Fresh from the Stacks

History on the Go!

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We’re putting history in your hands this summer and taking it on the road to destinations near and far.

History in Your Hands

The Wood River Museum opens virtual doors to Wood River Valley History through a free app from Bloomberg Connects.

Locals, visitors, and even people far afield can now experience the history of the Wood River Valley in a whole new way.  The Community Library’s Wood River Museum of History + Culture launched a new digital guide to enrich both onsite and offsite visits. The app features highlights from the Museum’s offerings. More/download the app here.

Community Library Field Trips

The Museum is hosting three summer field trips to provide opportunities to dig deeper into the regional history in southern Idaho. Seating is limited; registration is required.

Saturday, June 28
Field Trip: Minidoka and the Herrett Center

Saturday, August 9
Field Trip: Shoshone Bannock Indian Festival at Fort Hall

Saturday, September 3
Field Trip: Teater’s Knoll and the Hagerman Museum

Sun Valley Story Tour by Bus

Catch free Valley tours every Friday starting July 11 and running through August 29.

The Wood River Museum of History + Culture and Mountain Rides invite you to a one-hour free bus tour with local guides highlighting the area’s rich history. Learn about the area’s most historic locales, including the Horace Lewis home and the mining history, the Brass Ranch barn and the Union Pacific Railroad’s purchase of the Brass Ranch, the first ski lifts in the world, and more.

Advance registration is recommended as space is limited. Sign up in-person at the Sun Valley Visitor Center located at 491 Sun Valley Road in Ketchum, or by emailing the Visitor Center or calling 208.726.3423.

Friday, July 11
Sun Valley Story Tour by Bus

Friday, July 18
Sun Valley Story Tour by Bus

Friday, July 25
Sun Valley Story Tour by Bus

Friday, August 1
Sun Valley Story Tour by Bus

Friday, August 9
Sun Valley Story Tour by Bus

Friday, August 15
Sun Valley Story Tour by Bus

Friday, August 22
Sun Valley Story Tour by Bus

Friday, August 29
Sun Valley Story Tour by Bus

More about  The Community Library’s Wood River Museum of History + Culture here.

Sun Valley Writers’ Conference – 2025

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Reading List at The Community Library

FICTION

The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong TBA 
Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen TBA   
The God of the Woods: A Novel by Liz Moore | New FIC Moore, Nook 5 & 6 See Librarian, Libby eAudiobook 
The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy | FIC Roy 
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl | FIC Reichl, Lg Print, Nook 5 See Librarian, Libby eAudiobook
Promise: A Novel by Rachel Eliza Griffiths | FIC Griffiths 
The Restless Wave: A Novel of the United States Navy by James Stavridis | New FIC Stavridis, Lg Print FIC
The Safekeep: A Novel by Yael van der Wouden | FIC Wouden 
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan | FIC Keegan, Audiobook FIC Keegan, Libby eAudiobook         
Twist: A Novel by Colum McCann | FIC McCann        

NONFICTION

After the North Pole: A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice
by Erling Kagge | New NONFIC 910.911 KAG 
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson | 364.134 THO 
Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What it Means for America
by Paola Ramos | 973.046 RAM 
Everyone Who is Gone is Here by Jonathan Blitzer | 305.9 BLI, Nook 4 See Librarian 
Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery by Theodore H. Schwartz | 617.481 SCH
Boundless eAudiobook
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich by Evan Osnos
New Books 361 OSN, Boundless eAudiobook
Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America by Meenakshi Ahamed | 305.891 AHA 
The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973
by Clara Bingham | 305.42 BIN 
The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America by Oren Cass | 331.109 CAS
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely world
by Vivek H. Murthy | 158.2 MUR, Libby eAudiobook 

MEMOIR

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne | 791.43 DUN, Libby eAudiobook 
Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin by Andre Dubus III | 814.6 DUB 
Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley | 155.93 CRO, Libby eAudiobook
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair | Libby eAudiobook
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin | BIOGRAPHY 920 Goodwin, Lg Print 920 Goodwin, Boundless eAudiobook

BIOGRAPHY

Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television by Tod S. Purdam | TBA
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones | 942.04 JON
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
by Sonia Purnell | New NONFIC, 973.9 PUR, Nook 5 See Librarian, Libby eAudiobook  
Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot | BIOGRAPHY 920 REA
Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski by Edward Luce | TBA         

Download a PDF of this list here.

