New Material at the North Dakota State Library - August 27, 2019

New Material at the North Dakota State Library
                                        August 27, 2019
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Fiction

PR 6103 .O4467 B56 2019
The binding / Bridget Collins.
Emmett Farmer is summoned away from his family to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder ‐‐ a vocation that
arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice, but which neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. Books are
strictly forbidden, but Bookbinding is a sacred calling. Seredith informs her new apprentice that he is a binder
born, and under her watchful eye Emmett learns to hand‐craft the elegant leather‐bound volumes. Within the
pages of the books they create, secrets are concealed and the past is locked away. In a vault under his mentor's
workshop rows upon rows of books are meticulously stored. But there are avaricious and amoral tradesman
who use their talents for dark ends, and Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of the books has his name
on it. Soon, everything he thought he understood about his life will be dramatically rewritten.

PR 6105 .V35 O43 2019
Old baggage / Lissa Evans.
1928. Riffling through a cupboard, Matilda Simpkin comes across a small wooden club ‐‐ an old possession that
she hasn't seen for more than a decade. Immediately, memories come flooding back to Mattie ‐‐ memories of a
thrilling past, which only further serve to remind her of her chafingly uneventful present. During the Women's
Suffrage Campaign, she was a militant who was jailed five times and never missed an opportunity to return to
the fray. Now in middle age, the closest she gets to the excitement of her old life is the occasional lecture on the
legacy of the militant movement. After running into an old suffragette comrade who has committed herself to
the wave of Fascism, Mattie realizes there is a new cause she needs to fight for and turns her focus to a new
generation of women. Thus the Amazons are formed, a group created to give girls a place to not only exercise
their bodies but their minds, and ignite in young women a much‐needed interest in the world around them. But
when a new girl joins the group, sending Mattie's past crashing into her present, every principle Mattie has ever
stood for is threatened.

PS 3507 .R1745 D75 2019
The drifting kid / Will Ermine. Originally published in 1975.
The Kid wasn't quite sixteen, but he had led the hard kind of range life that makes a boy grow up fast. Even
though the Kid could see trouble sticking out of Chalk Daggett like the spines on a poison cactus, he was happy
at the Flat Iron Range. With cowboy Grady Roberts for his idol, and with Big Elmer the cook for a friend, life was
happier than ever before. But not for long. Big Elmer was shot, and although the Kid got away, he knew Daggett
would get him next. It was a long time before the Kid made his way back to the range because of 16‐carat phony
by the name of Isaiah Smith convinced him that he was in trouble with the law. Then when the Kid finally got
back to Wyoming, he met Grady again at the Quarter Moon Ranch. He met Daggett, too, and meeting Daggett
meant meeting up with more violence.

PS 3509 .L77 F67 2019
Forbidden Valley / Allan Vaughan Elston. Originally published in 1956.
Harry Riley and his pal, Dough McLaren, are the type of cowboy that the Old West has always been proud of.
There's plenty of action as Riley and McLaren start off to capture a gang of train robbers. They fail to recover the
stolen loot, but chance to run across an important clue to the mystery of who is blackmailing Jim Hutton. One of
Sheridan, Wyoming's leading citizens, Cal Clanton, becomes suspiciously involved, but the evidence is quickly

camouflaged by lots of false leads. Hutton, on the brink of losing his ranch, can't help the two cowboys, and they
turn to a bright young lawyer, who sees an answer. The thundering climax is filled with gunsmoke as the Clanton
gang rides on the Hutton ranch for a showdown.

PS 3553 .O843 L33 2019b
Labyrinth / Catherine Coulter. FBI thrillers, book 23.
On a Tuesday afternoon, FBI agent Lacey Sherlock is driving in downtown Washington when her Volvo is
suddenly T‐boned at an intersection. As her car spins out of control, a man’s body slams against her windshield
and then ‐‐ blackness. When she finally regains consciousness in the hospital, she’s told about the accident and
the man she struck. No one knows yet who he is or where he is because he ran away. From DNA, they discover
his name is Justice Cummings and he’s a CIA analyst at Langley... and he’s still missing. Meanwhile, in the small
town of Gaffer’s Ridge, Virginia, Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith rescues a kidnapped woman claiming her
captor admitted to the murder of three teenage girls. However, the man she accuses is the local sheriff’s
nephew and a member of a very powerful family, reputed to have psychic powers. When the sheriff arrests
Griffin and the rescued woman, Carson DaSilva, he calls Savich for help. Together they have to weave their way
through a labyrinth of lies to find the truth of a terrible secret.

