FICTION
Not Your Shoe Size by Jennifer DiVita
Julia and Colette are life-long best friends. Julia is a goody-two-shoes who embraces her gray hair, wrinkles, and geriatric sneakers. Colette is as tough as old boots and relentlessly chases after the elusive fountain of youth wearing stilettos. They clash, decade by decade, starting when they’re 10 and are forced to write their own obituaries for homework. Their assignment? Live to 100. They journey through life competing to see who reaches the finish line best. Their fierce loyalty, endearing friendship, and shared experiences are challenged by the ups and downs of life. And the older they get, the more they realize it just might be the other woman who’s learned the secret to aging well in an ageist society.
Blood in the Cut by Alejandro Nodarse
Iggy Guerra is out of prison, but his homecoming is anything but smooth. His beloved mother is gone, his grief-stricken father Armando is deep in debt, and they are about to lose the butcher shop that has been in their family for generations. Iggy must earn his father’s lost trust in order to save La Carnicería Guerra from the threats imposed by a new rival business, a vigilante activist, and big-game hunter Orin, who has dragged Armando into his dangerous money-making schemes deep in the Everglades, where more than secrets are buried. Iggy will wrestle with the beauty and the danger of the place he calls home as he tries to save his family―without losing himself forever.
The Tale of Tiernan by James Colson
What do you do when everything falls apart? How do you recover from your failures? The death of a king cements Tiernan’s role in a long-held tradition before he is old enough to hold a sword. With the return of the dragons, his family must face their newfound reality head on. This opens old wounds as a remnant from the past becomes the catalyst that threatens to tear the Kingdom of Abria apart. His father, desperate to preserve the realm, enacts a plan to save it before it’s too late. Through it all, there are good memories. An inseparable brotherhood. His parents. The Statuo. And, of course, Enid. Tiernan’s responsibilities put him on a collision course with fate. This leads to many questions. Hard ones.
Jack’s Boys by John Katzenbach
Five serial killers, known only to each other as Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Easy. Connected through a secure internet location, encrypted and concealed, a unique chat room they have named Jack’s Special Place in homage to their ultimate model — the one killer they hold in the highest esteem: Whitechapel, London. 1888. The infamous murderer remembered in dark history as Jack the Ripper. And so, they are Jack’s Boys. Two teenagers, lying on their bed at home. Boyfriend and girlfriend. Slightly disaffected, each with their own issues — but deeply in young love and equally fascinated by the world of the dark web, where they accidentally stumble upon Jack’s Boys in their private space. And whom they immediately mock.
NONFICTION
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles
Harriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. You could almost say she’s America’s Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. Tiya Miles’s extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that. With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman’s life into the fabric of her world. She probes the ecological reality of Tubman’s surroundings and examines her kinship with other enslaved women who similarly passed through a spiritual wilderness and recorded those travels in profound and moving memoirs.
Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff
Novelistic in its sweep, frantically informative, and deeply intimate in its private recollections, Information Desk: An Epic wayfares with riveting lyric intensity through an epic array of topics and concerns, including illusion, deception, self-deception, complicity, lecherous coworkers, the composition of pigment, the scattering of seeds, ideas, and capital, and insect infestations spreading within artwork. Along the way, Schiff pauses to invoke three terrifying muses — parasitic wasps — in desperate awe of their powers of precision and generative energy. Information Desk: An Epic undertakes a hemorrhaging ekphrastic journey through artifice and the natural world.
Profiles in Mental Health Courage by Patrick J. Kennedy & Stephen Fried
When Kennedy’s uncle, President John F. Kennedy, published his classic book Profiles in Courage, he hoped to inspire “political courage” by telling the stories of brave U.S. senators who changed America. In Profiles in Mental Health Courage, former Congressman Kennedy adapts his uncle’s idea to inspire the “mental health courage” it takes for those with these conditions to treat their illnesses, and risk telling their stories to help America face its crisis in our families, our workplaces, our jails, and on our streets. The resounding silence surrounding these illnesses remains persistent, and this book takes an unflinching look at the experience of mental illness and addiction that inspires profound connection, empathy, and action.
Banish Bedtime Battles: The Ultimate Six-Week Plan to Help Your School-aged Child Sleep Independently by Ellen Flannery-Schroeder
Banish Bedtime Battles presents an easy method to get your school-aged child to sleep in their own bed throughout the night. With expert guidance, you’ll help your child develop critical coping skills essential to increasing their confidence and competence at bedtime (and beyond). Armed with powerful parenting strategies presented in the book, you’ll be ready to use your personalized six-week plan to solve your child’s nighttime struggles. You’ll master specific skills to refine and maintain the new bedtime routine, with plenty of troubleshooting tips. Finally, you can enjoy some well-deserved peace, quiet, and sleep!
CHILDREN’S
K is in Trouble by Gary Clement
K just cannot help getting into trouble — no matter what he does! He always manages to get on someone’s bad side, despite all his best efforts. This hilarious graphic novel details all the absurd ways in which children can be thwarted by the adults around them. It is a quirky and fun read for middle schoolers.
Ages 7-12
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.
