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January 14 or 16
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
121 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
23 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
23 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan in store for her. Ever since she was young, whenever she met a new guy, Daphne would find a slip of paper with exactly how long they'd spend together--4 months, two weeks, one night. That's how she met her ex-boyfriend and current best friend, Hugo, the only person in Daphne's life who knows of her secret. Followed by a string of men and countless dates, Daphne resigned herself to the fact that she was...
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February 11 or 13
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
332 copies, 51 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
54 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
61 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
73 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
73 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
64 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Description
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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March 11 or 13
On Shelf
116 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
598.9 ACK
1 available
598.9 ACK
1 available
Available Online
6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
19 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific exploration of owls, the most elusive group of birds, and an investigation into why these remarkable and yet mysterious animals exert such a hold on human imagination. For centuries, owls have captivated and intrigued us. Our fascination with these mysterious birds was first documented over 30,000 years ago, in the Chauvet cave paintings in...
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April 8 or 10
On Shelf
95 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
QUINN
1 available
QUINN
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
8 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
eBook
Checked Out
5 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
24 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
LP QUINN
1 available
LP QUINN
1 available
Description
"From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles."--
San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career...
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May 13 or 15
Formats:
On Shelf
112 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
333.75 SIM
1 available
333.75 SIM
1 available
Description
"In this, her first book, now available in paperback, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with...
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June 10 or 12
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
227 copies, 550 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
85 copies, 913 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
88 copies, 1049 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
88 copies, 1049 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
14 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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July 8 or 10
On Shelf
56 copies.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
152.1 RUB
1 available
152.1 RUB
1 available
Available from another library
10 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She'd spent so much time stuck in her head that she'd allowed...
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August 12 or 14
On Shelf
178 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
ZEVIN
1 available
ZEVIN
1 available
Checked Out
29 copies, 53 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
20 copies, 148 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
20 copies, 148 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
31 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits...
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September 9 or 11
Description
"Captain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas. But few know that Kidd had an accomplice, a behind-the-scenes player who enabled his plundering and helped him outpace his enemies. That accomplice was his wife, Sarah Kidd, a well-to-do woman whose extraordinary life is a lesson in reinvention and resourcefulness. Twice widowed by twenty-one and operating within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century...
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October 14 or 16
On Shelf
88 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
CHOO
1 available
CHOO
1 available
Checked Out
9 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
6 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
6 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
8 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Manchuria, 1908. In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out...
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November 18 or 20
Available Online
80 copies, 209 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
54 copies, 186 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
54 copies, 186 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
43 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Description
Staying busy has helped Tova cope ever since her son disappeared decades ago. So when her husband dies, she takes a job at the aquarium, where she meets Marcellus, an octopus that deduces what happened to her son.
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began...