PS 3553 .R264 D36 2019b
A dangerous man / Robert Crais. Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, book 18.
Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and
returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on
her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two men are
arrested. But instead of putting the drama to rest, the arrests are only the beginning of the trouble for Joe and
Izzy. After posting bail, the two abductors are murdered and Izzy disappears. Pike calls on his friend, Elvis Cole,
to help learn the truth. What Elvis uncovers is a twisted family story that involves corporate whistleblowing,
huge amounts of cash, the Witness Relocation Program, and a long line of lies. But what of all that did Izzy
know? Is she a perpetrator or a victim? And how far will Joe go to find out?

PS 3558 .I44415 F67 2019
The forever Christmas tree / Sandra Hill.
He's got bad‐boy looks and a Bah Humbug attitude, so when the local paper asks the villagers to vote on the
"Biggest Local Grinch" as a fund‐raising project, Ethan Rutledge isn't surprised to hear he's made the ballot. He
might own the local Christmas Tree Farm, but the holiday hasn't been welcome in his home since Wendy
Patterson left him heart‐broken twelve years ago. But now Wendy's back, fresh from a tour of duty as a female
Navy SEAL. She's bold, beautiful, and has five Navy buddies trailing after her ‐‐ as if she needs a bodyguard! And
what's all this about them wanting to start a treasure hunting company right here in Bell Cove's failing bell
factory? Then Wendy learns about how Ethan's been nurturing the one thing he has to remember her by: a
gorgeous Norway Spruce tree. Can the magic of Christmas and the spirit of the town help rekindle the romance
between two people who thought they'd left love behind years ago?

PS 3560 .O415 M337 2019
Stranglehold / William W. Johnstone with J.A. Johnstone. Duff MacCallister, book 9.
Duff never expected to hear from his old friend Charles McGregor, his battalion commander from the Black
Watch Regiment of Her Majesty's army. Turns out McGregor lives in New Mexico now. And he needs Duff's help.
He's started a new life as the mayor of Antelope Wells ‐‐ a mining town that's being targeted by a power‐hungry
madman Ebenezer Schofield, who wants to declare the whole area an independent principality ‐‐ and himself as
king. He's already squeezing taxes out of the local businesses and citizens. But no one has the guts to stop him.
Because Parker's got his own private army of fifty uniformed men, six Mexican revolution cannons, and a traitor
working on his side in the heart of Antelope Wells. This is more than just a favor for a friend. This is justice. This
is payback. This is war. And this is Duff MacCallister.

PS 3560 .O415 R364 2019
Hang them slowly / William W. Johnstone ; with J.A. Johnstone. Range detectives, book 2.
Strangers. Killers. Spies. Vance Brewster is a hardworking young cowboy. Stovepipe and Wilbur are two new
ranch hands working at his side. And all three are caught up in a brewing, trigger‐happy Montana range war
between the Rafter M and Three Rivers. Then the fury suddenly explodes ‐‐ in a hail of gunfire the three men
must show their hands: they're all hiding their true identities. With Vance falling in love with the daughter of the
Three Rivers manager, and Stovepipe and Wilbur paid by a tycoon who needs the violence to stop, all three are
in mortal danger. Their real enemies are hiding true identities of their own ‐‐ and they're not nice men. The body
count is about to go sky high... and Stovepipe and Wilbur would prefer not be on top of the pile.

PS 3562 .E964 S36 2019
Santa Fe run / Preston Lewis. Originally published in 1993.
It did not take Morgan long to figure out that the forts commanding officer was pocketing a fair amount of
money cheating on government contracts by supplying the reservation Indians with worn‐out blankets, spoiled
grain and rotten meat. And when the double dealing colonel decided his new clerk knew too much to go on
living, Morgan was on the run again. He had enough evidence to bring that murdering bluecoat officer to justice
if he ever lived to tell the tale. But with both the Apache and the U.S. Cavalry, riding hard on his backtrail, it
would be race against death.

