Periodically we remove the titles that haven’t circulated in 4+ years, to make room for newer titles. If you’ve seen our Adult Fiction section then you know that it’s a good sized collection. Meanwhile, I’ve been dealing with a different issue. Here at the Evanston library we strive to keep our displays diverse 365 days of the year. Indeed some libraries and bookstores outright refuse to create these displays, opting instead to create them for the eleven other months of the year. But as many have pointed out, this month often turns out to be the only time these books are ever highlighted. For many libraries and bookstores, this means pulling together large displays of black authors, black subject matter, black history, etc. Encuentros de Escucha e Intercambio Comunitarioīlack History Month is here.10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 9 am - 6 pm 9 am - 6 pm 12 pm - 6 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 9 am - 6 pm 9 am - 6 pm 12 pm - 6 pm See All Evanston Public Library
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Summers' A Certain Hunger introduces us to the food world's most charming psychopath and an exciting new voice in fiction.Ĭannibalism may not be morally sound. Recounting her life from a seemingly idyllic farm-to-table childhood, the heights of her career, to the moment she plunges an ice pick into a man's neck on Fire Island, Dorothy Daniels show us what happens when a woman finally embraces her superiority.Ī satire of early foodieism, a critique of how gender is defined, and a showcase of virtuoso storytelling, Chelsea G. Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life, frequently traveling from Manhattan to Italy for a taste of both.īut there is something within Dorothy that's different from everyone else, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes Dorothy uniquely, terrifyingly herself. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. There is the trademark dose of MKA snark with some clever putdown quips. There is a murder mystery, which is not the worst ever written but is nothing remarkable. The narration is very good, but the story is depressing, and not in any redeemable way. MILD SPOILERS AHEAD (relationship only, not the murder): The book takes all the fun out of dysfunctional. Can Grace figure out a new way home and discover how strong she needs to be to get there? When their “divorce coach” starts to act suspiciously, they decide to start having their own Wednesday "Ladies' Night" sessions at The Sandbox, and the unanticipated bonds that develop lead the members of the group to try and find closure in ways they never imagined. So is attending court-mandated weekly "divorce recovery" therapy sessions with three other women and one man for whom betrayal seems to be the only commonality. Moving in with her widowed mother, who owns and lives above a rundown beach bar called The Sandbox, is less than ideal. Grace suddenly finds herself locked out of her palatial home, checking account, and even the blog she has worked so hard to develop in her signature style. Grace Stanton’s life as a rising media star and beloved lifestyle blogger takes a surprising turn when she catches her husband cheating and torpedoes his pricey sports car straight into the family swimming pool. While the narrative focuses predominantly on politics, high-level diplomacy and war, it also illuminates other topics, including the Jewish settlement of Palestine in the early years of this century, tensions between secularists and Orthodox Jews, Israeli military intelligence operations, the current impasse in negotiations with Palestinian Arabs and the ferment of Israeli society, which Gilbert portrays as a diverse mixture of immigrant peoples that embody many different strands of Judaism yet are united by Israeli culture. Gilbert's extensive behind-the-scenes and on-the-battlefield coverage of Israel's numerous wars with its Arab neighbors adds much new detail. Digging up a wealth of primary source material and quoting liberally from letters, memoirs, eyewitness accounts, interviews, memoranda and diaries of David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, Abba Eban, Shimon Peres, Teddy Kollek and dozens of ordinary people, the eminent British historian (The Holocaust) has produced a gripping epic. Gilbert's impassioned history adds immeasurably to our understanding of the forces that have shaped contemporary Israel. Martin Gilbert The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War Paperback Illustrated, by Martin Gilbert (Author) 1,079 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 18.85 36 Used from 11.70 3 Collectible from 19. Yes, let’s start with Rachel Reed’s Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage, the first book on your list. Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom with Modern Knowledge She has a really nice approach to the process as something quite transformational and fundamental in terms of what it can bring to a woman’s life. Rachel Reed’s book -because she is a midwife-deals most closely with the kinds of nuts and bolts of pregnancy and labour and birth. But since researching my most recent book, Womb, it’s become clear to me how important it is to have a much broader view of pregnancy and birth within a social context, and within the context of reproductive justice, and also to think creatively about how childbirth is written about in other formats. I did think as I was compiling this list that there are different ways I could have gone about it, and it might have been easier in a way to come up with a list that was very narrowly focused on pregnancy and birth: the process of it, and advice around it. There’s great range in this list did you have a guiding principle in mind when selecting your recommended books? The books you’ve chosen interpret childbirth in the broadest sense. Foreign Policy & International Relations. Delving into forgotten-and often lurid-facts of the Revolutionary War, Logan Beirne focuses on the nation’s first commander in chief, George Washington, as he shaped the very meaning of the United States Constitution in the heat of battle. Blood of Tyrants reveals the surprising details of our Founding Fathers’ approach to government and this history’s impact on today. I was immediately bothered by the personality and attitude of the heroine. Mostly, it was was mediocre to frustrating for me. As it stands, I'm having a hard time finding things that I really liked. This should have been a slam dunk for me ~ enemies-to-love, Seattle setting, and a YA rom-com. But after learning a group of seniors is out to get them, she and Neil reluctantly decide to team up until they’re the last players lef. When Neil is named valedictorian, Rowan has only one chance at victory: Howl, a senior class game that takes them all over Seattle, a farewell tour of the city she loves. While Rowan, who secretly wants to write romance novels, is anxious about the future, she’d love to beat her infuriating nemesis one last time. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even gym class pull-up contests. The Hating Game meets Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgettable romantic comedy about two rival overachievers whose relationship completely transforms over the course of twenty-four hours. “Funny, tender, and romantic.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A dizzying, intimate romance.” -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) And the dream of the world they would have built together is nothing but ash.Īlyce vows to do anything to wake the woman she loves, even if it means turning into the monster Briar believes her to be. But it is a love that came with a heavy price: Aurora now sleeps under a curse that even Alyce’s vast power cannot seem to break. Princess Aurora saw through Alyce’s thorny facade, earning a love that promised the dawn of a new age. Not even the one person who holds her heart. And no one will escape the consequences of her wrath. Once a realm of decadence and beauty, Briar is now wholly Alyce’s wicked domain. Source: The publisher kindly sent me a copy of this book to reviewįeared and despised for the sinister power in her veins, Alyce wreaks her revenge on the kingdom that made her an outcast. Series: Malice Duology #2 (See my review of book one here!)įind it on: Goodreads. But while “American Wife” tells of a high-profile marriage that remains intact despite the narrator’s misgivings, Sittenfeld follows a different path in “Rodham.” The “Hillary” in Sittenfeld’s book breaks off from Bill early and remains Hillary Rodham, a decision which proves fortunate for her. Sittenfeld’s new book is her second imagined portrait of a famous woman: “American Wife,” based on the life of Laura Bush, was published in in 2008. But she feels very familiar to me now in terms of the trajectory of her life, her relationships, her syntax, so when I see clips of her or hear her voice, I think, ‘Oh, that’s my Hillary.'” “I realize that closeness is NOT mutual - we’ve never met. “I was definitely an admirer of Hillary before I started the book, but writing from her perspective made me feel closer to her,” Sittenfeld, whose “Rodham” comes out Tuesday, wrote to The Associated Press in an email. NEW YORK - Over the past few years, author Curtis Sittenfeld has gotten to know Hillary Clinton in a way uniquely suited for a novelist - by writing a work of fiction about her. He just doesn't know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesn't have it. But it isn't until two Russians in tracksuits drag Hank over the bar at the joint where he works and beat him to a pulp that he starts to get the idea: Someone wants something from him. It begins when Hank's neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a rush and hands over Bud in a carrier. But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get him killed. a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock."- Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) It's three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry "call me Hank" Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. " A] fantastically hopped-up thriller. |