Several new books have been added to MGCC Library's Popular Reading section, and we are so excited for you to come check them out! Read on to learn more about some of these great new books, and be sure to stop by any time to browse the rest of the collection.
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Pride and Prejudice in Space by Alexis Lampley:
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is arguably the forerunner of all romantic comedies and certainly one of her most popular and irreverent works. And now, graphic designer and Nerdy Ink co-owner—and obsessive fan of Pride and Prejudice—Alexis Lampley gives this timeless, classic, Regency-era romance a new twist, setting it among the stars in a futuristic universe where spaceships and interplanetary travel is the daily norm. Featuring 50+ color illustrations of the Londinium Lunar System, drawings of gowns by Lydia Bennet, and spaceship designs by Elizabeth Bennet, this is a futuristic take on a classic by a dedicated Jane Austen fan, for Austen newbies and super-fans alike.
Don't Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen:
Learn how to overcome anxiety, self-doubt & self-sabotage without needing to rely on motivation or willpower.
In
this book, you'll discover the root cause of all psychological and
emotional suffering and how to achieve freedom of mind to effortlessly
create the life you've always wanted to live.
Although pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
This
book offers a completely new paradigm and understanding of where our
human experience comes from, allowing us to end our own suffering and
create how we want to feel at any moment.
No matter what has
happened to you, where you are from, or what you have done, you can
still find total peace, unconditional love, complete fulfillment, and an
abundance of joy in your life.
No person is an exception to
this. Darkness only exists because of the light, which means even in our
darkest hour, light must exist.
Within the pages of this book,
contains timeless wisdom to empower you with the understanding of our
mind’s infinite potential to create any experience of life that we want
no matter the external circumstances.
Don’t Believe Everything You Think is not about rewiring your brain, rewriting your past, positive thinking or anything of the sort.
We
cannot solve our problems with the same level of consciousness that
created them. Tactics are temporary. An expansion of consciousness is
permanent.
This book was written to help you go beyond your
thinking and discover the truth of what you already intuitively know
deep inside your soul.
The Wedding People by Alison Espach:
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help us start anew.
It's
a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at
the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag
in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for
one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the
Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s
dreamt of coming for years―she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset
sails with her husband, only now she's here without him. Meanwhile, the
bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the
weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe―which makes it that much
more surprising when the women can’t stop confiding in each other.
In turns uproariously, absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach's The Wedding People
is a look at the winding paths we can take to places we never
imagined―and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
Colored Television by Danzy Senna:
Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn
around. After years of living precariously, she; her painter husband,
Lenny; and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a
friend’s luxurious home in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that
coincides magically with Jane’s sabbatical. If she can just finish her
latest novel, Nusu Nusu, the centuries-spanning epic Lenny refers
to as her “mulatto War and Peace,” she’ll have tenure and some
semblance of stability and success within her grasp.
But things
don’t work out quite as hoped. In search of a plan B, like countless
writers before her, Jane turns her desperate gaze to Hollywood. After
she meets with a hot young producer to create “diverse content” for a
streaming network, he seems excited to work with a “real writer.” She
can create what he envisions as the greatest biracial comedy to ever hit
the small screen. Things finally seem to be going right for Jane—until
they go terribly wrong.
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter:
The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the
most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked
room three days before Christmas.
Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt:
She’s the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery.
He’s Mr. Big-time Thriller Guy.
She hates his guts.
He thinks her name is Marcie (no matter how many times she’s told him otherwise.)
But
when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house
party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting
their host to be the most powerful author in the world: Eleanor Ashley,
the Duchess of Death herself.
That night, the weather turns, and the next morning Eleanor is gone.
She
vanished from a locked room, and Maggie has to wonder: Is Eleanor in
danger? Or is it all some kind of test? Is Ethan the competition? Or is
he the only person in that snowbound mansion she can trust?
As
the snow gets deeper and the stakes get higher, every clue will bring
Maggie and Ethan closer to the truth—and each other. Because, this
Christmas, these two rivals are going to have to become allies (and
maybe more) if they have any hope of saving Eleanor.
Assuming they don’t kill each other first.
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors:
The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and
exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin
addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London;
Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a
devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while
trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister,
Nicky, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky reeling. A
year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they
find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they
were raised in.
But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As
the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the
loss of the only person who held them together, they realize the
greatest secrets they've been keeping might not have been from each
other, but from themselves.
The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden:
Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New
York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it men who lie in their
dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of
all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot.
Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet.
Then the brutal murder of a young woman―the
latest in a string of deaths across the coast―confounds police. The
primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills
them.