PS 3563 .A2364 W56 2019b
Window on the bay / Debbie Macomber.
Jenna Boltz’s life is at a crossroads. After a messy divorce nearly twenty years ago, she raised her two children
on her own, juggling motherhood with her beloved job as a Seattle intensive care nurse. Now that Paul and Allie
have gone to college and moved out, Jenna can’t help but wonder what her future holds. Her best friend,
Maureen, is excited for Jenna’s newfound independence. Now is the perfect time to finally book the trip to Paris
they've been dreaming of since their college days. But when it comes to life’s other great adventure ‐‐ dating ‐‐
Jenna still isn't sure she’s ready to let love in... until an unexpected encounter begins to change her mind. When
Jenna’s elderly mother breaks her hip, Dr. Rowan Lancaster saves the day. Despite his silent, stoic exterior,
Rowan is immediately smitten with Jenna. And even though Jenna is hesitant about becoming involved with
another surgeon, she has to admit that she’s more than a little intrigued. But when Jenna’s children approach
her with shocking news, she realizes that she needs to have faith in love and embrace the unexpected ‐‐ before
the life she has always dreamed of passes her by.

PS 3563 .C37525 H65 2019
Home to Wind River / Lindsay McKenna. Wind River Valley, book 7.
After a harrowing tour of duty in Afghanistan, Army nurse Lily Thompson escapes to Wind River Ranch to find
herself once more. Working as a caregiver to foreman Jake Murdoch's elderly mother, Lily almost feels at peace
‐‐ except for the unsettling presence of Jake, a tight‐lipped, intimidating man everyone calls Bear. But one look
in the powerful ex‐Marine's eyes and Lily glimpses a vulnerability that shakes her soul ‐‐ a hurt she understands
all too well‐and longs to heal. Jake is ready to rail at the fates when Lily moves into his home. Everything about
this captivating woman calls to him, demanding that he abandon his solitary stance and start to live again. But
Jake is a man who knows that no one can save him from the past that stalks his heart and mind. Not even sweet,
achingly beautiful Lily. Still, that doesn't stop his longing to pull her into his arms ‐‐ and keep her there forever.
Will time, and patience, bring them the courage to make their connection real?

PS 3566 .U83 D38 2019
Dearly beloved / Mary Jo Putney.
A sheltered life in the countryside has left Diana Lindsay restless to see the wider world, for both herself and the
son she is raising alone. She cannot marry, but perhaps as a courtesan she will find love and protection despite

her painful past. Gathering her courage, she moves to London ‐‐ and finds herself the city's most desired
woman, as admired for her charm as for her beauty. But it is one man who captivates her ‐‐ handsome, haunted,
and harboring a secret as deep as her own.

PS 3568 .O8894 W37 2019
War Valley / Lancaster Hill.
Hank Gannon grew up on a Florida plantation. He fought alongside his brothers‐in‐arms in the Civil War. Then he
joined the Texas Special Police to help build a more peaceful union‐and a future for his beloved Constance. That
was the plan. But when a prisoner dies in his custody, Gannon is forced to leave Austin and head into Comanche
territory. Alone but undaunted, he meets up with Roving Wolf ‐‐ who has just slain a former soldier from his
unit. Gannon can't let the killing go unpunished. Even here, in this Godforsaken valley, the law must be upheld.
On the one side is a bloodthirsty war party of Indians, heading for the white man's capital. On the other side is a
makeshift army of Texas Special Police and the Texas State Guard, ready to meet the threat head‐on. In the
middle are Hank Gannon and Roving Wolf, waging their own blood feud. Two men trapped in a war. Fighting to
survive their mutual hate. Killing to get out alive.

PS 3569 .A826 A6 2019
Dead man's journey : a Western sextet / Les Savage, Jr.
The wagon warrior ‐‐ The man who tamed Tombstone ‐‐ Bullets and bullwhips ‐‐ Owlhoot Maverick ‐‐ Bullets bar
this trail ‐‐ Dead man's journey.

PS 3569 .N39 S658 2019
A song of joy / Lauraine Snelling. Under northern skies, book 4.
Minnesota, 1911. Nilda Carlson is torn between life in the city of Blackduck and spending time with her family
back home on the farm. Her employer, Mrs. Schoenleber, gives her more and more responsibility and
experience. Still new to America herself, Nilda focuses on the area's immigrant community, but she'll have to
fight to get her ideas accepted by the locals and donors alike. One of her greatest joys is her weekly piano lesson
with Fritz Larsson. When an affluent young woman moves to Blackduck and monopolizes Fritz's attention, how
can Nilda hope to compete with such a sophisticated beauty?

