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September 2024 selection
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
127 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 84 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
55 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
LP CHEVALIER
1 available
LP CHEVALIER
1 available
Description
"In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, Italy. As a woman, she is not meant to blow glass--but when her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work becomes the cornerstone of the Rosso family fortunes. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a plague rearing its head over Venice...
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October 2024 selection
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Available Online
15 copies, 118 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
15 copies, 118 people are on the wait list.
Description
"When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law. Johanna inherited Vincent van Gogh's paintings. They were all she had, and they weren't worth anything. She was a 28 year old widow with a baby in the 1800s, without any means...
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November 2024 selection
eAudiobook
Checked Out
16 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 65 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 65 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available from another library
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
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December 2024 selection
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
187 copies, 217 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
37 copies, 233 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
53 copies, 330 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
53 copies, 330 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
14 copies, 14 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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January 2025 selection
On Shelf
113 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
LYNCH
1 available
LYNCH
1 available
Available Online
13 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
13 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Description
"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of Ireland. Things are falling apart. Ireland is in the grip of a government that is taking a turn towards tyranny. And as the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, Eilish finds herself caught...
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February 2025 selection
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On Shelf
72 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
TAN
1 available
TAN
1 available
Description
"The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
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March 2025 selection
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On Shelf
34 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
362.1109747 OSH
1 available
362.1109747 OSH
1 available
Description
A history of the iconic public hospital on New York City's East Side describes the changes in American medicine from 1730 to modern times as it traces the building's origins as an almshouse and pesthouse to its current status as a revered place of first-class care.
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April 2025 selection
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Available from another library
63 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
Former college sweethearts reconnect decades later after each has married, raised a family and forged careers and embark on an intense affair that forces them to confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other.
