A Monthly Collection of Librarian-selected Books by Topic
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August 2024: Night Fever
Over the Moon
(Nocturnal Nature)
- An Intimate Look at the Night Sky by Chet Raymo (DB 57521)
- Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow by Christopher Cokinos (DB 120586 In Process)
- The Human Cosmos: Civilization And the Stars by Jo Marchant (DB 100894)
- The Northern Lights by Lucy Jago (DB 54386) – Biography of Norwegian physicist Kristian Olaf Birkeland, who unlocked the mystery of the aurora borealis.
- What An Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman (DB 116470)
Bedtime Stories
(Late-Night Fiction)
- Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan (DB 90424) – Historical fiction about female bomber regiment tasked with attacking the Germans at night.
- Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (DB 73783 / BR 21370) – Fantasy set in a circus that mysteriously and magically appears at night.
- The Northern Lights Lodge by Julie Caplin (DB 113231) – Romance set in a hotel in Iceland.
- The Wide Starlight by Nicole Lesperance (DB 103068) – Fantasy about an Arctic legend in which people are swept away by the northern lights.
- Almost, Maine by John Cariani (DB 99312) – Realistic fiction set in a town near Canada where residents find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways thanks to the northern lights.
- Night Huntress Series. Books 1-4 by Jeaniene Frost (DB 82300) – Paranormal romance in which a half vampire teams up with a vampire bounty hunter.
Creatures of the Night
(Humans After Dark)
- Wild Nights Out: the Magic of Exploring the Outdoors After Dark by Chris Salisbury (DB 104538)
- A Day in the Night of America by Kevin Coyne (DB 37178) – About the people who work night shift hours.
- The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard (DB 77167 / BR 20163)
- Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World by Benjamin Reiss (DB 88754)
- Acquainted With the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark by Christopher Dewdney (DB 60553)
These books and more are available on digital cartridge (call the Library at 1-800-992-9012 to order) or for download from the National Library Service's (NLS) online Braille Audio Reading Download (BARD) database: https://nlsbard.loc.gov/
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