The following items are available at the Hancock County Public Library, 900 W. McKenzie Road. For more information on the library’s collection or to reserve a title, visit hcplibrary.org.
Adult Fiction
“The Female Persuasion,” by Meg Wolitzer
Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at 63, has been a central pillar of the women’s movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer, madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can’t quite place, feels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she’d always imagined. At its heart, “The Female Persuasion” is about the flame we all believe is flickering inside of us, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time.
Adult Nonfiction
“The Death of Democracy,” by Benjamin Carter Hett
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Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? “The Death of Democracy” answers these questions. To say that Hitler was elected is too simple. He would never have come to power if Germany’s leading politicians had not responded to a spate of populism with a strategy that backed them into a corner from which the only way out was to bring the Nazis in. The author explores the misguided confidence of conservative politicians who believed that Hitler and his followers would willingly support them, not recognizing their efforts to use the Nazis actually played into Hitler’s hands. They had willingly given him the tools to turn Germany into a vicious dictatorship.
