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Cookbooks | Food Writing
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … topic? You can receive book recommendations about what's new in cooking, crafts, decor, and more by signing up for the … cooking, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will teach and inspire a new generation of cooks how to confidently make better …
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January - March 2014 Issue
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… run, and focuses on a romance between a housemaid and a new footman. Barry, Kevin. Dark Lies the Island . This is a … and the man who has become his caretaker, immigrate to a new country, and set about trying to find the boy's mother. … Gilbert, David. & Sons . In this dark comedy, a reclusive New York writer, feeling that his death is near, tries to …
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January - March 2014 Issue
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… The Inheritor’s Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science . Hirsh, Aaron. Telling Our Way to the … Biography . Jones, William P. The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights . … Kathryn. The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption . Kraus, Karl. The Kraus Project: …
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… to do it yourself... … Read the latest news from The New York Times , The Washington Post , etc. or check out recent issues of your favorite magazines like The New Yorker and Rolling Stone . … Call the reference desk at … Government Health & Medicine History Homework Help Housing Jobs & Careers Language Law & Legal Madison Area & WI Info …
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October - December 2024 Issue
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… and her old friends, who are mostly stuck in stressful jobs and unfulfilling relationships and who are not as … The Axeman’s Carnival . In this tragic novel set in New Zealand, a woman adopts a young magpie and teaches him to … a painter named G, who is a woman, leaves home for a new life in another country; and a mother dies and her …
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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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New | Murderers and Their Crimes | Thefts, Conspiracies, and Financial Crimes
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… New | Murderers and Their Crimes | Thefts, Conspiracies, and … SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" …
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Most Recommended | Solid Bets | Dark Horses
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. A whip-smart and dynamic … by promising him an exposé on the secretive, influential New York City women’s social club Nevertheless, rumored to be …
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Contemporary | Classics
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … to prize-winners. Looking for more great fiction? Get a new list in your inbox every month with the Beyond … to investigate both the disappearance of her sister and a new case of a missing Native girl that turns up evidence with …
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Claudia Lin is living a double life. Her mother and siblings think she's still working a low-level corporate job (found for her by her brother). In reality she's quit that job and taken an entry…
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… dates, cheating, lying, ghosting, etc). The work in her new job is extremely confidential, but that's not a problem … secrets. Not only has she not told her family about her new job, she's also not told her Chinese immigrant mother … drama aside, she's determined to be successful at her new job and eager to take on a larger investigative role with …
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There are some books that make me feel like I'm smiling from the first page to the last. I finish the book and immediately want to tell everyone about the delight I had in reading it (I think I've…
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… suddenly disappeared leaving the job vacant for him. But a jobs a job? Right? Well, not so much. This job requires him … inconventient attraction he's beginning to feel for his new colleague. A Marvellous Light combines magic and …
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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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… at one of our nine libraries. Application Info Get a new card, renew/replace an existing one, or update your … physical locations or use the links below to apply for a new card, renew an existing Library card, update information …
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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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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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