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08/11/2022 - 6:46pm

In person tours are back!

In person tours are back! Our first in-person tour will be held at Noon on August 17. Please make reservations via our website or call Taryn Edwards 415-393-0103. Reservations are necessary to ensure that the tour can take place. If you enjoyed the convenience of virtual tours during the pandemic, fear not, they will still happen. Occasional evening tours are also being planned to coincide with our expanded hours in the Fall. Please check our website for dates and times of all tours.

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07/20/2022 - 3:34pm

New eBooks for July 2022

EBOOKS
Muriel Spark Symposium
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Emile : or, On education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau The social contract
D H Lawrence Twilight in italy
Alan Parks ...

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07/20/2022 - 3:32pm

New eAudiobooks for July 2022

E-AUDIOBOOKS
Jean-Jacques Rousseau The confessions of jean-jacques rousseau
Vera Kurian Never saw me coming
Will Leitch How lucky
Erin Flanagan Deer season
Daryl Gregory...

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07/20/2022 - 3:30pm

New Print Non-Fiction for July 2022

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NON-FICTION

Applied Sciences
John Wood Arthur Beer : a global journey through the past and present 663.42 A771
John W Reid Ever green : saving big forests to save the planet 634.9 R272

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
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07/20/2022 - 3:28pm

New Print Fiction for July 2022

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FICTION
Katie Cotugno Birds of California
Garrison Keillor Boom town
Megha Majumdar A burning
Carleton Eastlake Monkey business
C J Hauser...

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06/28/2022 - 3:21pm

New eAudiobooks and eBooks for June 2022

E-AUDIOBOOKS
Heather Gudenkauf The overnight guest
Jane Green Sister Stardust
Allison Brennan The wrong victim
Brianna Wiest 101 essays that will change the way you think
Tripp Mickle...

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06/28/2022 - 3:19pm

New Print Non-Fiction for June 2022

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NON-FICTION

Applied Sciences
Paul Lukacs Inventing wine : a new history of one of the world's most ancient pleasures 663.2 L954
Oliver Milman The insect crisis : the fall of the tiny empires that run the world 639.9757 M631
Laurie Zaleski...

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06/28/2022 - 3:17pm

New Print Fiction for June 2022

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FICTION
Jenny Tinghui Zhang Four treasures of the sky
Colleen Hoover Reminders of him
Jane Green Sister stardust
Mai Al-Nakib An unlasting home
Harry Crews...

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05/25/2022 - 11:04am

New eAudiobooks and eBooks for May 2022

E-AUDIOBOOKS
Julia Quinn The viscount who loved me
Olivia MCampbell Women in white coats : how the first women doctors changed the world of medicine
Laurie Segall Special characters : my adventures with tech's titans and misfits
David Philipps...

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05/25/2022 - 10:57am

New Print Non-Fiction for May 2022

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NON-FICTION

Applied Sciences
Jocelyn C Zuckerman Planet palm : how palm oil ended up in everything-and endangered the world 633.851 Z833
Mark Ridsdill Smith The Vertical Veg guide to container gardening : how to grow an abundance of herbs, vegetables and fruit in small spaces 635.986 R439...

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