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Try these book suggestions by the Library Staff May 2026 |
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Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum
by Elaine Sciolino
In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in
this magical space and helps us fall in love with what was once a forbidding fortress. Exploring galleries, basements, rooftops, and gardens, Sciolino demystifies the Louvre, introducing us to her
favorite artworks, both legendary and overlooked, and to the people
who are the museum's lifeblood: the curators, the artisans producing frames and engravings, the builders overseeing restorations, the firefighters protecting the aging structure. Blending investigative journalism, travelogue, history, and memoir, Sciolino walks listeners through the museum's front gates and immerses them in its irresistible, engrossing world of beauty and culture. Adventures in the Louvre
reveals the secrets of this grand monument of Paris and basks in its timeless, seductive power.
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Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague
by Maggie O'Farrell
In 1580's England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls
in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this
exceptional historical novel (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family's land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when
his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. A luminous portrait
of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life
has been all but forgotten, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time.
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Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
by Clare Pooley
Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels
the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she knows only by nickname: Impossibly-Pretty-Bookworm and Terribly-Lonely-Teenager. Of course, they never speak. Seasoned commuters never do. Then one morning, the man she calls Smart-But-Sexist-Manspreader chokes on a grape right in front of her. He'd have died were it not for the timely intervention of Sanjay, a nurse, who gives him the Heimlich maneuver. This single event starts a chain reaction,
and an eclectic group of people with almost nothing in common except their commute discover that a chance encounter can blossom into
much more. It turns out that talking to strangers can teach you about
the world around you--and even more about yourself.
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Tell Me Everything: A Novel
by Elizabeth Strout
It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a
deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton,
who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile,
is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known--unrecorded lives, Olive calls them--
reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning. Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
by Yukio Mishima
There is a Golden Pavilion in everyone's heart. Its demonic and indescribable beauty pushes us step by step into the abyss of
darkness. How do you live with it? Perhaps, the only way is to
destroy it... Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Yukio
Mishima's masterpiece that established his reputation in the Western literary world A translation that has received rave reviews from
readers! Liu Ziqian, a famous Japanese literature translator, has done her best to reproduce the original text, using the subtle words to show you the delicate, magnificent and eccentric beauty of Mishima's language. The book cover is based on the concept of eroding the beautiful faith in the heart, with the image of burning flames.
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