New fiction at the Chandler Library:
Her Highness the Traitor by Susan Higginbotham
In 1553, during the confusion following the death of Henry VIII's only son, Lady Jane Grey was crowned and ruled England for nine days. This novel tells the story of the two women whose ambition drove them to put their children on the throne.
Redshirts by John Scalzi
To Star Trek fans, "redshirts" are the nameless, easily expendable members of the crew who always find themselves killed while visiting strange new worlds. What happens when Ensign Andrew Dahl finds himself on a spaceship with a similar reputation for losing members of its away teams?
New nonfiction
The Cost of Hope by Amanda Bennett
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter uses her skills as an investigator to determine the price of saving a life in this memoir of her husband's battle with cancer.
Full Body Burden by Kristen Iversen
A history of growing up in small town near Rocky Flats, site of a secret nuclear weapons plant, and what happens when one woman begins to ask questions.
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