The Swiss Alps to Sun Valley

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A Community Library Field Trip 

Monday, September 8 – Wednesday, September 17
Trip begins and ends in Zurich 

What is This Trip About?  

This is a curated trip for The Community Library and Wood River Museum of History + Culture created by Caroline Hostettler of Quality Cheese, a cheese importing company specializing in artisanal and alp cheeses from Switzerland. Caroline is a native of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, has owned Quality Cheese for over 25 years and has been leading trips to Switzerland for over 10 years. She’s created this itinerary to focus on cheese, the outdoors and hiking, and experiences that speak to mountain culture and sustainability.

Museum Community Engagement Manager Kristine Bretall is coordinating local logistics and will accompany the group as your host, available to assist in every way possible.

Switzerland collage

Why This Trip to Switzerland?  

To create community through travel and to explore mountain culture, our connection to Switzerland and the desire of Averell Harriman to create a European ski resort in Idaho. There is a deep link to the history of Sun Valley – with food, skiing, mountains and more! We anticipate that the trip will forge a bond between each other and these mountain roots that we can share with our friends and family in Idaho.  

This international field trip features visits to St. Moritz, home of the 1948 Olympics where local legend Gretchen Fraser won gold; Bad Ragatz, the old spa town featured in the book Heidi; stays in Stans and Lenzerheide, home of five World Cup skiing finals; visits to local cheese, beer, and grain producers; and a cow descent from the alps that mirrors our own Trailing of the Sheep.

Trip Highlights: 

  • Day 1: Wine tasting, hike to Bad Ragaz, check in Schweizerhof Lenzerheide (4 nights) 
  • Day 2: Visit to heritage grain farm (grain will be part of a meal later that week), hiking, wellness center, village exploring on your own 
  • Day 3: Funicular ride & hiking, food & history visit to St. Moritz (site of 1948 Olympics where Gretchen Fraser won the first US gold medal in skiing) 
  • Day 4: Walk up to Alp Parpan, tour and tasting at Calanda brewery, explore the town of Chur, dinner that night at Scalottas – the chef was awarded Best Swiss Chef 2024 
  • Day 5: Visit to Alp Bleiki, transfer to the town of Stans, check in to Culinarium Alpinum Stans (4 nights), explore village and hotel 
  • Day 6: Cheese making visit & tasting at Molki Stans, tour of an edible garden, Alp Sbrinz visit and cider tasting 
  • Day 7: Visit to traditional belt and bell maker, boat ride on Lake Lucerne
  • Day 8: Cow alp descent – moving down from the alp, apertif in the alp dairy
  • Day 9: Chocolate tasting in confiserie, Zurich (may include food shop tour or boat ride), final dinner & stay at airport hotel for departure next day. 

Cost per Person: 

  • Payable to Quality Cheese Travels:
    • Double occupancy:  $5,900 per person 
    • Single occupancy: $6,900 per person
    • Pay via check, credit card or Venmo
  • Payable to The Community Library Association:
    • Tax-deductible, refundable donation
    • $500 per person to reserve your space by May 1, 2025
  • Cost Includes: 
    • All breakfasts and dinners (including beverages)
    • Professional, private transportation in a Mercedes 17-passenger van
    • Any fees related to funiculars, boats, entrances 
    • Hotels: Four nights in Lenzerheide, four nights in Stans, final night at airport hotel Zurich 
  • Not Included: Flights, extra purchases such as lunches, souvenirs, etc. 

