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FICTION
Eduardo Halfon Canción Fic Halfon
Lydia Millet Dinosaurs Fic Millet
Rubén Degollado The family Izquierdo Fic Degollado
Claire Keegan Foster Fic Keegan
Antoine Wilson Mouth to mouth Fic Wilson
Alice Elliott Dark Fellowship Point Fic Dark
Russell Banks The magic kingdom Fic Banks
Jonathan Escoffery If I survive you Fic Escoffery
Emma Straub This time tomorrow Fic Straub
Moses McKenzie An olive grove in Ends Fic McKenzie
Danielle Steel The Whittiers Fic Steel

Historical Fiction
Yiyun Li The book of goose Fic Li
Hugo Hamilton The pages Fic Hamilton
Louise Kennedy Trespasses Fic Kennedy
Kristin Harmel The book of lost names Fic Harmel
Geraldine Brooks Year of wonders: a novel of the plague Fic Brooks

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue
Katie Gutierrez More than you'll ever know Fic Gutierrez
Namwali Serpell The furrows: an elegy Fic Serpell
Jane Smiley A dangerous business Fic Smiley

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Dean R. Koontz Midnight Fic Koontz

Short Stories
Chelsea T Hicks A calm & normal heart : stories Fic Hicks
Arinze Ifeakandu God's children are little broken things : stories Fic Ifeakandu
Ladee Hubbard The last suspicious holdout : stories Fic Hubbard
Leigh Newman Nobody gets out alive : stories Fic Newman
Toni Ann Johnson Light skin gone to waste Fic Johnson
McSweeney's. Issue no. sixty-nine. SS M175

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips
Paolo Parisi Keith Haring : the story of his life 741.5 H28p Comics
Matteo Farinella Neurocomic 612.82 F227 Comics
W. Maxwell Prince Rainbow sprinkles 741.5 P935 Comics

Universal (Children's)

L. Frank Baum The lost princess of Oz Child Fic Baum

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NON-FICTION

Applied Sciences
Bethany Brookshire Pests: how humans create animal villains 632.6 B791

Biography & Genealogy
Rob Delaney A heart that works 792.7 D373
Tim Scott America, a redemption story: choosing hope, creating unity 328.7309 Sco832
F. E. Close Elusive: how Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass 530.92 C64
Laurence Leamer Capote's women: a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era 813.54 C2463

Business & Economics
Ben Stevens The birth of a building: from conception to delivery 332.6324 St471
John Tamny The money confusion: how illiteracy about currencies and inflation sets the stage for the Crypto revolution 332.4 T152
Steve Case The rise of the rest: how entrepreneurs in surprising places are building the new American dream 658.152 C337
Vicki Cook Estate planning 101: from avoiding probate and assessing assets to establishing directives and understanding taxes, your essential primer to estate planning 332.024 C771

Chess
Danny Gormally Pandemic shark: a journey through the world of chess improvement 794.12 G671p
Efstratios Grivas The passed pawn: power of the passer, an innovative course 794.12 G872
P. A. Romanovskiĭ Selected games Peter Romanovsky 794.15 R75
Michiel Abeln The Anand files: the World Championship story 2008-2012 794.159 A533a
Eric Schiller The Chessplayer's laboratory: Vol. 1 Polugayevsky-Nyezhmetdinov, Sochi, 1958 794.1 S33
Borolijib Zlatanovic The essence of chess strategy 794.12 Z825e

Health & Medicine
Philippa Snow Which as you know means violence: on self-injury as art and entertainment 616.8582 Sn611

History
Deborah A. Miranda Bad indians: a tribal memoir 979.4 M672
Richard Brandi Garden neighborhoods of San Francisco: the development of residence parks, 1905-1924 979.461 B818g
Daniel Akst War by other means: how the pacifists of WWII changed America for good 940.5316 A315
Kevin R. C. Gutzman The Jeffersonians: the visionary presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe 973.5 G985j

Law
Margaret A. Burnham By hands now known: Jim Crow's legal executioners 342.73 B935

Literature & Writing
Miguel de Unamuno Essays and soliloquies 864 U54
Rachel Kushner The hard crowd: essays 2000-2020 814.6 K968

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Erica Thompson Escape from model land: how mathematical models can lead us astray and what we can do about it 511.8 T371
Sabine Hossenfelder Existential physics: a scientist's guide to life's biggest questions 530 H794

Performing Arts & Music
Jerry Seinfeld The Comedians in cars getting coffee book 792.7 Se44

Politics & Government
Bradley B.Onishi Preparing for war: the extremist history of white Christian nationalism--and what comes next 322.1 On4

