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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … The 4th installment of Clarice Bean, this character is not new to the library, but this newest story is a keeper! It is … suddenly seem less important than making a home for this new friend. Clarice and her siblings go from squabbling in …
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Fiction | History | Biographies | Memoirs and Autobiographies
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred's persistent … number of black women forged relationships, families, and jobs that were more empowered and typically indifferent to …
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Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at our libraries. If you're not familiar with TGTM (as we call it here in library-world), it's a special collection of…
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… Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at … of popular books that are truly too good to miss. Some are new and popular titles, others are older titles that might … but are still great reads that deserve another look. New books are added to the collection monthly, and are …
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October - December 2023 Issue
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… Witness . Ten short stories, set in Black neighborhoods in New York City undergoing gentrification, explore how the … Chidgey, Catherine. Pet . In this novel from New Zealand, a woman visiting her father in a nursing home … character, Frank Bascombe, in his 70's, has moved from New Jersey to Minnesota to help his son, who is at the Mayo …
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Pandemic Fiction | It’s the End of the World: Government Gone Wild, Genetic Engineering, and More Messed-Up Societies | After the Apocalypse: Climate Change, Nuclear Fallout, and More Ways…
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … just the beginning. Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no … breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred's persistent …
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The past few years have shown an increase in the number of mysteries featuring a woman sleuth. She may be a police officer, a private detective, an office worker, a professor, an attorney, a nun, or…
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… X | Y | Z Nekesa Afia Caught in a police raid of a 1920s New York speakeasy, Louise Lloyd is given an opportunity to … Sloan Krause leaves her cheating husband to work for a hip new micro brewery while solving murders in the brewing … is a special education teacher, divorced mother, and new owner of a standard poodle. Aided by her Aunt Peg, …
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Self-Check Machines at all 9 Library Locations Empower the People as Madison Public Library Reopens
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… needed to use a barcode reader to scan items one-by-one. A new technology called RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) … was Goodman South Madison when they moved into their new building in 2010. A few other libraries have received the … at Madison Public Library for RFID tags to be added to new materials upon arrival, while they are being processed to …
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The Madison Writing Assistance program, run through UW Madison Writing Center, partners with the Madison Public Library to offer writing assistance to residents of all ages in the Madison community.…
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… MWA for the past three years and, in fall 2020, became the new Assistant Director for MWA. She can confirm that working … Every writer that I work with has taught me something new and impressed me with their stories about their lives and … COVID. I think lots of people will come in to apply for jobs, write a resume or review job materials. And we want to …
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … the interviewer: I want life. But the chance at starting a new life in a new country came with a different set of … Scott. While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and …
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Libros ilustrados / Picture Books
Ficción / Fiction
Novelas gráficas / Graphic Novels
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … Nuevos libros en español para niños / New books for kids in Spanish … Libros ilustrados / Picture … frontera, en Tijuana, México. While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efrén Nava must take care of his twin …
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The Best | Very Good | Good
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … that killed the love of her life and she's almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing a … She's even started dating the perfect guy, but their new relationship might be sabotaged before it has a chance by …
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July - September 2016 Issue
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… . The lives of a happy and successful couple living in New York City in the 1990’s change dramatically after the … . A woman who is fluent in Italian is asked to translate a new book by a Nobel Prize-winning poet, but her life becomes … confusing, as the book seems untranslatable, she begins a new romance with a neighbor, she argues with her roommate, …
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … but when she befriends a boy named Free, another new student at school, she finally starts to feel at home. … a visit when, suddenly, all travel shuts down. There’s a new virus making people sick, and Malian will have to stay …
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It seems like a perfect meet cute: wide-eyed debutante Eve Ojukwu, fresh from the hinterlands of Kepler, bumps into wealthy bachelor Esteban Mendez-Yuki of megacorp MYCorps on a half-gravity…