Itinerary

Monday, September 8 

  • Arrive Zurich Airport 
  • Short hike to Bad Ragatz: An artsy, spa village in the most regarded wine area of Switzerland and a location in Switzerland’s most renowned book, Heidi. 
  • Regional Wine Tasting at Torkel: A restaurant with their own vineyards and they specialize in regional, small production varietals. Try wines you’ve never heard of! Best quality education in presenting and pairing wines. 
  • Check into SCHWEIZERHOF LENZERHEIDE: Top location in a prestigious small town that has hosted five World Cup skiing finals. Incredible breakfast with local ingredients and products. Wonderful wellness/spa area, mountain culture themed library. This will be our hotel for 4 nights.  
Switzerland bottles

Tuesday, September 9 

  • Breakfast at the hotel
  • Visit to heritage grain farm (this grain will be part of Thursday night’s dinner)
  • Options for the afternoon:
    • Book a massage or treatment or just visit the wellness center at the hotel
    • Go for a hike in the mountains outside the door
    • Explore the village and eat sweets! 

Wednesday, September 10 

  • Breakfast at hotel
  • Funicular ride and hiking
  • Visit to historic St. Moritz – location for the 1948 Olympics in which Gretchen Fraser won gold and silver – becoming the first American to win a medal in skiing
  • Taste the iconic nusstorte in St. Moritz 
Switzerland lake
Switzerland valley

Thursday, September 11 

  • Easy hike up to Alp Parpan. What is an alp? It’s a place where humans and animals move to in the summer to take advantage of the rich meadows and produces cheese throughout the summer to preserve the best milk of the year. Seasonal living, a uniquely alpine and Swiss way of life.  
  • Calenda Beer Tour & Tasting in Chur. Chur is the oldest Alp town and is home to a famous brewery that links the quality of its products to the clean, pure, glacial water.  
  • Dinner at Scalottas: The chef was just nominated the Best Chef in Switzerland for 2024. Passionate purist who works on farms when not in the kitchen & supports small, local, back to the roots producers.  
Switzerland Scallotas food
Switzerland Scallotas chef

Friday, September 12 

  • Visit Alp Bleiki: another Alp visit in a different region = different circumstances, work patterns and cheeses. Bleiki is a family Alp, small and authentic and dedicated to keeping the tradition of transhumance and alpine culture alive. One of only eight remaining Alp Sbrinz producers, and the one with the most perfect 20 awards. 
  • Check into Culinarium Alpinum Stans. An abbey turned into a beautiful hotel and event space. Dedicated to good food, alpine culture, heritage, agriculture, etc. Brilliant restaurant with an open wine cellar. Bare, minimalist and totally stunning! 
  • Explore the village, wellness area in hotel.  
  • Stans is a small town with a pedestrian only core, historical buildings, amazing culinary options and so much character. Walk down right from our hotel and experience Swissness pure: Folks walking and biking to get groceries, to get to the train station, to meet friends. It is in this part of the country that all the battles happened, and Switzerland eventually was founded (almost 900 years ago). 

Saturday, September 13 

  • Cheese making visit & tasting at Molki Stans – two young, unorthodox cheese makers who are bringing new ideas, new philosophies and new cheeses onto the market. Tiny but efficient!
  • Tour of an edible garden – and most of the veggies at the hotel’s restaurant come from this garden. Also part of the hotel and former abbey is the only Alp Sbrinz aging cellar of Switzerland. It holds the wheels from all eight remaining Alp Sbrinz cheese makers, a quickly diminishing breed. Affinage, cheese history and traditions. Cider tasting, too! 

Sunday, September 14 

  • Visit to traditional belt and bell maker. Bells, belts, straps, jewelry were invented when everything still was made by hand. Only few of these artisans are left by now, and what they create is amazing
  • Boat ride on Lake Lucerne
  • Dinner with a view! 

Monday, September 15 

  • Cow Alp Descent: Surviving a summer on the Alp, far away from luxury, from what one is used to, exposed to the moods and forces of nature is a big achievement for both humans and animals. No wonder the day of the return back to civilization is celebrated and cherished. – Alp culture, mountain lifestyle, pure Swissness.
  • Once all the animals and their shepherds have moved on, we will be the guests of the young couple that was in charge of making cheese on the Alp during the summer. They still have to clean out and secure the hut for the winter, so their work is not done on the day of the descent yet. But before they start this last (hidden to most) part they will host us for a hearty apéritif and some insight into alp life. 

