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Reading this book had me torn with its controversial relationships. Wavy and her brother were born in a family with drug addiction problems. Wavy learned at a young age to stay quiet, stay out of sight, and trust no one. At 8 years old, Wavy was outside looking up at the stars while she witnessed a motorcycle wreck and went to help the injured man. Little did she know that this man, named Kellen, would be the one constant that she has in her life. Their relationship grows, and the outside world looks at it very differently than the way Wavy sees it.

Genres: Adult Literary Fiction, Coming of Age

Sensitive Topics: Abuse, Sexual Content

This book will not be for everyone; however, it did have me thinking about all the ugly and wonderful things.

~Kellie

This book broke my heart and I called my Mom the first day I started reading it. "Crying in H Mart" by Michelle Zauner is: "A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.

Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.

As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band—and meeting the man who would become her husband—her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her." ~Goodreads.com 4.27 rating

Stop in today & take home this gem then be sure to call your Mom. Happy reading, friends! ~Heather Egan/VPL Librarian Assistant

Regardless of my parents' attempt at strict child-rearing, I always had a certain attraction to "bad boys." So, I identified rather strongly with young Sarah in this book, who secretly fell for the guy whose family had "bad blood." She was from a respectable family, and he was the son of a drunken abuser, but Cam and Sarah were in love, and managed to successfully keep their relationship a secret for over a year. Upon learning that she was pregnant at the age of 16, Sarah went to the juvenile detention facility where Cam was being held and told him, but she was rebuffed; he felt that they were too young for the situation, and that he was not ready to be a father. Assuming that she would have an abortion, he left town as soon as he was released. For her part, Sarah told her parents that she'd gotten drunk and had a one-night stand with a tourist.

There was not an abortion, however, and it is now twenty years later; the baby girl, at twenty, has many questions about her absent father. Due to some finagling by a not-so-well-meaning friend, the couple meets up unexpectedly. There are the prerequisite misunderstandings and a lot of traveling as the three work out their future (or lack of same).

I must warn future readers that this book is both graphic and steamy, and I'm not talking about a comic book set in a desert! Let the reader beware. Lover's Leap is available in large type at VPL as #4 in the Eternity Springs series.

~Connie

To help us better provide literary outreach for youth in our community, our library is in the planning stages of creating a bicycle-powered bookmobile. Plese take a moment to complete the survey below!

This friend has read 200 books! Way to go! #1000booksbeforekindergarten

Congrats to Hadley for winning one of the prizes from our Beanstack Reading Challenge!

Joy W. is the lucky winner of our "Baking Lovers" Beanstack Adult reading challenge! Congrats! #librarylife #librarylovers #beanstackapp

Love puzzles? So do we! Our library has a puzzle table for you to enjoy; why not call up a friend and set a date for the library? We're now open until 8pm on Thursdays!

Thank you to the American Library Association for grant funds that will allow us to better serve individuals in our community living with dementia; we are so grateful for this opportunity!

Thank you to Vanessa Kearns for your donation of the book 'Shiny Happy Pyrex People' by Jennifer Ashley to our library!

We had a great time at the Benton County Health & Wellness Fair on Saturday! We opened library cards and shared our programming calendar, and our Friends of the Library group joined us!

Mary R. is the lucky winner of our latest online contest and took home a commemorative wine glass!!! #librarylife #librarylovers

This friend has read 700 books! Awesome job! #1000booksbeforekindergarten

Fans of Elin Hilderbrand's "The Perfect Couple" will be pleased to know @netflix is creating a new drama series based on her novel, starring Nicole Kidman, Liev Shreiber, and Dakota Fanning! Stop in today to check out our copy before it airs this year! #librarylife #librarylovers #pagetoscreen

Join us in congratulating Connie for her completion of the State Library of Iowa Staff Endorsement training course! #LibraryLoversMonth

Join us this September as author George Khal reads from his memoir, "The First Night of the Crescent Moon: My journey from Palestine to Iowa."

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