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JANUARY IN THE LIBRARY During the holidays did you receive a new tablet, computer or smartphone? If so, check out the library’s digital lending services Hoopla Digital or OverDrive and Libby. You can stream movies, television, audiobooks, eBooks, music and more for free! Download these apps in your device’s app store, or find links on the library’s website at manchesterpl.org/virtual-library. If you would like a lesson on how to use these free services, set up an appointment with Adult Services Librarian Rachael Meneades at rmeneades@manchesterpl.org. Drop-In Knitting Sessions Continue! Drop-in knitting sessions will continue being held on Wednesday afternoons from 2:30-3:30 PM. Please join us at the Roundtable and bring your old or new project! We welcome beginners and experienced crafters, all ages. Assistance is sometimes available, many of our knitters have much more experience than we do and are quite helpful! If you have any questions, or would like to participate or assist, please call perennial knitter beginner, Sara Collins, Library Director, 978-526-2011. All Creatures Great & Small Pet Photo Contest You know they’re bright and beautiful, your creatures great and small. Bring in your photos of fur and feather, and we will admire them all. Shutterbugs of all ages are welcome to enter. Pick up the Rules and Entry Form at the library or click here to print the form out at home. Submission Deadline is Wednesday, February 5th. From February 6th through February 14th, the community is invited to view the photographs and vote for their favorite. Come Write In with Crystal Condakes Karlberg Calling all writers and anyone who wants to write. The Manchester Public Library will be hosting a writing session on Monday, January 6th and Wednesday January 22nd from 6 PM – 7:30 PM for anyone who would like a space to work on their writing. Whether you are a beginning writer or you are already working on a project, this will be a great opportunity. In one area of the library, we will offer a writing group format complete with prompts and light critique for anyone who wants it. Other areas of the library will be available for those who just need a time and place to get their ideas down. Directing the workshops will be Manchester resident Crystal Condakes Karlberg. She has been participating and leading writing workshops for 20+ years. Her poetry has recently been published by Oddball Magazine, Mom Egg Review, and Soundings East. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2018. Hearthside Book Group The Hearthside Book Group will meet next on Tuesday, January 7th at 4:00 PM. The group will discuss A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute. New members are always welcome. Nonfiction Book Group The next meeting of the Nonfiction Book Group is Wednesday, January 15th at 6:30 PM. The group will discuss Strangers In Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild and The People are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore by Jared Yates Sexton. New members are always welcome. January Movie Night On Friday, January 17th at 5:30 PM the library will be showing a movie based off a popular British television show depicting the lives and cultures of upper and lower class citizens during the early 20th century. This movie stars Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, and Matthew Goode. Bring your own drink, the Library will provide popcorn. This movie is rated PG. Martin Luther King Jr Holiday The library will be closed in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, January 20th. The library will reopon on Tuesday, January 21st from 1 PM - 8 PM. Mystery Book Group The Mystery Book Group will meet Friday, January 31st at 10:30 AM to discuss The Name of the Rose by Umberto Ecco. New members are always welcome.
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New Additions to Our Collection
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| All This Could Be Yours By Attenberg, Jami 2019-10 - Houghton Mifflin 9780544824256 Check Our Catalog "All hail Jami Attenberg, the queen of dysfunctional families." --Refinery29
"Big Little Lies meets Succession in the scorching heat of the Big Easy . . . Money, power and family are touched upon through Attenberg's emotional, humorous and sharply written accounts." --Parade
"This is how you write a very good novel about a very bad man." …More
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| Going All City: Struggle and Survival in La's Graffiti Subculture By Bloch, Stefano 2019-11 - University of Chicago Press 9780226493589 Check Our Catalog "We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outsider artists, trend setters, and thrill seekers. But, to me, we were just regular kids growing up hard in America and making the city our own. Being 'writers' gave us something to live for and 'going all city' gave us something to strive for; …More
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| Switchers: How Smart Professionals Change Careers -- And Seize Success By Graham, Dawn Marie 2018-06 - Amacom 9780814439630 Check Our Catalog Don't settle . . . SUCCEED in the right career Are you stuck in an unsatisfying job? In the wrong profession? An industry that just isn't a fit? Get unstuck Land a new career--one you're genuinely passionate about. Switchers helps you realize that dream. Written by celebrated career coach and psychologist Dr. Dawn Graham, the book provides proven strategies that will get you where you want to …More
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| The Last Affair By Hunt, Margot 2019-11 - Mira Books 9780778309222 Check Our Catalog Love may be blind, but obsession's a real killer. Nora Holliday is not that kind of woman. Not the kind who has an illicit affair with a married man. But Josh Landon is everything Nora's alcoholic husband isn't. And now she and Josh are so infatuated, they can't stay away from one another. Abby Landon, Josh's daughter, is home from college nursing a broken heart. She's …More
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| Milk Soaps: From Goat to Almond, 35 Skin-Nourishing Recipes for Making Milk-Enriched Soaps By Faiola, Anne-Marie 2019-04 - Storey Publishing 9781635860481 Check Our Catalog Handmade soap is made extra-special with the addition of milk Soaps enriched with milk are creamier than those made with water, and milk's natural oils provide skin-renewing moisture and nourishment. In Milk Soaps, expert soapmaker Anne-Marie Faiola, author of Pure Soapmaking and Soap Crafting, demystifies the process with step-by-step techniques and 35 recipes for making …More
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| Curious Toys By Hand, Elizabeth 2019-10 - Mulholland Books 9780316485883 Check Our Catalog An intrepid young woman stalks a murderer through turn-of-the-century Chicago in "this rich, spooky, and atmospheric thriller that will appeal to fans of Henry Darger and Erik Larson alike." (Sarah McCarry) In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview …More
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| Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa By Harms, Robert 2019-12 - Basic Books 9780465028634 Check Our Catalog A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa
In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, …More
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| Laetitia Rodd and the Mystery of the Wandering Scholar By Saunders, Kate 2019-12 - Bloomsbury Publishing 9781632868381 Check Our Catalog M. C. Beaton meets Miss Marple in the second book in the Laetitia Rodd Mysteries, which sees Kate Saunders's Victorian detective on the hunt for a missing Oxford academic.
