The Collection Connection

Summer! Life slows down as the sun heats up. Whether you're looking for a beach read, pool read, or indoors with the AC read, we have plenty of great books to help you make the most of the season. In this edition, we’re highlighting new and notable titles available for checkout, introducing a new State Library staff member, announcing a new State Library webinar on the JSTOR research database, celebrating America's 250th birthday with books, and sharing staff book recommendations.

Bestsellers/Newly Published

• The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
• Choke Point by Brad Thor
• Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith by JD Vance
• The Deal by Elle Kennedy

• The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon

• The Land and Its People by David Sedaris

• London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

  by Patrick Radden Keefe

• Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter by Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Whistler by Ann Patchett
• Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Finance/Legal

• The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security by Scott Galloway
• The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life by Morgan Housel

• The History of Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams

• Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival by Justine van der Leun

• Eat Better, Sleep Better: 75 Recipes and A 28-Day Meal Plan That Unlock the Food-Sleep Connection by Dr. Marie-Pierre St-Onge, PhD, CCSH, FAHA, and Kat Craddock

• My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's by Sandeep Jauhar, MD

• Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health by Casey Means, MD

• The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More by Jefferson Fisher

• Women Waking Up: The Midlife Manifesto for Passion, Purpose, and Play by Wendy Valentine

• The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence by Jessica Lahey

• Dyslexia and Your Newly Diagnosed Child: Parenting Essentials, Tips, and Strategies to Help Your Child by Rebecca Bush, CALT, LDT

• How to Raise a Healthy Gamer: End Power Struggles, Break Bad Screen Habits, and Transform Your Relationship with Your Kids by Alok Kanojia, MD, MPH

• Modern Manners for Kids: Etiquette Books with 52 Easy Tips to Build Confidence, Leadership, and Social Skills by Grace Lawson

• Stronger Than Infertility: The Essential Guide to Navigating Every Step of Your Journey by Heather R. Huhman

• The Uncontrollable Child: Understand & Manage Your Child's Disruptive Moods with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills by Matis Miller, LCSW

• Digital Culture Shock: Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters by Katharina Reinecke

• Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

• Remote Works: Managing for Freedom, Flexibility, and Focus by Ali Greene and Tamara Sanderson

• Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates

• Workplace Monitoring and Technology by Jacek Woźniak

• The Boldly Inclusive Leader: Transform Your Workplace (and the World) by Valuing the Differences Within by Minette Norman

• Career Forward: Strategies from Women Who've Made It by Grace Puma and Christiana Smith Shi

• It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

• Meaningful Work: How to Ignite Passion and Performance in Every Employee by Wes Adams and Tamara Myles

• This Isn't Working: How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, and Overload to Find True Success by Meghan French Dunbar

• Blue Land: Stories by C.D. Collins

• Fulfillment by Lee Cole

• Hope Rode: The Promise of the Packhorse Librarians by Lauren Kerstein (Picture Book, Ages 4-7)

• Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story: A Port William Novel by Wendell Berry

• A Pencil Grows in Kentucky by Jacqueline Hamilton

• Return of the King: The Rebirth of Muhammad Ali and the Rise of Atlanta by Thomas Aiello

• The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife by upfromsumdirt

Please welcome Royal, our new reference librarian! Royal hails from Florida. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Sweet Briar College and a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Kentucky. In her spare time, she creates art, comics and zines. She also enjoys cooking, skating and "picking up bits of languages and then putting them down again." Her favorite book is The Changeover by Margaret Mahy. Royal’s new duties include answering reference questions, providing research assistance, handling interlibrary loan requests, and presenting training on the State Library’s resources, especially our research databases. We are very excited to have her join us!

Join us on Wednesday, July 22 at 2:00 pm EST for a live webinar on the JSTOR research database. Learn to access JSTOR, a database available to state employees with your free State Library account! This database is a great resource for a wide range of materials, including primary sources, eBooks, academic journals, and original artwork. This webinar will also include an introduction to creating and utilizing your own JSTOR account to organize your research, perform text analysis on uploaded documents, and use their collections to make new connections in your research.

Commemorate America’s 250th anniversary by exploring the rich and complex story of the nation through these highly regarded, critically acclaimed books. Spanning the Revolutionary War, the creation of the Constitution, and Indigenous histories, this curated collection offers meaningful perspectives on the people, events, and ideas that have shaped our country’s journey.

• 1776 by David McCullough
• African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals by David Hackett Fischer
• The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
• The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 by Rick Atkinson
• The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson
• History Matters by David McCullough and Dorie McCullough Lawson
• The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
• We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore
• Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis
• We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America by Norah O'Donnell by Kate Andersen Brower

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