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Take a step back in time and experience old-fashioned fun on the frontier. Our 3rd annual Family Frontier Day is a FREE event for library patrons of all ages. Come and experience early settlement life through demonstrations (many hands-on opportunities), exploration of the village grounds and buildings, era appropriate music, games and crafts for kids, and more! There will be food and beverage for sale. MEET AT PIONEER VILLAGE IN SAUKVILLE
Join us for Kiwanis Early Risers Family Night with musician Randy Peterson!
Fall will be here soon so it's time to get your gardens ready for winter and to plant some garlic. Learn all about garlic and how to plant as well as care for it. Question and answer session to follow!
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A bargained-for bride
McClure, Marcia Lynn, author.
A big day for baseball
Osborne, Mary Pope, author, narrator.
A lady's guide to gossip and murder
Freeman, Dianne, 1958- author.
A plain vanilla murder
Albert, Susan Wittig, author.
A reluctant bride
Hedlund, Jody, author.
A rising man
Mukherjee, Abir, author.
A season in hell
Jackson, Easy, author.
Africa speaks
Santana (Musical group), composer, performer.
After the end : a novel
Mackintosh, Clare, author.
Albert Einstein : a graphic history of the father ...
Hartley, Ned, author.
Almost midnight
Doiron, Paul, author.
America before : the key to Earth's lost civilizat...
Hancock, Graham, author, narrator.
America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. K...
Gillon, Steven M., author.
American duchess : a novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt
Harper, Karen (Karen S.), author.
Bad Axe County : a novel
Galligan, John (Mystery writer), author.
Bayou born
Edwards, Hailey, author.
Beating endo : how to reclaim your life from endom...
Orbuch, Iris Kerin, author.
Becoming a veterinarian
Kachka, Boris, author.
Big sky : a novel
Atkinson, Kate, author.
Birthday
Russo, Meredith, author.
Blood
Collective Soul (Musical group), performer.
Blue roses
Runaway June (Musical group), composer, performer.
Born just right
Reeves, Jordan, author.
Can Cat and Bird be friends?
Muir, Coll, author, illustrator.
Charity's burden
Maxwell, Edith, author.
Clare Bowen.
Bowen, Clare, composer, performer.
Conagher : a novel
L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988, author.
Death comes to Bath
Lloyd, Catherine, 1963- author.
Death from a top hat
Rawson, Clayton, 1906-1971, author.
Die me a river
Swanson, Denise, author.
Doom days
Bastille (Musical group), composer, performer.
Eye spy
Lackey, Mercedes, author.
Fool me once
Bybee, Catherine, author.
Game of bones
Haines, Carolyn, author.
Gone too long : a novel
Roy, Lori, author.
Happy money : the Japanese art of making peace wit...
Honda, Ken, author.
Heart of barkness
Quinn, Spencer, author.
Help us stranger
Raconteurs (Rock group), composer, performer.
Home again
McCoy, Shirlee, author.
Knife
Nesbø, Jo, 1960- author.
Late night feelings
Ronson, Mark, 1975- performer.
LeBron, Inc. : the making of a billion-dollar athl...
Windhorst, Brian, author.
Let me hear a rhyme
Jackson, Tiffany D., author.
Let's rock
Black Keys (Musical group), compser, performer.
Little sunny sunshine = Sol solecito
Jaramillo, Susie, author, illustrator.
Lock every door : a novel
Sager, Riley, author.
Lost and found
Steel, Danielle, author.
Lost lake
Littlejohn, Emily, author.
Luna : the science and stories of our moon
Aguilar, David A, author.
Madame X
Madonna, 1958- composer, performer.
Mistress of the Ritz
Benjamin, Melanie, 1962- author.
Moth : an evolution story
Thomas, Isabel, 1979- author.
Mrs. Everything : a novel
Weiner, Jennifer, author.
Only the stubborn survive
Stone, R. W., author.
Open carry
Cameron, Marc, author.
Originals
Prince, composer, performer.
Orion
X Ambassadors (Musical group), performer.
Paper son
Rozan, S. J., author.
Pretty revenge
Liebert, Emily, author.
Putting peace first : 7 commitments to change the ...
Dawson, Eric David, author.
Queen bee : a novel
Frank, Dorothea Benton, author.
Ride me back home
Nelson, Willie, 1933- composer, performer.
Rocket says look up!
Bryon, Nathan, author.
Rocks and minerals
Strother, Ruth, author.
Searching for Sylvie Lee : a novel
Kwok, Jean, author.
