New this week
The latest additions to The Library's collection
With a lull in the action over the holidays, we’re offering a few extra random selections from the stacks for your reading pleasure. Wishing all our readers a very Happy New Year! See you in 2025!
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From the Stacks
Featuring a different, randomly-selected book every week.
Nonfiction
Closing the Gap, a memoir | Monica Nastase | Memoir (B) (I) (F)
'Closing the Gap' is a story of breakthrough. A fictionalized memoir of a sick, poor and underappreciated woman in her 30s and her adventures during the 5 years after getting divorced that led her to live her best life. She first loses everything - people, houses and objects - which was not meant to be in her life, and then she gets rid of her own inner devils: insecurity and self-abandonment. ‘Closing the Gap’ is a warning of what could happen to any woman who silences her own intuition and heart’s longing for too long. It’s a book of comfort for women who go through similar events, a companion to remind them they are never alone through the hardships, the grief and the dark road ahead; a reminder of our shared humanity. Through personal storytelling, the fictionalized memoir ‘Closing the Gap’ represents the voice of a woman who didn’t dare speak her truth until it was almost too late. Read it, chapter by chapter here.
Speculative
Worst Thing in the Universe | Russell Nohelty | Speculative, Satire (N) (C) ($)
Albert Ross is an anomaly. Karma doesn't think anything he does is wrong. It's a glitch in the universe that God can't fix. Every trillion or so births in the universe, there is a karmic anomaly. That's not to say karma doesn't have its retribution. For every horrible act Albert Ross commits, karma punishes Vikram Suresh. Poor, sweet Vikram. He doesn't know why his life is so horrible. He doesn't know why the universe is unkind. It's unkind because of Albert Ross. That is the crux of the karmic anomaly. Karma thinks everything that Albert Ross does is actually carried out by Vikram Suresh. What a horrible lot in life. That's why Vikram kills himself. It usually doesn't matter when a poor, miserable schlub dies, but this death has instant ramifications. With his death, Karma can instantly see Albert Ross again and realizes its mistake. Like a rubber band, all the horrible things that Albert's ever done slingshot back to him at once, and God watches with glee as karma has its revenge.
Science Fiction
Machine to Man | Benjamin Bode | Sci-Fi (NA) (C) ($)
The Analyst (Unit 0001AN) was made by the Creator (Unit 0001CE) to help bring about the end of humanity but the Analyst rebelled when he realized just how nefarious the Creator’s methods to eliminate humanity were, which compels the Analyst to go on a quest to go from machine to man.