Grabbing books for patrons, putting items back on shelves, and straightening can lead to some surprising finds. We wanted to share some of them with you. Here are some of the treasures we found this week:
The She-Hulk Diaries
by Marta Acosta
With She-Hulk: Attorney at Law recently started, we thought we'd include this title in with our discoveries. Our green attorney struggles with her alter ego and gets into some really smashing situations... Sorry, I can't resist a good pun.
The Wine Bible
by Karen MacNeil
I know there are a bunch of wine connoisseurs out there. You might have fun with this one. Both informative and entertaining, this book is routinely evolving to suit your wine information needs with new editions coming out periodically. So sit down with a relaxing cabernet or Riesling and dream of your own collection.
Dark Matter
by Blake Crouch
One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something impossible. Is it this world or the other that's the dream? How can he possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could have imagined--one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
by Samin Nosrat
Cooking is a balancing act between a few key concepts. According to New York Times magazine collumnist and Netflix show producer (of the show by the same name) Samin Nosrat, it all comes down to salt, fat, acid, and heat. This book will change the way you think about cooking and eating, and help you find your bearings in any kitchen, with any ingredients, while cooking any meal.
The Ultimate Book of Useless Information : A Few Thousand More Things You Might Need To Know (But Probably Don't)
by Noel Botham
Bigger, better, and more useless than ever!
In their groundbreakingly useless book, The Book of Useless Information, the members of the Useless Information Society proved that knowledge doesn't have to be useful to be entertaining. Now they present a new collection of their most fascinating, hilarious, and wholly trivial findings. The Ultimate Book of Useless Information includes such "did you knows" as:
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite
- The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing
- And giraffes have no vocal cords
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
Ex-physicist and robotics engineer turned full-time blogger of the popular xkcd website answers questions about the physical world, both silly and serious in an entertaining manner, often with satirical comics and illustrations. If you ever wanted to know what sort of damage hail the size and shape of a soccer ball would cause or the probability of someone having just sneezed on the other end of a
Maus
by Art Spiegleman
We all know that relative, friend, or coworker/fellow student that believes all graphic novels &/or comic books are trash, not fit for anyone over the age of 7 years old, if that, and that nothing can be learned/gained from them. Prove them wrong with this. Maus is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning combination biographical/autobiographical account of the Holocausts and the effects on subsequent generations. It tells of Spiegleman's attempt to preserve his father's experiences during the Holocaust as a Polish Jew, Spiegleman's own experiences growing up under someone who lived through that, and his grown life during the creation of this book. Additional commentary on popular characterizations of various peoples during that period can be found in the animals Spiegleman chooses to use to represent the various communities. An excellent place to start your journey into graphic novels. We just added a new copy into the system and it's a beauty.
Cranium
If you want a game that has you teaming up to do some outrageous challenges, this might be for you. Players team up to cruise around the board completing activities in 4 color-coded categories: Creative Cat, Data Head, Star Performer, and Word Worm. It's a bit older of a title, but still a lot of fun.
Expedition
Like the idea of roleplaying games but not sure you are ready to invest huge chunks of time or money? By using both a small deck of cards and a free app, you can get your feet wet with this game. The app is your game/dungeon master with an ever changing set of events to play with. Your job and/or that of your companions is to win the day.
Anna Dressed in Blood
by Kendare Blake
The horror genre meets Romeo and Juliet in this young adult title. The official summary reads something like this: For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.
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