PS 3576 .I467 H37 2019
Hard ride across Texas / Michael Zimmer.
Nineteen‐year‐old Gage Pardell didn't intend to kill Henry Kalb when he rode into Shelburn, Texas, to confront
the son of the county's richest man. He just wanted justice for what Kalb had done to his sister. But now Henry is
dead, and Gage is on the run from a gang of vicious bounty hunters hired by Henry's father. With nowhere else
to go, Gage heads west toward the far‐flung buffalo ranges of West Texas. There, he learns what it means to
stand up for himself against a lawless frontier, a kill‐crazy buffalo hunter, and the men Kalb keeps sending after
him. Realizing he can no longer live this way, Gage finally returns home, completing the journey he began the
night he killed Henry Kalb.

PS 3601 .L35655 I75 2019
The Irishman's daughter / V.S. Alexander.
Ireland, 1845. To Briana Walsh, no place on earth is more beautiful than Carrowteige, County Mayo, with its
sloping fields and rocky cliffs perched above the wild Atlantic. The small farms that surround the centuries‐old
Lear House are managed by her father, agent to the wealthy, reckless Sir Thomas Blakely. Tenant farmers sell
the oats and rye they grow to pay rent to Sir Thomas, surviving on the potatoes that flourish in the remaining
scraps of land. But when the potato crop falls prey to a devastating blight, families Briana has known all her life
are left with no food, no resources, and no mercy from the English landowner, who seems indifferent to
everything except profit. Rory Caulfield, the hard‐working young farmer Briana hopes to marry, shares the
locals' despair ‐‐ and their anger. There's talk of violent reprisals against the callous gentry and their agents.

Briana's studious older sister, Lucinda, dreams of a future far beyond Mayo. But even as hunger and disease
settle over the country, killing and displacing millions, Briana knows she must find a way to guide her family
through one of Ireland's darkest hours ‐‐ toward hope, love, and a new beginning.

PS 3602 .R34235 D38 2019
A daughter's truth / Laura Bradford.
Emma knows she's a reminder of her mother's greatest sorrow, having been born on the same day Mamm lost
her beloved sister. The one bright spot has been the odd trinkets anonymously left at her aunt's grave each year
on Emma's birthday ‐‐ gifts Emma secretly hides because they upset her parents. But the day she turns 22, a
locket bears a surprise that sends her on an unexpected journey. Searching for answers, Emma travels to the
English world and finds a kinship as intriguing as it is forbidden. But is this newfound connection enough to leave
behind the future she'd expected? The answers are as mysterious, and as devastating, as the truth that divides
Emma from the only family, and the only life, she's ever known.

PS 3602 .R864 H44 2019
The healing jar / Wanda E. Brunstetter. The prayer jars, book 3.
An Amish schoolteacher in her late twenties still living at home with her parents and grandparents, Lenore Lapp
thought love had passed her by. When she meets Jesse Smucker, a widower with a baby daughter, she falls in
love with them both and accepts Jesse's proposal of marriage. But Jesse is looking for a marriage of
convenience, and breaks off their engagement when he realizes Lenore wants love and children. While working
in her grandmother's garden, Lenore digs up an old jar with a note inside Will solving long‐buried family secrets
help heal her broken heart?

PS 3605 .A79 V69 2019
Vow of justice / Lynette Eason. Blue justice, book 4.
FBI Special Agent Linc St. John is living his own personal nightmare. When the woman he loves, Allison Radcliffe,
is killed, he devotes himself to tracking down the killers and making them pay for their crimes. He expected it to
be a challenge. What he never expected was to find Allison very much alive shortly after her "murder." As his
anger and hurt mix with relief, Linc isn't sure how he's supposed to feel. One thing he does know for sure: he
and Allison will have to work together to stop a killer before she dies a second time ‐‐ this time for good.

