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6 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not just a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything...
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On Shelf
183 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
910.9164 GRA
1 available
910.9164 GRA
1 available
On Shelf
41 copies.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
LP 910.9164 GRA
1 available
LP 910.9164 GRA
1 available
On Shelf
60 copies.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
CDBOOK 910.9164 GRA
1 available
CDBOOK 910.9164 GRA
1 available
Checked Out
18 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
15 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
15 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
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Available from another library
52 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
eAudiobook
Checked Out
84 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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25 copies, 215 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
25 copies, 215 people are on the wait list.
Description
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves,...
Author
On Shelf
14 copies.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
707.5 DEW
1 available
707.5 DEW
1 available
Description
"Tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
On Shelf
182 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
NG
1 available
NG
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 18 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 18 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade,...
Author
On Shelf
141 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
O'FARRELL
1 available
O'FARRELL
1 available
Available Online
7 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 21 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 21 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici"-- Provided by publisher.
"Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and to devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena...
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75 copies.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
HARTNETT
1 available
HARTNETT
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town. It's notable only for Corbin Park, an enormous hunting park, and for Maple Street Cemetery--home to many former residents of Everton. There's also the town legend that Emma Starling...
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Description
"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II"-- Provided by publisher.
Tensions during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance among Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just...
Author
Available from another library
152 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
34 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
8 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take...
Author
On Shelf
120 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
364.16 FIN
1 available
364.16 FIN
1 available
Available from another library
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
14 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The true story of the world's most prolific art thief--a spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Woods. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years--in museums and cathedrals all over Europe--Breitwieser,...
Author
On Shelf
240 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
MASON
1 available
MASON
1 available
Checked Out
25 copies, 75 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
19 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
19 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
Description
"When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave--only to discover...
12) The salt path
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Checked Out
6 copies, 72 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 37 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 37 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, is terminally ill, their house and farm are taken away, along with their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset, through Devon and Cornwall. Carrying only the essentials for survival on their backs, they live wild in the ancient, weathered...
Author
Series
Available from another library
13 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
6 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
37 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
eBook
Checked Out
8 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
8 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
Description
"What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut...
14) The swimmers
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On Shelf
16 copies.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
LP OTSUKA
1 available
LP OTSUKA
1 available
Description
"A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool"-- Provided by publisher.
The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief....
15) Erasure: a novel
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Description
Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which he submits to his startled agent under the gangsta pseudonym...
16) James: a novel
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Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
280 copies, 400 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
15 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
97 copies, 936 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
94 copies, 908 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
94 copies, 908 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...
Author
Available from another library
34 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
eAudiobook
Checked Out
18 copies, 34 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
66 copies, 60 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
66 copies, 60 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at...
Author
On Shelf
94 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
SENNA
1 available
SENNA
1 available
Checked Out
12 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
13 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
13 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity-industrial complex. Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend's luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane's sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel,...
Author
Available from another library
7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
86 copies, 860 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
77 copies, 828 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
77 copies, 828 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of...
Author
On Shelf
197 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
ROONEY
1 available
ROONEY
1 available
On Shelf
54 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
LP ROONEY
1 available
LP ROONEY
1 available
Available from another library
38 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available from another library
7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
39 copies, 185 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
67 copies, 237 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
67 copies, 237 people are on the wait list.
Description
"An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties--successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women--his enduring...