Tuesday, September 16 

  • One on one chocolate tasting with a talented, super innovative chocolate and pastry chef. She will teach and show us and of course let us taste some of the traditional and also some of the less usual creations. No Switzerland trip without chocolate! 
  • Zurich (Food shop tour or boat tour or tour on your own). Zürich has too much to offer for one day. So guests will have to pick, and you will get great guidance from Caroline! Architecture, food, history, art, music, design, outdoors, museums and many more options…
  • Final group dinner
  • Staying at Holiday Inn Express Rümlang near the Zurich Airport – there is a quick 10-minute shuttle from the hotel to the airport.  

Wednesday, September 17 

  • Individual departures from Zurich – flights are usually EARLY morning back to the states option to stay longer in Europe/Switzerland.  

Download the Questionnaire here.

Download the Travel Waiver here.

Questions? Want to reserve your space? Email Kristine Bretall, Museum Community Engagement Manager.

Loops and Bounds

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The Invitation of Ink

By Martha Williams
Director of Programs and Education

Liaison Yidan Guo and Martha banner
L-R: Martha Williams, Artist Yidan Guo, Guo and Paul Bates at the installation of the Memorial Banners in the Library’s Lecture Hall

Above my head flutter loops of translucent paper, inked Chinese characters dancing down the lecture hall’s beams. These Memorial Banners tell of the more than 10,000 Chinese workers who contributed to building the western section of the Transcontinental Railroad between 1863 and 1869.

Paid less than their white counterparts, segregated and discriminated against, these laborers enduring blustering winters in the Sierra Nevada – as well as rockslides and explosions and other violences – far from the homes they sent money to and longed for.

Artist Yidan Guo created the two 65-foot banners in honor of these workers, whose names are mostly lost to us now.

Their voices disappeared as letters home were destroyed, and their faces were omitted from the final flash of a photograph at Promontory Summit when the Golden Spike was driven in.

Their story, drawing from historical texts, begins at one end of the light brown paper, commonly used in traditional Chinese art. Their tale continues onto red, a shade used during the Chinese New Year when scrolls of poetry adorn doorways welcoming guests and inviting prosperity and peace.

The artist was creating the work in early 2024 in her Pocatello studio around the time of the holiday. “Out of nostalgia, I chose this red paper to pray for my homeland,” she says.

“Additionally, I attributed the meanings of ‘passion’ and ‘blood’ to this color, to commemorate those Chinese workers who sacrificed their lives in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.”

Standing under these banners I notice how the Chinese characters bleed through the thin paper and can be seen from all angles, the story layering over on itself and becoming part of the room. It’s a narrative I cannot read, one that eludes me. But it’s a story and a labor I can appreciate: Guo’s desire to commemorate the men who left their war-torn homelands seeking ways to support their families.

Gazing at these characters, unintelligible to me as a whole but mesmerizing as I spend a few moments looking at each one – the ink evoking a visual story of fire (火) and mountains (山) and men (男) – I see a story within each brushstroke. I’m reminded of the young woman Daiyu, the central character of Jenny Tinghui Zhang’s novel Four Treasures of the Sky (our 2025 Winter Read) who learns calligraphy before being kidnapped from her home in China and arriving in San Francisco and then a mining town in 1880s Idaho.

Navigating new and bewildering people and places, Daiyu conjures up images of Chinese characters to help her make sense of this new world. Calligraphy is for her a tether to home, a view into the life she could have led. And, as she learns from Master Wang, calligraphy is not only a practice, but a philosophy: “something to be carried for the rest of the calligrapher’s life, the ink replacing blood, the brush replacing arms.”

This is the kind of person you can become, he tells his students, “The kind who approaches the world as a blank sheet of paper every time.”

What more are the stories we read, the thousands of books on the shelves here at The Community Library, than blank sheets of paper full of the life and blood others have poured onto them? Stories of survival and failure and joy and hardship. Stories of leaving behind one home and finding another, of leaving behind one version of the self and evolving into something unexpected.

Reading is our opportunity to hear about the lives of others, to interpret their experiences and compare them with our own. To be entertained, to learn, to engage with the wide world beyond our door. To open our minds to the many voices and histories these inks convey…

…to be blank pages receiving and creating our own new stories every day.

