FICTION
We Are Only Ghosts by Jeffrey L. Richards
New York City, 1968: The customers at Café Marie don’t come just for the excellent coffee and pastries. They come for the sophisticated ambiance, and the illusion of being somewhere other than a bustling, exhausting city. It’s a skill Charles honed as a young Jewish boy in war-torn Europe, when avoiding attention might mean the difference between life and death. But even then, one man saw him all too clearly — a Nazi officer who was both his savior and tormentor. Charles was deported to Auschwitz with his family. There he was singled out by Obersturmführer Berthold Werden, who hid him in his home. Charles is forced to revisit the pain and the brief, undeniable pleasures of the life he once knew.
The House Hunt by C.M. Ewan
Lucy and Sam renovated their beautiful Victorian home, but spiraling debts are forcing them to sell. The agreement with their real estate agent is that they won’t be home for viewings, but when Lucy gets a voicemail saying the Agent is running late, she realizes she will have to show the prospective buyer around herself. Suffering from extreme anxiety and claustrophobia, Lucy watches the stranger on their doorstep waiting to be let in; she wants to hide and pretend she’s not home, but then she thinks of Sam working at all hours to cover their bills, and opens the door. Lucy takes a breath and begins to show their house. He is well dressed, polite, and despite her unease everything goes well, until he starts acting strangely.
Murder on Devil’s Pond by Ayla Rose
Thirty-three-year-old Hannah Solace returns to her hometown to renovate and reopen the inn she co-owns with her sister Reggie. She’s even planting pollinator gardens around the inn. Hannah’s fresh start is stymied by Reggie’s continual interference, unreliable contractors, a check-the-couch-for-coins budget, and townspeople Hannah left behind 15 years ago. Her main source of camaraderie is Ezra Grayson. Hannah is horrified to discover him dead on her property later that day. Ezra had always had plenty of people to complain about. Hannah finds herself on the short list of suspects. Hannah starts digging and quickly discovers that secrets lurk beneath the charming surface of the town she once again calls home.
Between the Sound and Sea by Amanda Cox
When an opportunity opens to become a temporary keeper of a decommissioned lighthouse on a North Carolina island, Josephina “Joey” Harris takes the opportunity to escape the scrutiny of her small town to oversee its restoration. Soon Joey discovers strange notes tucked deep in the crevices of the lighthouse’s old stone walls. When things start to go amiss on the island, locals are convinced that it is the ghost of the lighthouse keeper and his daughter who were lost at sea during World War II. As Joey sifts through decades of rumors and legends and puts together the pieces of the past, a love story emerges — one that’s clearly not over yet.
NONFICTION
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham
Elyse Graham draws on personal histories, letters, and declassified OSS files to tell the story of a small but connected group of humanities scholars turned spies. Joseph Curtiss, a literature professor who hunted down German spies and turned them into double agents; Sherman Kent, a smart-mouthed history professor who rose to become the head of analysis; and Adele Kibre, an archivist who was sent to Stockholm to secretly acquire documents for the OSS. These unforgettable characters would ultimately help lay the foundations of modern intelligence and transform American higher education when they returned after the war. Book and Dagger is an inspiring and gripping true story about a group of academics who helped beat the Nazis.
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement by Sharon McMahon
Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. She discovers history’s unsung characters and brings their rich, riveting stories to light for the first time. You’ll meet a woman astride a white horse riding down Pennsylvania Avenue, a young boy detained at a Japanese incarceration camp, a formerly enslaved woman on a mission to reunite with her daughter, a poet on a train, and a teacher who learns to work with her enemies. This is a book about what really made America great.
Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health by Casey Means, MD
What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause? Our ability to prevent and reverse these conditions is under our control and simpler than we think. As Dr. Casey Means explains in this groundbreaking book, nearly every health problem we face can be explained by how well the cells in our body create and use energy. To live free from frustrating symptoms and life-threatening disease, we need our cells to be optimally powered so that they can create “good energy,” the essential fuel that impacts every aspect of our physical and mental wellbeing.
From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough
In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir. A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the woman that Riley loved and now grieved. Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran toward his body on the floor. About living in Los Angeles with her mother, getting sent to school after school. About her singular, lifelong relationship with Danny Keough. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief. Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother’s wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world. To make her mother known.
CHILDREN’S
Animal Sidekicks by Macken Murphy
Animal author and podcaster Macken Murphy introduces the incredible symbiotic relationship between animals and plants who work together to make their environments a better place. From parasites to great whites, this illustrated, informational story teaches the wonders of the world that are often overlooked.
Ages 8-10
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 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Our Lafayette branch is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