PS 3607 .R528 N63 2019
The noble guardian / Michelle Griep. Bow Street runners, book 3.
Horse patrol captain Samuel Thatcher arrives just in time to save Abby. But she's simply another victim in a job
he's come to despise. Tired of the dark side of humanity, he intends to buy land and retire. Abby pleads with him
to escort her for the rest of her journey. He refuses ‐‐ until she offers him something he desperately needs to
achieve his goal... money. Delivering her safely will give him more than enough to buy property. So begins an
impossible trek for the cynical lawman and the proper lady. Each will be indelibly changed by the time they
reach her betrothed, if they don't kill one another first ‐‐ or fall in love.

PS 3608 .U5925 F56 2019
Finding faith / Denise Hunter. New heights, book 3.
Paula, an investigative reporter, feels like a fish out of water in the small town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Then
she's offered her dream job as a television reporter in Chicago. There is so much to gain and so much to lose ‐‐
including the only man she's ever loved. Linn has made a lot of mistakes ‐‐ bad mistakes. She can never forgive
herself for all the pain she's caused others. How can she dare to get close to anyone again? What will happen if
Paula and Linn's secrets are revealed? Will the men they love ever be able to forgive them?

PS 3610 .O4555 P35 2019
Painting home / Erika Jolma.
As the Great War clamors into Finland, Sergeant Matti Ranta of the Finnish Conscripted Corps and his new
girlfriend Anna Ojala struggle to keep their lives intact. Matti is sent to the front to lay siege on Leningrad in
alliance with a terrible enemy. Torn between his desire to regain his homeland and an aching suspicion that
what they are doing isn't right, Matti is forced to make an unimaginable choice to save an orphan who will surely
die without his intervention. Set in 1940's Finland and Leningrad, this story weaves two cultures together
through the lives of three people who never should have met, but who would be inexplicably drawn together
through a great miracle of faith in a time when miracles seem impossible.

PS 3612 .E74 L37 2019
The last woman in the forest / Diane Les Becquets.
On a conservation study in northern Alberta, field technician Marian Engström found her true calling: training
rescue dogs to help track endangered or threatened wildlife. Under the tutelage of experienced handler, Tate
Mathias, Marian felt her future opening up before her... But after Tate is killed in a bear attack, Marian finds
herself questioning the man she thought she loved. Growing inconsistencies start to surface, linking Tate to the
murders of four women over six years. Working with a retired forensic profiler who was never able to close the
cases, Marian relives her every moment with Tate, desperately hoping to clear his name. And as she circles ever
closer to the truth, evil stalks her every move.

PS 3613 .C3858 P47 2019
A perfect silhouette / Judith Miller.
In 1850, Mellicent "Mellie" Blanchard takes a job at a mill in Manchester, New Hampshire, to help support her
family. In search of additional earning opportunities, she approaches a daguerreotype shop owner with the
proposal that he hire her to make paper cuttings or silhouette portraits for those who can't afford an expensive
daguerreotype. When a particularly charming customer ‐‐ whose broad smile and twinkling eyes catch her off
guard ‐‐ asks to escort her home, the seeds of romance begin to blossom. All the pieces of her new life seem to
have fallen perfectly into place, but when her new venture brings her an unexpected opportunity, she is
confronted with the truth that all is not as it seems. Will Mellie, who is keeping secrets of her own, find
happiness in the new life she has carved out for herself in the busy mill town?

PS 3618 .A983 D36 2019
A dangerous collaboration / Deanna Raybourn. Veronica Speedwell, book 4.
Lured by the promise of a rare and elusive butterfly, the intrepid Veronica Speedwell is persuaded by Lord
Templeton‐Vane, the brother of her colleague Stoker, to pose as his fiancée at a house party on a Cornish isle
owned by his oldest friend, Malcolm Romilly. But Veronica soon learns that one question hangs over the party:
What happened to Rosamund? Three years ago, Malcolm Romilly's bride vanished on their wedding day, and no
trace of her has ever been found. Now those who were closest to her have gathered, each a possible suspect in
her disappearance. From the poison garden kept by Malcolm's sister to the high towers of the family castle, the
island's atmosphere is full of shadows, and danger lurks around every corner. Determined to discover
Rosamund's fate, Veronica and Stoker match wits with a murderer who has already struck once and will not
hesitate to kill again.

