Here’s the list of 19 STAFF PICKS PROJECT acquisitions for February 2018. 

Staff Picks are on display in the library or checked out to a library patron. Come in to browse!

Check the Coos Library Coastline database to place your hold or ask the library staff to place your reservation for you.  Be sure to keep your patron record up to date so you can be notified by email when your hold is ready for pick-up. Donate to help this project achieve its goal of $10,000 for 12 months of Staff Picks acquisitions. If we go over our goal, donations will be used to extend the project until funds are depleted.

	TITLE	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	DESCRIPTION (from Amazon.com unless otherwise noted)
1.	The Myrtlewood Cookbook: Pacific Northwest Home Cooking	Andrew	Barton	Experience beautiful home cooking that takes its cues from the kitchen gardens and forest harvests of the Pacific Northwest.
2.	Global Discontents	Noam	Chomsky	AUDIO CD The twelve interviews in Global Discontents examine the latest developments around the globe: the rise of ISIS, the reach of state surveillance, growing anger over economic inequality, conflicts in the Middle East, and the presidency of Donald Trump. In personal reflections on his Philadelphia childhood, Chomsky also describes his own intellectual journey and the development of his uncompromising stance as America’s premier dissident intellectual.
3.	Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?		Film Movement, Studio	DVD – In this madcap and lighthearted comedic romp, introvert Weichung begins to question his marriage to Feng when she signals she’s ready to have another baby and an unexpected encounter with a friend from his past awakens long-dormant emotions. It all sets him off on a quest for true romance and desire.
4.	In Praise of Difficult Women	Karen	Karbo	From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn from the imperfect and extraordinary legacies of 29 iconic women who forged their own unique paths in the world.
5.	What Are You Doing with Your Life?	Jiddu	Krishnamurti	Teens learn for themselves about their relationship to the self, to each other, family, work, society, the world, and the meaning and purpose of life. Through paying attention rather than accepting the authority of their conditioning, they can find out for themselves about love, sex, marriage, the meaning of work, money, ambition and competition and, by changing the violence in themselves, they can change the world.
6.	The Revolution from Within	J	Krishnamurti	There must be a revolution in our thinking, declares the author, J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986), who remains one of our greatest philosophers and teachers of modern times. In this series of lectures, given in the U.S. and various cities throughout the world in the 1950s, he again confronts the habitual, projection-making mind, which fails to see what is while it absorbs itself in belief and illusion.
7.	Highway 1 California: The Dream Road Along the Pacific	Andrea	Lammert	Skirting the California coastline, the legendary Highway 1 starts at San Diego and ends at the Canadian border. Highway 1 California the book presents the California portion in stunning color, a testament to why it receives the most domestic visitors of all the states, and is consistently one of the top three states visited by international travelers.
8.	The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures	Annabel	Langbein	In the US edition of this beautiful book, Kiwi celebrity cook Annabel Langbein serves up all the recipes from her TV series now screening on PBS channels across America. Inside you’ll find her speedy mixer mayo, the ultimate pulled pork, super-simple sorbets, her famous gluten-free chocolate cake – and much more.
9.	Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions	Valeria	Luiselli	A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.
10.	The Less is More Garden: Big Ideas for Designing Your Small Yard	Susan	Morrison	Designer Susan Morrison offers savvy tips to match your landscape to your lifestyle, draws on years of experience to recommend smart plants with seasonal interest, and suggests hardscape materials to personalize your space. Inspiring photographs highlight a variety of inspiring small-space designs from around the country.
11.	Mother!		Paramount, Studio	DVD – …a 2017 American psychological horror film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, and Michelle Pfeiffer. The plot follows a young woman whose tranquil life with her husband at their country home is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious couple.
12.	My Friend Fear	Meera Lee	Patel	A mix of personal reflections, inspirational quotes, questions for reflection, and breathtaking watercolor visuals, My Friend Fear asserts that having big fear is an opportunity to make big changes, to discover the remarkable potential inside ourselves.
13.	The Illustrated Birds of Prey: The Ultimate Reference Guide for Bird Lovers, Woodcarvers, and Artists	Denny	Rogers	For the first time in a single volume, renowned illustrator, sculptor, woodcarver, and wildlife enthusiast Denny Rogers presents his detailed and celebrated drawings of distinguished birds of prey: the red-tailed hawk, the American kestrel, and the peregrine falcon.
14.	Feel Free: Essays	Zadie	Smith	…Feel Free offers a survey of important recent events in culture and politics, as well as Smith’s own life. Equally at home in the world of good books and bad politics, Brooklyn-born rappers and the work of Swiss novelists, she is by turns wry, heartfelt, indignant, and incisive–and never any less than perfect company. This is literary journalism at its zenith.
15.	Travel As a Political Act	Rick	Steves	In his new book, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves explains how to travel more thoughtfully to any destination. He shares a series of field reports from Europe, Central America, Asia, and the Middle East to show how his travels have shaped his politics and broadened his perspective.
16.	I, Daniel Blake		Sundance Selects, Studio	DVD – Cannes and BAFTA winner. A widowed carpenter and a single mother forge a touching friendship as they battle a callous welfare system in this powerful, urgent story.
17.	Parks and Recreation (Season One)		Universal Pictures, Studio	DVD – …the hilarious saga of government employees and local citizens turning a neighborhood hole in the ground into a new public park.
18.	Multiverse: Art, Dance, Design, Technology	Ana	Yudina	Featuring visionary creators from various fields, from art and contemporary dance to architecture and robotics, this lavishly illustrated book reports from the forefront of the cross-disciplinary synthesis that creates new forms of art. (includes the DVD Gravitation: Variation in Time and Space
19.	The Courage of Hopelessness	Slavoj	Zizek	The maverick philosopher returns to explore today’s ideological, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.