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The Good Stuff From the Staff of Driftwood Public Library January 2025 |
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Graphic novel ; ages 14 and up
When her childhood friend comes back to town, high school senior Mags, who has a secret that drains her energy and leaves her bleeding, refuses to get attached until the darkness threatens to engulf them, forcing her to risk everything and drag her secret into the light. |
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Cunning folk: life in the era of practical magic by Tabitha StanmoreThis history of practitioners of“service magic” in medieval and early modern Europe reveals the central place they occupied in everyday life and how they helped soothe the anxieties of both commoners and nobles. |
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Night mother: a personal and cultural history of The exorcist by Marlena WilliamsBlends personal narrative with cultural criticism to explore the ways The Exorcist has influenced the author's life and American culture, tracing stories of the film's stars and analyzing infamous scenes while excavating the deeper stories the film tells about faith, family, illness, anger, guilt, desire, and death.
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Bury your gays by Chuck TingleAn Oscar-nominated showrunner of a 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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Big machine: a novel by Victor D. LaValleScraping out an existence as a New York bus porter, recovering addict and suicide cult survivor Ricky Rice is inducted into a band of paranormal investigators who share his experience of having heard disembodied voices that may have a divine source.
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The forest brims over: a novel by Maru AyaseWhat hooked me: The plot summary. A husband puts his wife in a aquaterrarium. And then things get really crazy. Eek! |
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The wren in the Holly Libraryby K. A. LindeWhat hooked me: The gorgeous cover - with sprayed and stenciled edges. Aqua and silver, oh my! What a work of art. |
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Racing to justice: Transforming our conceptions of self and other to build an inclusive societyby john a. powellRenowned social justice advocate john a. powell persuasively argues that we have not achieved a post-racial society and that there is much work to do to redeem the American promise of inclusive democracy. Culled from a decade of writing about social justice and spirituality, these meditations on race, identity, and social policy provide an outline for laying claim to our shared humanity and a way toward healing ourselves and securing our future. |
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Self-care for people with ADHD: 100+ ways to recharge, de-stress, and prioritize you! by Sasha HamdaniThis book can help you engage in some neurodiverse self-care-without pretending to be neurotypical. You'll find more than 100 tips to accepting yourself, destigmatizing ADHD, finding your community, and taking care of your physical and mental health. You'll find solutions for managing the negative aspects of ADHD, as well as ideas to bring out the positive aspects.
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Birding while Indian by Thomas C. GannonHaving both white and Native American heritage creates unique tensions in life and bird watching in this conflicted memoir. Gannon weaves these reminiscences around vignettes from his lifelong bird-watching hobby. An English professor who is one-eighth Lakota Sioux, Gannon revisits a lifetime of racist experiences. Birding has always been his escape and solace.
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Ages 12 and up.
Written by an experienced teen therapist, this honest and supportive guide offers step-by-step approaches that are simple yet yield big results, helping readers improve their relationship with their problematic parents and gain control over their own lives. |
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This important and timely investigation of the Fourteenth Amendment, born in the years after the Civil War, and the impact it's had — and continues to have — on our rights as citizens looks at three famous cases, separated by decades, that were decided under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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In the first volume of a three-book series, middle school protagonists Padmini, Sammy, Joe, and Tiana and their guide, Kenji, embark on an amazing journey through time to witness key events in AANHPI history. They witness the arrival of the "Manilamen" to the United States in the eighteenth century and fly through significant moments in the next 150 years.
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A makerspace educator inspires kids to be creative with 100 inventive tinkering projects that illustrate the principles of science, encourage experimentation and discovery, and sharpen STEAM skills. Kids will love browsing through the quirky projects, step by step instructions and photos, and simple guides to exploring everyday materials in a host of useful ways!
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A house with a green door has sat on a canal in Amsterdam for over 400 years witnessing love, desperation and historic change, in a picture book that honors its inhabitants, including Anne Frank, and four centuries of history.
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The kingdom of no tomorrow by Fabienne JosaphatThe story of a young Haitian woman in California who weighs her plans for medical school against her growing involvement with the Black Panther Party in 1968 Oakland. After joining, Nettie falls in love with Melvin, a high-ranking party member, and follows him to Chicago gradually developing the skills required of a Panther sister. Eventually, a series of tragic events send her on the run, trying to save herself.
