Librarian's Reading Recommendations

Hoopla Recommendations

Vegan Everything by Nadine Horn and Jorg Mayer- Over 100 simple, affordable vegan recipes for any time, any occasion, and anyone-inspired by international cuisine and healthy living Think eating vegan is limiting? Think again!

A House of Ghosts by W.C. Ryan- Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives. At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, armaments manufacturer Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons, both of whom died at the front.

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice- A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south.

Pigs by Johanna Stoberock- Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world's detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them.

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