July 2018 – Algonquin Library Adult Services

By: Robin Sloan

Date: Friday, August 3rd, 2018 @Harnish

Start Time: 10:00 am

Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her―feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it.

Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market, and a whole new world opens up.

When Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. But then, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. But who are these people, exactly?

$\"\"$ The Sin Eater\'s Daughter

By: Melinda Salisbury

Date: Monday, August 13th, 2018 @Village Vintner

Start Time: 7:00 pm

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Seventeen-year-old Twylla lives in the castle. But although she\'s engaged to the prince, Twylla isn\'t exactly a member of the court. She\'s the executioner. As the Goddess embodied, Twylla instantly kills anyone she touches. Each month, she\'s taken to the prison and forced to lay her hands on those accused of treason. No one will ever love a girl with murder in her veins. Even the prince, whose royal blood supposedly makes him immune to Twylla\'s fatal touch, avoids her company.But then a new guard arrives, a boy whose easy smile belies his deadly swordsmanship. And unlike the others, he\'s able to look past Twylla\'s executioner robes and see the girl, not the Goddess. Yet Twylla\'s been promised to the prince, and knows what happens to people who cross the queen. However, a treasonous secret is the least of Twylla\'s problems. The queen has a plan to destroy her enemies, a plan that requires a stomach-churning, unthinkable sacrifice. Will Twylla do what it takes to protect her kingdom? Or will she abandon her duty in favor of a doomed love?

$\"\"$ Fahrenheit 451

By: Ray Bradbury

Date: Thursday, August 16th, 2018 @Harnish

Start Time: 7:00 pm

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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.

When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.