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These books features AAIP-identified characters and authors, honoring their contributions to American Literature. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ More featured collections Events Google Maps Tips and Tricks May 16, 2024 - 10:30am DMS Spring Concert: Voices in Full Bloom May 18, 2024 - 10:30am Making DIY Foam Stamps Using Cricut May 19, 2024 - 12:30pm World Club: Japanese koinobori May 21, 2024 - 4:00pm More events ICPL Recommends Bride Ali Hazelwood FICTION Hazelwoo Ali Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and... Being an Ali Hazelwood fan, I had to try out her first attempt at romantasy (romance + fantasy). I used to exclusively read romance in the urban fantasy genregritty city settings featuring powerful tribes of fantasy character classesso picking up this book was an easy Yes for me. It’s a far cry from her STEM-based romances, but has the same humor and relationship building as her others. Another forbidden love/opposites attract win! - Melody I Hear a Búho RAQUEL MACKAY ON ORDER BOOK Kids , Picture Books As a child and adult caregiver snuggle together in a hammock at night, it’s a chance to share various animal sounds, introduced throughout MacKay’s effectively rhyming bilingual phrases. In English and Spanish, a repeated pattern of exchange unfolds between the companions: Meow/ meow/ meow/ I hear... This book is perfect for storytime with your little one! The rhyme, rhythm, and flow of the story are crafted by an author who knows what they are doing when it comes to storytelling. Raquel was a children’s librarian at ICPL, leading our weekly Spanish Bilingual Storytime and now teaches ELL classes here in Iowa City. The story also mixes in a perfect amount of Spanish and includes a pronunciation guide in the back. Illustrations are engaging and striking, sure to keep everyone’s attention! - Angie The mindful body : thinking our way to chronic health Ellen J. Langer 158.13 /Langer Nonfiction , Health "A groundbreaking account of the power of our thoughts to improve our health-by the "mother of mindfulness" and first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard When it comes to our health, too many of us think that a medical diagnosis describes a static or worsening condition... I checked this book out after being drawn in by its title. A "mindful" body sounds much better to have than a mindless one! There’s a lot of new science out there about how conditions of the body affect the brain, like the mind-gut connection, and this book is a great companion to those studies. I appreciated learning about the placebo affect and enjoyed listening to stories about how people experienced less pain when they were able to ignore it more. I love exploring ideas that promote the mind-over-matter concept. If you’ve ever wondered, "but how sick am I *really*?" this book is for you! - Melody Threads of treasure : how to make, mend, and find meaning through thread Sara Barnes 746.44 /Barnes Crafts "Learn to make embroidery a way to treasure your life as you create three personal projects supported by the guidance, stories, and advice of fourteen modern crafters" I follow the author’s online presence "Brown Paper Bag," which is a curated appreciation of artists. We seem to have similar tastes when it comes to fiber arts, particularly, and I really enjoyed this anthology of unique embroidery artists. Usually I just flip through the photos in art books, but I really enjoyed reading the artist profiles as well in this one. All of the thread styles are so different from each other, sewers and stitchers will truly appreciate the variety of art showcased in this book. - Mari Funny story Emily Henry FICTION Henry Emily Romance , Humor ", Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter’s actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne... This book needs no recommendations, but, yes! I must recommend it. Hugely popular contemporary romance author Emily Henry published Funny Story on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. I was one of the lucky few who fulfilled my audiobook hold the day it came out. Being sick all week and lying in bed, it was no feat to have narrator Julia Whelan read me this story through my illness. Such real characters, such tender affection, it just might be my new favorite. Sorry, 2022’s Book Lovers! Funny Story now wears the crown. My one regret is that I finished it too fast. Time to put the print copy on hold! - Melody Reckless girls Rachel Hawkins FICTION Hawkins Rachel Fiction , Thriller , Suspense When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel the world after a family tragedy, Lux is eager to climb on board The Susannah and... I really enjoyed Hawkins’ novel The Villa, so I picked this up to take on vacation...it turned out to be a perfectly good beach-read! A group of twenty- to thirty-somethings find themselves on a small, uninhabited island for a spot of remote relaxation, but of course, things go awry when an uninvited guest gets their guard up and their imaginations going. That’s not all, thoughthere are some weird dynamics going on in the background for each of our islanders, personal traumas and fears, that make for unique interactions and hidden motives. There’s nothing ground-breaking going on here, but if you want a solid thriller with a great location, and some better-than-average thinking about what it means to live in the aftermath of major change and life interruptions, this book will do nicely! - Candice Staff Lists Get lost in art! by Candice Tortured Poets Collection by Melody Queer and Trans Poetry by Zach Picture Book Nonfiction2024 Edition by Casey More staff picks NEW Books DVDs CDs ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ More new materials Check out our Digital Library Our Digital Library is always open! Check it out 24/7. 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