I hope you’ll join us on Monday, February 24 for “Mastering the Brush,” a conversation with Yidan Guo, who will tell us about the process of creating these banners and about the role of calligraphy in her art. A few days later, on Thursday, February 27, we’ll close out the Winter Read with a talk from author Jenny Tinghui Zhang.

Come join us, as we talk together about these loops and bound stacks of paper, and about how magical and inviting a simple piece of paper and a bottle of ink can be.

Idaho Public Television filmed a short documentary, Defying Expectations: Yidan Guo, posted on Instagram.

Tracks & Traces: Reconstructing Chinese History…

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…in Southern Idaho

Chinese man chopping wood F 00302

In the late 19th Century, many Chinese men migrated from California to Idaho, along with Europeans and others in pursuit of gold and the promise of Manifest Destiny.

The Idaho Territory spawned numerous mining towns, and Chinese residents and laborers made up one-third of the population by 1870. Due in part to anti-Chinese sentiment, Chinese settlers lived close together and worked difficult and undesirable jobs like laundry service, cooking, small farming, and smelter work.

Anti-Chinese sentiment grew in the West.

Chinese Exclusion Act 1882

In 1882, President Chester Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act. As a result, racial discrimination grew more intense and more violent. There were organized efforts to run Chinese residents out of Idaho towns: in Hailey, an Anti-Chinese League formed, and the Wood River Times wrote anti-Chinese opinions.

To date, there is very little known about the many Chinese residents of the Wood River Valley, because none of them remained. Tracks & Traces tells the story of their ghosts.

Exhibit Artifacts-Sampling

Liquor bottle
Liquor bottle
1935-1940
On loan from the Blaine County Historical Museum
Lu Xing Figurine
Lu Xing Figurine
Tao god of wealth and prosperity
On loan from the Blaine County Historical Museum
Green Glazed Ginger Jar
Green Glazed Ginger Jar
Early 20th Century
Embossed with floral motifs
ivory Mahjong set
Ivory Mahjong Set
1920-1940
Tiles made of ivory and bamboo and hand-painted with symbols

Tracks & Traces is part of the 2025 Winter Read of Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang. More here.

The Community Library’s Best of 2024 

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Pam Parker Best of 2024

By Director of Library Operations Pam Parker

Curated by our librarians, this ‘Best of 2024’ list includes some of the worthiest books published this past year. Our list includes both critically acclaimed literary picks, readers favorites and award-nominated reads.

We strive to offer options across cultures and continents, encouraging a broad approach to reading. You can find more reading ideas for free online at NPR, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, Reddit and Goodreads, among others.

Download a copy of The Community Library’s Best of 2024 here.

Fiction 

Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson | FICTION Axelsson ~ Indigenous Cultures, Family
All Fours by Miranda July | FICTION July ~ Midlife Crisis
The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan | FICTION Sullivan ~ Gothic
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford | FICTION Spofford ~ Historical/Speculative
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner | FICTION Kushner ~ Thriller/Espionage
The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao | FICTION Rao ~ Love, Family
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty | FICTION Talty ~ Contemporary
Funny Story by Emily Henry | FICTION Henry ~ Romance
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore | FICTION Moore ~ Thriller
Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow | YA FIC CAD ~ Coming-of-Age, Poverty
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham ~ FICTION Cunningham ~ Political, Social
James by Percival Everett | FICTION Everett ~ Historic Fiction/Literary
The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai | FICTION Kashiwai ~ Family, Food
Long Island by Colm Toibin | FICTION Toibin ~ Historical, Family
Loot by Tania James | FICTION James ~ Historical, Colonial
Playground by Richard Powers | FICTION Powers ~ Speculative, Nature
Piglet by Lottie Hazell | FICTION Hazel ~ Weddings, Relationship
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller | FICTION Miller ~ Criminal Justice, Legal
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe | FICTION Thorpe ~ Life Experience
Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar | FICTION Akbar ~ Literary Fiction, LGBT
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich | FICTION Erdrich ~ Native American
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley | FICTION Bradley ~ Science Fiction
Real Americans by Rachel Khong | FICTION Khong ~ Contemporary, Magical Realism
The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden | FICTION Wouden ~ Period (‘60s), Holland
Salmon Moon by Julie Weston | MYSTERY Weston ~ Western/Local Interest
Shock Induction by Charles Palahniuk  | FICTION Palahniuk ~ Dystopian, Education
Swift River by Essie Chambers | FICTION Chambers ~ Coming-of-Age
Table for Two by Amor Towles | FICTION Towles ~ Short Stories/Novella
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout | FICTION ~ Olive Kitteridge Series
Time of the Child by Niall Williams | FICTION Williams ~ Family, Ireland
The Women by Kristin Hannah | FICTION Hannah ~ Period (’60s), Viet Nam
You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue | FICTION Enrigue ~ Speculative, Mexico

