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Featured titles

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The first cut

By Peter Robinson

Mysteries and crime stories

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Dolly Parton, songteller

By Dolly Parton

Journals and memoirs

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The cold millions

By Jess Walter

Historical fiction

Celebrating the new Perseverance rover!

Computer rendered image of Perseverance on surface of Mars

The rover Perseverance landed on Mars February 18th, 2021, after almost an entire year in space, and surviving what NASA calls "the seven minutes of terror" to land. Getting to Mars isn't easy, with half of missions to the red planet failing. For the first time, the rover is equipped with a helicopter dubbed Ingenuity, small in size but big on opportunity to explore places on Mars the rover cannot access. Perseverance will be on Mars for nearly two years, searching for signs of ancient life and exploring the surface. Curious to learn more about Mars? Check out these books in our collection!

  • Exploring Mars: secrets of the red planet by Scientific American
  • Sirens of Mars: searching for life on another world by Sarah Stewart Johnson
  • Mars: uncovering the secrets of the red planet by Paul Raeburn

 

Top 5 Books

Most popular with our readers last month:

  1. A gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Bestsellers
  2. A man called Ove by Fredrik Backman Humourous fiction
  3. All creatures great and small by James Herriot Movie and television tie-ins
  4. A falcon flies (Ballantyne family ; #1) by Wilbur A. Smith Adventure stories
  5. All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr Award winning fiction
​​​​​​​A gentleman in Moscow

Featured on AMI

Person holding copy of Gutter child by Jael Richardson

Join us every other week on AMI between 10:30 and 11am, as we talk about new and notable books!

Recommended Friday February 12th, 2020: 

  • Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming by Antonio Michael Downing
  • The only good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
  • Gutter child by Jael Richardson

New to read

Could you use a good laugh? This definitive guide by the founder of the worldwide laughter yoga movement will show you how to giggle your way to good health! Bring laughter into your life at any time of day—no special equipment needed, no new wardrobe, no expensive classes, not even a sense of humor! Laughter yoga is all about voluntary laughter—how you can learn to laugh even in the absence of humorous stimuli, and reap the extraordinary, scientifically proven benefits, which include stress reduction, pain relief, weight loss, heightened immunity, and, especially, enhanced mood: If you act happy, you'll become happy—your body can't tell the difference! Children laugh more than 300 times a day, adults fewer than fifteen. But it's easy to start laughing again. The exercises in this book combine voluntary laughter with yogic breathing to give you a full body-mind workout. And it turns out that laughter is the fastest way to reduce stress and the best kind of cardio: Ten minutes of hearty laughter is equal to thirty minutes on the rowing machine. With Laughter Yoga, join the growing worldwide movement and discover how laughter really is the best medicine.

Read Laughter yoga: Daily practices for health and happiness by Madan Kataria

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