With colder temperatures upon us, perhaps it’s time to swing by your local library and find a cozy book to enlighten the mind or warm the heart.
Your local Seeley Lake Public Library has many brand new popular titles in both non-fiction and fiction for adults. Here is a current sampling of what is available (all quotes from the books’ jacket covers).
This month’s nonfiction highlight is Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith. The author “exposes the daily onslaught of fatphobia and body shaming that kids face from school, sports, doctors, diet culture, and parents themselves—and offers strategies for how families can change the conversation around weight, health, and self-worth. Fat Talk is a stirring, deeply researched, and groundbreaking book that will help parents…empower their kids to navigate this challenging land-scape.”
Other new nonfiction titles you’ll want to check out: The Masters: Conversations with Bono, Dylan, Garcia, Jagger, Lennon, Springsteen & Townsend by Jann S. Wenner (bestselling author of Like a Rolling Stone); Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her by Erika Bolstad; Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely; Moving on Doesn’t Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss by Gina Moffa LCSW; and Walk the Blue Line: They Walk the Line Between Life and Death co-written by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann.
December’s fiction spotlight is on Medusa’s Sisters by Lauren J. A. Bear. If you like the works of Madeline Miller (Circe, The Song of Achilles) then you’ll appreciate this new work Lauren Bear. “Even before they were turned into Gorgons, Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale were unique among their immortal family…Monsters but not monstrous, Stheno and Euryale will step into the light for the first time to tell the story of how all three sisters lived and were changed by each other, as they struggle against the inherent conflict between sisterhood and individuality, myth and truth, vengeance and peace.”
Additional available fiction titles are: The Secrets Beneath by Kimberley Woodhouse; The Second Murderer (a Philip Marlowe Novel) by Denise Mina; Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke; Murder Under a Red Moon by Harini Magendra; and The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab.
Your local library also regularly swaps out DVDs, books on CD, large print, fiction and nonfiction titles. We typically have a puzzle going in-house – which is another great winter activity – as well as puzzles to take home, including plenty that are holiday- or winter-themed.
This is the final month of the 2023 Missoula Reads Challenge. If you’ve finished your reading log, bring it in to the library. Prizes are on the way for everyone who has completed the challenge. Don’t forget to check out the “Seeley Reads” podcast chronicling two local readers’ journey through the challenge (available on Soundcloud). Speaking of podcasts – new introductory classes will begin in January. Call the Library (406-677-8995) for more information and to sign up.
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