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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … this is a tour de force that is certain to launch a new national conversation. Boots on the Ground: America's War … into the soft underbelly of Hitler's Fortress Europa, the new weapons of war come clearly into focus. All the Light We …
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I often read a fair amount of reading (understatement) over holidays and vacations but for this most recent bout of holiday days off I topped myself. Mostly because it's just been so darn cold! What…
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… and is thrilled when Alexa agrees to pose as his fake new girlfriend. And that's how it all starts. It sounds a bit … one sparkles. My other title in this vein is Jojo Moyes' new book about that indomintable Louisa clark, Still Me . … question is YES, yes, I did. Here Lou has taken a job in New York city working as a companion to Agnes Gopnik. Agnes …
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Poetry
Poet Memoirs and Biographies
Novels in Verse
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … artist who balances multiple worlds. The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop Kevin Coval, … Crompton's coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and the New York City area in the 1970s and 1980s was anything but …
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Time Travel | Alternate Histories | Parallel Universes & Alternate Realities
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in … Kin Stewart, suffering from memory loss, has started a new life, but when rescuers from the year 2142 finally …
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January - March 2023 Issue
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… . After an immigrant from the Dominican Republic living in New York City loses her job, she enrolls in a program which … novel set in the 1880s, a Mexican cowboy is hired as the new sheriff of a Texas town where a series of gruesome … Tennessee in 1996, a teenage girl who is a writer and her new boyfriend, an artist, plaster their town with copies of a …
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October-December 2021 Issue
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… rock band become a sudden success at a music festival in New England, leading to a tour and romance with a big star. … Ramsey . A half-Black and half-Syrian boy, raised in New Orleans by his maternal grandmother, travels to the … becomes an intern at a prestigious literary magazine in New York, where he finds himself trying to choose between two …
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… a Business Question … Related Resources … Consumer Info … Jobs & Careers … Cooperative Businesses … Digital Inclusion … … and racial disparities by creating living-wage union jobs. | more info » Neighborhood Business Associations … info » SCORE Madison Provides classes and counseling for new and existing small businesses. | more info » Small …
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Goodman South Madison Library has been working with and supporting the Literacy Network for nearly 10 years to help improve language learning in the Madison community.
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… to work or job-related goals around applying for jobs or school. Accessing community resources is another … excited by all the things the library offers - it’s new information to a lot of them,” said Fabrizio. In addition … this past semester Tana Elias, Madison Public Library's new Library Director, attended Literacy Network’s 50th …
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April - June 2024 Issue
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… Belt town in Pennsylvania in the 1990's, a young woman, new in town, meets three men who work in their father's … Maura. Acts of Forgiveness . A Black journalist in New York City is called back to her Philadelphia home to help … years after his death; they struggle financially, at their jobs, and within their own relationship. Robinson, Roxana. …
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Raven Leilani's Luster wins The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize for best debut novel.
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… works in an administrative capacity at a New York publishing house while dreaming of a career in art. … in with a digital archivist and autopsist couple from New Jersey. The couple claims their marriage is an open one …
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… Monday, Jan 27, 2025, 10:30am to 11:15am Books Adult New Readers : All Madison Public Library locations offer materials to help adult new readers improve their reading skills. These materials … and learning English as a Second Language (ESL) for adults new to this country. Library Databases Gale Peterson's Test …
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Dominican-American Alba Duarte is trying to do it all and is in danger of completely losing it as On the Hustle by Adriana Herrera opens. Alba is putting in the work towards her dream of being an…
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… and moving to Dallas? Well that sets in motion a whole new set of complications in this fast-paced, sexy, and …
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If you thought Amy from Gone Girl, was devious, wait until you meet Jane. On the outside, Jane appears to be a mild mannered office assistant beginning a new job in Minneapolis.
