Collection Highlights: July 2022

  

Collection Highlights: July 2022

Contributed by Jordan Wohlfort, Collection Development Librarian

 July 2021

July is National Ice Cream Month! Cool down with a title about the tasty treat, or learn to make it at home!

Children’s

Ice Cream, by Elisha Cooper

DB 54632

Explains step-by-step how milk is taken from cows and processed in a factory, where lots of things happen to it to produce a carton of flavored ice cream. For grades K-3.

My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, by Ibi Aanu Zoboi

In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance. For grades 5-8. 

The Ice Cream Machine, by Adam Rubin

DB 107338

A collection of six short stories in a variety of genres and settings, all featuring the creamy frozen treat. In one tale, a girl and her sister compete in an ice cream eating contest--against an honest-to-goodness pig. For grades 3-6. 

Adult

Ben & Jerry's, the Inside Scoop How Two Real Guys Built a Business with Social Conscience and a Sense of Humor, by Fred Lager

DB 39204

Lager, who headed Ben & Jerry's for eight years, gives the company's history. Childhood friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield led relatively unsuccessful lives until 1978, when they collaborated on creating an ice cream store in a former gas station in Vermont after taking a correspondence course on the topic.

The Martha Stewart Cookbook: Collected Recipes for Every Day, by Martha Stewart

DB 42087

More than 1,600 recipes and adaptations collected from the nine previous cookbooks by the celebrity hostess. Recipes range from simple to involved but are marked for their elegance. In addition to the usual cookbook favorites, such as soups, salads, fish and shellfish, and meats, sections are devoted to potatoes, ice cream and sorbets, wedding cakes, and entertaining crowds.

Chilled to the Cone: Bakeshop Mystery, Book 12, by Ellie Alexander

DB 103535

Pastry chef Juliet Capshaw has the opportunity to launch a pop-up ice cream shop and jumps on it. But just as she's getting ready to open the doors to Torte 2. 0, one of Ashland's most colorful characters, known for his cone-shaped hat, turns up dead.