@ Your Library
March madness, otherwise known as the NCAA Basketball tournaments start this week. I am a sometimes sports follower and basketball has always been near the bottom on my list of sports I casually follow. But, the book Basketball: the story of the All-American game by Kadir Nelson is amazing. It is beautiful, informative and makes me want to at least watch a few games in the coming weeks as the best college teams battle it out for supremacy. I am amazed at the variety of books that get published. Everything from a book about The Lost Women of Science by Merina Gerosa Bellows, Virus Hunters by Amy Cherrix, Glass: looking in, looking out by Larissa Theule or the beautiful Frog by Isabel Thomas. We also have a new book for adult and teens about how squirrels shape our world, how animals play in Kingdom of Play by David Toomey and Rumbles: a curious history of the gut by Elsa Richardson which purports to be the secret story of the body’s most fascinating organ. I was fascinated to discover two new books about life at Ravensbrook, I was also drawn to The Sea Captain’s Wife: a true story of mutiny, love and adventure at the bottom of the world by Tilar J Mazzeo. While we definitely don’t have every book published, we do try to pick from the wide breadth of titles being published, picking titles with cool facts, amazing stories and wonderful language sharing their amazing stories. So come check out our non-fiction titles and prepared to be amazed by this world of ours.
It is also interesting how authors play with classic literature. There are lots of books that play with Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I’ve seen several titles that have fun with Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery. But I’ve never seen anyone play with Little Women by Louisa May Alcott until Beth is Dead by Katie Bernet in which Beth is murdered and the sisters vow to uncover her murderer, but of course begin to suspect one another. This is the first title in Reese Witherspoon’s spin-off reading selections, focusing on young adult titles called Sunnie’s picks.
The weather is definitely warming, which is needed to get to summer, but that means we are in the ugly, mud and ice season. I am enjoying closing the curtains and settling in with a good book to avoid slipping and sliding outside. I have zipped through Katherine Rundell’s second book The Poisoned King about the magical world hidden in the north Atlantic. I am looking forward to The Swan’s Daughter by Roshani Chokshi as the tagline is ‘a possibly doomed love story.’
It has taken us a long time to get a copy of Anton Treuer’s book Where Wolves Don’t Die but the wait has been worth it. This is a very powerful story of an Ojibwe youth learning to depend on the support system of his tribe and who he is in the world.