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… on a half-gravity dancefloor on the ritzy satellite of New Monte. Except this is all part of a carefully … of one gravity field failure—it starts to look like the New Monte job really will be her last con. But might that mean she’ll never leave New Monte alive? Rebecca Fraimow’s debut is a fun heist novel …
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Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at our libraries. If you're not familiar with TGTM (as we call it here in library-world), it's a special collection of…
Last updated 3 weeks 5 days ago
… Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at … of popular books that are truly too good to miss. Some are new and popular titles, others are older titles that might … but are still great reads that deserve another look. New books are added to the collection monthly, and are …
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A week or so ago I saw a trailer for a new tv show and as it flashed across the screen in quick shots (as trailers do) it seemed so familiar and I thought, is it? Could it be? Yes it was. Starz …
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… A week or so ago I saw a trailer for a new tv show and as it flashed across the screen in quick … and I thought, is it? Could it be? Yes it was. Starz has a new show starting at the end of June about one of my favorite … and find out who did this to her or she can take on a new identity (set up for her by the erased Myfanwy) and move …
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… Mojo, China Daily, and more. US Newsstream . Includes the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Afro-American (D.C.) , and more, in addition to local Madison papers. New York Times Digital . Full access to articles on … on Washington, business, sports, movies, travel, books, jobs, education, real estate, etc... | more info » This …
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When Madison Public Library started curbside pick-up services for library materials in May, it was clear our community had missed us.
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… also miss the ability to just browse the shelves for new titles. However, Madison Public Librarians have come up … and through the mail. As of September, we have had 2848 new virtual library card applications for patrons to access … Library Foundation in April. Librarians have also created new online tools for better navigating the library catalog , …
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Picture Books | Early Readers | Young Fiction | Middle Grade
More titles for Middle Grade and Teens
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … Frances Cha Jaime Kim 2024 While Doki settles into their new home in New York City, his twin brother Kebi struggles to adjust, so …
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… truly special: a place to connect with others, learn new skills, and focus on what matters most. No matter where … and highlight some of their favorite parts of their jobs. Visit us on Instagram at @MadisonPublicLibrary and … where you can learn more about different types of library jobs, what each location has to offer, and meet some of our …
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April - June 2023 Issue
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… sister's suicide. Cauley, Kashana. The Survivalists . In New York City, an ambitious Black lawyer falls in love with a … mother-in-law is using a recent inheritance to move into a new upscale community while she fears that a choice she made … Margot. Scorched Grace . In this mystery novel set in New Orleans, a former punk rocker, who has become a devout …
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This little guide starts out as the career story of a young black art history major from private liberal arts women's college Smith. Kimberly Drew navigates academic coursework with…
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… Kimberly Drew navigates academic coursework with part-time jobs, internships and gallery opportunities while also … black art blog on Tumblr. She was at work at a new job as an assistant at a privately owned art gallery for ten days when Eric Garner was killed in the New York City borough of Staten Island and when about three …
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April - June 2017 Issue
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… multigenerational saga that begins in the early 1900’s, a new doctor comes to a tiny island off the coast of Sicily, … he assigns to act as the boy’s mother, as they travel to a new city where the boy is enrolled in a dance school. … novel about the lives of working-class people in Buffalo, New York, is made up of loosely linked stories, centering on …
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"Everyone knows this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise."
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… you otherwise." Thus we enter the world of Jane Smiley's new historical novel. And let me say; for a novel featuring a … to know Eliza Ripple and how she was navigating her new life and her explorations into the murders. Eliza had … decades older than her, she looked forward to starting a new life with him. She soon realizes that her supposedly …
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Alyssa Cole has become an auto-read for me since I discovered her Reluctant Royals series and this start to a new, tangential series, Runaway Royals, keeps the streak going. Though How to Catch a…
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… discovered her Reluctant Royals series and this start to a new, tangential series, Runaway Royals, keeps the streak … her goal. And the second is that this is the start of a new series of fairy-tale royal romances - which I'm pretty … arrived. The tradition in the country of Njaza is that a new King must be married before his coronation and Musoke is …
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