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Back to Basics

2/23/2023

Whether you like to explore skills from the past or you're preparing for an uncertain future, these books can give you guidance.

Back to Basics: Traditional Garden Wisdom, print
Survival Mom, Lisa Bedford, print
The Self-Sufficiency Handbook, Alan & Gill Bridgewater, print
Field Guide to Wilderness Survival, Tom Brown, print
Advanced Bushcraft, Dave Canterbury, print
50 Things to Do with a Penknife, Matt Collins, print
The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Carla Emery, print
Duct Tape Survival Gear, Rebecca Felix, print
The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery, print
The Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living, Abigail R. Gehring, print | ebook
Homesteading, Abigail R. Gehring, print | ebook
Outdoor Survival Guide, Randy Gerke, print
The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs, Tristan Gooley, print
Just in Case, Kathy Harrison, print
The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide, print
The Little Book of Cottagecore, Emily Kent, print
Knives Illustrated Magazine, print
Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook, Peggy Layton, print
Survivor Kid, Denise Long, print
Complete Wilderness Training Manual, Hugh McManners, print
The Total Outdoorsman Manual, T. Edward Nickens, print
The Prepper’s Cookbook, Tess Pennington, print
Practical Projects for Self-Sufficiency, Chris Peterson, print | ebook
The Modern Homestead Garden, Gary Pilarchik, print
Homestead Survival, Marty Raney, print
Hunt, Gather, Cook, Hank Shaw, print
The Disaster-Ready Home, Creek Stewart, print
The Forager’s Harvest, Samuel Thayer, print
40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead, David Toht, print | ebook
Survival!, Colin Towell, print
Spinning, Weaving & Dyeing, Penny Walsh, print
Preserving, Carol Wilson, print

Each of these books and films was published within the last three years, a testament to the amazing work about Black culture and history that is currently being produced. Try one of these items to celebrate Black History Month.

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib print | ebook | eaudio
The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander print
The Price of the Ticket by James Baldwin print
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain print
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and its Legacies by Kinshasha Conwell et al. print | ebook
Shirley Chisholm by Anastasia C. Curwood print
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont print | ebook | eaudio
The Movement Made Us by David Dennis, Jr. & David Dennis, Sr. print
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice by Deborah Riley Draper & Travis Thrasher print
Ida B. the Queen by Michelle Duster print
The Black Church by Henry Louis Gates print | ebook | eaudio
The 1619 Project ed. by Nikole Hannah-Jones print | large print | ebook | eaudio
My Remarkable Journey by Katherine Johnson print | ebook
The Forgotten First by Keyshawn Johnson print
Make Way for Liberty: Wisconsin African Americans in the Civil War by Jeff Kannel print | ebook
Four Hundred Souls ed. by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain print | ebook | eaudio
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, ed. Roxane Gay print
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham print | ebook | eaudio

All that She Carried by Tiya Miles print | ebook | eaudio
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne & Tamara Payne print | ebook | eaudio
South to America by Imani Perry print | ebook | eaudio
Buses Are a Comin’ by Charles Person print
How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith print | ebook | eaudio
Deep Delta Justice by Matthew Van Meter print
Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston dvd
Summer of Soul (...or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) dvd
Till dvd | blu

On the Shelves - February 2023

2/2/2023

You can get On the Shelves as a print brochure at the library, or subscribe to our email list!

New Nonfiction
These items will be available in the library or after a very short wait.

An American Martyr in Persia by Reza Aslan
The Beginner's Guide to Handbuilding by Sunshine Cobb
In the Mouth of the Wolf by Katherine Corcoran
Devil Dogs by Saul David
Dirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac Fitzgerald
Love Your Home Again by Ann Lightfoot & Kate Pawlowski
What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us by Mike Mariani
A History of the World through Body Parts by Kathryn & Ross Petras
Fen, Bog & Swamp by Annie Proulx
Nomad Century by Gaia Vince

New Fiction
These items will be available in the library or after a very short wait.

The Shadow Murders by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
The Storyteller's Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal
Cruz by Nicolás Ferraro, trans. by Mallory N. Craig-Kuhn
Alias Emma by Ava Glass
Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean
No One Left to Come Looking for You by Sam Lipsyte
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
The Lost Melody by Joanna Davidson Politano
Monument Road by Michael Wiley
Come Down Somewhere by Jennifer L. Wright

Most Wanted
Place a hold on these popular items.

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Spare by Prince Harry
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

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Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

(LINKcat links from 2021 through 4/2022 may be broken. We'll fix them ASAP!)

For lists before 2021:
Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.

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On the Shelves - February 2023

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