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New items are available at the Hancock County Public Library.
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.
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“Under My Skin” by Lisa Unger
What if the nightmares are actually memories? It’s been a year since Poppy’s husband, Jack, was brutally murdered during his morning run through Manhattan’s Riverside Park. In the immediate aftermath, Poppy spiraled into an oblivion of grief, disappearing for several days only to turn up ragged, confused and wearing a tight red dress she didn’t remember owning. What happened to Poppy during those lost days? And more importantly, what happened to Jack? The case was never solved, and Poppy has finally begun to move on. But those lost days have never stopped haunting her. Poppy starts having nightmares and blackouts with periods of time she can’t remember, and she’s unable to tell the difference between what is real and what she’s imagining. When she begins to sense someone is following her, Poppy is plunged into a game of cat and mouse, determined to unravel the mystery around her husband’s death.
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“Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.” by Lili Anolik
Los Angeles in the 1960s and ‘70s was the pop culture capital of the world, and Eve Babitz was a product of L.A. The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Babitz posed in 1963, at age 20, playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp. She was naked; he was not. The photograph made her an instant icon of art and sex. Babitz spent the rest of the decade rocking and rolling on the Sunset Strip, honing her notoriety. There were the album covers she designed for Buffalo Springfield and the Byrds, to name but a few. There were the men she seduced: Jim Morrison, Ed Ruscha, Harrison Ford, to name but a very few. Then, at nearly 30, Babitz became a writer, producing seven books, usually billed as novels or short story collections, always autobiographies and confessionals. She was under-known and under-read at the time, but now in her mid-70s, she’s on the cusp of literary stardom and recognition as an essential L.A. writer. For Babitz, life was slow days, fast company until a freak fire in the ‘90s turned her into a recluse. She was living in a West Hollywood condo when Lili Anolik tracked her down in 2012. Anolik’s book is equal parts biography and detective story about the artist, writer, muse and one-woman zeitgeist, Eve Babitz.