Social Sciences & Current EventsElizabeth Williamson Sandy Hook: an American tragedy and the battle for truth 371.782 W676
April White The divorce colony: how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier 306.89 W582
Beverly Lowry Deer Creek Drive: a reckoning of memory and murder in the Mississippi Delta 364.152 L955
Susan Jonusas Hell's half-acre: the untold story of the Benders, a serial killer family on the American frontier 364.152 J739
Javier Sinay The murders of Moisés Ville: the rise and fall of the Jerusalem of South America 364.152 Si61
Isidra Mencos Promenade of desire: a Barcelona memoir 306.7 M522
David L. Bradford Connect: building exceptional relationships with family, friends, and colleagues 302 B727

Travel & Geography

Dorthe Nors A line in the world: a year on the North Sea coast914.89 N81
Gilles Poitras Tokyo stroll: a guide to city sidetracks and easy explorations 915.2135 P756
Marie Farman The 500 hidden secrets of Paris 914.436 F233
Rick Steves Venice. 914.53 S848

Universal (Children's)
Fiction
Marcelo Verdad The worst teddy ever U Verdad
Derick Wilder Does a bulldozer have a butt? U Wilder
Mallory Loehr I'm a unicorn U Loehr
Chris Harris If you laugh, I'm starting this book over Harris
Ibram X. Kendi Magnolia flower U Hurston
Maya Tatsukawa Sunday pancakes U Tatsukawa
Christopher Denise Knight Owl U Denise

Non-fiction
Rebecca E. F. Barone Unbreakable: the spies who cracked the Nazis' secret code U 940.54 B268

Showcasing a guilty pleasure from the turn of the century. Show creator Joss Whedon wondered why horror movies always had to make teenage girls into victims. He created a new mythology for the vampire genre involving a supernaturally strong and capable teenager who, with training and support from her “watcher,” can do battle with vampires and other demons. Buffy the Vampire Slayer,  part “demon of the week,” and part high school soap opera, throws in some screwball comedy along with the overall campiness. A word to the wise: the first three seasons are a blast but the fourth season has both the best and worst episodes of the series – don’t be put off by the bad so much that you miss out on the good. Perhaps Whedon & Company should have stopped after the fifth season (maybe the best one), but they  continued with two more.

The Mechanics’ Institute Library has the first four seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD.

The series also continued after season seven as graphic novels.

E-AUDIOBOOKS

David Roberts Into the great emptiness : peril and survival on the Greenland ice cap
Louise Erdrich The round house : a novel
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Islands of decolonial love : stories & songs
Waubgeshig Rice Moon of the crusted snow
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk Sanaaq : an Inuit novel
Louise Penny A world of curiosities
Billy-Ray Belcourt A minor chorus : a novel
Rebecca Roanhorse Race to the sun
David Treuer The heartbeat of Wounded Knee : native America from 1890 to the present
Michelle Porter Scratching river
Lisa Bird-Wilson Probably Ruby : A Novel
Tagaq Split tooth
Angeline Boulley Firekeeper's daughter
Ramona Emerson Shutter
Katherena Vermette The break
Oscar Hokeah Calling for a Blanket Dance
Elin Hilderbrand Summer of '69
Anita Heiss Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray : river of dreams
Archie Roach Tell Me Why : the Story of My Life and My Music
Mieko Kawakami All the lovers in the night
Chalmers Johnson Blowback : the costs and consequences of American empire ; with a new introduction on blowback in the post-9/11 world
Melissa Febos Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
Chalmers Johnson Dismantling the empire : [America's last best hope]
Chalmers Johnson Nemesis : the last days of the American Republic
Chalmers Johnson The sorrows of empire : militarism, secrecy, and the end of the republic
Walter Willett Eat, drink, and be healthy the Harvard Medical School guide to healthy eating
Val McDermid 1979 : an Allie Burns novel
Julie Anne (Romance author) Long After dark with the duke
Jokha Alharthi Bitter orange tree
Martin Walker The coldest case
Kathryn Meyer McAllister Olivarius Necropolis : Disease, power, and capitalism in the cotton kingdom
Peter Golenbock Whispers of the gods : Tales from baseball's golden age, told by the men who played it
A A (Alan Alexander) Milne Winnie-the-pooh
David Adams Leeming World mythology : A very short introduction
Alastair Reynolds House of suns
Kelly Lytle Hernández Bad Mexicans : race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands
Alan Mikhail God's shadow : Sultan Selim, his Ottoman empire, and the making of the modern world
Eyal Press Dirty work : essential jobs and the hidden toll of inequality in America
Sasha taqwšeblu LaPointe Red paint : the ancestral autobiography of a Coast Salish punk
Burton Ira Kaufman Barack Obama : conservative, pragmatist, progressive
John Wood Arthur Beer : a global journey through the past and present
Garrison Keillor Boom town
John W Reid Ever green : saving big forests to save the planet
Amanda Oliver Overdue : reckoning with the public library
Carl D Marci Rewired : protecting your brain in the Digital Age
Jonathan Peterson Social security for dummies
Fred Pearce A trillion trees : Restoring our forests by trusting in nature
Laura Major What to expect when you're expecting robots : The future of human-robot collaboration
Gary Wenk Your brain on food : how chemicals control your thoughts and feelings 3rd edition
Mieko Kawakami Breasts and eggs
George Orwell Keep the aspidistra flying
Franz Kafka The metamorphosis
Annie Ernaux The years
Italo Svevo Zeno's Conscience

