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The latest additions to The Library's collection
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In the stacks
Contemporary
Lamb | Mr. Troy Ford | LGBTQ+ (N) (I) (F)
Two friends on different but parallel paths, from private school through college and their raging twenties, until the abrupt, mysterious end of their friendship. Told through reminiscences, journal excerpts, letters, and short stories, Lamb is a snapshot in episodes of young men coming of age after the decimation of AIDS—a new, sometimes shiny, sometimes dark afterparty of gay awakening.
Nonfiction
The Recovery Diaries | Eleanor Anstruther | Nonfiction (B) (C) (F)
THE RECOVERY DIARIES is the follow up to Eleanor's memoir, 65 Postcards. Following the same rules of engagement as inspired by Julia Cameron’s classic The Artist’s Way, she wrote each morning without a plan, allowing whatever needed to come forward to hit the page. The result is a deep dive into the process of somatic experiencing, recovery and what it is to be human. Intimate and universal, from portraits of her every day to memories once buried, this is where stories are conjured out of air, where feelings are opened to the sunshine and worlds, yours and mine, collide.Â
The Book of the World: A Contemporary Scripture | Unknown, editor: Phyllis Cole-Dai | Nonfiction, Prose, Secular Scripture (B) (C) (F)
Imagine scripture created for today. Scripture without a religion. Scripture intended not to replace other holy books but to offer alongside them its own poignant witness. Scripture written not by prophet or saint, mystic or messiah, guru or god, but by the world. Scripture nearly 3,000 verses long, woven seamlessly from quotations from around the globe. Scripture whose creator is unknown and whose origins are a mystery. Scripture that first appeared on the Internet, only to be suppressed. Scripture meant not only to be read but also to be tested, and transcended . . . Imagine it no more. That scripture is here. Reflected in the pages of this one-of-a-kind book are many of the values and concerns that are central to the living of a spiritual life in a contemporary world, such as the cultivation of compassion, the expansion of peace and justice, and the growth of respect for this planet and all living things. The book calls us out of complacency, urging us to keep on with the great work of making our soul, which is, at the same time, the great work of making the world.
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Buy Indie
Speculative
harvest | Noah Rymer | Sci-Fi, Gothic, Horror (NA)
A collection of eleven tales whose common thread is a certain Gothic metaphysicality, harvest is a witches’ brew of science-fiction, folk superstition, the unexplainable and the inexplicable. Furnished with junky assassins, memory thieves, ancient rituals and walking corpses, harvest is a vivid hallucination compressed into a swift 140 pages of high strangeness.Â
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From the Archive
Featuring a different, randomly selected book every week
The Coffeehouse | Joan Rowell | Speculative, Horror (S) (I) (F)
Creepy short fiction inspired by campfire tales, urban legends, and things that go bump in the night. More stories to come!Â
🧡 Troy's Lamb.