The Librarians' Bedside Table

OSCAR GRADY PUBLIC LIBRARY

THE LIBRARIANS’

BEDSIDE TABLE What your friendly librarians have been listening, reading, watching & MUCH MORE!

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Oscar Grady Public Library Mission Statement:

The mission of the Oscar Grady Public Library is to provide high interest, high demand materials and make them readily available from the Library’s collection or through interlibrary loan. The Library supports lifelong learning, information and recreational needs for people of all ages and abilities. Special emphasis is placed on stimulating children’s interests and appreciation for reading and learning. The integration of new technology with traditional library resources is used to expand service beyond the Library’s physical walls.

On this new issue of our “Librarians’ Bedside Table”, we compiled a list of really good titles recommended by your library friends. Each title can be accessed in electronic format for your convenience. Click or tap in the hyperlinks attached to each title that will take you right to them in the Monarch Catalog. We hope you enjoy this selection of books from your

librarians at the Oscar Grady Public Library!

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Jen Gerber, our Library Director, would like to recommend the following titles:

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. Description from publisher.

The Return of the Key

by Ruth Ware When a high-paying nanny job at a luxurious Scottish Highlands home ends with her imprisonment for a child's murder, a young woman struggles to explain to her lawyer the unraveling events that led to her incarceration.

Description from publisher.

Debra Jo, Library Assistant and ILL Specialist would like to recommend the following titles:

Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes from My African American Kitchen

by Alexander Smalls. ""Alexander Smalls has owned, conceptualized, and helmed some of New York's most iconic African American restaurants. Now, he follows up the James Beard award-winning Between Harlem and Heaven with Meals, Music, and Muses, a look at his world glimpsed through the lenses of music, food, culture, and history. It is a must-read journey through a life well lived and in recipe and reminiscence details the musical forms learned, the friends and family who instructed, and the foods shared along the way."

A symphonic composition full of stories, contemporary southern recipes that celebrates the food and musical genres that influenced the history of America... He sets the table in a unique way from jazz to blues to divas on a plate...This is not your mother's cookbook..." Dee Dee Bridgewater"- Provided by publisher.

Hope, our Collection Developer would like to recommend these titles:

Ms. Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries TV Series on DVD. In this spin-off to the wildly popular Australian mystery series, Phryne Fisher's long-lost niece, Peregrine (Geraldine Hakewill), decides to follow in her stylish footsteps as a lady detective for a new era. With the help of the handsome, straitlaced Detective James Steed (Joel Jackson) and a group of accomplished women, Peregrine investigates murders in 1960s Melbourne.

(Description from publisher)

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award!

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes the highly anticipated Cloud Cuckoo Land.

Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and ompassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope—and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone.

Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna’s will cross.

Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet.

Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravest danger. Their lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. Dedicated to “the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,” Cloud Cuckoo Land is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship—of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart. (Description from publisher) .

Hope would like to recommend this title:

The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins Read by Emily Shaffer, Lauren Fortgang, & Kirby Heyborne This was the first book on CDs to which I had ever listened while in the car. I so enjoyed the experience that I look forward to doing it again; however, I will download the book on my phone so that I do not have to change CDs while I am driving.

Where to start? The book takes place in a well to do neighborhood. A young girl with a troubled past has become a dog walker for many of the homeowners. This gives her access to the houses from which she steals small items.

Two married women who lived in the neighborhood have supposedly recently died in a boat accident at one of the women’s cottages. The young girl meets the husband of one of the deceased women and they fall in love.

The book is told from three points of view: 1. Jane, the young girl, 2. Eddie, the husband who falls in love with Jane, and 3. Bea, the wife upstairs.

When the body of one of the women is found, the plot thickens. It is discovered that she was murdered. Will the other woman be found? Who killed her? Was it her husband? Was it Eddie?

There are many twists and turns. I will tell you that I did not figure it out until the next to last chapter of the book. If you like intrigue, you would enjoy this book.

Having a Library card is like having a Swiss Army pocket knife!

You have a wealth of tools and resources right in your pocket, ready for when you need them the most!

Check our website at www.oscargradylibrary.org for full access to a wealth of resources, including publications such as CONSUMERS REPORT, Heritage Quest, DMV Motorist Handbook, Badgerlink, and much more!

Oscar Grady Public Library

Morning Storytime

Tuesdays, Oct. 12 - Nov. 30, 10:30 a.m.

Join us for a colorful storytime session this fall!

Oscar Grady Public Library 151 S. Main Street Saukville, WI 53080 (262) 284-6022

Come and enjoy weekly storytimes filled with rhymes, silly songs, dancing and, of course, fun stories with Miss Julie! Morning storytime is specially designed for 2-4 year olds, and lapsitters are always welcome. This eight week session begins October 12 and runs through November 30.

Storytime is free to attend, though registration is required. Signing up can be done in person or over the phone.

Please help us to follow the CDC guidelines.

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Oscar Grady Public Library

Evening Storytime

Wednesdays, Oct. 13 - Nov. 24 6:30 p.m. int

Have some color fun this fall at storytime!

Join us for themed stories, songs and rhymes before heading to bed! The fun begins October 13 and runs through November 24.

