The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar In 1780s London, a prosperous merchant finds his quiet life upended when he unexpectedly receives a most unusual creature—and meets a most extraordinary woman—in this much-lauded, atmospheric debut that examines our capacity for wonder, obsession, and desire with all the magnetism, originality, and literary magic of The…Continue Reading So Many Books, So Little Time
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Springfield Cofidential by Mike Reiss Four-time Emmy winner Mike Reiss—who has worked on The Simpsons continuously since episode one in 1989—shares stories, scandals, and gossip about working with America’s most iconic cartoon family ever. Reiss explains how the episodes are created, and provides an inside look at the show’s writers, animators, actors and celebrity guests. He answers a…Continue Reading Welcome to the Collection
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Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she…Continue Reading The Books Keep Arriving!
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“By his forties, all he had managed to grow is a gentle sense of himself, akin to the transparent carapace of a soft-shelled crab. A mediocre review or careless slight can no longer harm him, but heartbreak, real true heartbreak, can pierce his thin hide and bring out the same shade of blood as ever. …Continue Reading Less
New Additions
The Traveling Feast by Rick Bass From his bid to become Eudora Welty’s lawn boy to the time George Plimpton offered to punch him in the nose, lineage has always been important to Rick Bass. Now at a turning point–in his midfifties, with his long marriage dissolved and his grown daughters out of the house–Bass strikes…Continue Reading New Additions
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Florida by Lauren Groff In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. A family retreat can be derailed…Continue Reading New Titles
Now Lending . . .
Smile by Roddy Doyle Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and a pink shirt comes over and sits down. He seems to know Victor’s name…Continue Reading Now Lending . . .
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The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin The shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed New York Timesbestselling trilogy that began with The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016, and The Obelisk Gate, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2017. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds…Continue Reading Latest and Greatest
Book Club Selection – Chemistry
We had the first meeting of the school year of the library’s Book Club at the Brew Pub on September 26th. Good food and drinks were had by all, but more importantly, a great discussion about a debut novel by Weike Wang: Chemistry. Chemistry follows our main character as she is trying to finish up her PhD…Continue Reading Book Club Selection – Chemistry
Daring to Drive
When I returned to Saudi Arabia, so many of the old rules, the rules I had once slavishly followed, no longer seemed to make sense. For years, I had blamed Aramco for the restrictions and the discrimination I endured, but now I saw that what I was chafing against was Saudi society itself. Every restrictive…Continue Reading Daring to Drive
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