We have just added some brand new titles to cloudLibrary – as well as popular older titles. CloudLibrary allows you to read ebooks or listen to audio books on your own device — Android or Apple phones or tablets. Here is the link to information on our website, if you are new to cloudLibrary.
Once you have installed the app, follow the prompts to choose your country, state, and library, and then enter your library bar code number. After your library card has been authenticated, you are ready to search and borrow!
Ebooks
Verity by Colleen Hoover (2021)
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.
Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails by Camper English (2022)
The intertwined histories of booze and medicine, from internationally-renowned cocktail expert Camper English. Alcohol and medicine have an inextricably intertwined history, with innovations in each altering the path of the other. The story stretches back to the ancient world, when beer and wine were used to provide nutrition, hydration, and act as solvents for healing botanicals. Over time, alchemists distilled elixirs designed to cure all diseases, monastic apothecaries developed mystical botanical liqueurs, travelling physicians concocted dubious intoxicating nostrums, and the drinks we’re familiar with today began to take form. In turn, scientists studied fermentation and formed the germ theory of disease, and developed an understanding of elemental gasses and anesthetics. Modern cocktails like the Gimlet, Gin & Tonic, and Old Fashioned were born as delicious remedies for diseases and discomforts. In Doctors and Distillers, cocktail expert Camper English reveals how and why the contents of our medicine and liquor cabinets were, until surprisingly recently, one and the same.
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston (2022)
Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem: after a terrible break-up, she no longer believes in love.
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland (1996)
Two sisters survive a near-future apocalypse and retreat into a forest where they relearn what it means to be human.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsing (1974)
A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, this book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live.
Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (2022)
Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malaya hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings; she’d rather paint alone in her bedroom or enjoy forbidden street foods with her father. For Malaya, the pressures of her predominantly white Upper East Side prep school are relentless, as are the expectations passed down from her painfully proper mother and sharp-tongued grandmother. As she comes of age in the 1990s, she finds solace in the music of Biggie Smalls and Aaliyah, but her weight continues to climb–until a family tragedy forces her to face the source of her hunger, ultimately shattering her inherited stigmas surrounding women’s bodies, and embracing her own desire.
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy by Damien Lewis (2022)
Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music-hall diva renowned for her singing and dancing, her beauty and sexuality; she was the highest-paid female performer in Europe. When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Paris, she was banned from the stage, along with all “negroes and Jews.” Yet instead of returning to America, she vowed to stay and to fight the Nazi evil. Overnight, she went from performer to Resistance spy. Author Damien Lewis uncovers this little-known history of the famous singer’s life. During the war years, as a member of the French Nurse paratroopers—a cover for her spying work—Baker participated in numerous clandestine activities and emerged as a formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served—the US, France, and Britain.
Savage Run by C. J. Box, Joe Pickett novel #2 (2002)
When a massive explosion occurs deep within the forests of Twelve Sleep County and a colorful environmental activist appears to have perished in the blast, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is called to the scene to help investigate. The case is wrapped up quickly, explained as an environmental publicity stunt gone wrong, but Joe isn’t convinced. He soon discovers clues that suggest a deadly conspiracy one that will test his courage, his survival skills, and his determination to do the right thing despite all costs.
Out of Range by C. J. Box, Joe Pickett novel #5 (2005)
A good friend and fellow game warden has killed himself, and Joe Pickett’s been chosen to temporarily run his district. But Jackson, Wyoming, is a far cry from Joe’s hometown of Saddlestring — and it doesn’t help that now Joe feels compelled to investigate the circumstances surrounding his friend’s suicide. But as he comes closer to the truth, the more his own life spirals out of control — and he realizes that if he is not careful, he may be Jackson’s next victim.
Yoga by Emmanuel Carrere (2022)
A raucous and brilliant anatomy of a breakdown by Emmanuel Carrère, one of our brightest and most surprising international writers.
Audio books
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamad (2022)
Overnight, Anders’s skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them. Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded overturning of the established order that must be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders’s father and Oona’s mother, a sense of profound loss and unease wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance at a kind of rebirth–an opportunity to see ourselves, face to face, anew.
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (2022)
After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors–until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared.
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997)
After Inman escapes from a war hospital in 1864 and starts walking to Cold Mountain, Ada struggles to save her mountain farm with the help of Ruby, an illiterate but efficient farmer.
Confidence by Denise Mina (2022)
When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town, Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an Internet frenzy to find her. But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. On a chase across Europe, Anna and Fin are caught up in a world of international art smuggling, billionaire con artists, and religious zealotry.
Conviction by Denise Mina (2019)
An upper-class Edinburgh housewife who enjoys listening to the sordid details of true-crime podcasts has her world turned upside down when a new podcast turns out to have connections to her own dark past.
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake (2022)
Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls. Her life is in New York, with her photography career is finally gaining steam. When Delilah’s estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to call home…
Celtic Mythology by James Gaiman (2021)
Adventures of Warriors and Legendary Creatures, Stories of Gods and Goddesses Tales of Myths and Legends, Sagas and Beliefs From the Irish, Scottish, Brittany and Welsh Mythology.
Dark Things I Adore by Katie Lattari (2021)
A tale of atonement that proves that in the grasp of manipulative men, women may momentarily fall. But in the hands of fierce women, men will be brought to their knees.
Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power and Football in the American Heartland by Nancy Schwartzman with Nora Zelevansky (2022)
In football-obsessed Steubenville, Ohio, on a summer night in 2012, an incapacitated sixteen-year-old girl was repeatedly assaulted by members of the “Big Red” high school football team. They took turns documenting the crime and sharing on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The victim, Jane Doe, learned the details via social media at a time when teens didn’t yet understand the lasting trail of their digital breadcrumbs. Crime blogger Alexandria Goddard, along with hacker collective Anonymous, exposed the photos, Tweets, and videos, making this the first rape case ever to go viral and catapulting Steubenville onto the national stage. Filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman spent four years embedded in the town, documenting the case and its reverberations. Ten years after the assault, this book is the culmination of that research, weaving in new interviews and personal reflections to take readers beyond Steubenville to examine rape culture in everything from sports to teen dynamics. It explores the factors that normalize sexual assault in our communities. Through interviews with sportswriter David Zirin, victim’s rights attorney Gloria Allred and more, Schwartzman untangles the societal norms in which we too often sacrifice our daughters to protect our sons. With the Steubenville case as a flashpoint that helped spark the #MeToo movement, a decade later, Roll Red Roll focuses on the perpetrators and asks, can our society truly change?
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