PS 3618 .I34474 B66 2019
The book woman of Troublesome Creek / Kim Michele Richardson.
In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue‐skinned 19‐year‐old Cussy Carter, the
last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack
Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across slippery creek beds and up treacherous
mountains on her faithful mule to deliver books and other reading material to the impoverished hill people of
Eastern Kentucky. Along her dangerous route, Cussy, known to the mountain folk as Bluet, confronts those

suspicious of her damselfly‐blue skin and the government's new book program. She befriends hardscrabble and
complex fellow Kentuckians, and is fiercely determined to bring comfort and joy, instill literacy, and give to those
who have nothing, a bookly respite, a fleeting retreat to faraway lands.

PS 3619 .P4675 C35 2019
Call your daughter home / Deb Spera.
It's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that
devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to
save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is navigating a harsh world
as a first‐generation freed slave, still employed by the Coles, influential plantation proprietors who once owned
her family. Annie is the matriarch of the Coles family and must come to terms with the terrible truth that has
ripped her family apart. These three women seemingly have nothing in common, yet as they unite to stand up to
the terrible injustices that have long plagued the small town, they find strength in the bond that ties women
together.

PS 3619 .T476766 S53 2019
Shadow among sheaves / Naomi Stephens.
The Great Rebellion of 1857 was a remarkably bloody business. At a time when Britain's imperial influence in
India was sparking brutal clashes on both sides, no one could have expected Rena, an Indian woman, to marry a
British officer ‐‐ nor do they understand her decision to follow her mother‐in‐law to England after her husband's
tragic death. Once the two widows are in Abbotsville, the stern yet compassionate Lord Barric attempts to help
them despite his better judgment. Soon he is torn between the demands of reputation and his increasing desire
to capture Rena's heart for his own.

PS 3620 .H75 B33 2019b
Backlash / Brad Thor. Scot Harvath, book 19.
In ancient texts, there are stories about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond the reach of
death itself. These men were considered part angel, part demon. Their loyalty was to their families, their friends,
and their kings. You crossed these men at your peril. And once crossed, there was no crossing back. They were
fearless; men of honor who have been known throughout history by different names: Spartan, Viking, Samurai.
Today, men like these still strike from the shadows. They are highly prized intelligence agents, military
operatives, and assassins. One man is all three. Two days ago, that man was crossed ‐‐ badly. Now, far from
home and surrounded by his enemy, Scot Harvath must battle his way out. With no support, no cavalry coming,
and no one even aware of where he is, it will take everything he has ever learned to survive. But survival isn't
enough. Harvath wants revenge.

PS 3623 .I5838 B57 2019
The bird king / G. Willow Wilson.
Set in 1491 during the reign of the last sultanate in the Iberian Peninsula, The Bird King is the story of Fatima,
the only remaining Circassian concubine to the sultan, and her dearest friend Hassan, the palace mapmaker.
Hassan has a secret ‐‐ he can draw maps of places he's never seen and bend the shape of reality. When
representatives of the newly formed Spanish monarchy arrive to negotiate the sultan's surrender, Fatima
befriends one of the women, not realizing that she will see Hassan's gift as sorcery and a threat to Christian
Spanish rule. With their freedoms at stake, what will Fatima risk to save Hassan and escape the palace walls? As
Fatima and Hassan traverse Spain with the help of a clever jinn to find safety, The Bird King asks us to consider
what love is and the price of freedom at a time when the West and the Muslim world were not yet separate.

Nonfiction

D 810 .S7 C766 2019b
D‐Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II / Sarah
Rose.
In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting.
Believing that Britain was locked in an existential battle, Winston Churchill had already created a secret agency,
the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to
sharpshooting. Their job, he declared, was to "set Europe ablaze." But with most men on the front lines, the SOE
was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women. Thirty‐nine answered the call, leaving their lives
and families to become saboteurs in France. In this book, Sarah Rose draws on recently declassified files, diaries,
and oral histories to tell the story of three of these remarkable women. There’s Andrée Borrel, a scrappy and
streetwise Parisian who blew up power lines with the Gestapo hot on her heels; Odette Sansom, an unhappily
married suburban mother who saw the SOE as her ticket out of domestic life and into a meaningful adventure;
and Lise de Baissac, a fiercely independent member of French colonial high society and the SOE’s unflappable
"queen." Together, they destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plotted prison breaks, and gathered crucial
intelligence ‐‐ laying the groundwork for the D‐Day invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war.

