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The Name She Gave Me: A Novel

By Betty Culley.

Design by Kimberly Glyder.

[inlovewithquotes]

Every story about little kids packing a suitcase and running away from home ends with laughter, hot cocoa, and hugs. It's really not funny at all that when you're little, there's no place else to go but the same home you just left.

-The Name She Gave Me

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Check it out, we're in Publisher's Weekly! ♥ We are SO excited for this project!!

Kiara Valdez at First Second has bought world rights to Tripping Over You, a YA graphic novel by Suzana Harcum & Owena White, adapted from their webcomic of the same name!

[angria]

Massively struggling with SH urges. Took a nap, but mood still terrible and have stupid class later. Have check-in as well after a week, but watch that implode…

Trying to remind myself to look forward to the bunch of YA ebooks I got from the library that I’m excited to read while on the train to my home-state in a week.

The Name She Gave Me by Betty Culley

What Kind of Girl by Alyssa Sheinmel

When We Collided by Emery Lord

How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake

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Books 103-114 of 2024

The Wicker King by K. Ancrum

We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson

Stone Cold by Robert Swindells

Crash by William Taylor

Room 13 by Robert Swindells

Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley

The Monument by Gary Paulsen

The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket

Day of the Dead by Anthony Masters

Cold Skin by Steven Herrick

The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket

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The Name She Gave Me - Betty Culley 

When Rynn was born, her birth mother named her Scheherazade. It’s one of the only things Rynn has from her. Now sixteen, Rynn and her adoptive parents live on a small garlic farm in central Maine. Rynn’s father is kind and gentle but oblivious to Rynn’s mother’s temper and coldness toward their daughter. Rynn has longed to know her birth family for years. She can’t legally open her adoption records until she turns eighteen, but that won’t stop her from searching on her own. She finds out that though her birth mother has died, she has a younger sister—who’s in foster care two towns away. But if Rynn reconnects with her biological sister, it may drive her adoptive family apart for good.

tw: adoption, emotional abuse, trauma

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Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley

Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley

Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley Genre: Poetry, Realistic FictionPages: 480Publisher: HarperTeenRating: 4.11 stars (Goodreads) Summary: This moving debut novel in verse about a teenage girl dealing with the aftermath of an accident that nearly takes her brother’s life is a stunning exploration of grief and the power of forgiveness. The reminder is always there—a dent on the right…

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5 Verse Books For Beginners

5 Verse Books For Beginners

I used to be really intimidated by books that are in verse. You see, I thought maybe I wouldn’t like them as they didn’t follow typical prose structure. Yet as it turns out, once I gave them a shot, I was hooked. These five books are excellent for anyone looking to dip a toe into this style of writing – they’re books with a range of subject matters, so I would imagine at least one would be…

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Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley | Book Review

Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley | Book Review

Title: Three Things I Know Are True

Author: Betty Culley

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published Date: January 7th, 2020

Genre: In-Verse, Realistic Fiction, YA

Source: Library

Rating: ★ ★ ★ .5

Goodreads Summary:

This moving debut novel in verse about a teenage girl dealing with the aftermath of an accident that nearly takes her brother’s life is a stunning exploration of…

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(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (June 21st, 2022)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

The Loophole by Naz Kutub

Epically Earnest by Molly Horan

Jumper by Melanie Crowder

Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino

A Year to the Day by Robin Benway

The Name She Gave Me by Betty Culley

Never Coming Home by Kate Williams

We Weren’t Looking to be Found by Stephanie Kuehn

Echoes of Grace by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

New Sequel: 

This Wicked Fate (This Poison Heart) by Kalynn Bayron

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Happy reading!

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That’s right fellow gremlin creatures, it’s a book update!

Recently Read

Breathe and Countback from Ten: 4 Star First Time Read

Thoughts: I think this tackled a lot of very heavy topics-like way more than I expected it to. A very solid YA title.

How to Date a Superhero (and Not Die Trying): 4 Star First Time Read

Thoughts: this was one of my most anticipated releases of the year and y’all I’m so happy to say it delivered. There was so much love for superhero media in this, with references to common tropes and lore and how we consume and interact with it. A lovely and diverse cast in a fun setting. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up.

The Name She Gave Me: 4 Star First Time Read

Thoughts: Betty Culley out here causing us all emotional damage and riding off into the sunset once again. If you haven’t read her previous novel you absolutely should and then just go ahead and read this right after because you don’t need your heart anyway, right?

