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New items are available at the Hancock County Public Library.
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.
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“Paris Echo” by Sebastian Faulks
American historian Hannah heads to Paris — where she once suffered a heartbreak — intending to research World War II. A chance encounter with a Moroccan teenager — whose vision of Paris as a world of opportunity and rebirth contrasts starkly with her own — disrupts her plan. Hannah agrees to take in Tariq as a lodger, forming a connection with the young man. Yet as Tariq assimilates into the country he risked his life to enter, he realizes that its past and current climate are far more complicated than he’d anticipated. And Hannah, deeply involved in her work on women’s lives in Nazi-occupied Paris, uncovers a shocking piece of history that threatens her core beliefs. Hannah and Tariq each question whether the past century can teach them about the future and which sacrifices are worth their happiness.
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“Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free,” by Linda Kay Klein
In the 1990s, a purity industry emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with the message that girls are potential sexual stumbling blocks for boys and men, and any expression of a girl’s sexuality showed the corruption of her character. This message traumatized many girls, resulting in anxiety, shame, fear and experiences that mimicked the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. This is the sex education that author Linda Kay Klein grew up with. Fearing being marked a Jezebel, Klein broke up with her high school boyfriend because she thought God told her to, and took pregnancy tests though she was a virgin, terrified that any sexual activity would be punished with an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. When the youth pastor of her church was convicted of sexual enticement of a 12-year-old girl, Klein began to question the purity-based sexual ethic.
