farmhouse and offers to help fix up their "car." No, there's nothing strange about these guests at all. As the townsfolk also come to the aid of the visitors, interplanetary relations reach an all-time high.
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Cat Nap by Steve AntonyAges 0 and up.
Everyone loves a nap except this cat who will not nap, not without his pillow, his milk and all of his toys, in a picture book that encourages nap time and bedtime, even when play time is so tempting.
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Ages 8 and up.
Warm is the smallest pup of the wolf pack, and when enemy wolves come, Warm leads the others away and must become the heart and head of a new pack. Inspired by the real wolves of the American West, especially the extraordinary Wolf 8, who was reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park as a pup |
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Ages 10 and up.
Jenna, determined to save her best friend Reese, who was taken by a creature unlike anything she's ever seen, joins a new local scout troop and ventures into the woods where, when the unthinkable happens, they must band together to fight the monster and survive the night. |
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Graphic novel ; Ages 8 and up.
A century ago, planet Zephyr exploded under mysterious circumstances. Ever since, generations have been living out their lives on the remaining floating planet chunks. Brothers Max and Lari and their father Captain Cherryhair deliver goods around the galaxy on their spaceship -- until their father is suddenly kidnapped. Little brother Lari has to figure out the secret of the broken planet and face the powerful Planet Brother? Can he save not only his brother,but the people of Zephyr too?" |
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Covering the first two original novels, this full-color graphic novel adaptation of the Warriors series brings to life the four Clans of wild cats that have shared the forest and a house cat named Rusty who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all.
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