Nonfiction 

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt | 305.23 HAI ~ Psychology, Childhood
The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan | 813.54 TAN ~ Author Memoir, Nature
Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten| Biography 920 Garten ~ Chef Memoir, Abuse
Bone of the Bone: Essays by Sarah Smarsh | 305.562 SMA ~ Poverty, American Culture
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher | 338.47 SWI ~ Tech Memoir, Journalism
Challenger: …Disaster on the Edge by Adam Higginbotham | 363.124 HIG ~ Space Exploration
Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik | 813.54 ANO ~ Author/Artist Memoir
Freedom: Memories 1954-2021 by Angela Merkel | Biography 920 Merkel ~ Political, Europe
Memories of Distant Mountains by Orhan Pamuk | 894.35 PAM ~ Memoir, Writing/Arts
Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin | 155.937 LIN ~ Loss & Grieving
How to Win an Information War by Peter Pomerantsev | 979.4 MAR ~ Period (WW II)
John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg | Biography 920 Lewis ~ Civil Rights
John Lewis: …Beloved Community by Raymond Arsenault| Biography 920 Lewis ~ Civil Rights
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman by Sonia Purnell | 973.9 PUR ~ Historical, Influencer
Knife: Meditations After An Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie | Biography 920 Rushdie
The Last Fire Season: A Personal History by Manjula Martin | 979.4  MAR ~ Memoir, Environment
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates | 070.92 COA ~ Social History, Journalism
My Beloved Monster: Masha by Caleb Carr | 636.8 CAR  ~ Pets/Cats, Aging
Nexus: …Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari | 001.09 HAR ~ Technology
Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen | 355.021 JAC ~ Military Policy, Warfare
Patriot by Aleksie Navalny | Biography 920 Navalny ~ Russian, Political Prisoner
Power Metal by Vince Beiser | 333.85 BEI ~ Resources, Economics
The Showman: …Zelensky by Simon Shuster | 947.708 SHU ~ Current Affairs, Biography
The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon | 920.02 MCM ~ Women’s History
Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh | 338.473 GHO ~ Opium Trade
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey| 594.38 BAI ~ Nature, Aging
Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg | 153.6 DUH ~ Communication, Business
An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearn Goodwin | Biography 920 Goodwin ~ Period (‘60s)
Unshrinking by Kate Manne | 305.908 MAN ~ Weight, Discrimination
Who’s Afraid of Gender by Judith Butler | 305.3 BUT ~ Sociology, Gender
The Wide Wide Sea: …Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides | 910.92 SID ~ Historical
War by Bob Woodward | 973.934 WOO ~ International Affairs, Current Events
Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa | 978.98 TAF ~ Memoir, Native American

Graphic Novels 

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by Manu Larcenet | Graphic Novel 741.5 LAR
The Examiner by Janice Hallett | Graphic Novel FICTION Hallett
Into the Uncut Grass by Trevor Noah | Graphic Novel FICTION Noah
Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets by Sacha Mardou | Graphic Novel 362 MAR
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain by Kazuo Ishiguro | Graphic Novel 782.42 ISH

Poetry 

Latino Poetry: the Library of America Anthology by Rigoberto Gonzalez | 811.6 GON
No One Will Know You Tomorrow by Najwan Darwish | 892.71 DAR

Note: Some of these titles are still held in our NEW BOOKS area and many are checked out, so you may need to place a hold.

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