Welcome to BradfordToday's weekly feature from the BWG Public Library. Each week there will be a new list of book recommendations in various different genres, with a small description of each. Happy Reading!
Recommended by BWG Readers
The Lost Night
Andrea Bartz
I did quite enjoy this one. The middle did drag on longer than it needed to, but I was pleasantly surprised by the reveal and the ending altogether. The middle was the hardest because I started to get annoyed with the main character and I found her trains of thought difficult to follow. For someone who is supposed to be a determined researcher, she sure flopped around with her process. I’m glad I picked it up, but I wouldn’t run around telling my friends they should read this.
~ Sarah
Graphic Novel
Altered Carbon: Download Blues
Morgan, Richard K.; Hoskin, Rik; Sellares, Ferran (Artist)
In the distant future, the human body is a temporary and interchangeable commodity - if you can pay. For the interstellar elite, bodies are swapped out and reused without a second thought. You never grow old; you never die. However, some bodies are more temporary than others ...
Takeshi Kovacs was once a member of the Envoy Corps, stormtroopers for the Interstellar Earth Protectorate, ultra-lethal adepts in switching bodies across the stars. While he served, he was known by a variety of names--Mamba Lev, One Hand Rending, the Icepick--all testament to his capacity for rapid response and extreme violence in whatever flesh he wore.
Now he's out of the service and trying to live a different life. But the Protectorate hasn't changed its spots, no matter what world Kovacs drifts to, and with that old combat rage still burning deep inside him, will he ever really be able to walk away?
Teen Reads
Dread Nation
Justina Ireland
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever.
In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead.
But there are also opportunities—and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It's a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane.
But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies.
And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.
Non-fiction
Teenage Brain
Frances Jensen
Renowned neurologist Dr. Frances E. Jensen offers a revolutionary look at the brains of teenagers, dispelling myths and offering practical advice for teens, parents and teachers.
Dr. Frances E. Jensen is chair of the department of neurology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. As a mother, teacher, researcher, clinician, and frequent lecturer to parents and teens, she is in a unique position to explain to readers the workings of the teen brain. In The Teenage Brain, Dr. Jensen brings to readers the astonishing findings that previously remained buried in academic journals.
Dr. Jensen gathers what we’ve discovered about adolescent brain function, wiring, and capacity and explains the science in the contexts of everyday learning and multitasking, stress and memory, sleep, addiction, and decision-making. In this groundbreaking yet accessible book, these findings also yield practical suggestions that will help adults and teenagers negotiate the mysterious world of adolescent development.
Special Collections - Audio Book
Sins of the Fathers
J.A. Jance
Former Seattle homicide cop, J. P. Beaumont, is learning to enjoy the new realities of retirementdoing morning crossword puzzles by a roaring fireplace; playing frisbee with his new dog; having quiet lunches with his still working wife.But then his pastcomes calling.
When a long ago acquaintance, Alan Dale, shows up on Beaus doorstep with a newborn infant in hand and asking for help locating his missing daughter, Beau finds himself faced with an investigation that will turn his own life upside down by dragging hisnone-too-stellar past onto a roller-coaster ride that may well derail his serene present.It turns out that, even in retirement. murder is still the name of J. P. Beaumonts game.
Special Collections: Multilingual Collection
La Casa de los Amores Imposibles
Cristina Lopez Barrio
Clara Laguna es una hermosa adolescente de un pueblo castellano de principios del siglo XX. Cuando se enamora perdidamente de un hacendado andaluz, su madre, una hechicera tuerta, la previene de la maldición de las Laguna: están condenadas a sufrir el desamor. Así, el hacendado la abandona tras quedarse embarazada y Clara, ciega de rabia, abre un burdel en la casona roja, a las afueras del pueblo. Allí, da a luz a Manuela, una niña fea y marchita...
Una historia mágica y fascinante, llena de pasión, odio, venganza, amor y trragedia, en la línea de las grandes sagas familiares de la literatura. Un original estilo literario en el que el realismo mágico se torna castellano y la escritura drrocha imaginación y poesía en cada frase.
NEW at the Library this week
Hex Life: Wicked new tales of witchery
Kelley Armstrong
Brand-new stories of witches and witchcraft written by popular female fantasy authors, including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon writing in their own bestselling universes!
These are tales of witches, wickedness, evil and cunning. Stories of disruption and subversion by today's women you should fear. Including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon writing in their own bestselling universes.
These witches might be monstrous, or they might be heroes, depending on their own definitions. Even the kind hostess with the candy cottage thought of herself as the hero of her own story. After all, a woman's gotta eat...