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The close-upby Pip DrysdaleWhen Zoe Ann Weiss moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, her whole future is wide open. But then Zach, the bartender and aspiring actor she's falling for, ghosts her. Her debut novel, a thriller, fails. Now, three years later Zach is a famous writer and Zoe is not. After they accidentally re-discover each other, her first novel goes viral, and now everyone seems to know her name — including the mysterious stalker obsessed with Zach. A stalker who begins reenacting violent events from Zoe's book, step by step, against her. |
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When their thirteen-year-old daughter Nora kills her terminally ill brother, Angie and David Sheehan struggle to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. They turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont - who is also the mother of Angie's ill-fated first love Julian, a successful criminal defense attorney. Martine promptly draws Julian into the legal battle against an overreaching district attorney determined to try Nora as an adult. As the families grapple with the lasting strain of blame and the complexities of an often unfair criminal justice system, Julian and Angie must confront their own culpability in a long-ago accident. |
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In the final months of World War II, a clandestine group known as The Choir successfully smuggles thousands of escapees out of Nazi-occupied Rome via a secret route known as the Escape Line. When an unidentified airman falls wounded from the sky, The Choir is plunged into danger and the survival of the Escape Line itself is threatened. |
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Hotel Lucky Seven by Kotaro IsakaIn Bullet Train, underworld operative Ladybug was tasked by his handler with retrieving a suitcase from a high-speed train in Japan. The job did not go according to plan. This time around all he has to do is deliver a painting to a hotel guest, a portrait made by his daughter. Easy enough, except when Ladybug makes the delivery, he realizes that the guest is clearly not the guy in the painting. When the guest attacks Ladybug, they fight, and the guest ends up dead. How can such simple jobs always go wrong?
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Beast of the north woodsby Annelise RyanAn ice fisherman is savagely mauled to death in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and an eyewitness claims the man was attacked by the mythical Hodag. So how could an imaginary creature be chomping on local sportsmen? The professional cryptozoologist, Morgan Carter travels to Wisconsin to prove that a hodag not only exists but killed the victim. Clues may be hard to come by, but one thing's for sure: something killed that man, and that something now has its eyes focused on Morgan. |
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Nobody's hero by M. W. CravenBen Koenig, the man who cannot feel fear, is back investigating another case, this time connected to an incident 10 years ago, when Ben helped a woman who held a secret about the safety of the U.S. Now there are bodies on the street, contract killers involved, and the fate of the nation on the line. |
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Night and dayby John Connolly Filled with eerie surprises and dark delights, Night and day takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional characters to a bunker deep beneath the earth where scientists seek revenge on old Nazis; from an English marsh haunted by a mother and her son to a country house where a grieving widower finds comfort from a most unlikely source....
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Red Sonja: Consumed by Gail SimoneRed Sonja, the famous, fiery She-Devil and barbarian of Hyrkania, is drawn back to her homeland when rumors start bubbling up — rumors of unknown horrors emerging from the ground and pulling their unsuspecting victims to their deaths. When strange voice begins whispering to her in her sleep, she realizes she may have to return to the country that abandoned her and finally do the only thing that has ever scared her: confront her past. |
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The improvisersby Nicole GloverVelma Frye is a pilot, a former bootlegger, a well-seasoned traveller, a jazz pianist, and a wielder of celestial magic. When a pocket watch instigates a magical brawl after one of her flight shows, things become very complicated. In 1930s America, enchanted items are highly valuable, especially in the waning days of the magical Prohibition. As Velma digs deeper, she discovers the watch is part of a collection of dangerous artifacts manipulating people across the country - and in some cases, leading to their deaths. |
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The life impossible: a novel by Matt HaigWhen retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.
