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Join us the 2nd Wednesday of the month to share favorite books, authors, or series. Literary Salon is a no-rules book club where you bring whatever you're reading to a round of interested listeners. You are welcome to come and be a listener, too. Ten readers shared the following books in February. Please join us at the next Lit Salon on Wednesday, March 13th at 5pm. Check lopezlibrary.org or email Beth for current information. Happy Spring Reading!
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Path : A Short Story About Reciprocity
by Louisa Thomsen Brits
A solitary figure walks along ancient pathways, between slender trees, across open hills. As the earth itself provides support and reassurance, they walk through isolation and uncertainty towards an understanding that they are not alone, but part of the world. Interconnected and interdependent. Path is a meditative journey written in lyrical prose, accompanied by evocative photography and original artworks, that captures the beauty and endurance of the natural landscape and the steady rhythm of walking. Positive and life-affirming, Path is an invitation to experience aliveness and moments of connection.
"In reading, like walking, we lose and find ourselves. Both lift us beyond quotidian existence, shift our perspective, meet our longings, help us find expression and comfort, even prepare us for the unknown."
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Thornhedge
by T. Kingfisher
"There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story. Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right? But nothing with fairies is ever simple. Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as yourarm and as sharp as swords. He's heard there's a curse here that needs breaking, but it's a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold..."
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When in French : love in a second language
by Lauren Collins
Describing how, after moving to Geneva, the author decided to learn French in order to become closer to her husband and his family, a laugh-out-loud effort marked by the complexities of the language, the nature of French identity and her growing appreciation for French-specific communication nuances.
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Baking Cakes in Kigali
by Gaile Parkin
Rendered a confidant and supportive friend for her willingness to listen to her neighbors in genocide-stricken Rwanda, baker Angel Tungaraza provides decadent confections and transforming counsel to a series of troubled customers. A first novel.
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Outlive : the science & art of longevity
by Peter Attia
Drawing on the latest science and challenging mainstream medicine, a visionary physician and leading longevity expert presents a well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving our physical, cognitive and emotional health.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
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Life everlasting : the animal way of death
by Bernd Heinrich
The award-winning author of The Mind of the Raven describes his investigation into the animal world's treatment of death to glean ecological and spiritual lessons, from animal burial and prey disposal behaviors to the important role of humans as scavengers.
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The dog who came in from the cold
by Alexander McCall Smith
A lighthearted follow-up to Corduroy Mansions finds Terence Moongrove's estate turned upside-down by the cosmological experiments of two New Age operators, while literary agent Barbara Ragg takes on a companion of the Abominable Snowman and Pimlico terrier Freddie de la Hay is recruited by MI6.
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The second-worst restaurant in France
by Alexander McCall Smith
To escape complicated domestic circumstances and concentrate on writing his new cookbook, Paul Stuart joins his cousin Chloe in the French countryside, where he finds his fortunes tangled up with those of an infamous local restaurant.
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The door of no return
by Kwame Alexander
"11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets... Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. Some say he moves like a minnow, not just an ordinary boy so he's hoping to finally prove himself in front of Ama and his friends in a swimming contest against his older, stronger cousin. But before this can take place, a festival comes to the villages of Upper and Lower Kwanta and Kofi's brother is chosen to represent Upper Kwanta in the wrestling contest. Encircled by cheering spectators and sounding drums, the two wrestlers from different villages kneel, ready to fight. You are only fine, until you are not. The match is over before it has barely begun, when the unthinkable-a sudden death-occurs... The river does not care how grown you are. As his world turns upside down, Kofi soon ends up in a fight for his life. What happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves"
This is a novel in verse - "Novels in Verse are a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose. Either simple or complex stanza verse-forms may be used, but there will usually be a large cast, multiple voices, dialogue, narration, description, and action in a novel-like manner." We call them Quick Reads because they are, but the content is as rich as a novel. To see our collection of novels in verse, visit our Quick Reads booklist.
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