Soccerverse : poems about soccer
Steinglass, Elizabeth, author.
Someone to honor : a Westcott novel
Balogh, Mary, author.
Stone cold heart : a novel
Frear, Caz, author.
Stranger songs
Michaelson, Ingrid, performer.
String of pearls
Carlson, Melody, author.
Summer by the tides
Hunter, Denise, 1968- author.
Surfside sisters : a novel
Thayer, Nancy, 1943- author.
Surfside sisters : a novel
Thayer, Nancy, 1943- author.
Sweet on you
Wade, Becky, author.
Temper
Fargo, Layne, author.
The Amish cookie club
Price, Sarah, 1969- author.
The artful match
Delamere, Jennifer, author.
The bookish life of Nina Hill
Waxman, Abbi, author.
The charmer in chaps
London, Julia, author.
The conservative sensibility
Will, George F., author.
The Dancing Turtle: A Folktale from Brazil
DeSpain, Pleasant
The end of forgetting : growing up with social med...
Eichhorn, Kate, 1971- author.
The gifted school
Holsinger, Bruce W., author.
The golden hour : a novel
Williams, Beatriz, author.
The governess of Penwythe Hall
Ladd, Sarah E., author.
The guest book
Blake, Sarah, 1960- author.
The hard stuff : a novel
Gordon, David, 1967- author.
The heart of a king : the love of Solomon
Smith, Jill Eileen, 1958- author.
The history behind game of thrones
Weinczok, David C., author.
The Kennedy heirs : John, Caroline, and the new ge...
Taraborrelli, J. Randy.
The killer collective
Eisler, Barry, author.
The last book party : a novel
Dukess, Karen, author.
The last house guest : a novel
Miranda, Megan, author.
The long flight home
Hlad, Alan, author.
The memory of light
Stork, Francisco X., author.
The method to the madness : Donald Trump's ascent ...
Salkin, Allen, author.
The night before
Walker, Wendy, 1967- author.
The poison bed
Fremantle, Elizabeth, author.
The Satapur moonstone
Massey, Sujata, author.
The scent keeper : a novel
Bauermeister, Erica, author.
The shameless
Atkins, Ace, author.
The stories you tell : a Roxane Weary mystery
Lepionka, Kristen, author.
The sum of all shadows
Lustbader, Eric, author.
The summoning
Graham, Heather, author.
The tenth muse : a novel
Chung, Catherine, author.
The travelers : a novel
Porter, Regina, author.
The vagabonds : the story of Henry Ford and Thomas...
Guinn, Jeff, author.
There's something about Sweetie
Menon, Sandhya, author.
This is not a love scene
Megale, S.C.
This time will be different
Sugiura, Misa, author.
Tim
Avicii, 1989-2018, composer, performer.
Truth or lie : dinosaurs!
Perl, Erica S, author.
Truth or lie : sharks!
Perl, Erica S., author.
Under currents
Roberts, Nora, author.
Unfreedom of the press
Levin, Mark R. (Mark Reed), 1957- author, narrator.
Voyager
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Wanderers : a novel
Wendig, Chuck, author.
Western stars
Springsteen, Bruce, composer, performer.
Wherever you go
Peterson, Tracie, author.
Whiskers in the dark : a Mrs. Murphy mystery
Brown, Rita Mae, author.
Who slays the wicked
Harris, C. S., author.
Years to burn
Calexico (Musical group), composer, performer.
FROM THE BOOK'S JACKET:
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sisters and their mother—in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge, from the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Translation
It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother—and then vanishes.
Amy, the sheltered baby of the Lee family, is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie. Seven years older, Sylvie was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place, and didn’t rejoin her family in America until age nine. Timid and shy, Amy has always looked up to her sister, the fierce and fearless protector who showered her with unconditional love.
But what happened to Sylvie? Amy and her parents are distraught and desperate for answers. Sylvie has always looked out for them. Now, it’s Amy’s turn to help. Terrified yet determined, Amy retraces her sister’s movements, flying to the last place Sylvie was seen. But instead of simple answers, she discovers something much more valuable: the truth. Sylvie, the golden girl, kept painful secrets . . . secrets that will reveal more about Amy’s complicated family—and herself—than she ever could have imagined.
A deeply moving story of family, secrets, identity, and longing, Searching for Sylvie Lee is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive portrait of an immigrant family. It is a profound exploration of the many ways culture and language can divide us and the impossibility of ever truly knowing someone—especially those we love.
Check out what the West Bend Library staff members enjoyed reading in August!
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