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We Remember September 11 - Adults

8/16/2021

 
Nonfiction focused on history, facts of the day, or specific aspects of the events, causes, and locations of 9/11:
  • Out of the Blue, Richard Bernstein, print
  • Understanding September 11, Mitch Frank, print
  • The Only Plane in the Sky, Garrett M. Graff, print | ebook | eaudio
  • American Ground, William Langewiesche, print
  • The Cell, John Miller, et al., print
  • New York September 11, print
  • The 9/11 Commission Report, print
  • Why America Slept, Gerald Posner, print
  • Once More to the Sky, Scott Raab & Joe Woolhead (Coming in August)
  • Touching History, Lynn Spencer, print
  • What We Saw, Joe Klein, print
  • The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Fall and Rise, Mitchell Zuckoff, print
Nonfiction focused on personal stories, people's actions on 9/11, and impact on day-to-day life:
  • Because We Are Americans, print
  • The Day the World Came to Town, Jim DeFede, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • 102 Minutes, Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Thunder Dog, Michael Hingson, large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Love, Greg & Lauren, Greg Manning, print
  • 9/11: Inside the Pentagon, dvd
  • Ordinary Heroes, Joseph Pfeifer (Coming in September)
  • Last Man Down, Richard Picciotto, print
  • The Red Bandanna, Tom Rinaldi, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Middletown, America, Gail Sheehy, print
  • Report from Ground Zero, Dennis Smith, print
Nonfiction focused on the Afghan War, soldiers, and veterans:
  • The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden, Mark Bowden, print | ebook
  • Shooting Ghosts, Thomas J. Brennan & Finbarr O’Reilly, print
  • Un-American, Erik Edstrom, print
  • American Cipher, Matt Farwell, print
  • Shoot Like a Girl, Mary Jennings Hegar, print
  • Hell and Back Again, dvd
  • War, Sebastian Junger, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The American War in Afghanistan, Carter Malkasian, print
  • My Share of the Task, Stanley A. McChrystal, print | ebook
  • No Easy Day, Mark Owen, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Restrepo, dvd
  • The Outpost, Jake Tapper, print | eaudio
  • The Wrong War, Bing (Francis J.) West, print | ebook
  • The Afghanistan Papers, Craig Whitlock, print
Fiction, Graphic Novel, and Drama:
  • Windows on the World, Robert Mailer Anderson, et al., print
  • Come From Away, cd
  • Flight 93, dvd
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, print | audio | ebook
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, blu
  • Redeployment, Phil Klay, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Looming Tower (series), dvd
  • The Usual Rules, Joyce Maynard, print
  • The Good Life, Jay McInerney, print
  • The Stringer, Ted Rall, print
  • 12 Strong, dvd | blu  
  • The Submission, Amy Waldman, print | eaudio
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, dvd
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Road Trips & Adventures

6/4/2021

 
​These picks from the adult fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novel shelves could help you earn the Dog Badge for this year's Summer Reading Challenge on Beanstack!
  • The Road to Little Dribbling, Bill Bryson, large print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • A Walk Around the Block, Spike Carlsen, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Lightkeepers, Abby Geni, print
  • Nori, Rumi Hara, print
  • Clanlands, Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, print
  • Imperfect Union, Steve Inskeep, print | ebook
  • Grave Secrets, Alice James, print
  • Love Is an Ex-Country, Randa Jarrar, print
  • Epic Drives of the World, Lonely Planet, print
  • Outlawed, Anna North, print | ebook
  • Zoo, James Patterson, print | large print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • See You at the Campground, Stephanie & Jeremy Puglisi, print | ebook
  • Dog On It, Spencer Quinn, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Dogtripping, David Rosenfelt, print | large print | eaudio
  • The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar, print | ebook
  • Hairpin Curves, Elia Winters, print | ebook
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Sports & Contests

