FICTION
People Person by Candice Carty-Williams
Dimple Pennington knows of her half-siblings, but she doesn’t really know them. Five people who don’t have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad’s gold jeep, and some abandonment issues. Dimple has bigger things to think about. She’s 30, and her life isn’t really going anywhere. An aspiring lifestyle influencer, Dimple’s life has shrunk to the size of a phone screen. Despite a small but loyal following, she’s never felt more alone in her life. That is, until a dramatic event brings her half-siblings crashing back into her life. And when they’re all forced to reconnect with Cyril Pennington, the absent father they never really knew, things get even more complicated..
The Truth about the Accident by Nicole Trope
Every day she waves her husband Damon off with a kiss and a smile, drives their precious children to school, and makes sure their house is pristine before preparing a delicious meal. She pretends she’s not filled with fury that he once nearly destroyed their perfect life. It’s important to carry on as normal. That is, until the accident. Her husband was hit by a car. It was pouring with rain. Nobody saw what happened. But the police are asking questions. Do they know about the terrible argument they had that day? Do they know about the text message she sent, telling someone to Delete everything?
An Ordinary Youth by Walter Kempowski
An Ordinary Youth is a novel drawn directly from the author’s boyhood in Nazi Germany. Nine-year-old Walter’s family is moving to a new house when the novel opens, but Walter’s main concerns are his tin soldiers and his older brother’s jazz records, his father’s fluctuating moods, and his mother’s ministrations and anxieties. While Walter is absorbed by his private life, the extraordinary accumulation of contemporary idioms that accompany his point of view — dialogue, song, literary quotations, commercials, and political slogans — tell a different story. Through this echo chamber of voices, Kempowski shows a hugely turbulent and murderously intolerant nation racing toward disaster.
Dark Queen Wary by P.C. Doherty
1472: Edward IV reigns triumphant over England and his rivals, the Lancastrians. But he is uneasy, for one true claimant remains: the young Henry Tudor, son of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond. Henry’s continued existence worries Edward, so he hatches a plan to bring a cuckoo into the nest – an imposter prince is presented to Margaret Beaufort as her son. When she is invited to George Neville’s beautiful home ‘The Moor’ to help investigate some mysterious and gruesome murders she knows dark forces are at play. And as the body count increases, Margaret suspects there is a link to that fateful battle and the murderer who seems relentless in his thirst for blood.
NONFICTION
Live, Laugh, Lesbian by Helen Scott
From strap-ons and Lesbian Bed Death to dealing with homophobic microaggressions in the workplace and finding your second family, Helen Scott, lesbian big sister and lipstick femme in chief is here to hold your hand as you travel your own unique path to Gay Town. Half memoir, half guide, and 100% big lesbian hug, plunge with Helen into the highs and lows of navigating lesbian life in the modern world and emerge with all the lesbian life hacks you’ll need to get out there and live the life of your dreams. Candid, wise, bold and hilarious — it’s time to reclaim the L in LGBTQ+.
Stuff Mom Never Told You: the Feminist Past, Present and Future by Anney Reese
In this book ― their first ― they explore the history, strategy, and emotion that went into several milestones and emergent issues of the recent feminist movement. Starting with Billie Jean King’s famous “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, they also talk about the Civil Rights movement and the women who helped shape it; the disturbing prevalence of major backlogs in rape kit testing; how LGBTQ rights and women’s rights intersect; and how women have been critical to the advancement of disability rights, and more. Written with a sharp tongue, an infectious curiosity, and a deeply empathetic voice, Reese and McVey show the true breadth of what feminism can stand for, what it can achieve, and who it can help lift up.
Self-Care for Black Men: 100 Ways to Heal and Liberate by Jor-El Caraballo
Black men desperately need care and restoration. But what does that restoration look like when you’re a Black man in today’s world? How do you take care of your mental health when men who look like you die at the hands of police? How do you find peace and refuge when you’re not sure how to keep up with your partner? Or navigate a challenging workplace? While scrolling through social media feeds, you may feel like you don’t have access to wellness like women do. But Black men need a space for self-care too.
Lincoln’s God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation by Joshua Zeitz
This is the story of that transformation and the ways in which religion helped millions of Northerners interpret the carnage and political upheaval of the 1850s and 1860s. Rather than focus on battles and personalities, Joshua Zeitz probes ways in which war and spiritual convictions became intertwined. Characters include the famous — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Henry Ward Beecher — as well as ordinary soldiers and their families whose evolving understanding of mortality, heaven, and mission motivated them to fight. Long underestimated in accounts of the Civil War, religion —specifically evangelical Christianity — played an instrumental role on the battlefield and home front, and in the corridors of government.
CHILDREN’S
The Horseback Librarians by Jane Yolen
From the author of the How Do Dinosaurs books comes something quite different based on the childhood experiences of her husband who grew up in Appalachia. There were no libraries in the remote backwoods of Kentucky in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. Intrepid female librarians carried books on horseback to farmhouses and one-room schools in the most isolated areas. They were called various names: book ladies, packsaddle librarians and book riders, to name a few. They rode alone on their own (or rented) horses or mules, sleeping outdoors, in barns or sometimes in homes if they were lucky. They were the original ‘bookmobiles’! We follow Anna Mary (rhymes with library), a fictional horseback librarian as she makes her rounds, bringing smiles wherever she goes. Aren’t you glad you can visit the library whenever you want?
Ages: 5-10
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.