Children can come dressed in their pajamas and bring a stuffed animal if they would like.

Storytime is free to attend, though registration is required. Sign up today in person or over the phone.

Oscar Grady Public Library 151 S. Main Street Saukville, WI 53080 (262) 284-6022

We look forward to seeing you at the library!

Please help us to follow the CDC guidelines.

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Miss Julie would like to recommend this title:

Rake It In: The Greatests Hists

by Me First & the Gimme Gimmes Recently, I saw the punk bands Flogging Molly and Violent Femmes in concert during their co-headline tour.

Opening for them was Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, a punk rock cover band. Drawn together by a mutual love of 1960s, '70s and '80s music, the Gimme Gimmes work exclusively as a cover band

and have covered songs from such artists as Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, and John Denver (to name but a few). Their album, Rake It In: The Greatestest Hits, (which our library owns on vinyl) offers a wonderful collection of their most popular covers including "The Times They Are a-Changin'", "Over the Rainbow", "Country Roads", and "Jolene".

GROOVY! NOW PLAYING! More and more albums are being added to our collection of vinyls for you to check out. Artists in a great variety of genres await for you and your needle to enjoy music at 33 1⁄3 rpm!

Lynn, our Cataloging and Circulation Services Specialist, would like to recommend this title:

Teach Yourself Visually: Crocheting by Kim P. Werker & Cecily Keim Do you learn faster by seeing and doing than by wading through tedious instructions? Then pick up some yarn and a hook and get crocheting! Teach Yourself VISUALLY Crocheting shows you the basics—photo by photo and stitch by stitch. You begin with the basic tools and stitches and progress through variations, more complex stitches like Tunisian crochet, and techniques for reading patterns.

With designs ranging from a simple but practical baby rattle to a cozy, fluffy cardigan, you'll be creating masterpieces in no time. Description from publisher.

Maggie B. , our YA Program Coordinator, would like to recommend the following titles:

Squad.

by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, . 2021 Becca moves to an upscale Silicon Valley suburb and is surprised when she develops a bond with girls who belong to the popular clique-and even more surprised when she learns their secrets"-Provided by publisher.

PUMPKINHEADS

by Rainbow Rowell Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends. Every autumn, all through high school, they've worked together at the world's best pumpkin patch. They say good-bye every Halloween, and they're reunited every September 1. But this Halloween is different. Josiah and Deja are finally seniors. It's their last season at the Patch, their last shift together--their last goodbye. Josie's ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. (He's the melancholy type.) But Deja has a plan: What if, instead of moping and instead of the usual--slinging lima beans down at the Succotash Hut--they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks!

Maybe Josie could even talk to that cute girl he's been mooning over for three years ... What if their last shift was an adventure?"--Provided by publisher.

Martin, our Collection Developing and Adult Services Coordinator would like to recommend these titles:

KING OF BLUES, The rise and reign of B.B. King by Daniel De Vise King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in ninety countries over nearly sixty years)-in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including landmark gigs at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco and Chicago's Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always rose back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many ways record companies took advantage of artists, especially those of color."-Provided by publisher.

Catch the Rabbit

by Lana Bastašic.

It's been twelve years since inseparable childhood friends Lejla and Sara have spoken, but an unexpected phone call from Lejla thrusts Sara back in a world of memories, language and relationships she's tried hard to forget." -Description from the publisher

Last Night at the Lobster

by Stewart O’Nan Managing a failed seafood restaurant in a rundown New England mall just before Christmas, Manny DeLeon coordinates a challenging final shift of mutinous staff members, an effort that is complicated by his love for a waitress, a pregnant girlfriend, and an elusive holiday gift. Provided by publisher

Now around town! Books for everyone.

The Oscar Grady Library with the support of The Friends of the Oscar Grady Library has purchased three Little Free Libraries, which have been installed at three convenient locations: Quade Park, The Oscar Grady Library, and Village Hall.

Check them out! Love them, enjoy them, treasure them.

Rita would like to recommend these titles:

For Your Own Good (2021) by Samantha Downing is a murder mystery that takes place in an exclusive private school. When a leading parent drops dead at a school function, the community believes it is the result of a personal grudge. When more murders occur, the community begins to worry a serial killer is among them.

With many twists and turns, For Your Own Good is an enjoyable crime romp. Fans of Liane Moriarty might want to read this book, especially if they are on a waitlist to read her latest book, Apples Never Fall (2021).

For Your Own Good is available through Monarch in large and regular print books and through Libby, in audio and book formats.

Local Woman Missing (2021) by Mary Kubica is a murder mystery that is set in the present and eleven years prior. Eleven years ago, two women from one neighborhood die under unusual circumstances, and a young girl goes missing. Are the two deaths related or separate events? What happened to the young girl? Eleven years later, a missing girl is found and sets in motion the events that finally reveal the truth.

This is a suspenseful book, although things may be wrapped up a bit too neatly in the last chapter for some readers. Fans of Jane Harper and/or Nalini Singh’s suspense novels may enjoy this book.

Local Woman Missing is available through Monarch in large print books, regular print books and audio book formats and through Libby, in audio and book formats.

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