Library Staff Reads - Winter 2020

"Narnia .... a land frozen in eternal winter ... a country waiting to be set free." Sit down and read the epic story of Peter, Susan, Lucy, & Edmund as they step through the wardrobe into Narnia, a world under the control of the White Witch. Experience the wonder of the Great Lion, Aslan, and the hope he offers to all who dwell in Narnia.

This is the first of three core rulebooks for the famous role playing game. Not only will it guide you through creating characters and help you understand the basics, it’s a great read in which one can immerse themselves in origins of races, scores of magic spells, and the rules of combat. This 5th edition of the game brings back focus to collaborative storytelling, roleplaying, and world building that put this worldwide phenomenon on the map.

Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of Little Bighorn never came to life more in this engrossing historical account of reckless courage against a superior force on a lonely rise of ground in the Great Plains of Montana.

If you don't know what a zine is: They're self-published magazines, made typically with photocopiers, producing DIY media of a personal outlook. Self-expression through collage, scrapbooking, articles, poetry, manifestos, art, confessionals, diatribes, humor, obessions. Now if you were a teenager in the '90s (like moi), along with riot grrrl music, zines were likely your real introduction to feminism.

You should read After Nothing Comes by Aidan Koch. I like it because I wish I could draw so effortlessly. I recommend it because it stretched my imagination, which is never a bad thing. I urge you to try it because it might have the same effect on you. I advise you to give it a shot because tone poems are interesting and engaging--something I had never considered. I suggest that it might give you a quick and rewarding break between assignments, tasks, or whatever else occupies your time.