May: NonFiction Pick In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast intelligence organization—the only woman to serve as a chef de résistance during the…
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NONFIC: Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network against Hitler by Lynne Olson
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FIC: The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
May: Fiction Pick This is an adventure tale, a journey, taken in 1492 as the Christians are retaking Andalusia. The Sultan’s concubine together with the sultan’s mapmaker are fleeing the Inquisition, which thinks the mapmaker is a sorcerer. They are…
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FIC: Circe by Madeline Miller
May: Fiction Pick In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child–not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the…
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YA/J NONFIC: Herbal Adventures: Backyard Excursions and Kitchen Creations for Kids and Their Families by Rachel Jepsen Wolf
May: YA/J NonFiction Pick This book goes from identifying medicinal and edible plants in the wild to turning foraged bounty into balms, dyes, meals and more! Robin
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YA FIC: Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young
May: Young Adult Fiction Pick Seventeen-year-old Eelyn’s world is war. Raised to fight alongside her Aska clansmen in a generations-old blood feud against the Riki, her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the…
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