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The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life?  From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit, Clover Brooks has felt a stronger connection with the dying than...
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The Wedding People by Alison Espach

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.  It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a...

New Hire: Youth Services Library Associate

Looking for an opportunity to make a difference in the community? The library is seeking to fill a part-time (24 hours/week) library associate position for youth services. This position plays an important role in making the library a welcoming space for children,...
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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION  A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2022 * An Oprah's Book Club Selection * An Instant New York Times Bestseller * An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller *A #1 Washington Post Bestseller "Demon is a voice for the...
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Funny Story by Emily Henry

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.  Daphne always loved the way her fiancé, Peter, told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an...
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House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perfect lie.  A young nanny who plunged to her death, or was she pushed? A nine-year-old girl who collects sharp objects and refuses to speak. A lawyer whose job it is to...
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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over. 1940. As England...
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The Trees by Percival Everett

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi, to investigate a series of brutal murders, they find at each crime scene an unexpected second body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. After meeting resistance...
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Eleanore of Avignon by Elizabeth DeLozier

Provence, 1347. Eleanore (Elea) Blanchet is a young midwife and herbalist with remarkable skills. But as she learned the day her mother died; the most dangerous thing a woman can do is draw attention to herself. She attends patients in her home city of Avignon, spends...
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While You Were Out by Meg Kissinger

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them.  Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of...

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