For some, truths are truer than for others. You can’t go home again takes on a completely different weight when your family, friends, and village are all displaced by the Six-Day War of 1967. This is the case for Alia and her family living in Nablus, Palestine. Hala Alyan’s debut novel, ‟Salt Houses” (F), follows Alia’s family from their flight from Palestine to the 1990 invasion of Iraq and through all their attempts to assimilate into countries far from home.

For some, truths are truer than for others. You can’t go home again takes on a completely different weight when your family, friends, and village are all displaced by the Six-Day War of 1967. This is the case for Alia and her family living in Nablus, Palestine. Hala Alyan’s debut novel, ‟Salt Houses” (F), follows Alia’s family from their flight from Palestine to the 1990 invasion of Iraq and through all their attempts to assimilate into countries far from home.

Scott Kelly, along with his Russian colleague, Mikhail Kornienko, spent an entire year in space, orbiting the earth, dodging space trash, and finding out what happens when you live in a metal box high above the earth. Before he got to be an astronaut, however, he was a rough and wild New Jersey teenager who took school and responsibility less than seriously. When he came across Tom Wolfe’s book, ‟The Right Stuff,” he changed his course and determinedly set out to become an astronaut. His book, ‟Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery” (629.442) reveals what life is like in place that is inhospitable to life as we know it. From the pre-flight rituals to the need to see growing, living things, Kelly’s straightforward-style shows us a life very few people have experienced.

Few people could make a car race as exhilarating as Peter Carey. In 1950s Australia, the Redex Trial is a brutal race requiring drivers to cover 10,000 miles in 17 days across dangerous territory riddled with dry creek beds, rockslides and cliffs, and interfering wildlife all while maintaining their speed. Irene Bobs, along with her husband, the best car salesman in southeastern Australia, and navigator Willie Bachhuber, sets out to win the race and jumpstart a dull and failing life. Carey turns their adventure into a hilarious, but eye-opening race through a country already inhabited by a rich culture in ‟A Long Way from Home” (F).

Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition took place from 1914 to 1917, and although the expedition failed, it became famous for its heroic attempt at exploration. What is less well-known, however, is that a team of six people known as the Mount Hope party also crossed the Antarctic from the opposite side as Shackleton, dropping food and supplies for Shackleton’s team. The Mount Hope party did not know that Shackleton’s expedition had failed and persevered through deadly conditions. With the help of previously unpublished diaries, Wilson McOrist tells their story in ‟Shackleton’s Heroes: The Epic Story of the Men Who Kept the ENDURANCE Expedition Alive” (919.890).

Surviving being a prisoner of war in Vietnam was only the first challenge for Ernt Allbright. Facing failure upon failure after returning home, Allbright makes the snap decision to move his family — his wife, and his 13-year old daughter, Leni — to Alaska. Alone in Alaska’s 18-hour nights, Leni and Cora learn that the only way to survive is through their own inner strength. In ‟The Great Alone” (F) by Kristin Hannah, we discover what the spirit of an American pioneer truly is.

Brene Brown first came into the mainstream with her excellent TED talk ‟The Power of Vulnerability” in December 2010. Since then, the University of Houston professor and practicing social worker has published several influential books based on her lifelong study of human interactions. Her newest book, ‟Braving the Wilderness” (158.200), published last fall, helps us understand how to meet our basic need to belong when our society is polarized and polemicized more than ever. Brown argues that our current state of disconnection from each other has reached a crisis level, and explains how having the courage to be authentically yourself could be the solution the whole planet needs.

Also at the Library

‟In this Moment” (F) by Karen Kingsbury;

‟Rich People Problems” (F) by Kevin Kwan;

‟Into the Black Nowhere” (F) by Meg Gardiner;

‟Medical Medium Thyroid Healing” (616.440) by Anthony William;

‟Start Your Own Etsy Business” (658.872) by Entrepreneur Media and Jason R. Rich; and

‟Love What Matters” (152.410 Love).
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