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"In the spirit of The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours, a historical debut about a nurse who chooses to save a baby's life, and risks her own in the process, exploring the ties of motherhood and the little-known history of Coney Island and America's first incubators"--
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 1
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29 copies, 205 people are on the wait list.
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26 copies, 154 people are on the wait list.
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26 copies, 154 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
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3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank's passing, Maud is the only person who can...
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 2
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12 copies, 57 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
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It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster and a very real threat to his life. As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus? But this time they...
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17 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 65 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 65 people are on the wait list.
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36 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J.P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class collection. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at...
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189 copies, 34 people are on the wait list.
Charlemont Tyler Memorial Library - Science Fiction/Fantasy
FICTION Haig
1 available
FICTION Haig
1 available
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34 copies, 64 people are on the wait list.
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21 copies, 189 people are on the wait list.
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21 copies, 189 people are on the wait list.
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"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices ... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
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Magpie murders volume 1
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114 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies.
Charlemont Tyler Memorial Library - Mystery
FICTION Horowitz
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FICTION Horowitz
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she's...
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"The world has changed around seventy-nine-year-old librarian Millicent Carmichael, aka Missy. Though quick to admit that she often found her roles as a housewife and mother less than satisfying, Missy once led a bustling life driven by two children, an accomplished and celebrated husband, and a Classics degree from Cambridge. Now her husband is gone, her daughter is estranged after a shattering argument, and her son has moved to his wife's native...
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158 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Charlemont Tyler Memorial Library - ADULT Fiction
FICTION Cowley Heller
1 available
FICTION Cowley Heller
1 available
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5 copies, 54 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 54 people are on the wait list.
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28 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"A story of summer, secrets, love and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. Set against the summer backwoods and beaches of Cape Cod, The Paper Palace unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacy, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable childhood tragedy lead wife and mother Elle Bishop to the precipice of a life-changing decision....
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179 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Charlemont Tyler Memorial Library - ADULT Fiction
FICTION Bennett
1 available
FICTION Bennett
1 available
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22 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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4 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
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33 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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"Maggie, Eliza, and Tricia Sweeney grew up as a happy threesome in the idyllic seaside town of Southport, Connecticut. But their mother's death from cancer fifteen years ago tarnished their golden-hued memories, and the sisters drifted apart. Their one touchstone is their father, Bill Sweeney, an internationally famous literary lion and college professor universally adored by critics, publishers, and book lovers. When Bill dies unexpectedly one June...
12) Sometimes I lie
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9 copies, 53 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 34 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 34 people are on the wait list.
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Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can't move. She can't speak. She can't open her eyes. Though she can hear everyone around her, no one knows because she's in a coma. But she doesn't remember what happened. And she has a sneaking suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, the narratives build and collide for an...
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119 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Charlemont Tyler Memorial Library - ADULT Fiction
FICTION Ng
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FICTION Ng
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11 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The publication of Longfellow's classic Revolutionary War poem, "Paul Revere's Ride," was less than a month hence, and the country's grave political unrest weighed heavily on his mind. Yet with his beloved wife, Fanny, and their five adored children at his side, the delights of the season prevailed. In present-day Boston, a...
15) Still life
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Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries volume 1
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23 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 83 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 83 people are on the wait list.
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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain...
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72 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town"--
Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four decades, Mary Alice Roth is not getting ready for the first day of school at Billington High. A few months into her retirement Mary Alice does not know how to fill her days....
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 3
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8 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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29 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case--their favorite kind-leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot. While Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), Joyce,...
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Book woman of Trouble Creek volume 1
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129 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that sustained her after heartbreak. That is, until the Greenwalds take up residence in Seaview. Nick and Budgie Greenwald are an unwelcome specter from Lily's past: her former best friend and her former fiancé, now recently...
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12 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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5 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an up-all-night page-turner with a dark secret at its core I have held you at night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she'd do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie. And she might just have...