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On Shelf
36 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Brookline - Adult
641.52 Kieffer 2023
1 available
641.52 Kieffer 2023
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
641.52 Kieffer 2023
1 available
641.52 Kieffer 2023
1 available
Description
"From the beloved author of 100 Cookies, this baking book featuring 100 breakfast treats: muffins, scones, quick breads, savories, and pastries. For bakers of every stripe, breakfast lovers, or those who like a treat with their tea, 100 Morning Treats is the go-to sourcebook for 100 sweet and savory morning-themed recipes"--
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On Shelf
35 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Brookline - Adult
811 Smith 2023
1 available
811 Smith 2023
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Clint Smith's vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world. There are poems that interrogate the ways our lives are shaped by both personal lineages and historical institutions. There are poems that revel in the wonder of discovering the world anew through the eyes of your children, as they discover it for the first time. There are...
3) Absolution
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On Shelf
1 copy on order.
Brookline - Quick Pick
QUICK PICK FIC McDermott, Alice
1 available
QUICK PICK FIC McDermott, Alice
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
QUICK PICK FIC McDermott, Alice
1 available
QUICK PICK FIC McDermott, Alice
1 available
Checked Out
8 copies, 55 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
1 copy on order.
Brookline - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC McDermott, Alice
1 available
LGTYPE FIC McDermott, Alice
1 available
Description
American women - American wives - have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands...
4) Age of vice
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4 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Brookline - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Kapoor, Deepti
1 available
LGTYPE FIC Kapoor, Deepti
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Kapoor, Deepti
1 available
LGTYPE FIC Kapoor, Deepti
1 available
Description
New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb, and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic action-packed story...
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On Shelf
2 copies on order.
Brookline - Adult
708 Bringley 2023
3 available
708 Bringley 2023
3 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
708 Bringley 2023
1 available
708 Bringley 2023
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
708 Bringley 2023
1 available
708 Bringley 2023
1 available
Checked Out
8 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
13 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
13 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"--
"Only a few select people enjoy unrestricted access to every nook and cranny of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and among them are the guards who keep a watchful eye on the two-million-square-foot treasure house. For Bringley, the Museum was a temporary refuge that became his home away from...
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On Shelf
1 copy on order.
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Cosby, S. A.
1 available
FIC Cosby, S. A.
1 available
On Shelf
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Cosby, S. A.
1 available
LGTYPE FIC Cosby, S. A.
1 available
Description
"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
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Checked Out
4 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women who fought for our right to choose, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller. Chicago, early 1970s. Who does a woman call when she needs help? Jane. The best-known secret in the city, Jane is an underground women's health organization composed entirely of women helping women, empowering them to live lives free from the expectations...
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"Each year, more than 400 minors arrive alone in Canada requesting refugee status. They arrive without their parents, accompanied by no adult at all. Alone relates the journey of three of them: Afshin, Alain and Patricia. Their story opens a window onto the many heartbreaks, difficult sacrifices and countless hardships that punctuate their obstacle-filled path. But Alone most especially tells of the courage and resilience that these young people demonstrated...
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Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
9 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Description
"The author of How to Date Men When You Hate Men examines Americans' obsession with freedom, travel, and the open road in this funny, entertaining travelogue that blends the humorous observations of Bill Bryson with the piercing cultural commentary of Jia Tolentino"--
Roberson examines Americans' obsession with freedom, travel, and the open road. To fill her own sense of adventure, she quit her day job and set off on a Great American Road Trip to...
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On Shelf
Brookline - Children's
j306.36 Ale
2 available
j306.36 Ale
2 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Children's
j306.36 Ale
2 available
j306.36 Ale
2 available
Brookline Putterham - Children's
j306.36 Ale
1 available
j306.36 Ale
1 available
Description
"A picture book in verse that threads together past and present to explore the legacy of slavery during a classroom lesson"--
From the fireside tales in an African village, through the unspeakable passage across the Atlantic, to the backbreaking work in the fields of the South, this is a story of a people's struggle and strength, horror and hope. This is the story of American slavery, a story that needs to be told and understood by all of us. A testament...
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Available from another library
30 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
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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On Shelf
29 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Brookline - Adult
BIOG SHAKUR Assata 2023
1 available
BIOG SHAKUR Assata 2023
1 available
Description
"A history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home to Tupac and Assata, and a powerful incubator for today's activism, scholarship, and artistry"--
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On Shelf
1 copy on order.
Brookline - Adult
BIOG BLAY-MIEZAH John 2023
1 available
BIOG BLAY-MIEZAH John 2023
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
Description
"When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests determined to snatch any assets that colonialism hadn't already stripped. A CIA-funded military junta ousted the new nation's inspiring president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of hiding the country's gold overseas. Into this big lie stepped one of history's most charismatic scammers, a con man to...
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - New Books
GRAPHIC Artificial
1 available
GRAPHIC Artificial
1 available
Description
A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life. How do we relate to--and hold--our family's past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art, poetry, music? Or is it through the resonances we look for in ourselves? In Artificial, we meet the Kurzweils, a family of creators who are preserving their history through unusual means. At the center is renowned inventor and futurist...
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"Oaxaca authors Bricia Lopez and Javier Cabral are back with the first major cookbook about how to create asada-Mexican-style grilled meat-at home"--
Author
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1 copy on order.
Brookline - Adult
BIOG ASTOR Family 2023
1 available
BIOG ASTOR Family 2023
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
BIOG ASTOR Family 2023
1 available
BIOG ASTOR Family 2023
1 available
eBook
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Brookline - Large Print
LGTYPE BIOG ASTOR Family 2023
1 available
LGTYPE BIOG ASTOR Family 2023
1 available
Description
"The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention--and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire through real estate that enriched him at the expense of Manhattan's...
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"Bao Family Cookbook symbolizes the bridge between two cultures: the traditions of China and the modernity of Parisian life. The Bao family run four Chinese restaurants in Paris that bridge the gap between two cultures, and between traditional and modern cuisine-here they share their love of bao and other Chinese dishes, with recipes that span the eight culinary regions of China. Through over 80 classic yet accessible and playful recipes, Céline...
18) Bea Wolf
Author
On Shelf
1 copy on order.
Brookline - Children's
J GRAPHIC Bea Wolf
1 available
J GRAPHIC Bea Wolf
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Children's
J GRAPHIC Bea Wolf
2 available
J GRAPHIC Bea Wolf
2 available
Brookline Putterham - Children's
J GRAPHIC Bea Wolf
1 available
J GRAPHIC Bea Wolf
1 available
Description
"Listen! Hear a tale of mallow-munchers and warriors who answer candy's clarion call! Somewhere in a generic suburb stands Treeheart, a kid-forged sanctuary where generations of tireless tykes have spent their youths making merry, spilling soda, and staving off the shadow of adulthood. One day, these brave warriors find their fun cut short by their nefarious neighbor Grindle, who can no longer tolerate the sounds of mirth seeping into his joyless...
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Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
27 copies available. 1 copy on order.
eAudiobook
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
eBook
Checked Out
3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart"--
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Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.