Can y'all believe its August already!? There's just one month left of our lovely summer vacation but here at the library we're still hard at work getting ready for a great fall semester. We can't wait to have everyone back on campus but for now we'll just have to welcome the new books to our shelves. Let's start by welcoming back some classic heavy hitters:
1984 by George Orwell
George Orwell's 1984 is a dystopian novel set in a totalitarian superstate called Oceania, where the Party, led by the enigmatic Big Brother, exerts absolute control over every aspect of its citizens' lives. A haunting classic with many parallels to life today.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Vonnegut's novel tells the story of a man who gets entangled with a family who's patriarch helped work on the atomic bomb. The novel explores themes of scientific responsibility, religion, and the end of the world. Vonnegut uses his deadpan humor and bitter sense of irony to demonstrate not only the fear of witnessing an Armageddon but surviving one.
The Martian by Andy Weir
Stranded on Mars, astronaut Mark Watney must use his wits, ingenuity, and sheer force of will to survive, while rescue teams on Earth work around the clock to bring him home.
New to our roster we have:
Drawdown : the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to roll back global warming edited by Paul Hawken.
This non-fiction book is built like a roadmap to help guide us to better solutions of fighting devastating climate change. Organized by broad categories the book tackles: energy, food, women and girls, buildings and cities, land use, transport, materials, and "coming attractions". Drawdown provides a list of 100 potential solutions and ranks them by the potential amount of greenhouse gases each could cut, with cost estimates and short descriptions.
The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal.
This list already has a dude astronaut book on it, so its only fitting we now get a female astronaut one! The Fated Sky tells the story of Elma York, an astronaut living in an alternate reality where a world ending event has forced the world's space programs into overdrive hoping to find a new place to call home. But should she choose to go on this mission her life will take one of two paths and there is no going back.
Woman of light : a novel by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
A multigenerational novel set in the 1930's American West. The story centers around a young woman who reads tea leaves and has clairvoyant abilities as she learns to navigate her new home in Denver after being forced out of her family's ancestral lands. The narrative weaves together the past and present, exploring themes of family, survival, racism, and the power of storytelling, all while showcasing the rich cultural heritage of the family's Indigenous and Mexican heritage. The perfect book for the upcoming Hispanic Heritage Month in September!
Wow, what a line up! As always please stop by the library to see what we have in stock or chat with a librarian about finding your next favorite read! With summer coming to a close get your fun reading in before homework dominates your schedule. See you in September!
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