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21) Hex
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"Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in Biological Science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote. Her mentor, Dr. Joan Kallas, preoccupies her thoughts. Nell frequently finds herself standing in the doorway to Joan's office despite herself. Surrounded by an ex, a best friend, a boyfriend, and a husband, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships, grudges, and obsessions. The six are...
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On a tour of English gardens Heather Tradescant, an amateur horticulturist from the U.S., pays a visit to the 17th Century Troytan House. Owner Frank Karim invites her to stay so she can help beautify his grounds. For Heather it is the start of a romantic adventure with a good dose of witchcraft.
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On a tour of English gardens Heather Tradescant, an amateur horticulturist from the U.S., pays a visit to the 17th Century Troytan House. Owner Frank Karim invites her to stay so she can help beautify his grounds. For Heather it is the start of a romantic adventure with a good dose of witchcraft.
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"Two women, separated by a generation but equally scarred by war find hope, meaning and friendship through a garden of flowers. Iris Maynard lost her husband in World War II, her daughter to loneliness and, finally, her reason to live. Walled off from the world for decades behind a towering fence surrounding her home and gardens, Iris has built a new family ... of flowers. Iris propagates her own daylilies and roses while tending to an heirloom garden...
25) The weeds
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"Two women botanists, connected across time, confront desire, ambition, and the seeming inevitability of violence"--
26) The vine witch
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The vine witch volume 1
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"A young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy of betrayal, vengeance, and self-discovery set in turn-of-the-century France. For centuries, the vineyards at Chateau Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the world-renowned wine of the Chanceaux Valley. Then the skill of divining harvests fell into ruin when sorciere Elena Boureanu was blindsided by a curse. Now, after...
27) The Waters
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Brookline - New Books
FIC Campbell, Bonnie
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FIC Campbell, Bonnie
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - New Books
FIC Campbell, Bonnie
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FIC Campbell, Bonnie
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Brookline Putterham - New Books
FIC Campbell, Bonnie
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FIC Campbell, Bonnie
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7 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
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A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Selection • One of Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 • One of the Chicago Review of Books's 12 Must-Read Books of January 2024 • Featured in Roxane Gay's newsletter The Audacity • One of the Christian Science Monitor's Best Books of January
"If you loved Where the Crawdads Sing, you're going to love, and I'm saying love, our first read of 2024." —Jenna
28) State of wonder
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Patchett, Ann
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FIC Patchett, Ann
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Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Patchett, Ann
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FIC Patchett, Ann
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Brookline - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Patchett, Ann
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LGTYPE FIC Patchett, Ann
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Patchett, Ann
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LGTYPE FIC Patchett, Ann
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Brookline Putterham - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Patchett, Ann
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LGTYPE FIC Patchett, Ann
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Brookline - Audiovisual
BkOnCD Patchett, Ann
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BkOnCD Patchett, Ann
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Audiovisual
BkOnCD Patchett, Ann
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BkOnCD Patchett, Ann
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Brookline Putterham - Audiovisual
BkOnCD Patchett, Ann
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BkOnCD Patchett, Ann
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A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.
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One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious novel yet--an elegant, multi-layered work, rich in imagination and exquisitely told, that interweaves a quartet of journeys across continents and centuries. As emotionally resonant as Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, as inspired as Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, as inventive as Louisa Hall's Speak, and as visionary as David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas,...
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Oyeyemi, Helen
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FIC Oyeyemi, Helen
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Oyeyemi, Helen
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FIC Oyeyemi, Helen
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Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Oyeyemi, Helen
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FIC Oyeyemi, Helen
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The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits...
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Powers, Richard
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FIC Powers, Richard
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Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Powers, Richard
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FIC Powers, Richard
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An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
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In Tennessee the octogenarian sleuth, Harriett Bushrow, investigates the death of a noted horticulturist. The lady was bludgeoned in her backyard during a spate of robberies for jewels and silver.
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Saffron Everleigh mysteries volume 1
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Brookline - Adult
MYS Khavari, Kate
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MYS Khavari, Kate
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Brookline Putterham - Adult
MYS Khavari, Kate
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MYS Khavari, Kate
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Saffron Everleigh is in a race against time to free her wrongly accused professor before he goes behind bars forever. Perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Anna Lee Huber, Kate Khavari's debut historical mystery is a fast paced, fearless adventure. London, 1923. Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh attends a dinner party for the University College of London. While she expects to engage in conversations about the university's large expedition...
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Goddess of Greene St. mysteries volume 1
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"In this delightful new series by the New York Times bestselling author of the Flower Shop Mysteries, Athena Spencer comes back home to work with her crazy big Greek family at their garden center. But she never expected a return to her roots would mean protecting her family from murder . . . After her divorce, Athena has returned to coastal Michigan to work in her family's garden center and raise her son, while also caring for a mischievous wild raccoon...
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Gilded wolves volume 1
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - Teen
TEEN FIC Chokshi, Roshani
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TEEN FIC Chokshi, Roshani
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Brookline Putterham - Teen
TEEN FIC Chokshi, Roshani
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TEEN FIC Chokshi, Roshani
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Set in a darkly glamorous world The Gilded Wolves is full of mystery, decadence and dangerous but thrilling adventure. Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier, Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. But when the all-powerful society, the Order of Babel,...
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"Each time Lizzie steps through the gates of the Vista Mar Community Gardens, she knows she's left the chaos of the outside world behind. Here, the rows are even, tools are properly stored, and each season brings new life. But even the shiniest apple can hide a worm, and behind the leafy green façade there is hidden heartbreak, tomato hornworms, and inter-garden political powerplays. And to make things worse-a long forgotten loophole enacted by a...
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"Not since Good Grief has a book about a young widow been so poignant, funny, original, and utterly believable. A compelling debut novel about loss. Give grief a chance. Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years--ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental breakdown and some random suicidal thoughts later, she's just starting to get the hang of this widow thing. She can now get her two girls to school, show up to work, and...
38) Rosewater
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Wormwood trilogy volume 1
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"Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless--people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. A sensitive, he can navigate the massive psychic space created by the dome. But when something within the dome begins killing other sensitives, Kaaro must...
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No sooner than a thirteen-year-old child begs Lawrence Kingston to reinvestigate her mother's disappearance--a case still unsolved for eight years--the redoubtable botanist, professor, and sleuth receives news that an English rose, extinct for half a century, has been discovered growing on Alcatraz island, 5,000 miles from its former home. As Kingston searches for clues to both mysteries he uncovers the murder of an elderly reclusive gentleman whom...
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Codebreakers have tried for centuries to decipher the inscription on a monument in the garden at Sturminster Hall. When a murder occurs on the garden grounds, the intellectual puzzle becomes all too real, and Dr. Lawrence Kingston - retired professor of botany and reluctant sleuth - is called in to investigate. Convinced that the crime must be linked to the code, Kingston begins hunting for clues and is swept into the undertow of a centuries-old family...