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All Booked Up
Windsor Library's Newsletter for Readers
May 2024
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Are you a book enthusiast? Do you want to know what the next best book to read is? Are you part of a book club and are looking for the next title to discuss? Join the Windsor Public Library in our Meeting Room 1 for a Book Buzz Event to discuss books and reading on Monday, May 13 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM. Registration Required. 860-285-1918. | |
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Coming to a bookshelf near you!
(click on the cover to place your hold today)
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While You Are Waiting for The Women by Kristin Hannah | | |
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Absolution by Alice McDermott
The Women by Kristin Hannah catapulted to the top of the list this spring bringing parts of the Vietnam to life that have not been told. While you are waiting for this book, things about reading Absolution by Alice McDermott.
In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer "on loan" to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the "wretchedness" she sees all around her. When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a cabal of well-dressed do-gooder American wives. Armed with baskets filled with candy and toys, they descend on hospitals, orphanages, and a leper colony on the coast, determined to relieve suffering, no matter the cost. Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter reaches out to Tricia, now widowed and living in Washington. As the two relive their shared experience in Saigon, they are forced to come to terms with the ways their own lives have been shaped and stunted by Charlene's pursuit of "inconsequential good."
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And Then We Rise: A guide to loving and taking care of self by Common
Narrated by Common
Length: 6 hours and 12 minutes
The rapper, actor, and advocate blends self-help with activist passion. Common asks readers to better themselves, empowering them with the grace and courage to do so. Available as a Playaway Audio.
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The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem
A fantasy with phenomenal world-building, compelling story, rich character development and a slow-burn romance earned this debut a Publisher's Weekly starred review.
Ever since her kingdom, Jasad, was burned to the ground by the Nizhalian ruler, Sylvia, like all Jasadis, has been forced to hide her identity and her magic. Anyone accused of being a Jasadi is immediately imprisoned, tortured, and put to death. But Sylvia is even more endangered because she is in fact the Jasadi heir, Essiya. When she catches the eye of the strategically brilliant Nizhalan heir, Arin, a cat-and-mouse game ensues in which he knows she has secrets that he must uncover, even as he trains her to be Champion in an upcoming deadly tournament. And even as their fierce enmity evolves into mutual respect and attraction.
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.
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Spotlight: Mothers and Sons or Mothers and Daughters | |
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Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto known only by its whispered code name: Jane. 1971: As a teenager, Dr. Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for “fallen” women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoption—a trauma she has never recovered from. Despite harrowing police raids and the constant threat of arrest, she joins the Jane Network as an abortion provider, determined to give other women the choice she never had. 1980: After discovering a shocking secret about her family, twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell begins to question everything she has ever known. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she feels like she has no one to turn to for help. Grappling with her decision, she locates “Jane” and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. Taylor within the network’s ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her.
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The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong
Early one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin wakes up to a strange metallic smell, and a phone call from his brother asking if everything's all right at home - he missed a call from their mother in the middle of the night. Yu-jin soon discovers her murdered body, lying in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs of their stylish Seoul duplex. He can't remember much about the night before; having suffered from seizures for most of his life, Yu-jin often has trouble with his memory. All he has is a faint impression of his mother calling his name. But was she calling for help? Or begging for her life? Thus begins Yu-jin's frantic three-day search to uncover what happened that night, and to finally learn the truth about himself and his family. A shocking and addictive psychological thriller, The Good Son explores the mysteries of mind and memory, and the twisted relationship between a mother and son, with incredible urgency.
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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize-winning novel is about many mothers, mother figures, daughters and daughter figures. Following 12 characters, the book traverses both time and place, going from Newcastle to Cornwall, from London to the US. Among the people readers meet are Amma, a theatre director, and her daughter Yazz, and immigrant Bummi and her daughter Carole. Evaristo also explores other types of mother/daughter like relationships, including Hattie, a 93-year-old farmer, and her grandchild Morgan. Girl, Woman, Other is both an intimate look at the complicated relationships between women, and a wider look at being a Black woman in society today.
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