6/3/2021

 
These picks from the adult fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novel shelves could help you earn the Horse Badge for this year's Summer Reading Challenge on Beanstack!
  • We Ride Upon Sticks, Quan Barry, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Olympic Pride, American Prejudice, Deborah Riley Draper & Travis Thrasher, print 
  • The Making of a Miracle, Mike Eruzione, print 
  • The Back Roads to March, John Feinstein, print 
  • A Short Move, Katherine Hill, print 
  • Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back, Jessica Luther & Kavitha A. Davidson, print 
  • Ping Pong, Taiyo Matsumoto, print 
  • Looking for Miss America, Margot Mifflin, print 
  • The Sport of Kings, C.E. Morgan, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Yogi, Jon Pessah, print 
  • The Dream Architects, David Polfeldt, print 
  • Canyon Dreams, Michael Powell, print | ebook
  • Crossing the Line, Kareem Rosser, print
  • The Cruelest Miles, Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury, print 
  • Cactus Jack, Brad Smith, print
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Illustrated Books

6/3/2021

 
​These picks from throughout the library could help you earn the Peacock Badge for this year's Summer Reading Challenge on Beanstack!
  • Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, Derf Backderf, print | ebook
  • The Madman’s Library, Edward Brooke-Hitching, print
  • Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosh, print | ebook
  • Love, the Tiger, Frederic Brremaud & Federico Bertolucci, print
  • BTTM FDRS, Ezra Claytan Daniels & Ben Passmore, print
  • Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, Errol Fuller, print
  • Audubon: On the Wings of the World, Fabien Grolleau & Jérémie Royer, print
  • The Art of Drag, Jake Hall et al, print
  • Unlikely Friendships, Jennifer S. Holland, print | ebook
  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy, print | ebook
  • Natural Wonders of the World, ed. Peter Frances, print
  • Oak Flat, Lauren Redniss, print | ebook
  • My Boyfriend Is a Bear, Pamela Ribon & Cat Ferris, print
  • This Book is Literally Just Pictures of Cute Animals that Will Make You Feel Better, print
  • Slaughterhouse-five, adapted by Ryan North, print
  • The Contradictions, Sophie Yanow, print
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Overcoming Obstacles

6/2/2021

 
These picks from the adult fiction and nonfiction shelves could help you earn the Tiger Badge for this year's Summer Reading Challenge on Beanstack!
  • Finish, Jonathan Acuff, print | ebook
  • Professional Troublemaker, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, print
  • A Street Cat Named Bob, James Bowen, print | ebook
  • The Book of Rosy, Rosayra Pablo Cruz & Julie Schwietert Collazo, print | ebook
  • Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin, print | eaudio
  • How to Be Fine, Jolenta Greenberg & Kristen Meizner, print 
  • Breathe the Sky, Michelle Hazen, print | ebook
  • Life of Pi, Yann Martel, print | audio | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • The Impossible First, Colin O’Grady, print | ebook
  • Bravey, Alexi Pappas, print
  • Girls Burn Brighter, Shobha Rao, print | ebook | eaudio
  • A Forever Family, Rob Scheer, print | eaudio  
  • Keep Moving, Maggie Smith, print | ebook
  • Battle Born, Maximilian Uriarte, print
  • The Martian, Andy Weir, print | large print | audio | ebook
  • This One Wild and Precious Life, Sarah Wilson, print 
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Celebrate Pride: from Adult Collections

6/2/2021

 
  • Fun Home, Alison Bechdel, print 
  • Be Gay, Do Comics, ed. Matt Bors, print | ebook
  • Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Leslie Brody, print 
  • Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown, print | ebook
  • Untamed, Glennon Doyle, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • Save Yourself, Cameron Esposito, print 
  • Tomboyland, Melissa Faliveno, print 
  • Stay and Fight, Madeline Ffitch, print 
  • Legendary Children, Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez, print 
  • Less, Andrew Sean Greer, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • The Art of Drag, Jake Hall, print 
  • Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son, Richie Jackson, print 
  • Love Lives Here, Amanda Jetté Knox, print | ebook
  • How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe, print | ebook
  • The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, ed. Roxane Gay, print 
  • Love, Simon, dvd 
  • Tomorrow Will Be Different, Sarah McBride, print
  • Across the Green Grass Fields, Seanan McGuire, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Redefining Realness, Janet Mock, print 
  • The Bold World, Jodie Patterson, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Red Rock Baby Candy, Shira Spector, print 
  • The Stonewall Reader, ed. Jason Baumann, print 
  • Here For It, or, How to Save Your Soul in America, R. Eric Thomas, print | ebook
  • To a More Perfect Union: U.S. v. Windsor, dvd 
  • Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story, Jacob Tobia, print | ebook
  • Live Oak With Moss, Walt Whitman & Brian Selznick, print 
  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson, print | ebook
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Wisconsin Books

