The library will be closed Sunday, March 31st, for Easter

Memorial Hall Library

New Displays in Non-Fiction

The library has refreshed its new subject-area displays in non-fiction titles, found on the ground floor (one level up from the parking lot).  While some subject displays remain the same, others have been changed around.  Our new displays are themed around leisure, true crime, and home & family.  You can visit the library to check them out, and in the meantime, the list below offers titles from each of these displays.

Growing flowers : everything you need to know about planting, tending, harvesting and arranging beautiful blooms
Growing flowers : everything you need to know about planting, tending, harvesting and arranging beautiful blooms
by Niki Irving

This book features fun, simple, and engaging gardening know-how on growing, harvesting, and arranging seasonal flowers. It includes chapters on getting started, tools of the trade, getting down and dirty with dirt, growing flowers, harvesting flowers, arranging flowers, seasonal rotation, starting from seeds and/or seedlings, and keeping it organic.

Borrow the e-book using Hoopla.
Handmade woodworking projects for the kitchen
Handmade woodworking projects for the kitchen
by Larry Okrend

Whether you're an intermediate woodworker or a beginner, make a collection of 17 functional woodworking projects for the kitchen for food preparation, storage, serving, and more. Featuring step-by-step instructions, coordinating photography, drawings, and expert tips, you can make beautifully handmade cutting boards, a knife block, wine rack, lazy Susan, and other kitchen essentials that are perfect for using, gifting, or even selling. Also included are opening sections on tools, materials, and basic techniques for a complete overview in gaining fundamental woodworking skills.
Korean Patchwork Quilting : 37 Modern Bojagi Style Projects
Korean Patchwork Quilting : 37 Modern Bojagi Style Projects
by Choi Yangsook

From their origins as wrapping cloths made with leftover scraps of fabric to their recognition today as fine works of textile art, bojagi--the traditional art of Korean patchwork quilting--is a wonderfully versatile mode of expression that can transform an entire room or wardrobe. In this book, master bojagi instructor Choi Yangsook teaches you the step-by-step techniques of assembling bits of lightweight fabric by means of invisible seams to create elegant patchwork pieces for your home and lifestyle.

Borrow the e-book using Hoopla.
A Guide to Metal Detecting
A Guide to Metal Detecting
by Graeme Rushton

By offering advice and guidance this book aims to make the hobby of using a metal detector fun, interesting, and interactive to anyone who wishes to have a go! It will give the reader an insight into following best practice and how to enjoy the hobby in a responsible way, everything will be covered from choosing the right detector & equipment to gaining permission to search land, understanding the law, and of course giving the necessary information to make sure that people enjoy their hobby to its maximum potential.

Borrow the e-book using Hoopla.
What bees want : beekeeping as nature intended
What bees want : beekeeping as nature intended
by Susan Knilans

Bee populations are plummeting. The solution? Give them what they need to live naturally, and they'll handle the rest. Knilans and Freeman have spent decades perfecting the revolutionary practice of preservation beekeeping, guided by the simple question, "What do the bees want?" A surprising page-turner, this instructional book tells the story of their successes and failures, demonstrating what was learned along the way.

Borrow the e-audiobook using Hoopla. 
 
Flight of the diamond smugglers : a tale of pigeons, obsession, and greed along coastal South Africa
Flight of the diamond smugglers : a tale of pigeons, obsession, and greed along coastal South Africa
by Matthew Gavin Frank

For nearly eighty years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed “overmined” and abandoned, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market. Soon he meets Msizi, a young diamond digger, and his pigeon, Bartholomew, who helps him steal diamonds. It’s a deadly game: pigeons are shot on sight by mine security, and Msizi knows of smugglers who have disappeared because of their crimes.
From the mining towns of Alexander Bay and Port Nolloth, through the “halfway” desert, to Kleinzee’s shores littered with shipwrecks, Frank investigates a long overlooked story.  

