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From the Dublin Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library

By Hannah Burkhard, Information Services Specialist at the Columbus Metropolitan Library – Dublin Branch

Wade in the Water

by Nyani Nkrumah

Eleven-year-old Ella lives on the Black side of racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi in the early 1980s. Too smart for her own good, Ella, is considered a nuisance by many, including her own mother. But Ella is about to make a very unexpected acquaintance: Ms. St. James, a well-to-do white woman from Princeton, who has just arrived in town. Her presence immediately has many residents on edge, who only grow wearier as the two form a very unlikely friendship. What begins as tutoring sessions becomes a powerful bond that transcends race, class and age. But Ms. St. James, like Ella, has a secret of her own, and its revelation could cause devastating consequences.

Now is Not the Time to Panic

by Kevin Wilson

Now is Not the Time to Panic tells the witty yet nuanced story of the unexpected consequences of young love. Beginning in 1996 with Frankie, a 16-year-old stuck spending another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee. Luckily, she forges an immediate connection with new kid Zeke due to their mutual interest in art. They create a poster merging Frankie’s writing with Zeke’s artistic talents. To their surprise, the enigmatic and anonymous project becomes a local mystery. Rumors they were created by Satanists or kidnappers run rampant, causing dangerous repercussions. The story picks back up 20 years later as Frances Budge, famous author, gets a call from a reporter investigating the Coalfield Panic of 1996. He wants to know more about the notorious posters, but she wants to preserve the life she’s built.

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Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

by Becky Kennedy

Dr. Becky Kennedy, a popular parenting expert, shares her most useful and practical philosophies for raising kids in her new book Good Inside. Kennedy explains that many techniques sold to parents over the years – from reward charts to time outs – are based on shaping behaviors. Not only do they simply not work, but the bad techniques lead to burn out and the fear of failure for many caretakers. That’s why Kennedy has developed her own approaches, ones that help parents build skills their children will need to lead successful lives and ones that will make any caretaker feel supported and capable.

Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable by

Zain Asher

Zain Asher’s debut book Where the Children Take Us tells the story of her extraordinary family. She shares her mother Obiajulu’s tale of surviving genocide, famine and poverty before immigrating to London from Nigeria, only to become a widower raising four children. But Obiajulu didn’t let crippling grief, nor the prejudices faced in her new home, stop her from pushing her children to achieve greatness. Asher details the lengths her mother went to help them succeed, but reminds readers how she also showered her children with endless support and love, using her Nigerian parenting techniques to do the unexpected. Asher and her three siblings grew up to be a CNN anchor, an Oscar-nominated actor, a medical doctor, and a thriving entrepreneur.

As Vincent Bianco’s son is getting ready to go off to college, he is reminded of his final summer before college. All he wanted to do was collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer, so he got a job as a laborer on a construction crew. As he worked alongside two Vietnam vets – one of whom suffers from PTSD – Vincent gets the education of a lifetime.