E 843 .T375 2019
The Kennedy heirs: John, Caroline, and the new generation ; a legacy of triumph and tragedy / J. Randy
Taraborrelli.
A unique burden was inherited by the children of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his celebrated siblings,
Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy. Raised in a world of enormous privilege against the backdrop of American
history, this third generation of Kennedys often veered between towering accomplishment and devastating
defeat. In this book, Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli draws back the curtain on the next generation of
America’s most famous family. John Kennedy, Jr.’s life in the public eye is explored, following the Kennedy scion
as he faced the challenges posed by marrying his great love, Carolyn Bessette. Details are shared about the
couple’s tragic demise ‐‐ and why Ethel Kennedy advised Carolyn not to take the trip that would ultimately end
her life. John’s sister, Caroline Kennedy, had her own complicated relationships, including a marriage to Ed
Schlossberg that surprised her mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and an unexpected bond with her mother‐
in‐law, Mae Schlossberg. Additional stories illuminate the rest of the Kennedy dynasty: Kara Kennedy, Ted’s
daughter, and her valiant battle against lung cancer; how Ted’s wife, Vicki, introduced a new era of feminism to
the Kennedy family; the lifelong struggles with addiction faced by Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Patrick Kennedy; the
unexpected way pop star Taylor Swift helped Conor Kennedy heal after the death of his mother, Bobby’s wife
Mary; and Congressman Joe Kennedy III’s rise to prominence. At the center of it all is the family’s indomitable
matriarch, Ethel Kennedy ‐‐ a formidable presence with her maddening eccentricities and inspiring courage.

HQ 799.2 .V56 K68 2019
An American summer : love and death in Chicago / Alex Kotlowitz.
The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another
roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. What does that do to the spirit of individuals and community? Drawing on
his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing about individuals
who have emerged from the violence and whose stories capture the capacity ‐‐ and the breaking point ‐‐ of the
human heart and soul. The result is a collection of intimate profiles that upend what we think we know about
gun violence in America. Among others, we meet a man who as a teenager killed a rival gang member and
twenty years later is still trying to come to terms with what he's done; a devoted school social worker struggling
with her favorite student, who refuses to give evidence in the shooting death of his best friend; the witness to a
wrongful police shooting who can't shake what he has seen; and an aging former gang leader who builds a place
of refuge for himself and his friends. These sketches of those left standing will get into your bones. This one
summer will stay with you.

NC 1766 .U52 P386 2019
The lady from the Black Lagoon : Hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of Milicent Patrick / Mallory O'Meara.
As a teenager, Mallory O’Meara was thrilled to discover that one of her favorite movies, The Creature from the
Black Lagoon, featured a monster designed by a woman, Milicent Patrick. But for someone who should have
been hailed as a pioneer in the genre there was little information available. For, as O’Meara soon discovered,
Patrick’s contribution had been claimed by a jealous male colleague, her career had been cut short and she soon
after had disappeared from film history. No one even knew if she was still alive. As a young woman working in
the horror film industry, O’Meara set out to right the wrong, and in the process discovered the full story of an
ambitious, artistic woman ahead of her time. Patrick’s contribution to special effects proved to be just the latest
chapter in a remarkable, unconventional life, from her youth growing up in the shadow of Hearst Castle, to her
career as one of Disney’s first female animators. And at last, O’Meara discovered what really had happened to
Patrick after The Creature’s success, and where she went.

PT 9877.12 .A32 S2513 2019b
Things my son needs to know about the world / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Alice Menzies.
Personal dispatches from the front lines of one of the most daunting experiences any man can experience:
fatherhood. As he conveys his profound awe at experiencing all the "firsts" that fill him with wonder and catch
him completely unprepared, Swedish author Fredrik Backman (A Man Called Ove) doesn't shy away from
revealing his own false steps and fatherly flaws, tackling issues both great and small, from masculinity and mid‐
life crises to practical jokes and poop. In between the sleep‐deprived lows and wonderful highs, Backman takes a
step back to share the true story of falling in love with a woman who is his complete opposite, and learning to
live a life that revolves around the people you care about unconditionally. Alternating between humorous side
notes and longer essays offering his son advice as he grows up and ventures out into the world, Backman relays
the big and small lessons in life.