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Chad T Hanson Smokescreen : debunking wildfire myths to save our forests and our climate 634.96 H198
James Rebanks Pastoral song : a farmer's journey 636.3 R289p
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Jerry Saltz...
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Chad T Hanson Smokescreen : debunking wildfire myths to save our forests and our climate 634.96 H198
James Rebanks Pastoral song : a farmer's journey 636.3 R289p
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Jerry Saltz...
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Sunjeev Sahota China room
Silvia Moreno-Garcia Mexican gothic
Charlotte McConaghy Once there were wolves
Colleen Oakley The invisible husband of Frick Island
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Learning new technology skills is easy with your Mechanics' Institute library membership. Our librarians are available to answer technology questions Mondays-Wednesdays-Fridays from 12-4 pm and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-6 pm in the library or by phone at 415-393-0102.
On the Library's website at www.milibrary.org, under the Events tab, you'll find two September workshops of interest....
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Librarian Taryn Edwards has managed the activities for writers at the Mechanics’ Institute for twelve years. One of the writers she works with is Jeanne Powell who manages our drop-in writers group Write If You Dare. She has also spoken to our literary community several times and will be a panelist at the next Writers Lunch on August 20.
Jeanne, how did you first...
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If you enjoy reading the book before you view its movie or TV series adaptation, we have several exciting titles to get you started before fall. Here at MI Library, we also like to read first, then watch. As it happens, we've been busy staying on top of all the book-based films and series coming soon to theaters and television.
One of the biggest surprises thus far has been the popularity of Netflix's Lupin, based on Maurice LeBlanc's 1905 series Ars̴ẽne Lupin,...
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Simon Morley Seven keys to modern art 709.04 M827
Diana Souhami No modernism without lesbians 709.04 S46
Mark Stevens Francis Bacon : revelations 750.92 B12s
Lee Lai...
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Valerie Perrin Fresh Water for Flowers
Diane Johnson Lorna Mott comes home
Katee Robert Neon gods
Kurt Tucholsky Castle Gripsholm
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Sebastian Junger A death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger Fire
Sebastian Junger The perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea
James Howard Kunstler Too Much Magic : Wishful Thinking, Technology, And The Fate Of The N...
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Sebastian Junger A death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger Fire
James Howard Kunstler The geography of nowhere : the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape
Kathleen Belew Bring the war home : the white power move...
A colleague recently suggested I read a memoir by a female astrophysicist. I hesitated. Biographies fall into my "twilight zone" of reading choices as they push me past my literary comfort place. To be fair, I skimmed the first page of The Smallest Lights in the Universe. I immediately fell under the spell cast by author Sara Seager's description of rogue planets in search of a solar system to call home. This 2020 title...
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