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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​
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Black History Month

2/6/2023

 
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
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  • 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
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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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