• Holiday Book List - Read Before You Buy! •
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
by Phaedra Patrick
The 2021 One Book, One Community pick!
Finding a mysterious bracelet among his late wife's possessions, 69-year-old Arthur Pepper breaks from his routine life for the first time since her death and embarks on a quest to learn about his wife's life before their marriage, a journey that leads to unexpected self-discoveries.
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
This Japanese playwright's evocative English-language debut is set at a century-old Tokyo coffee shop rumored to offer patrons the chance to travel back in time. Most importantly, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. In four connected tales, customers reevaluate their formative life choices.
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty and War
by John Donohue
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran-turned-merchant mariner recounts how in 1967 he accepted a neighborhood challenge to sneak into Vietnam, track down local friends on the front line and share beer over messages of love from home. This memoir is a fascinating, vividly narrated recollection of the chaos of the Vietnam war.
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She Come by it Natural: Dolly Parton and The Women Who Lived Her Songs
by Sarah Smarsh
The National Book Award-finalist author of Heartland (our 2020 One Book, One Community pick!) explores how the music of Dolly Parton and other prominent women country artists has both reflected and validated the harsh realities of rural working-class American women.
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The Book of Delights
by Ross Gay
Spanning a year between his 42nd and 43rd birthdays, Author Ross Gay spent a year writing the 102 essays about the things, large and small, that delight him. Covering widely varied subject matter, including high-fiving strangers, nicknames, the movie Ghost, trains, he also challenges popular conceptions of masculinity, blackness, and the kinds of writing expected of black male authors. His writings serve as reminder of something deeply good in us.
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Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
by Maggie Smith
An award-winning author of the viral poem "Good Bones", in this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation, celebrating the beauty and strength on the other side of loss.
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One For the Books
by Jenn McKinlay
In this 11th book in the series, library director Lindsey Norris and boat captain Mike (Sully) Sullivan are finally tying the knot. When a growing guest list upends her plans for a smaller wedding, Lindsey and her friends visit a prospective venue on Bell Island, where they stumble on the murdered body of the man who was to officiate.
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The Twelve Dates of Christmas
by Jenny Bayliss
Signing up with a dating agency during the holiday season against her better judgment, a jaded career woman endures one disastrous date after another before finding romance in an unexpected place. A first novel.
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Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters
by Deborah Stone
The award-winning author of Policy Paradox reveals the inescapable link between quantifying and classifying to explain how humanity's approaches to numbers shape every facet of perception, from political opinions to how we are evaluated at work
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Swish! The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters
by Suzanne Slade
Rhythmic text by the award-winning author of A Computer Called Katherine and dynamic artwork by the award-winning illustrator of No Small Potatoes trace the story of the Harlem Globetrotters and how their remarkable performances indelibly transformed the game of basketball.
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Ruby's Birds
by Mya Thompson
The 2021 Longwood Gardens Community Read Pick for Kids
Ruby, a young girl living in New York City, uncovers the wild side of her neighborhood when she discovers the joys of bird-watching after seeing a Golden-Winged Warbler in Central Park. The illustrations are brilliantly colorful, and Cornell Lab of Ornithology provides a key to 14 birds and tips for taking a nature walk in the back of the book.
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Cozy
by Jan Brett
The coat of a huge wooly musk ox named Cozy is the winter home for a growing number of Alaskan animals who mostly get along.
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A Polar Bear in the Snow
by Mac Barnett
Follow a magnificent polar bear through a fantastic world of snow and shockingly blue sea. Over the ice, through the water, past Arctic animals and even a human...where is he going?
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