AT THE LIBRARY
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.
{span style=”text-decoration: underline;”}Adult Fiction{/span}
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“Wanderers,” by Chuck Wendig
Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and her sister are not alone. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey. And like Shana, there are other “shepherds” who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the road ahead. For as the sleepwalking phenomenon awakens terror and violence in America, the real danger may not be the epidemic but the fear of it. With society collapsing all around them — and an ultraviolent militia threatening to exterminate them — the fate of the sleepwalkers depends on unraveling the mystery behind the epidemic: a secret that will either tear the nation apart or bring the survivors together to remake a shattered world.
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“In the Country of Women: A Memoir,” by Susan Straight
Susan Straight makes her nonfiction debut with a memoir — addressed to her three adult daughters — that weaves together stories of time, place, race and ethnicity to vibrantly portray her children’s ancestry. Straight is white: her mother grew up in the Swiss Alps; her father, in Colorado. When she was 14, she met Dwayne Sims, an African American high school classmate and her future husband. They married and settled near their families. When her youngest daughter was asked how the family fared, Straight told her of her ancestors. “The women who came before you, my daughters, were legends,” writes the author, and their journeys — from Africa, Europe and across the American continent — entailed a tapestry of “maps and threads” that culminated in her own girls, “the apex of the dream.” Her daughters inherited not only their ancestors’ physical characteristics, but their intelligence and defiant independence. Among those many women, Dwayne’s mother, Alberta, shines as a “bemused and regal and slightly mischievous” warmhearted woman who unreservedly welcomed her white daughter-in-law. Listening to family stories and mining ancestry.com, Straight recounts the peril and hope, forced migration and fierce escapes, and “thousands of miles of hardship” that the women endured. “All of American history,” she tells her daughters, “is in your bones.”
