Reader's Advisory

Love the Earth?  Check out Marilyn's list of "Green Books"

• 1,001 Ways to Save the Earth by Joanna Yarrow (333.72 YAR)
• American Earth (333.72 AME)
• Do One Green Thing by Mindy Pennybacker (333.72 PEN)
• Farewell, My Subaru by Doug Fine (333.72 FIN)
• Green Guide (333.72 GRE)
• The Green Book by Elizabeth Rogers (333.72 ROG)

• Living Like Ed by Ed Begley Jr. (333.72 BEG)

• This Moment on Earth by John Kerry (333.72 KER)
• True Green (333.72 MCK) 
• Wake Up & Smell the Planet (333.72 WAK)
• You Can Save the Earth (333.72 YOU)

"Get Your Green On @ your library" this summer by checking out these ecologically themed fiction titles: 

 

• Cape Perdido by Marcia Muller (MYS Muller)

When a South Carolina company wants to take water from Cape Perdido the town's residents protest.  Things get ugly and someone is killed.

• Dust by Charles Pellgrino (FIC Pellegrino)

A biological thriller with fungus gnats, bugs, & vicious mites eating their way up the food chain set in a world gone wild- all because of human misunderstanding.

•  A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle (FIC Boyle)

Follows the adventures of an eco-terrorist whose efforts to save the planet place his own family at risk.

• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (FIC Quinn)

A man & an ape conduct a series of conversations that ask the question-"Does the Earth belong to humans or do humans belong to the Earth?" 

• Mother Nature by Sarah Andrews (MYS Andrews)

Geologist Em Hansen digs into greed, deception, murder and other natural disasters.

• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (FIC Kingsolver)

A wildlife biologist's experiences make her away that humans are just a small part of the ecological balance.

•  Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen (FIC Hiaasen)

"Comic eco defense in Florida"

• Wish You Well by David Baldacci (FIC Baldacci)

Siblings battle the foces of industry to save the family farm.

• The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (FIC Atwood)

In a dystopic world "God's Gardeners' prepare for the prophesized flood that will wipe them all out.

 

Click on the titles to see their records in SWAN

 

The 1940s through 1960's hold a special place in American History.  It's the baby boomer era, the space race, television and rock & roll.  This idyllic period has been through modern books, music, movies & TV that pay tribute plus the many classics the originated from that period like Elvis, I Love Lucy  and The Catcher in the Rye.  If you fondly remember the 40's-60's or find that period interesting come to our progrom on Thursday June 24 at 7 pm as local musician Steve Cooper presents highlights of Commericals & TV Theme Songs from TV's Golden Age.   This program will be held in the lower level of the Brookfield Village Hall.  Plus check out the recommendations below. 

With crooked politicians, corrupt enviromentalists, and a whole host of inept criminals and zany heroes, Carl Hiaasen's novels are hilarious thrillers set in Hiaasen's vividly described home state of Florida.  

June's Book Discussion pic- Skinny Dip features slightly murderous biologist Chaz Perrone who is being stalked by the wife he tried to kill.    Will attempted murder victim Joey get revenge against her egomaniac husband?   Check out the book to find out and come to book discussion on June 15 & share your thoughts on Skinny Dip.

Looking for some really great poetry? Check out our new Language of Conversation books available here at the library. You can also click on the book covers below to request them online through our catalog.

 

 

 

 

You might not know it, but the Brookfield Public Library has quite a large selection of graphic novels. And if you're not into superheroes, don't worry. There's plenty of titles about mysteries, immortals, wizards, zombies, and even Endo-period Japan.

So if you're looking for something to read this spring, why not check out some of our adult graphic novels?

Days Missing by Phil Hester

NEW 741.5973 HES  

 

 

 

 

Area 10 by Christos Gage

NEW 741.5973 GAG

A killer known as Henry the Eighth leaves a trail of decapitated corpses. For NYPD detective Adam Kamen, reeling from a personal tragedy and bitter divorce, cracking the "Henry" case offers a chance to get his life back on track--until a freak accident leaves him with a bizarre brain injury.

 

 

 

 

Awakening by Nick Tapalansky

NEW 741.5973 TAP

When an epidemic of grisly murders afflicts the normally sedate city of Park Falls, retired police detective Derrick Peters is sent by an unnamed source to investigate. Despite tooth marks around the victims’ wounds, a pronouncement by one of the city’s eccentrics that zombies are responsible only arouses Peters’ skepticism. After a little digging, Peters’ main suspects instead become the former employees of a recently closed pharmaceutical operation, where a novel treatment for Alzheimer’s was being tested. Yet as the body count rises, and Peters starts shooting ravenous killers on sight, the true cause of the outbreak becomes more and more elusive...

