Did you know that you can check out an American Girl Doll at The Community Library? Josefina is available in the Children’s Library to take home and care for. Check-out time is 3 weeks.
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Spirit of Endurance
The True Story of the Shackleton Expedition to the Antarctic
by Armstrong, Jennifer
The recent discovery of Shackleton’s sunken ship “Endurance” is the greatest since the Titanic. Children learn about the ship and the Antarctic expedition in this oversize book with photos and drawings.
From Surviving to Thriving
A Breakup Guide by Teens for Teens
by The Advocates
We are excited to offer this guide at the library. It is written by local teens through the help of The Advocates to help teens navigate a breakup. Highly recommended.
Garden Allies
The Insects, Birds, and Other Animals That Keep Your Garden Beautiful and Thriving
In spring, our thoughts turn to unfurling fiddleheads and sprouting seeds! Whether your yard or fields tend toward fragile flowers or the robust returns from a Victory garden, we have the ground-turning books for every green thumb in the 635-639 range in the stacks. Protect those pollinators! Don’t forget your natural partners in creating a sustainable green and healthy habitat. Garden Allies: the insects, birds, & other animals that keep your garden beautiful and thriving by Frédérique Lavoipierre with illustrations by Craig Latker.
Lost in Language & Sound, or, How I Found My Way to the Arts: Essays
By Ntozake Shange
A vibrant and vital collection that celebrates the three most important muses in the life and work of Ntozake Shange–language, music, and dance.
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated writer reflects on what it means to be an artist, a woman,and a woman of color through a beautiful combination of memoir and essay. She describes where her love for creative forces began–in her childhood home, a place where imagination reigned and boredom wasn’t allowed. The essays tell stories ranging from the poignant origin of her celebrated play “for colored girls” to why Shange needed to deconstruct the English language to make that production work, from the intensity of the female experience and the black experience as separate entities to the difficulty of living both lives simultaneously; from the intense love of jazz bestowed on her by her father to a similar obsession with dance, which came from her mother. With deep sincerity, attention, and her legendary candor, Shange’s collection progresses from the public arena to the private, gathering along the way the passions and insights of an author who writes with “such exquisite care and beauty that anybody can relate to her message” (Clive Barnes,The New York Times)
Georgia O’Keeffe: The Poetry of Things
by Turner, Elizabeth Hutton
A celebration of Georgia O’Keeffe’s contribution to still-life painting. It discusses the formative influence of Arthur Wesley Dow and compares her invention in still life to academic practices and traditional models in Western art. There are full-page reproductions of her paintings.
