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Waltham - New Books
Fiction/Meyer M.
1 available
Fiction/Meyer M.
1 available
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"East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved seaside village of Cleftwater. Having lost her voice as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. One autumn morning, a sinister newcomer appears in town. The witchfinder, Silas Makepeace, has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and now has Cleftwater in his sights. His arrival strikes fear into...
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30 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Waltham - Adult
641.5092 Loftus
1 available
641.5092 Loftus
1 available
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5 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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"Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique-comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They're high culture, they're low culture, they're sports food, they're kids' food, they're...
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"Get inspired with 50 fascinating stories of powerful female figures from mythologies around the world. From heroines and deities to leaders and mythical creatures, this collection explores figures of myth who can inspire modern readers with their ability to shape our culture with the stories of their power, wisdom, compassion, and cunning. Featured characters include: Atalanta (Greek heroine and huntress who killed the Caledonia Boar and joined the...
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Series
Secret projects volume 1
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13 copies, 64 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 64 people are on the wait list.
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"The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress...
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2 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
"The most fascinating debut I've read in years—enigmatic, biting, absurd, and right when you think you've got it figured out, utterly horrifying." —Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall and The Shape
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3 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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"The untold story of climate migration-the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future"--
We think about the dangers of climate change in the future tense: that as global warming gets worse over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world fleeing famine and rising seas. What we often don't...
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1 copy on order.
Waltham - New Books
780.8992 Eichler
1 available
780.8992 Eichler
1 available
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1 copy, 19 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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"A stirring account of how the flowering of the European Enlightenment, two World Wars, and the Holocaust can be remembered through the poignant works of music created in their wake"--
When it comes to how societies remember these increasingly distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of history books, archives, documentaries, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, the award-winning critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler...
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"We Are a Haunting is a debut, coming-of-age novel that mixes magical realism and the Southern Gothic and follows three generations of East New Yorkers struggling to maintain a connection to their history"--
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"An illuminating deep dive into the making of Bruce Springsteen's most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen's career--from the New York Times bestselling author of Petty: The Biography. Without Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen might not be who he is today. The natural follow-up to Springsteen's hugely successful The River should have been the hit-packed album Born in the U.S.A, but instead, in 1982, he came out with Nebraska,...
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eAudiobook
eBook
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"Two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection--a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and the pursuit of magic and power"--
For generations the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements-- books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and...
91) Huda F cares?
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Series
Huda F books volume 2
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1 copy on order.
Waltham - Young Adult
TEEN GRAPHIC/Fahmy
1 available
TEEN GRAPHIC/Fahmy
1 available
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This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
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eAudiobook
eBook
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4 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of myths. She was heiress to a fortune. They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever after--and in exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into her past. But when Indigo learns that her estranged aunt is dying and the couple is forced...
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Waltham - Adult
Fiction/Adjei-Brenyah N.
1 available
Fiction/Adjei-Brenyah N.
1 available
Waltham - Express
[EXPRESS PAPERBACK] A
1 available
[EXPRESS PAPERBACK] A
1 available
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1 copy on order.
Waltham - New Books
Large Print/Adjei-Brenyah N.
1 available
Large Print/Adjei-Brenyah N.
1 available
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The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times -bestselling author of Friday Black , about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. "A new and necessary American voice." -- Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or...
94) The woman in me
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1 copy on order.
Waltham - Adult
B/SPEARS, B./Spears
1 available
B/SPEARS, B./Spears
1 available
Waltham - New Books
B/SPEARS, B./Spears
7 available
B/SPEARS, B./Spears
7 available
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Waltham - New Books
Large Print/B/SPEARS, B./Spears
1 available
Large Print/B/SPEARS, B./Spears
1 available
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"The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey--and the strength at the core of one of the greatest...
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Waltham - Adult
Mystery Slocumb B.
1 available
Mystery Slocumb B.
1 available
Waltham - Adult
Mystery/Slocumb, B.
1 available
Mystery/Slocumb, B.
1 available
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4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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"From the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: A gripping page-turner about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time-that his music was stolen from a young Black composer named Josephine Reed. Determined to uncover the truth and right history's wrongs, Bern Hendricks will stop at nothing to finally give Josephine the recognition she deserves. Bern Hendricks has just received...
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11 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Waltham - New Books
Fiction/Sneed M.
1 available
Fiction/Sneed M.
1 available
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A bridesmaid for one of her oldest friends, 33-year-old Athena Matthias, still reeling from a messy divorce from her wife, arrives in Watercolor, Florida, for the wedding where an unexpected guest from the past throws the entire wedding party into chaos.
When thirty-three-year-old Athena Matthias is asked, yet again, to be a bridesmaid, she's not exactly enthusiastic about the idea. Still reeling from a messy divorce from her wife, she's never felt...
97) The last animal
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3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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"A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to Siberia to hunt for ancient DNA, but there's a catch: Jane's...
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism and art"--
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Available from another library
30 copies available. 1 copy on order.
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Interweaving deep historical analysis with gripping firsthand reporting on both victims and perpetrators of violence, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist charts the return of the American cycle of racial progress and white backlash and how the federal government has failed to intervene.
In 2008, Barack Obama's historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the country. And so it would be--just not in the way that most Americans hoped. The election...
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9 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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"From Booker-prize winning author Anne Enright, an astonishing novel about the love between mother and daughter--sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. "Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other; one life into another life, and the baby knew exactly how alone her mother had been." Nell--funny, brave and so much loved--is a young woman...