 

 

The Talisman Volume 1: Road of Trials by Stephen King & Peter Straub

FIC KING

The Talisman is the story of Jack Sawyer , a teen boy who can save his dying mother, Lily Sawyer, only if he retrieves a magical talisman.  To find it, Jack must cross back and forth between his world and a frightening and dangerous, parallel Earth called "The Territories."

 

 

 

Ooku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga

741.5952 YOS  

 

 

Mercy Thompson: Homecoming by Patricia Briggs

FANTASY BRIGGS

 

 

 

 

 

The Dresden Files: Storm Front by Jim Butcher

FANTASY BUTCHER

 

 

 

 

 

Dark Wolverine: The Prince and My Hero by Daniel Way

741.5973 WAY 

Wolverine's son, Daken, has finally emerged from the shadows, stepping out onto the main stage of the Marvel Universe. As one of Norman Osborne's Avengers, he has power, access, and an identity that he hates - his father's.

Volume 1-2 are available here at the library.

 

 

The Stand: Captain Trips and American Nightmares by Stephen King

SF KING                                                    

On a secret army base in the Californian desert, something has gone horribly, terribly wrong and a virus had been unleashed that will spread from person to person like wildfire, triggering a massive wave of disease and death, prefacing humanity’s last stand.

 

 

 

Note: Most of these titles are rated M for Mature content. 

Discarded and repurposed materials can be transformed into some of the most unique art and craft pieces.  We have several books in our collection to inspire, instruct, and celebrate green craftiness.

A more recent addition to our Mystery collection are the  Jaqueline "Jack" Daniels mysteries by J.A. Konrath, a  Chicago author & professor at College of Dupage.  Jack Daniels is a lieutenant with the Chicago Police department, Jack deals with a variety of personal issues, a binge eating partner and a stream crazed serial killers littering the city of Chicago.   This series has humor like Carl Hiaasen or Janet Evanovich but is also gritty like Thomas Harris.  If you're a fan of mysteries or Chicago authors, this series is one to check out.

Are you a fiction lover who insists historical fiction is not for you?  Try one of these historical novels, which were reviewed in Booklist over the past year, and your attitude is guaranteed to change. 

All Other Nights by Dara Horn.  Horn both unearths a fascinating, relatively unexplored aspect of American history—the role of Jewish Americans in the Civil War—and delivers a novel rich in human emotion and ambiguity.

The Coral Thief by Rebecca Stott.  Stott effortlessly captures both the chaos of immediate post-Napoleonic Paris’ changing social hierarchy and the exhilaration of intellectuals who have freed themselves from the tyranny of dogma.

Devil’s Dream by Madison Smartt Bell.  Bell returns from his celebrated Haitian trilogy to his native ground, Tennessee, to tell the tale of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a feared Confederate general of profound contradictions, strategic brilliance, and outrageous valor.

Four Freedoms by John Crowley.  The author’s detailed descriptions of sights, smells, and sounds in an American aircraft plant during WWII, and his evocation of everyday life at home, make this a wonderful, unforgettable novel.

Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow.  Doctorow creates a mythic tale of compulsion, alienation, and dark metamorphosis inspired by the wealthy and famously eccentric Collyer brothers, reclusive hoarders in early-twentieth-century New York City.

The Ingenious Edgar Jones by Elizabeth Garner.  Heartbreaking and exhilarating, misfit hero Edgar Jones’ rite of passage into adulthood is also a Darwinian portrait of a society in upheaval.

No Less Than Victory by Jeff Shaara.  The final volume in the author’s WWII trilogy, a grand achievement, employs the same technique as the first two: focusing on individuals, both historical figures and anonymous GIs, to tell the story.

Parrot & Olivier in America by Peter Carey.  Carey presents a brilliant and sly variation on the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the indelible Democracy in America.

Pearl of China by Anchee Min.  Min’s fresh and penetrating interpretation of American novelist Pearl S. Buck’s extraordinary life delivers profound psychological, spiritual, and historical insights.

The Puzzle King by Betsy Carter.  In a series of unfolding stories, two young immigrants are bound to one another by loneliness and a desire to create family ties in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s; a poignant story of love, longing, and the truths of family connectedness. 

For fans of mystery & suspense Patricia Cornwell has long been a favorite author.  Her popular Kay Scarpetta series just released it's 17th book in November.  Now the two books in a newer series, the Win Garano series will be made into TV movies for Lifetime.  At Risk premiered Saturday April 10 but will be re-aired before the Saturday April 17 premiere of its sequel, The Front.  The movies star Andie McDowell as D.A.  Monique Money Lamont and Daniel Sunjata as Massachusetts State Police Officer Win Garano.  Check out the movies on Lifetime and the books from the Mystery section.