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The rules of royaltyby Cale DietrichJamie Johnson's entire world unravels as a hidden truth emerges: he's the heir to the throne of Mitanor, a sun-drenched southern European country and he's received an invitation to spend the summer in his father's palace. Meanwhile, Erik, the spare prince of a northern European kingdom is asked to tutor the newly found American prince in the ways of royalty. At a magnificent summer palace, Erik guides Jamie through the intricacies of royal etiquette, politics, and history. What neither prince anticipates is the connection that sparks between them -- one that challenges both of their futures. |
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Graphic novel
In 1943 Amsterdam, Emma Bergsma's world changes when she witnesses Jewish families being forcibly deported to concentration camps. She decides to join the Dutch Resistance. Before long, Emma is drawn into a clandestine world with thousands of lives on the line. In 2011 Amsterdam, teenage Annick's world has changed as well. A search for a bone marrow donor for her beloved oma leads to a shocking revelation: her grandmother was secretly adopted as a child. The only clues to finding their lost family are a series of art prints hanging on the wall--each signed by a mysterious "Emma B." |
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Named in the will of a wealthy man as potential beneficiaries, sixteen-year-old Mullory Prudence and a group of teenagers compete in a game of mystery royale at Stoutmire Estate for a chance to win a magical inheritance by unraveling the details of the man's murder. |
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Secret of the moon conch by David BowlesTwo Mexican teens in separate timelines fall in love via a magical conch shell in this sweeping fantasy. Fleeing to the U.S. border, Sitali finds a conch shell detailed with ancient markings that connects her to Calizto, a young Aztec warrior in 1521 Tenochtitlan. Sitali and Calizto's alternating perspectives and their individual conflicts depict the treatment of Indigenous communities through engaging present-day and 16th-century lenses. |
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Familiar elements of a forest landscape sporting the creator's characteristic illustrated eyes against a blank white backdrop.
As the sun goes down and the objects close their eyes, readers are invited to "sleep too and think about what you will do there tomorrow." Lulling rhythms, interactive language, and repeating words soothe and amuse. |
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Ages 5 and up
To meet her favorite gymnast, Rachel, a funny, peanut butter-loving Jewish girl, must follow all the rules for a whole week but when a tricky situation calls for breaking the rules, she loses her chance to meet her hero and learns that some rules exist for a reason. |
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Pizza and Taco have a new after-school club about making comics, but everyone goes to Cheeseburger's video game club instead. Pizza and Taco have no choice but to check it out. They just might learn that kids want to make comics just as much as they want to play video games!
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After a storm displaces four eaglets, they embark on a journey to find a place that feels true to them, or a home. The new environments reveal creatures who appear to be similar to the eaglets. With each encounter, one of the eaglets makes the decision whether to keep going or to stay with the newfound kin. |
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Graphic novel ; ages 8 and up
Verity "Very" Nelson can do it all. She's student body president, debate club whiz, and first chair clarinetist. You could say she's pretty much the best at everything.... Well, everything except math. And it's not like she doesn't try. Math just doesn't make sense in her brain. But it better start soon, or else she can kiss her presidency — and her campaign promises — goodbye.
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Twelve-year-old Dexter Foreman has lived at The Pines Retirement Village with his grandmother since he was 6 years old, enjoying homeschooling and friendships with the elderly. But when he's forced to attend middle school for the first time, where he sticks out like a sore thumb, Dexter must learn to be a kid; how to dress, talk slang, and deal with bullies.
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Like all the children in her world, 10-year-old Meticulous Jones gets "fated" on her birthday; a magical tattoo appears foretelling her future. Hers indicates she will become a murderer, so she is hidden away in the Welsh countryside until her father goes missing. As Metty tries to find her dad and not succumb to her fate, she gets closer to her aunt who whisks her away to New London, a floating city powered by magical ink and learns about their family history.
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An unlikely group of five somewhat awkward but tech-savvy classmates learn that their arts-themed boarding school, located on an island in San Francisco Bay, actually trains teams of its students to become highly skilled crime-fighting units. Now, responding to a plea from another student, Olive Zang rounds up her group, the Misfits, for an investigation that takes them into San Francisco, where strong but highly localized earthquakes are creating chaotic diversions from thefts taking place nearby.
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Fiction by Curtis Sittenfeld (2/25) by Rupert Everett (2/11) by Jenny Elder Moke (1/21) |
Non-Fiction by Alton Brown (2/4) by Rick Steves (2/4) by America's Test Kitchen by Buddy Levy (1/28) |
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