6/2/2021

 
​These picks from adult fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novel could help you earn the Badger Badge for this year's Summer Reading Challenge on Beanstack!
  • Farm Girl, Beuna Coburn Carlson, print
  • A Memory of Muskets, Kathleen Ernst, print | large print | ebook
  • Tomboyland, Melissa Faliveno, print
  • Baumgartner’s: A History, Wendy Hahlen Fjelstad, print
  • Bad Axe County, John Galligan, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Dairylandia, Steve Hannah, print
  • Storied and Scandalous Wisconsin, Anna Lardinois, print | ebook
  • Wisconsin on the Air, Jack W. Mitchell, print | ebook
  • Love Wisconsin, Megan Monday, print
  • The Jesus Cow, Michael Perry, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Backroads and Byways of Wisconsin, Kevin Revolinski, print
  • The Cherry Harvest, Lucy Sanna, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Badger Baseball, Steven D. Schmitt, print | ebook
  • An Echo Through the Snow, Andrea Thalasinos, print
  • Ginseng Roots, Craig Thompson, print
  • The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
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Speculative Fiction & The Future

6/1/2021

 
These picks from the adult fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novel shelves could help you earn the Puffin Badge for this year's Summer Reading Challenge on Beanstack!
  • Gamechanger, L.X. Beckett, print
  • Excellence, vol. 1, Thomas Brandon et al, print
  • Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, print | audio | ebook
  • Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Ann Druyan, print | eaudio
  • Until the End of Time, Brian Greene, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Resisters, Gish Jen, print | ebook
  • At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson, print | ebook
  • The Future of Humanity, Michio Kaku, print
  • The Inevitable, Kevin Kelly, print | ebook
  • Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert, print
  • I Am Legend, Richard Matheson, print | ebook | eaudio
  • A History of What Comes Next, Sylvain Neuvel, print
  • Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi, print | ebook
  • In Five Years, Rebecca Searle, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Paris 2119, Zep & Dominique Bertail, print​
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Animal Books - Adult Nonfiction

6/1/2021

 
​These picks from the adult nonfiction shelves could help you earn the Cat Badge for this year's Summer Reading Challenge on Beanstack!
  • The Elephant Whisperer, Lawrence Anthony, print | ebook | eaudio
  • North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring, Bruce M. Beehler, print
  • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West, Nate Blakeslee, print | ebook | eaudio 
  • Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, Jennifer Finney Boylan, print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • Animal Madness, Laurel Braitman, print | ebook
  • Where the Animals Go, James Cheshire & Oliver Uberti, print
  • The Farmer’s Son, John Connell, print
  • All Things Bright and Beautiful, James Herriot, print | audio | ebook
  • Our Wild Calling, Richard Louv, print | ebook
  • We Bought a Zoo, Benjamin Mee, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • Woolly, Ben Mezrich, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Dewey, Vicki Myron, print | large print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • World of Wonders, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, print | ebook
  • Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris, print | eaudio
  • Trout Friends and Other Riff-Raff, Bill Stokes, print | ebook
  • The Tiger, John Vaillant, print | ebook | eaudio
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Long Books

6/1/2021

 
These picks from the adult fiction and nonfiction shelves could help you earn the Whale Badge for this year's Summer Reading Challenge on Beanstack!
  • The Queen of the Night, Alexander Chee, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Most of Nora Ephron, Nora Ephron, print
  • The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett, print | ebook | eaudio
  • América: The Epic Story of Spanish North America, Robert Goodwin, print
  • Warhol, Blake Gopnik, print
  • Roots, Alex Haley, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Eighth Life, Nino Haratischvili, print
  • A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James, print | ebook | eaudio
  • 11/22/63, Stephen King, print | large print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Moby-Dick, Herman Melville, print | audio | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • The Gene: an Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukherjee, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Reamde, Neal Stephenson, print | ebook
  • The Poetry of Derek Walcott, Derek Walcott, print


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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.

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    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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