The following items are available at 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 Wish Child,” by Catherine Chidgey
In Germany 1939, two children watch as their parents become immersed in the mechanisms of power. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words such as "promise," "love" and "mercy" from books. Erich is an only child living a lush rural life of tending beehives near Leipzig, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Drawn together as Germany’s hope for a glorious future begins to collapse, the children find temporary refuge in an abandoned theater amid the rubble of Berlin. Outside, white bed sheets hang from windows, and all over the city people are talking of surrender. The days Sieglinde and Erich spend together will shape the rest of their lives. And watching over them is the story’s narrator, the Wish Child. He sees what they see; he feels what they feel; his is a voice that comes from deep inside the ruins of a nation’s dream.
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Adult Nonfiction
“Breaking Up with Busy: Real-Life Solutions for Overscheduled Women,” by Yvonne Tally
Overbooking and undersleeping have almost become status symbols. Having it all seems to be synonymous with doing it all, yet what do we really accomplish with so much busyness? Author Yvonne Tally wants to give you back your life by helping you break the busyness habit. She offers realistic, step-by-step and even fun ways to get off the busyness hamster wheel and reclaim your time. Yvonne shows how the benefits of living a more balanced life can improve your longevity and spiritual well-being. She outlines ways to shift and calm your mind, learn how to say no, and create your own “busy-busting solutions.” With 52 refreshers and reminders, ”Breaking Up with Busy” provides incremental ways to change habits, transform thinking and reconnect with your personal sense of play and pleasure.
