Langley-Adams Library Recommendations

"Lois Clary, a software engineer at a San Francisco robotics company, codes all day and collapses at night. When her favourite sandwich shop closes up, the owners leave her with the starter for their mouthwatering sourdough bread.  Lois becomes the unlikely hero tasked to care for it, bake with it and keep this needy colony of microorganisms alive. Soon she is baking loaves daily and taking them to the farmer's market, where an exclusive close-knit club runs the show.  When Lois discovers another, more secret market, aiming to fuse food and technology, a whole other world opens up. But who are these people, exactly?" (Goodreads.com) The unexpected journey that Lois goes on transforms her life and  it seems like a cautionary tale because you need hobbies and other outlets away from work to give balance to your life. At the beginning of the story Lois's job has taken over her life and even though she was once passionate about it, it drains her mentally and physically. ...

When she is seven, January Scaller discovers a doorway to another world. When she returns home, no one believes her, and when she tries to return to that other world, it’s gone. For the next ten years, her guardian tells her to be proper, to put any imaginary thoughts out of her mind. Her wealthy guardian is good to her, while the early 20 th  century world is usually not good to mixed-race girls like January. At seventeen, January comes across a book called  The Ten Thousand Doors . As the book alternates between the chapters of  The Ten Thousand Doors  and January’s every day life, January’s world starts to unravel. As she learns more and more about the special doors the book tells her about, she learns more and more about the people around her… and about how dangerous they are. I highly recommend this book! It’s a well-written historical fantasy that anyone who has ever dreamed of adventure will be able to relate to. Darcy Lepore Library Director Available...

"The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.  Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting account of one family’s unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water." (Goodreads.com) The damage that Hurricane Katrina caused is something that I've always been vaguely aware of because I was so young when it happened. So when I picked up this book to read it was the first look that I had into what it was really like for the families that went ...