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Stay in with a new book from the Chandler Library
Chandler Public Library now has these books on the shelf!!
Come in and check out Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine, or Going Rogue: by popular author, Janet Evanovich; or try Triple Cross: The Greatest Alex Cross, by the ever-popular, James Patterson; You might also want to read Twist of a Knife, by Anthony Horowitz. This is the first adult novel we have in our stacks written by Horowitz.
Other great new fiction: Choice: The Dragon Heart Legacy, Book 3, Nora Roberts; Desert Star, Michael Connelly; Hunting Time, Jeffrey Deaver; Letter Keeper, Charles Martin; Record Keeper, Charles Martin; Water Keeper, Charles Martin; Night Shift, Robin Cook; Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng; Passenger, Cormac McCarthy; Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy; Racing the Light, Robert Crais Tom Clancy Red Winter, Marc Cameron; World of Curiosities, Louise Penny; In the Light of Day, Sandra Wilkins; In the Glimmer of Dawn, Sandra Wilkins.
New titles donated to the library (Yes Virginia, you CAN donate used books in great condition to the library): If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing, try If the Creek Don’t Rise: A Novel, by Leah Weiss. We also have a new book bypopular Oklahoma author, Carolyn Brown, Riverbend Reunion. Interested in books set in libraries – or murder mysteries in general? You might enjoy reading, The Woman in the Library: A Novel, Sulari Gentill.
Other new donations: Cold Snap, Marc Cameron; A Dangerous Business; Jane Smiley; The Day He Left : A Violent Crim Investigations Team Mystery, Frederick Weisel; Drunk on Love, Jasmine Guillory; The It Girl, Ruth Ware; The Jane Austen Society, Natalie Jenner; Lilac Girls : A Novel, Martha Hall Kelly; Out of the Clear Blue Sky, Kristan Higgins: Saltwater Memories, Amelia Addler; Saltwater Promises, Amelia Addler; Sunset Secrets, Amelia Addler; Sugar and Salt : A Novel, Susan Wiggs.
New in Young Adult fiction is, The Quest for Quantra, by Riannon Elayne Dennis, a local author.
We have several new Non-Fiction titles by local and “used to be local” authors: The Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma 1889-1907, Wayne Pounds; Desegregation and the Fate of Black Teachers in Oklahoma, Wayne Pounds; Benjamin J. Myers non-fiction work, A Poetics of Orthodoxy: Christian Truth as Aesthetic Foundation; and poetry work, Black Sunday.
New Books for 2021
- Frontier Follies by Ree Drummond
- Gates of Athens by Conn Iggulden
- The Russian by James Patterson
- Spin by Patricia Cornwell
- Beirut Protocol by Joel C. Rosenbert
- Dark Sky by C.J. Box
- Power Couple by Alex Berenson
- Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
- Tell No Lies by Allison Brennan
- First Comes Marriage by Debbie Macomber
- No Way Out by Fern Michaels
- Distant Shore by Karen Kingsbury
- Finding Ashley by Danielle Steel
- Sooley by John Grisham
- Stargazer by Anne Hillerman
- When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
- Jackpot by Stuart Woods
- Saboteurs, by Clive Cussler
- Unfinished Business by J.A. Jance
- Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown
- Ghost Blows a Kiss by Carolyn Hart
- Maidens by Alex Michaelides
New Young Adult books for 2021
- The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen
- The Toll by Neal Shusterman
- Come Find Meby Megan Miranda
- Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist
- The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
- New Kid by Jerry Craft
- Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
- Where She Fell by Kaitlin Ward
- The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore/li>
- Hocus Pocus & the All New Sequel by A.W. Jantha
- The Boy, The Boat & The Beast by Samantha Clark
- The Island At the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hardgrave
- Sneak Thief by Faith Harkey
- The Summer of Broken Things by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Smoke and Mirrors by Kristin Halbrook
- Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
- Squirm by Carl Hiaasen
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Children’s Books for 2021
- H is For Honor by Devin Scillian
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Don Freeman’s Courduroy Takes a Bow by Viola Davis
- Sincerely Emerson by Emerson Weber
- Don’t Hug Doug by Carrie Finnison
- The Battle for The Crystal Castle by Geronimo Stilton
- Escape from the Twin Towers by Kate Messner
- Grace and Box by Kim Howard
- I Am a Kindness Hero by Jennifer Adams
- I Am Anne Frank by Brad Meltzer
- I Am Jackie Robinson by Brad Meltzer
- Donald Trump by Grace Hansen
- I Am Smart I Am Blessed I Can Do Anything! by Alissa Holder
- Late Lunch With Llamas by Mary Pope Osborne
- Our Little Inventor by Sher Rill Ng
- Who Is Joe Biden America’s 46th President by R. Margolin
- Love Jar by P.N. Tankersley
- Moon Over Star by Dianna Hilts Aston
- New Shoes, Red Shoes by Susan Rollings
- The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be by Johanna Gaines
- Toby and the Secret Code by Una Bell Townsend
Feature of the Month for May is Oklahoma author Carolyn Hart
Our feature of the month for May is Oklahoma City mystery author Carolyn Hart. Hart, a native of Oklahoma City, has written 58 books including the Death on Demand series, Henrie O series and her new series Bailey Ruth. Her stand alone novel, Letter From Home, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers at Oklahoma State University Tulsa. Letter from Home also won the Agatha for Best Mystery Novel of 2003 and was a New York Times notable book.
