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Through generous funding from the North Dakota State Library, we were able to add over 300 new titles! These titles are shared through a cooperative called the North Dakota Academic Consortium. With this cooperative, we have access to many more titles than we normally would! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Below are a few selected titles from our most recent purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\nRules of Civility<\/a> (ebook) by Amor Towles<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) novel of a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society–where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"Abby](\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/cfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/Just-for-the-Summer-1.png\")
<\/figure>\nJust for the Summer<\/a> (Audiobook) by Abby Jimenez<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A sharp and scintillating summer novel that will make readers laugh out loud and cry happy tears from the New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly. Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it’s now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They’ll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other’s out, and they’ll both go on to find the love of their lives. It’s a bonkers idea… and it just might work. Emma hadn’t planned that her next assignment as a traveling nurse would be in Minnesota, but she and her best friend agree that dating Justin is too good of an opportunity to pass up, especially when they get to rent an adorable cottage on a private island on Lake Minnetonka. It’s supposed to be a quick fling, just for the summer. But when Emma’s toxic mother shows up and Justin has to assume guardianship of his three siblings, they’re suddenly navigating a lot more than they expected–including catching real feelings for each other. What if this time Fate has actually brought the perfect pair together?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"James](\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/cfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/61CUXE75yrL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.jpg\")
<\/figure>\nJames <\/a>(ebook) by Percival Everett<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em> remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river\u2019s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin\u2026), Jim\u2019s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"Love](\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/cfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/71QDhHvv7wL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.jpg\")
<\/figure>\nThe Love Hypothesis<\/a> (audiobook) by Ali Hazelwood<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman’s carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph. D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships–but her best friend does, and that’s what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor–and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive’s career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding … six-pack abs. Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\nGolden Son<\/a> (ebook) by Pierce Brown
With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender’s Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown’s genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within. A life-or-death tale of vengeance with an unforgettable hero at its heart, Golden Son guarantees Pierce Brown’s continuing status as one of fiction’s most exciting new voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHaven’t read the first novel? Check out Red Rising<\/a>! <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\nThe Dutch House<\/a> (audiobook) by Ann Patchett<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril’s son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nonfiction <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\nBetween the World and Me <\/a>(ebook) by Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The author presents a history of racial discrimination in the United States and a narrative of his own personal experiences of contemporary race relations, offering possible resolutions for the future.”For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he’s sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him — most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America’s history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings — moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago’s South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America’s ‘long war on black people,’ or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police. In his trademark style — a mix of lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, essayistic argument, and reportage — Coates provides readers a thrillingly illuminating new framework for understanding race: its history, our contemporary dilemma, and where we go from here<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\nMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (<\/a>ebook) by John Berendt<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In charming, beautiful, and wealthy old-South Savannah, Georgia, the local bad boy is shot dead inside of the opulent mansion of a gay antiques dealer, and a gripping trial follows.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/cfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/71HgZMoECL-698x1024.jpg\")
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