Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through The Strange (And Impossibly Small) World Of Particle Physics, by Jon Butterworth Review by Steve Richards Atom Land offers expeditions of discovery, challenging both imagination and physical sense of reality. Author Jon Butterworth is a professor of physics and astronomy. In the strange and counterintuitive territories of particle physics,…
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Educated: a memoir by Tara Westover Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann How to Get Sh*t Done: Why Women Need to Stop Doing Everything so They Can Achieve Anything by Erin Falconer Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island…
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1. Castle 2. Game of Thrones 3. Great British Baking Show 4. Outlanders 5. This is Us 6. American Gods 7. Stranger Things 8. Crown 9. Little House on the Prairie 10. Big Bang Theory
The 17th Suspect by James Patterson The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson The Fallen by David Baldacci Origin: a Novel by Dan Brown The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng An American Marriage by Tayari Jones The Disappeared by C.J. Box The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah…
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“An Unkindness of Ghosts” by Rivers Solomon seems a good book to highlight on this day as the book won many awards and was on many a “Best of 2017” book list. The good news for Newton Public Library patrons is the book is available to check out from the library shelves, as an eBook…
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— Steve Richards reviews “Barracoon” (306.362 Hurston – also available in Large Print) by Zora Neale Hurston Kossola, AKA, Cudjo Lewis, arrived in Alabama in the last known shipload of slaves to make it through the blockade in the 1860s. This was after importation of slaves became illegal. Barracoon, The Story of the Last “Black…
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Twilight of the Thunder God – Amon Amarth Amon Amarth is a Swedish Melodic Death Metal band that formed in 1998. A lot of their albums have lyrical themes of Viking mythology and the Viking age. 2008’s Twilight of the Thunder God is one of my favorite albums by them. Wolfcop – R – Horror…
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I have been going to the library for over six years now, and over those years I have saved over $5,500 using the library. I love the library because I can check out books to my heart’s content, and hang out with other book lovers my age at library events. I love books. When I…
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This is my current list of favorites. If you ask me next week it could be different. Goosebumps series by R.L. Stein These books kept me up at night as a child and instilled a love of scary stories in me. They might be the reason I’m so weird today. The Silence of…
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