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NON-FICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Joan Brown 759.13 B878
Jorge S. Arango Soul : the interiors by Orlando Diaz-Azcuy 747.092 D543
R. Howard Bloch Paris and her cathedrals 726.6 B65

Biography & Genealogy
Tom Felton Beyond the wand : the magic and mayhem of growing up a wizard 792.092 F347
Matthew Perry Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir 792.092 P429
Hans Luijten Jo Van Gogh-Bonger : the woman who made vincent famous 759.9492 G557
Jeff Pearlman The last folk hero : the life and myth of Bo Jackson 796.357 J132
Sam Heughan Waypoints : my Scottish journey 792.092 H482
Mary-Alice Daniel A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents 973.0496 D221
Ingrid Rojas Contreras The man who could move clouds : a memoir 818.603 R638
Lauren Graham Have I told you this already? : stories I don't want to forget to remember 792.092 G760
Mike Pence So help me God 973.933 P372
Rob Delaney A heart that works 792.7 D373
Bono Surrender : 40 songs, one story 780.92 B64411
Binyamin Netanyahu Bibi : my story 956.94 N469
Andrew K. Diemer Vigilance : the life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad 973.711 S85d
Michelle Obama The light we carry : overcoming in uncertain times 973.932 O121L
Andrew Morton The Queen : her life 941.085 E4345mo

Business & Economics
David Alan Stockman The great money bubble : protect yourself from the coming inflation storm 332.024 S865
Nicole Victoria More money now : a millennial's guide to financial freedom and security 332.024 V666
Carmine Gallo The Bezos blueprint : communication secrets of the world's greatest salesman 658.45 G172b
Gary Vaynerchuk Jab, jab, jab, right hook : how to tell your story in a noisy social world 658.872 V392j
Alex J. Pollock Surprised again! : the covid crisis and the new market bubble 330.973 P765
Emily Flitter The white wall : how big finance bankrupts black America 332.1 F649
Clara E. Mattei The capital order : how economists invented austerity and paved the way to fascism 330.12 M429
Walt Bogdanich When McKinsey comes to town : the hidden influence of the world's most powerful consulting firm 338.7 B633
Campbell R. Harvey DeFi and the future of finance 332 H262
Nouriel Roubini Megathreats : ten dangerous trends that imperil our future, and how to survive them 338.54 R853m
James Rickards Sold out : how broken supply chains, surging inflation, and political instability will sink the global economy 658.8 R539
Scott Galloway Adrift : America in 100 charts 338.973 G174
Nicolai J. Foss Why managers matter : the perils of the bossless company 658 F79
Jens Andersen The LEGO story : how a little toy sparked the world's imagination 338.768 An226

Chess
Luc Henris The complete Albin Counter-Gambit : a dangerous weapon against the Queen's Gambit 794.1225 D09 H519
P. A. Romanovskiĭ Selected games Peter Romanovsky 794.15 R75
Frank Brady Profile of a prodigy; the life and games of Bobby Fischer 794.1 F52bb

Food & Drink
Hugh Amano Let's Make Dumplings! : a comic book cookbook 641.8 A134L
Phil Rosenthal Somebody Feed Phil the book : untold stories, behind-the-scenes photos and favorite recipes 641.59 R727
Danny Bowien Mission vegan : wildly delicious food for everyone 641.5636 B786

Health & Medicine
Gabor Maté The myth of normal : trauma, illness, & healing in a toxic culture 362.1 M425
Lisa Feldman Barrett Seven and a half lessons about the brain 612.82 B274
Joe Schwarcz Quack quack : the threat of pseudoscience 615.856 S399

History
H. W. Brands The last campaign : Sherman, Geronimo, and the War for America 973.8 B819L
Anthony Everitt Nero : matricide, music, and murder in imperial Rome 937.07 N449
Cody Keenan Grace : President Obama and ten days in the battle for America 973.932 K25
Buddy Levy Empire of ice and stone : the disastrous and heroic voyage of the Karluk 919.8 L668e
Deborah A. Miranda Bad indians : a tribal memoir 979.4 M672
Buzz Bissinger The mosquito bowl : a game of life and death in World War II 940.542 B544
Kerri K. Greenidge The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family 929.2 G863gr
Frank Dikötter China after Mao : the rise of a superpower 951.05 D575c

