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Library Trustees Picks Cathy Torrey, Mary Mahoney Lisa Kimball, Christa Dunn, John Lambaise, Tracy Muniz-Gately, Patricia O'Leary May 2025 |
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Circe : a novel
by Madeline Miller
A highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals. .
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Someone else's shoes
by Jojo Moyes
When she accidentally takes the wrong gym bag, Sam Kemp tries on a pair of six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes that give her the confidence to change her life, while the shoes' owner tries to cling to her glamorous life after her husband cuts her off.
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The giver of stars
by Jojo Moyes
Volunteering for Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library in small-town Kentucky, an English bride joins a group of independent women whose commitment to their job transforms the community and their relationships. By the best-selling author of Me Before You.
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The lost queen : a novel
by Signe Pike
The twin sister of the sixth-century druid warrior who would inspire the Merlin legend navigates the violent forces of Christianity and Anglo-Saxon colonization to preserve the Old Ways and fight for her kingdom's survival.
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The perfect couple : a novel
by Elin Hilderbrand
Featuring popular characters from such novels as A Summer Affair, a tale set during a Nantucket wedding season finds Chief of Police Ed Kapenash searching for a bride's killer among her own wedding party.
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The starless sea
by Erin Morgenstern
Discovering a mysterious book of prisoner tales, a Vermont graduate student recognizes a story from his own life before following clues to a magical underground library that is being targeted for destruction. By the best-selling author of The Night Circus.
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The invention of wings
by Sue Monk Kidd
Traces more than three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a child before finding courage and a sense of self. By the best-selling author of The Secret Life of Bees.
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Magic lessons / : The Prequel to Practical Magic
by Alice Hoffman
A prequel to the movie-inspiring novel unveils the origin story of Maria Owens, who after being discovered as an abandoned baby in rural 17th-century Salem is taught in the Unnamed Arts before cursing her own family in love.
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Big chicas don't cry
by Annette Chavez Macias
Four adult cousins--Mari, Erica, Selena, and Gracie--reunite when thir abuelita dies and must help each other navigate love, loss, and the meaning of family despite fifteen years of separation
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The Essex Serpent : a novel
by Sarah Perry
In late-nineteenth century England, intellectually minded young widow Cora Seaborne and pious vicar William Ransome investigate rumors about a mythical sea creature that has been blamed for a death in coastal Essex
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Mrs. Everything : a novel
by Jennifer Weiner
"A smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places--and be true to themselves--in a rapidly evolving world"
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The spectacular : a novel
by Fiona Davis
In 1956 New York City, Marion Brooks, one of the famous Radio City Rockettes, is unwittingly drawn into the police search for the“Big Apple Bomber” and may be forced to sacrifice everything she's worked for, as well as the people she loves most, to catch this elusive criminal.
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All the light we cannot see : a novel
by Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. By the award-winning author of About Grace.
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Emily Post's etiquette : manners for a new world by Peggy PostA revised and updated edition addresses such contemporary issues as Facebook etiquette, e-mail and texting, and covering tattoos and piercings before interviews, as well as such classic conundrums as names and titles, official forms of address and dress codes.
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Roget's superthesaurus
by Marc McCutcheon
Gives synonyms and similar words related to specific themes and topics, and includes quotations to help define certain words and phrases
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Owls and other fantasies : poems and essays
by Mary Oliver
A new collection of poetry and essays by the Pulizer Prize and National Book Award-winning author encompasses twenty-three poems that deal with the birds that have played an important part in her life, as well as six never-before-collected poems, and two essays--"Owls" and "Bird."
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1776
by David G. McCullough
The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a landmark history of the American Revolution that ranges from the siege of Boston, to the American defeat at Brooklyn and retreat across New Jersey, to the stunning American victory at Trenton, capturing the people and events that transformed American history.
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Profiles in courage
by John F. Kennedy
Describes the courage and conviction demonstrated by eight great patriots at pivotal moments in American history
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The Sibley guide to birds
by David Sibley
A distinguished nature artist and birder presents a new field identification guide to North American birds that features more than 6,500 richly detailed, full-color paintings of hundreds of avian species, accompanied by information on bird calls, stages of growth, shapes, markings, ranges, migration routes, breeding locations, and habitats..
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Birds in the Bush
by Bradford Torrey
"Our Common and Garden are not an ideal field of operations for the student of birds. No doubt they are rather straitened and public. Other things being equal, a modest ornithologist would prefer a place where he could stand still and look up without becoming himself a gazing-stock. But it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps; and if we are appointed to take our daily exercise in a city park, we shall very likely find its narrow limits not destitute of some partial compensations."
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The LGBTQ+ history book / : Big Ideas Simply Explained
by Michael Bronski
Showcasing the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience, this diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements and phenomena, celebrating the victories and untold triumphs of LGBTQ+ people throughout history as well as commemorating moments of tragedy and persecution. Illustrations.
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Reader's Digest Complete guide to needlework
by Reader's Digest Association
More than twenty-six hundred drawings and photographs and clearly presented directions provide an understanding of the techniques involved in numerous traditional needlework crafts, including embroidery, quilting, applique, macrame, knitting, and rug hooking
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Lab girl
by Hope Jahren
A debut memoir by an award-winning paleobiologist traces her childhood in her father's laboratory, her longtime relationship with a brilliant but wounded colleague and the remarkable discoveries they have made both in the lab and during extensive field research assignments.
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Fly girl : a memoir
by Ann Hood
The best-selling novelist shares funny, moving and sometimes shocking stories of life as a TWA flight attendant during the 1970s and 1980s as the airline industry underwent a huge transformation.
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This body I wore : a memoir
by Diana Goetsch
Chronicles one woman's long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades, in this full account of trans life, one both unusually public and closeted.
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Abigail Adams
by Woody Holton
In a narrative based on previously un-mined documents, an award-winning historian reveals that the perennially popular "Founding Mother" was: perfectly willing to disagree with her husband (and even countermand his orders), shrewd when investing the family fortune, and eager to correspond about men's subjugation of women.
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Abigail Adams : witness to a revolution
by Natalie Bober
Presents a view of colonial life, revolutionary ferment, and the birth of a new nation, as reported in the long, observant, and insightful letters of the wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams.
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