FICTION
Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood
Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is 45, perimenopausal and stalled. And today she’s really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across London to win back her estranged teenage daughter on her 16th birthday. Because today is the day she’ll remind her daughter that no matter how far we fall, we can always get back up again. Because Grace Adams used to be amazing. Her husband thought so. Her daughter thought so. Even Grace thought so. But everyone seems to have forgotten. Grace is about to remind them … and, most important, remind herself.
Take What you Need by Idra Novey
Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Appalachia, Take What You Need traces the parallel lives of Jean and her beloved but estranged stepdaughter, Leah, who’s sought a clean break from her rural childhood. In Leah’s urban life with her young family, she’s revealed little about Jean, how much she misses her stepmother’s hard-won insights and joyful lack of inhibition. But with Jean’s death, Leah must return to sort through what’s been left behind. What Leah discovers is staggering: Jean has filled her ramshackle house with giant sculptures she’s welded from scraps of the area’s industrial history. There’s also a young man now living in the house who played an unknown role in Jean’s last years and in her art.
An Inheritance of Magic by Benedict Jacka
Stephen Oakwood is a young man on the edge of this hidden world. He has talent and potential, but turning that potential into magical power takes money, opportunity, and training. All Stephen has is a minimum wage job and a cat. But when a chance encounter with a member of House Ashford gets him noticed by the wrong people, Stephen is thrown in the deep end. For centuries, the vast corporations and aristocratic Houses of the magical world have grown impossibly rich and influential by hoarding their knowledge. To survive, Stephen will have to take his talent and build it up into something greater—for only then can he beat them at their own game.
Dreambound by Dan Frey
When Byron Kidd’s 12-year-old daughter vanishes, the only clue is a note claiming that she’s taken off to explore the Hidden World. She is not the only child to seek out this imaginary realm in recent years, and Byron — a cynical and hard-nosed reporter — is determined to discover the whereabouts of dozens of missing kids. Byron secures a high-profile interview with Annabelle Tobin. The truth Byron discovers is more fantastic than he ever could have dreamed. As he unearths locations from the books that seem to be bleeding into the real world, he must shed his doubts and dive headfirst into the mystical secrets of Los Angeles if he hopes to reunite with his child.
NONFICTION
Your Difference is Your Strength: A Guide to Accepting Yourself – for Anyone who has ever Felt out of Place by Angus Deaton
Your Difference is Your Strength is a book for anyone and everyone who has ever felt out of place, misunderstood, or just … different. It’s the book for the kid who was too creative or too shy or too “weird” and who grew up into an adult who still isn’t quite sure where they fit in or if they even want to. It’s a book for you. In Your Difference is Your Strength, Kris Ferraro, author of Manifesting, invites the oddballs and underdogs of the world to stop hiding, minimizing, or disguising their differences and instead embrace them in a powerful new way. It’s a fearless, joyful call to finally be who you actually are in a world that seems to demand uniformity.
An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America by Edwin Raymond
Offering a rare, often shocking view of American policing, An Inconvenient Cop pulls back the curtain on the many flaws woven into the NYPD’s training, data, and practices, which have since been repackaged and repurposed by police departments across the country. Gravitating toward law enforcement in the hope of being a positive influence in his community, Raymond quickly learned that the problem with policing is a lot deeper than merely “a few bad apples”—the entire mechanism is set up to ensure that racial profiling is rewarded, and there are weighty consequences for cops who don’t play along.
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales and Gavin Edwards
Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even 20 years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? For all its outward success, the studio was forged by near-constant conflict, from the contentious hiring of Robert Downey Jr. for its 2008 debut, Iron Man, to the shocking departures of multiple Marvel executives in 2023. Throughout, the authors demonstrate that the original genius of Marvel was its resurrection and modification of Hollywood’s old studio system. Dishy and authoritative, MCU is the first book to tell the Marvel Studios story in full and an essential, effervescent account of American mass culture.
Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief by Hilarie Burton Morgan
Burton Morgan shares how she’s creating an inheritance of mischief and magic that will outlive her. She shows listeners how they too can look at the elements of their lives and collect the pieces into a tangible collection of a lifetime of learning. Full of life-saving wisdom, these words record the people, places, ideas and habits that have kept Burton Morgan alive, in her signature voice that is at once honest, witty, and charming. The book also includes Simple Spells, which are ways to bring magic into your daily life: create an altar that delights and inspires, practice candle magic and poetry spells, make an oracle deck, or channel your inner kitchen witch with recipes and potions. So, begin creating your own inheritance, take a long look inward and decide: What wisdom will be written on the pages of your Grimoire?
CHILDREN’S
A Simple Christmas on the Farm by Phyllis Alsdurf
A little girl is looking forward to Christmas at her home on the farm. I want to buy a tree and start decorating right away. But Mama laughs and says to slow down. “We’re keeping things simple this year for Christmas on the farm,” she says. “What about presents?” the little girl asks her father. “We’ll have presents,” Daddy says. “But we are going to make them ourselves. “We’ll focus less on getting and more on giving,” Mama adds. The little girl isn’t sure if she will like a simple Christmas, but she discovers that simple is best in this gentle celebration of family, community and making things by hand.
Ages 4-8
LIBRARY OPEN
Lima Public Library is open to the public six days a week. Hours for the Main Library in Lima are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Our Cairo, Elida and Spencerville branch libraries are open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Our Lafayette branch is open from 12 noon to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday.