Her books in our collection include April Fool Dead, Dare to Die, Dead by Midnight, Dead Days of Summer, Dead Man’s Island, Death at the Door, Death Comes Silently, Death on the River Walk, Don’t Go Home, Engaged to Die, Ghost Times Two, Laughed ’til He Died, Letter From Home, Merry, Merry Ghost, Murder Walks the Plank, Resort to Murder, Scandal in Fair Haven, Southern Ghost, Sugarplum Dead, What the Cat Saw, and White Elephant Dead.
New books April 2017
Children’s books: Little Ree by Ree Drummond; Tucky Jo & Little Heart by Patricia Polacco.
Nonfiction books: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I. by David Grann; The Zookeepers Wife: a war story by Diane Ackerman; Old School: life in the sane lane by Bill O’Reilly; Love Does by Bob Goff.
Fiction books: War Cry by Wilbur Smith; Mississippi Blood by Greg Iles; Song of the Lion by Anne Hillerman; The Black Book & Two from the Heart by James Patterson; Vicious Circle by C.J. Box; Fallout by Sara Paretsky; If I’m Found by Terri Blackstock; The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve; Fast and Loose by Stuart Woods; If Not For You by Debbie Macomber; A Perfect Obsession by Heather Graham; Sandpiper Cove by Irene Hannon; The Lost Order by Steve Berry; One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline; The Burial Hour by Jeffery Deaver; Miramar Bay by Davis Bunn; Man Overboard by J.A. Jance; All by Myself by Mary Higgins Clark; The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See; The Ebb Tide by Beverly Lewis; The Fix by David Baldacci; The Night The Lights Went Out by Karen White.
NOTICE!!!
Book Bonanza starts Saturday, March 25, 2017 Hardback & paperback books, children’s and adult books, some movies and books on cassette. Come check it out. $2 donation per sack. Runs for 1 week. Our hours are Saturday from 9-noon and Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The proceeds from this fundraiser go to purchasing books for the library.
New books in time for Spring at the Library
Two new books by V.C. Andrews Broken Glass & The Mirror Sisters; Treasured Grace by Tracie Peterson; Without Warning by Joel Rosenberg; Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas; two young adult books by Stan Lee in the Zodiac series, The Balance of Power & The Dragon’s Return; two nonfiction books Lies We Believe About God by William Paul Young & The Little Things: Why You Really Should Sweat the Small Stuff by Andy Andrews; Dav Pilkey has a new series of books called Dog Man and we have the first two in the series Dog Man & Dog Man Unleashed; Nancy Clancy: Late-Breaking News by Jane O’Connor; Her Secret by Shelly Shepard Gray; Heartbreak Hotel by Jonathan Kellerman and Bone Box by Faye Kellerman; Humans Bow Down by James Patterson; Dangerous Games by Danielle Steel; Banana Cream Pie Murder by JoAnne Fluke; The Devil’s Triangle by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison; The Cutthroat by Clive Cussler; Twelve Angry Librarians by Miranda James; Wait for Dark by Kay Hooper; and Gunmetal Gray by Mark Greaney.
Books Sandwiched In continues through the Summer
Books Sandwiched In, the book club that meets at the Library the first Wednesday of each month from noon until 1 p.m., is continuing through the summer. Everyone is welcome to talk about whatever books they are reading and hear short reviews of the books others are reading. So bring a sandwich or lunch, water and coffee are provided, and enjoy talking about books.
Two Books from our hometown author, Dr. Benjamin Myers
Lapse Americana
The twin ravens, Thought and Memory, of Norse myth are reborn as American crows to fly an interweaving pattern or remembering and forgetting through the pages of Lapse Americana. Born out of the poet’s childhood during the Pax Americana and situated within the war and economic lapse of the new century, these poems explore memory and amnesia, faith and doubt, presence and absence. They are rooted in rural, working class experience as well as in the poetic traditions of America, Europe, and China. By turns formal and jazzy, confessional and coy, these poems speak of the universal by focusing on the particular, insisting with simultaneous emphasis upon the value of remembering and of embracing forgetfulness.
Elegy for Trains
Benjamin Myers’ poems range from Virgil through Shakespeare to Woody Guthrie.Just as facets in gems come to life when light strikes them, so do the themes, images, and tropes in Elegy for Trains when the brilliance of Benjamin Myers’ wit, sensitivity and intelligence illuminate his words. His poems make us see Oklahoma and the world afresh. You will read this book, then want to read it again!
About the author
Dr. Myers, a native of Chandler, OK, is the 2015/2016 Poet Laureate of the State of Oklahoma and the author of two books of poetry: Lapse Americana (New York Quarterly Books, 2013) and Elegy for Trains (Village Books Press, 2010). His poems may be read in The Yale Review, The New York Quarterly, 32 Poems, Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, The Christian Century and other journals, as well as on the Verse Daily website. He has been honored with an Oklahoma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book and with a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Myers teaches poetry writing and literature at Oklahoma Baptist University, where he is the Crouch-Mathis Associate Professor of Literature.
Dr. Myers and his wife Mandy live in Chandler with their children.
Books Sandwiched In Program Resumes in January
Here’s your chance to get out of your comfort zone and read a book because it was recommended by someone who read it.
Join us in the Community Room of the Library from Noon to 1 pm beginning Wednesday, January 6, for a different kind of book club. Everyone gets a chance to tell about the book they’ve read in the last month. Everyone reads what they like but gets to hear about books they might not have heard about otherwise. It’s a chance to discover an author or a genre we might not have been interested in, then get out of our comfort zone and read a book because it was recommended by someone who read it.
Books Sandwiched In will meet the First Wednesday of every month in the Community Room of the Library.
Bring a sack lunch and any friends you think may be interested. We want to hear about the books you have been reading!