Home & Family Management
Marie Kondō Marie Kondo's kurashi at home : how to organize your space and achieve your ideal life 648 K821k

Law
Lisa Guerin The essential guide to federal employment laws 344.7301 G932
Denis Clifford Estate planning basics 346.052 C63e
Melanie Cullen Get it together : organize your records so your family won't have to 332.024 C967
Fred S. Steingold Legal forms for starting & running a small business 346.065 S822L
Michael J. Gerhardt The forgotten presidents : their untold constitutional legacy 342.73 G315
David Pressman Patent it yourself : your step-by-step guide to filing at the U.S. Patent Office 346.048 P93p
Stephen Fishman Deduct it! : lower your small business taxes 343.052 F537
Long-term care : how to plan and pay for it 362.16 M439
Katherine E. Stoner Prenuptial agreements : how to write a fair and lasting contract 346.7301 P927
Margaret A. Burnham By hands now known : Jim Crow's legal executioners 342.73 B935

Literature & Writing
Annie Ernaux Getting lost 848 E71g
Brenda Hillman In a few minutes before later 811 H654i
Haruki Murakami Novelist as a vocation 895.63 M931
Nick Hornby Dickens and Prince : a particular kind of genius 823 H814
he great book of journaling : how journal writing can support a life of wellness, creativity, meaning and purpose 808.066 G798
Barry Holstun Lopez Embrace fearlessly the burning world : essays 814 L864e
John Briscoe 811 B774
Sharon Olds Balladz 811 O44b
Jack Kerouac Desolation Peak : collected writings 818 K395d

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Neil deGrasse Tyson Welcome to the universe in 3D : a visual tour 523.1 T994w
Siddhartha Mukherjee The song of the cell : an exploration of medicine and the new human 571.6 M953
Dan L. (Dan Louie) Flores Wild new world : the epic story of animals and people in America 591.97 F634
Esther Woolfson Between light and storm : how we live with other species 599.93 W913

Performing Arts & Music
Quentin Tarantino Cinema speculation 791.43 T171
Patti Smith A book of days 780.92 S656b
D. T. Max Finale : late conversations with Stephen Sondheim 780.92 S69m
Bob Dylan The philosophy of modern song 782.421 D99p
Oscar Hammerstein The letters of Oscar Hammerstein II 780.92 H224L

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion
Robert Aho Timeless Luminosity 133.9 Ah68
Dean Rickles Life is short : an appropriately brief guide to making it more meaningful 128 R424
Christina Maslach The burnout challenge : managing people's relationships with their jobs 158.7 M379

Politics & Government
Andrew Small No limits : the inside story of China's war with the West 320.951 S635

Social Sciences & Current Events
Nayan Shah Stranger intimacy : contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West 304.8 Sh136
Felix Gillette It's not TV : the spectacular rise, revolution, and future of HBO 384.55 G413
Mariame Kaba No more police : a case for abolition 363.2 K111
Samantha Cole How sex changed the internet and the internet changed sex : an unexpected history 306.7 C674
Dahlia Lithwick Lady justice : women, the law, and the battle to save America 345.7302 L713
Paul Lafargue The right to be lazy and other writings 335 L131
Andy Greenberg Tracers in the dark : the global hunt for the crime lords of cryptocurrency 364.16 G798t
Trauma, tresses & truth : untangling our hair through personal narratives 391.5 T693
Amber Ruffin The world record book of racist stories 305.896 R838w
Amanda Freeman Getting me cheap : how low-wage work traps women and girls in poverty 362.8398 F877
Elizabeth Williamson Sandy Hook : an American tragedy and the battle for truth 371.782 W676
Rick Wartzman Still broke : Walmart's remarkable transformation and the limits of socially conscious capitalism 381.149 W298

Travel & Geography
New England. 917.4 L847
Dorthe Nors A line in the world : a year on the North Sea coast 914.89 N81
The rough guide to Mexico 917.2 R856
Rick Steves' Italy. 914.5 S848
Rick Steves' Ireland. 914.15 S848
The rough guide to Italy 914.5 R856
Rick Steves Venice. 914.53 S848
Morocco. 916.4 E975
Fodor's Paris. 914.436 F653
Hawaii, the big island revealed : the ultimate guidebook. 919.69 D732

Universal (Children's)

Non-fiction
Curt Hart Forest friends U 591.73 H251
Larissa Theule Concrete : from the ground up U 620.136 T344
Kate Messner Over and under the waves U 577.7 M564
Greg Pizzoli Pizza! : a slice of history U 641.82 P689