LW Library Leads

In Library Leads, library staff highlight exciting new additions to the library collection.

“Eradication: A Fable,” by Jonathan Miles Genre: Literary Fiction

A blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on an uninhabited Pacific island.

“Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them,” by Jennifer Wright Genre: Nonfiction

An irreverent tour of history’s worst plagues and the people who battled them includes coverage of the Antonine Plague, leprosy and polio while surveying the lesser-known, bizarre and grotesque details that marked each disease.

Stop by the library from 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. on weekdays and until 3:30 on Saturdays to borrow these items and more. Call ahead at 562-598-2431 to place an item on hold.