Beeswing : losing my way and finding my voice, 1967-1975

by Thompson, Richard, 1949-

July 12, 2021

Call Number: 789.24 T475

Richard Thompson has spent his entire adult life on the fringes of stardom. Beginning in his late teens, he has been an influential songwriter and guitarist. Thompson was a founding member of British folk rock pioneers, Fairport Convention. He has also been an in-demand session musician and performed as a duo with his ex-wife Linda. While he has appeared on few hit records, he is acclaimed for bringing a jazz texture to rock guitar and converting traditional British folk tunes to supple rock ballads. Realizing in the late sixties that he couldn’t compete with the guitar solos of Jimi... Read Full Review

The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

June 28, 2021

Call Number: 813 S819S 2020

Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein were originals, as individual people and as a couple. They did not strive to be different or unique, they just were. As a couple they even debunk what might be perceived as their traditional roles in a relationship with Gertrude Stein, the writer, poet and creator with Alice B. Toklas as a factotum who supported the great artist and took care of the household and cooking. It is not quite the whole story. They were stereotyped, and for the uninformed not to be taken seriously. At one time, Gertrude Stein was gratuitously known for one line from a long poem... Read Full Review

Mother May I

by Jackson, Joshilyn

June 14, 2021

It happens in an instant. While Bree Cabbat watches her eldest daughter rehearse a school production of Grease, her infant son, Robert, sleeps in the seat next to her in the balcony of the school’s theatre. One moment he is there, the next he is gone. In his place is a note which demands that Bree head directly home, that she is not to contact the police, and to wait for a call. She is being watched and any deviation will result in Robert’s death.

Bree complies and is contacted. Robert is safe, for now, but for him to be returned, she must do exactly as... Read Full Review

A Master of Djinn

by Clark, P. Djèli

June 2, 2021

In Cairo in the 1870’s, an inventor and investigator of mysticism named al-Jahiz made a literal breakthrough unlike any other. He pierced the boundaries between our world and other worlds, allowing magic to bleed into ours. In the process, al-Jahiz was lost to another dimension before the rupture between worlds was sealed. For the intervening four decades the world has had to learn how to live with, or attempt to ignore, the magical beings that now populate our world.

The Egyptian government, as the locus of the magical in the world, set up the Ministry of Alchemy... Read Full Review

Every Day is a Gift: A Memoir

by Duckworth, Tammy

May 19, 2021

Call Number: 92 D836

It is one woman’s story of growth and achievement, comprised of innumerable personal and professional extremes, of opposing and contradictory experiences that took her to places, jobs and professions that she never ever could have imagined. Her life is like a complex Venn diagram or a mandala, with multiple overlapping layers. On the book jacket, beneath her name, she lists soldier, senator, mother. The life of a soldier propelled her on the road to becoming a senator and a mother.

She is biracial, multiethnic and multilingual. In 1989, from the University of... Read Full Review