In 1851, private detective Laetitia Rodd is enjoying a well-earned holiday when she gets an urgent request for her services. Mrs. Rodd's neighbor Jacob Welland is a reclusive, …More
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| Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative By Alison, Jane 2019-04 - Catapult 9781948226134 Check Our Catalog A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 One of Poets & Writers' Best Books for Writers "How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read. . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in nature, and by defining these new styles she offers writers the freedom to explore but with enough guidance to thrive." --Maris Kreizman, …More
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| Man's 4th Best Hospital By Shem, Samuel 2019-11 - Berkley Books 9781984805362 Check Our Catalog The sequel to the highly acclaimed The House of God. Years later, the Fat Man has been given leadership over a new Future of Medicine Clinic at what is now only Man's 4th Best Hospital, and has persuaded Dr. Roy Basch and some of his intern cohorts to join him to teach a new generation of interns and residents. …More
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| State By Isaacson, Melissa 2019-08 - Agate Midway 9781572842663 Check Our Catalog Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is a compelling first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality--or at least the closest that one high school girls' basketball team ever came to it. In 1975, freshman Melissa Isaacson--along with a group of other girls …More
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| The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 By Adams, John Joseph Editor Machado, Carmen Maria 2019-10 - Mariner Books 9781328604378 Check Our Catalog This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in the last year. By sending us to alternate universes and chronicling ordinary magic, introducing us to mythical beasts and talking …More
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| The Season: A History of the Debutante By Richardson, Kristen 2019-11 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393608731 Check Our Catalog In this enthralling history of the debutante ritual, Richardson sheds new light on contemporary ideas about women and marriage. While Richardson came from a family of debutantes, she chose not to debut. But as her curiosity drove her to research this enduring custom, she learned that it, and debutantes, are not as simple as they seem. …More
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| Scarlet Fever By Brown, Rita Mae 2019-11 - Ballantine Books 9780593130001 Check Our Catalog 12th book in Jane Arnold series Winter blizzards bring a flurry of cases to solve in this riveting new foxhunting mystery featuring "Sister" Jane Arnold and her incorrigible hounds from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown. Frigid February air has settled into the bones of the Blue Ridge Mountains, making for a slow foxhunting season, though "Sister" Jane Arnold's enthusiasm is not so easily …More
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| 60 Ready-To-Use Coding Projects By Kroski, Ellyssa 2019-10 - ALA Editions 9780838918722 Check Our Catalog The lessons of ALA's Libraries Ready to Code initiative are conclusive: your library can make a difference in developing computational thinking in children, teens, and even adults. And you don't even need to be a techie to make it happen; in fact, many activities in this new book from tech champion Kroski dispense with a screen altogether in favor of twister boards, masking tape grids, or bowling …More
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| Twenty-One Truths about Love By Dicks, Matthew 2019-11 - St. Martin's Press 9781250103482 Check Our Catalog From the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend comes a wonderful new novel about a struggling man--written entirely in lists.ists. …More
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| We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart, and Humor By Lindholm, Marika Editor Dumesnil, Cheryl Editor Shonk, Katherine 2019-09 - She Writes Press 9781631526565 Check Our Catalog In the United States, more than 15 million women are parenting children on their own, either by circumstance or by choice. Too often these moms who do it all have been misrepresented and maligned. Not anymore. In We Got This, seventy-five solo mom writers tell the truth about their lives--their hopes and fears, their resilience and setbacks, their embarrassments and triumphs. Some of these …More
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| Beating about the Bush By Beaton, M. C. 2019-12 - Minotaur Books 9781250157720 Check Our Catalog 30th book in Agatha Raisin series New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--now the star of a hit T.V. show--is back on the case again. When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to …More
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| The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen By Sherman, Sean With Dooley, Beth 2017-10 - University of Minnesota Press 9780816699797 Check Our Catalog 2018 James Beard Award Winner: Best American Cookbook
Named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2017 by NPR, The Village Voice, Smithsonian Magazine, UPROXX, New York Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Mpls. St. PaulMagazine and others
Here is real food--our indigenous American fruits and vegetables, the wild and foraged ingredients, game …More
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| Dead at First Sight By James, Peter 2019-08 - MacMillan UK 9781509816392 Check Our Catalog 15th book in Roy Grace series A man waits at London Airport for Ingrid Ostermann, the love of his life, to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired NYPD cop waits in a bar in Florida's Key West for his first date with the lady who is, without question, his soulmate. The two men are about to discover they've been scammed out of almost every penny they have--and that neither woman exists. Meanwhile, a wealthy divorc e plunges, in …More
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