Bandon Public Library

In 1954, at the start of the Cold War, the Soviet military offered four political prisoners their freedom if they participated in an experiment requiring them to remain awake for fourteen days while under the influence of a powerful stimulant gas. The prisoners ultimately reverted to murder, self-mutilation, and madness. None survived. In 2018, Dr. Roy Wallis, an esteemed psychology professor at UC Berkeley, is attempting to recreate the same experiment...

"The grieving book that New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh needed herself years ago, this is a modern, accessible approach to grief when you don't know how to help or what to do, inspired by a viral social media post that touched millions as it assures the reader that there is a path through their darkness"--

"When a woman needs to flee a bad marriage, it doesn't matter that she's the wife of the former Vice President, it only matters that she escapes...Sunday Bond longs for a life far from Washington D.C., and far from the husband who has kept her in a gilded cage for too long, locked up there with only his dark secrets to keep her company. When Sunday';s best friend, the former First Lady, moves south to Shipwreck Key, Sunday goes for a visit and decides...

"Forty-nine-year old widow Ruby Hudson, former First Lady of the United States of America, wants to start the second act of her life by moving to Shipwreck Key off the Florida Panhandle. As she mourns the loss of her beloved husband, she turns her lifelong love of books into a whole new career, opening a little bookshop on the charming, pirate-themed island. Her daughters think she's crazy, but Ruby can finally breathe again without the constant scrutiny...

Rhyming text encourages young readers to discover what they are good at and use it to make a difference in big ways or in small ones.