Borrow the e-book via partner network SAILS using Libby/Overdrive or the e-audiobook using Hoopla.
Slonim Woods 9 : a memoir
Slonim Woods 9 : a memoir
by Daniel Barban Levin

A firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult under conman Larry Ray and the horrifying costs paid by his young victims: his daughter’s college roommates.  
Deliberate evil : Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 murder of a Salem slave trader
Deliberate evil : Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 murder of a Salem slave trader
by Edward Renehan

Using source materials not previously available, Renehan describes the high-profile 1830 murder case of a wealthy slaver in Salem, Massachusetts, by two members of a local, influential, wealthy family, with Daniel Webster on the prosecution team and a young Nathaniel Hawthorne observing and writing about it.

Borrow the e-book via partner network CLAMS using Libby/Overdrive or the e-audiobook using Hoopla.
The officer's daughter : a memoir of family and forgiveness
The officer's daughter : a memoir of family and forgiveness
by Lois Johnson

A woman describes the life-altering tragedy she experienced as a teen, when her cousin was murdered in a robbery gone wrong, and explains why she needed to meet one of the killers thirty years later at his parole hearing.

Borrow the e-book via Boston Public Library using Libby/Overdrive or the e-audiobook using Hoopla.
Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
by David Nelson

As investigators brought out the bagged remains of several dozen young men from a small Chicago ranch home and paraded them in front of a crowd of TV reporters and spectators, attention quickly turned to the owner of the house. As public interest grew rapidly, victims became footnotes and statistics, lives lost not just to violence, but to history.  Through the testimony of siblings, parents, friends, lovers, and other witnesses close to the case, Boys Enter the House retraces the footsteps of these victims as they make their way to the doorstep of the Gacy house itself.

Borrow the e-book using Hoopla or using Libby/Overdrive, via partner network NOBLE.
Babies don't make small talk (so why should I?) : the introvert's guide to surviving parenthood
Babies don't make small talk (so why should I?) : the introvert's guide to surviving parenthood
by Julie Vick

Here, with laugh-out-loud humor and well-earned experience, Julie Vick offers coping mechanisms for everything from sharing the news that you are becoming a parent to the moment the baby is born (one way or another, it will happen), from managing doctor's visits to handling playdates. She offers advice on finding childcare and ignoring the nursing versus formula conversation with strangers. Witty yet valuable, her tips, checklists, and the occasional chart focus on the time from pregnancy through preschool.
Relaxed living, happy home : a simple guide to creating sustainable and beautiful interiors
Relaxed living, happy home : a simple guide to creating sustainable and beautiful interiors
by Atlanta Bartlett

Presents an interior design philosophy that emphasizes quality over quantity and combines practicality with personalization, focusing on such elements as working with existing architecture and selecting colors, fabrics, and accessories.
Responsive feeding : the baby-first guide to stress-free weaning, healthy eating, and mealtime bonding
Responsive feeding : the baby-first guide to stress-free weaning, healthy eating, and mealtime bonding
by Melanie Potock

Backed by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Academy of American Pediatrics, this guide, written by a feeding therapist and speech-language pathologist, helps parents understand their child’s cues and sets the stage for healthy eating.
Simply sustainable : moving toward plastic-free, low-waste living
Simply sustainable : moving toward plastic-free, low-waste living
by Lily Cameron

An expert in low-waste living demonstrates how to gradually transition away from using plastic and make your home more beautiful in the process from easy changes for those just getting started to more advanced, higher-impact tips and techniques.

Borrow the e-book via Boston Public Library using Libby/Overdrive.
Divorce after 50 : a guide to the unique legal & financial challenges of your divorce
Divorce after 50 : a guide to the unique legal & financial challenges of your divorce
by 1948- Green, Janice

This book is for readers considering divorce later in life. It covers subjects such as ways to divorce, including mediation, collaborative law, and litigation; marital property: what it is, what you do with it, and how to divide assets and liabilities; how to survive financially during and after, and more.
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