Sydney should feel safe. After all, she is dating the guy of her dreams. But she can’t shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Because someone is watching her every move, and if she doesn’t get to the truth, she’ll be the killer’s next victim...
A dark story about obsession and the things we’ll do for love, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden proves that crimes of passion are often the bloodiest…
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World by Tiffany Yu:
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto defines ableism as discrimination in favor of non-disabled people and helps readers understand that ending discrimination begins with self-reflection. Tiffany Yu celebrates the power of stories and lived experiences to foster the proximity, intimacy, and humanity of disability identities that have far too often been “othered” and rendered invisible. As the Asian American daughter of immigrants, living with PTSD and a permanent arm injury sustained at age nine, Yu is well aware of the intersections of identity that affect us all. She navigated the male-dominated world of corporate finance as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs before founding Diversability, an award-winning community business run by disabled people building disability pride, power, and leadership. Organized from the personal to the professional, the domestic to the political, the Me to the We to the Us, The Anti-Ableist Manifesto frames context for conversations, breaks down the language of ableism, identifies microaggressions, and proposes real actions that lead to genuine and authentic allyship. How do we remove ableist language from our daily vocabulary? What are the advantages of hiring disabled employees? How do we create inclusive events? What market opportunity are we missing out on when we don’t consider disabled consumers? The Anti-Ableist Manifesto is an essential book for any ally to go beyond mere awareness to being an active anti-ableist and help form a more equitable society for all.
The Banned Books Club by Brenda Novak:
Despite their strained relationship, when Gia
Rossi’s sister, Margot, begs her to come home to Wakefield, Iowa, to
help with their ailing mother, Gia knows she has no choice. After her
rebellious and at-times-tumultuous teen years, Gia left town with little
reason to look back. But she knows Margot’s borne the brunt of their
mother’s care and now it’s Gia’s turn to help, even if it means opening
old wounds.
As expected, Gia’s homecoming is far from welcome.
There’s the Banned Books Club she started after the PTA overzealously
slashed the high school reading list, which is right where she left it.
But there is also Mr. Hart, her former favorite teacher. The one who was
fired after Gia publicly and painfully accused him of sexual
misconduct. The one who prompted Gia to leave behind a very conflicted
town the minute she turned eighteen. The one person she hoped never to
see again.
When Margot leaves town without explanation, Gia sees
the cracks in her sister’s “perfect” life for the first time and plans
to offer support. But as the town, including members of the book club,
takes sides between Gia and Mr. Hart, everything gets harder.
Fortunately, she learns that there are people she can depend on. And by
standing up for the truth, she finds love and a future in the town she
thought had rejected her.
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava Sobel:
“Even now, nearly a century after her death,
Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name,”
writes Dava Sobel at the opening of her shining portrait of the sole
Nobel laureate decorated in two separate fields of science—Physics in
1903 with her husband Pierre and Chemistry by herself in 1911. And yet,
Sobel makes clear, as brilliant and creative as she was in the
laboratory, Marie Curie was equally passionate outside it. Grieving
Pierre’s untimely death in 1906, she took his place as professor of
physics at the Sorbonne; devotedly raised two brilliant daughters; drove
a van she outfitted with x-ray equipment to the front lines of World
War I; befriended Albert Einstein and other luminaries of
twentieth-century physics; won support from two U.S. presidents; and
inspired generations of young women the world over to pursue science as a
way of life.
As Sobel did so memorably in her portrait of
Galileo through the prism of his daughter, she approaches Marie Curie
from a unique angle, narrating her remarkable life of discovery and fame
alongside the women who became her legacy—from France’s Marguerite
Perey, who discovered the element francium, and Norway’s Ellen
Gleditsch, to Mme. Curie’s elder daughter, Irène, winner of the 1935
Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For decades the only woman in the room at
international scientific gatherings that probed new theories about the
interior of the atom, Marie Curie traveled far and wide, despite
constant illness, to share the secrets of radioactivity, a term she
coined. Her two triumphant tours of the United States won her admirers
for her modesty even as she was mobbed at every stop; her daughters, in
Ève’s later recollection, “discovered all at once what the retiring
woman with whom they had always lived meant to the world.”
With
the consummate skill that made bestsellers of Longitude and Galileo’s
Daughter, and the appreciation for women in science at the heart of her
most recent The Glass Universe, Dava Sobel has crafted a radiant
biography and a masterpiece of storytelling, illuminating the life and
enduring influence of one of the most consequential figures of our time.
Note: All images and book descriptions from Goodreads.com.