January Books for Adults
Ian Hauck, head of Troy Public Library\u2019s adult services and reference services, recommends four books for January. Selections: \u201cAlien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth & Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future\u201d (Steve Nicholls, 2023) explores the activities of insects and arthopods with explanations and amazing illustrations. \u201cInvisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America\u2019s First Black Generals\u201d (2023), written by Benjamin Davis, a descendant of America\u2019s first two Black generals, tells the family\u2019s military history \u201cacross five generations, from post-Civil War America to modern day Asia and Europe.\u201d Shifting to fiction, \u201cThe Fraud Squad\u201d (Kyla Zhao, 2023) echoes \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d with a novel of a working class woman infiltrating Singapore\u2019s high society. The final book, \u201cThe Heavens May Fall\u201d (Allen Eskens, 2016) presents a murder mystery from two opposing perspectives, with an attorney working to redeem himself after the death of an innocent client. This is Ian\u2019s final book segment; we wish him well in his transition from Troy to the East Greenbush library. For more details on books, visit www.thetroylibrary.org. To find other libraries in New York State, see https://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/libs/#Find. Produced by Brea Barthel for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.