My Dress Up Darling 6: 3 Star first time read

Thoughts: we all know Marin is best girl let’s not pretend otherwise here

I’m Glad My Mom Died: 5 star first time read

Thoughts: so I was reading this and The Name She Gave Me at the same time and as someone who is a domestic abuse survivor with a… less than stellar mother let me tell ya that was an emotional whollaping. That being said everything you’ve heard about this book being heart wrenching and worth the read is true. It’s advertised as being funny tho which…. I would disagree with. None of this is funny. It is frank and real and very rough at times. If you were on the fence go pick it up.

ExtraOrdinary: 3 star First Time Read

Thoughts : taking place between Vicious and Vengeful this novella talks about a few more EOs from VE Schwab’s superhero series. The recap of Vicious felt oddly out of place and rushed but it be like that I suppose. Over all, a good addition. I’ll get to Vengeful eventually.

Vampire Knight 1: 3 star reread

Thoughts: so I’ve read this volume a plethora of times but never finished the series. It’s been a minute since the last time I went and tried to finish it so I haven’t seen some of this art in a WHILE. Hino really struggled with proportions didn’t she? Also I always thought that gun was a pistol as a child but that’s DEFINITELY a shirt barrel shotgun lmfao that’s a way more powerful gun than I was thinking. I don’t even know if that was intentional. Anyway Vampire Knight is infamous in my house for being the lead example of my siblings spoiling each other about a show or series and is still the example we all point to when one of us says we’re going to google something about a show we’re watching communally. Shoutout to my sister for saying ‘ok I’m going to read the wikia but I won’t spoil anything for you :) ‘ and then IMMEDIATELY preceding to yell ‘I KNEW IT!’ And spoiling the entirety of the manga I hadn’t read. Real legend, my oldest sister.

Currently Reading:

The Lady’s Guide To Petticoats and Piracy: 66% Reread

Thoughts: lmfao I’ve barely touched this I’m so sorry. I started that infamous Icarly/Victorious YouTube essay series and it’s been a RIDE. A fun but distracting one.

The Chosen: 3% first time read

Thoughts: I don’t know how I missed that this was by the author of Divergent but I am now concerned because I hated her writing in that. But it’s been a good amount of years in between so I’m sure she grew as an author.

Heroine Complex: 14% First Time Read

Thoughts: sometimes a girl just wants more superhero novels, you know? A fun time so far, I’m excited to see how it all develops.

[cheshirelibrary]

16 YA Books Guaranteed to Make You Ugly Cry 

[via Epic Reads]

Sometimes, you want a book that fills you with happiness and coziness and a generally hopeful view of the entire world. Buy sometimes? You want a book that entirely destroys your emotions—but leaves you all the better for it. And trust us when we say we have the perfect book for you.

Just Breathe by Cammie McGovern

Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds

Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

Who I Was With Her by Nita Tyndall

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby

How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow

The How & the Why by Cynthia Hand

Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

Heroine by Mindy McGinnis

Sorry For Your Loss by Jessie Ann Foley

Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

Far From the Tree by Robin Benway

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It matters what you call something, even in your mind, because it becomes what you name it.

-The Name She Gave Me

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Books Read/Listened to in 2021:

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (audiobook) (Mary Roach): ★★★ 1/2

Three Things I Know Are True (audiobook) (Betty Culley): ★★★★

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (audiobook) (Hallie Rubenhold): ★★★★ ½

Toil and Trouble (Tess Sharpe etc.): ★★★★

Well Met (audiobook) (Jen DeLuca): ★★★★

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (audiobook) (Saidiya Hartman): ★★★★

Dancing at the Pity Party (Tyler Feder): ★★★★★

Fever 1793 (audiobook) (Laurie Halse Anderson): ★★★★

We Are Not Free (Traci Chee): currently reading

Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man (Emmanuel Acho): ★★★★ 1/2

Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic (audiobook) (Michael McCreary): ★★★

Butterfly Yellow (audiobook) (Thanhha Lai): currently listening

Unmentionable (Therese O’Neill): ★★★★

The Girl and the Goddess (Nikita Gill): currently reading

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Happy January! Wow, first new books of 2020 😲

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire is the latest book for the Wayward Children’s Series, a series of diverse, fun novellas about kids finding magic portals and then getting kicked out of them. So far it’s been following a pattern where every odd book is present and every even is backstory, and normally the “present” stories are my least favorite, but this one is about my FAVORITE. The second book of this series is my favorite by far and this book is about those characters, and God I really think this one might take the cake. I’m jazzed, folks.

Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley is a novel in verse, which tend to be hit or miss with me. However, the cover is fascinating and it seems like a genuinely interesting story. Definitely a tear jerker, which isn’t normally my thing, but I think it could be a good change of pace.

Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez is a stunning magical realism story in Bolivia and it has political intrigue, general gripping politics, and it looks like it’s gonna be a whole experience. Ignoring the beautiful cover and title, this is a book about a girl weaving thread from moonlight for revenge and for the resistance, while hunting for an Ancient. Relic. That’s really cool! 

Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore is about the Dancing Plague, which is something I’m a tiny bit obsessed with. It goes between the past, the actual plague, and a modern story of magic shoes that links to it. It seems very fairytale-esque, and it’s tagged LGBT on goodreads, so sign me up!

Ashlords by Scott Reintgen seems like it’s The Scorpio Races but with phoenix horses, way higher stakes, and alchemy. This book follows three different riders and their stories into the dangerous, life threatening races.

The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson is the latest Truly, Devious book and also the last (cue me crying). I have loved this series, I honestly can’t get enough of these characters and the creepy, someone’s watching you kind of tense feeling you get as you try to unravel the stories. There have been so many amazing twists and turns, and the last book ended with so much left to give, so I am bouncing with anticipation.

Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles is about crushes, toxic masculinity, sex ed, and religion. Literally what else could you want? I feel like this book is going to be one of those experiences where I’m left blinking at the back cover, having lost a day of my life, and I’ll keep thinking about it way later. I’m buying this for my library, I already know its a must have.

The Seep by Chana Porter is a speculative fiction novella starring a 50 year old trans lesbian living in the wake of alien occupation. This is a strange, dream-like world without boundaries, where you can do whatever you want, including changing your life and being literally reborn. This promises tenderness, grief, and a lot of contemplation after.

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We’ve got an exciting announcement this #FilmFriday! A big new film collection!!!

In 2018, Hagley acquired the Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.20), which offers an introduction to Cinecraft's history and samples of their productions from the company's first thirty years (you can explore that collection online by clicking here). And now, for much of this past month, Hagley staff has been in Cleveland, packing a new Cinecraft collection for arrival and processing.

We are so pleased to announce the acquisition of the Cinecraft Productions film archive. Founded in 1939, the Cleveland-based Cinecraft is the country’s longest-surviving commercial producer of industrial and sponsored motion pictures, a sector that included thousands of companies at its high point during the mid 20th century.

The film collection bound for Hagley includes approximately 1,700 projects covering a period from the 1940s into the 1970s. The collection is the largest motion picture film collection ever acquired by Hagley and will make the Library a destination for researchers of visual culture and the history of industrial films for many years to come. As far as we can tell, it is one of the largest intact collections from an industrial film producer to survive from an era when thousands of businesses specialized in advertising, industrial, and sponsored films.

Among the many prominent Cinecraft clients were DuPont, Hercules Powder, Standard Oil of Ohio, Firestone, Goodyear, Bethlehem Steel, Ohio Bell Telephone, General Electric, American Greetings, Carling Brewing, and Republic Steel.  A number of well known actors and celebrities appeared in Cinecraft film projects including Alan Alda, Merv Griffin, Tim Conway, Chet Huntley, and Danny Kaye. Richard Nixon appeared in a Republic Steel film produced by Cinecraft in 1966.   Starting in the 1940s, Cinecraft developed and employed a 3-camera production technique that would later become standard for shooting television shows. In 2017, Jim, John and Ray Culley, the sons of Cinecraft’s founders, Betty and Ray Culley, introduced Hagley to Cinecraft’s current owners, Maria Keckan and Neil McCormick. Maria and Neil have owned and maintained the business and the company archive since 1986. They are just the third owners in the company’s history. We are thrilled, grateful, and honored that Neil and Maria as well as the Culley family selected Hagley to preserve Cinecraft’s history.

We expect the first films from the collection to go online in 2020. As part of the agreement, Hagley will process and digitize a significant portion of the collection over a ten-year period. We plan to post monthly updates about the Cinecraft collection. Stay tuned! Cinecraft currently specializes in eLearning and training & development projects for a national clientele and continues to develop various motion picture projects for business and non-profit clients. For more information about Cinecraft Productions in Cleveland, please visit www.cinecraft.com. 

A version of this post previous appeared in Hagley’s Research & Collections News feed. Click here to view that version.