![]() Recommended by: Faith Price, Big Pine Key Branch Managerīeing Henry: The Fonz … and Beyond by Henry Winkler Where: This is available as an eBook and eAudiobook from the Monroe County Public Library system. Now for the terrible news: the next book will not be available until September 2024. On the scale of moral grayness, he’s a charcoal and she’s a new dime, with a shiny personality to match. And it pairs a not-completely-evil villain with an assistant not to be underestimated. ![]() It’s a medieval-lite, magical world, featuring office culture, very slow burn romance, excellent banter, and hilarious turns of phrase. There was no time I was drawn into the story swiftly and completely. Why: It wasn’t until I finished the book that I thought to check the release date for the sequel. Recommended by: Nancy Klingener, community affairs managerĪssistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer Where: This is available as a print book from the Monroe County Public Library system. Lulu Miller’s slim work of nonfiction (the older I get, the more I’m for that) starts out as a biography of Jordan but becomes much more – a memoir, a meditation on finding your purpose in life while coping with the chaos all around us – and a little dash of true crime that’s an eye-opener on her original subject. Yet his rigorous work did not spare him from chaos in his own life – including some he inflicted on others. David Starr Jordan was an early exemplar of the field, collecting almost 20 percent of the known species of fish at the time. DNA has shaken up the established taxonomies of some animals (so a falcon is actually more of a parrot than a hawk?) but in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries, scientists were going with what they could see in front of them. It’s a way of making sense of the vast chaos around us – and sometimes in us. Why: Taxonomy is classification – in biology, it’s ordering the natural world into species, genus, family, etc. ![]() Recommended by: Riona Campbell, library associate, Key West Library Where: This is available as a print book, eBook and eAudiobook from the Monroe County Public Library system. Strewn with sharp barbs, absurdist wit, and a torrent of miscommunication, Viola and Fox learn what it means to be truly vulnerable. Viola and Fox get drawn into a rambling mess of immortal hooligans and enter a high stakes gambling ring, overseen by Death. With the ghost hell-bent on tanking the sale, Viola enlists the help of a (nearly fraudulent) medium named Fox D’Mora. Her biggest property listing is a palatial Chicago estate, furnished with a sardonic ghost. Why: What a romp! Viola, a burnt-out real estate agent, is also a vampire. Recommended by: Amy Skerly, library assistant, Key West Library Where: This is available as an eBook from the Monroe County Public Library system. Her benefactor, Catherine, talented artist in her own right and a widow of two years, finds Lucy’s engaging intelligence and astronomical prowess intriguing and arousing in equal measure. Enter Lucy Muchelney, daughter of a respected astronomer in 1816 England and fellow of the Polite Society of Science, the self-professed authority of all topics scientific. Sisters, wives, and nieces all lie behind scientific achievements lauded by men as the hard work of ONLY men, but can only have been brought to fruition with the assistance of their female counterparts. Why: The backstories of scientific reasoning are female and this novel exposes this truth. ![]() Questions? Email Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite If you don’t have a card, you can visit your local branch or register online to get one. You can request books online by logging in to the catalog and get eBooks and eAudiobooks 24/7 from Overdrive or via the Libby app.
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