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… appears to be a mild mannered office assistant beginning a new job in Minneapolis. In reality, Jane is a calculating sociopath using her new position to enact a revenge plot on Steven, a seemingly "nice guy" who doesn't realize that his new girlfriend is cleverly manipulating his life in order to …
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I’m a person who likes to read books that reflect what’s happening in my own life at the time. For example, having just changed careers and started a new job here at the library, I became interested…
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… For example, having just changed careers and started a new job here at the library, I became interested in other … the events of 9/11, she decides to make the leap into a new career as a war reporter. Ward writes vividly and … emotionally about getting her feet under her as a brand-new journalist in Moscow, Syria, and Iraq, giving the reader …
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Portia Hobbs was introduced in Alyssa Cole's A Princess in Theory (the first in her Reluctant Royals series) as a friend of that heroine. Portia was a bit of a mess; partying too much, drinking too…
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… taken the job. But that doesn't seem to be enough for her new boss, Tavish McKenzie. Tavish didn't want an apprentice …
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I've been waiting to tell you about John Scalzi's forthcoming title for a while now as it was just the antidote I needed for a reading slump. At the time most things I'd been reading were eliciting a…
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… was born. The book opens as Covid-19 is sweeping through New York, but fear not, this is not a Covid story. Jamie Gray …
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2024 Year in Review: Madison Public Library shares data and fun facts from its libraries over the past year
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… are in our Too Good To Miss collection - a collection of new and popular titles available at all Madison Public … top spot with 1,765 checkouts in 2024. For magazines, The New Yorker remained in the top spot from 2023 to 2024 with … Madisonians also afford you the chance to learn something new! In 2024, more than 90,000 of you took that opportunity …
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Lillian Breaker is at loose ends. She's just turned 28 years old, works at the local Save-a-Lot and is still living in her mother's house (in the attic no less). To say that she's going nowhere would…
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… wouldn't want to jeopardize the Senator's chances for the new job. Sound like a weird book? Okay, I'll admit it, it …
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July - September 2020 Issue
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… Valley, and after following her white boyfriend to Ithaca, New York, she feels even more isolated. Christie, Michael. … Majumdar, Megha. A Burning . After a poor Muslim woman, new to social media, witnesses a horrifying terrorist attack … her and their three little daughters to a house in Queens, New York, but the house itself becomes horrified by the man’s …
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While the COVID19 crisis has illuminated the need for public computing options, the service has always been one of the core uses of our libraries.
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… from playing games online with friends, to applying for jobs, registering for school, filing their taxes or … we’d gotten everything determined, we’d learn about a new variable, especially in trying to roll out best practices … library assistant Christa Parmentier said. “She is a new regular at Goodman South Madison Library and I am so glad …
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Madison Public Library provides a recap of 2023 told through library data.
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… for 2023. When it comes to the Top 5 magazines, The New Yorker remains in the top spot, but this time it has … Library . Our online databases cover everything from The New York Times and Washington Post access to studying for … US Citizenship tests using Learning Express to learning a new language with Transparent Language . Explore databases …
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At some point, I had a sticker that said “I love big books and I cannot lie” - it was a point of pride. But these days, with a toddler, a full time job, and a pandemic level attention span, this…
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… and a pandemic level attention span, this librarian has a new found appreciation for the novella. Rich characters, well … to you too - check out these fantastic and escapist new books in bite size lengths - completely readable in 2-3 …
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Gunslinger Lizbeth Rose lives in what used to be the United States, but after the assassination of FDR in the 1930s Texas and Oklahoma have become a small land of their own known as Texoma.…
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… and Lizbeth makes a living as a hired gun who takes on jobs for those who need protection. Oh and there are Russian … book in the series and Lizbeth has been hired onto a new crew for a job that seems to be relatively … one and all. If you haven't yet read book one of this new series, start with An Easy Death first. … Into the …
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April-June 2021 Issue
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… Tammy. Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir . Dyja, Thomas. New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and … Sarah. Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone . Kolbert, …
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If you have a document ready to print from your email, phone or another device, you can submit it remotely and pick it up from any Madison Public Library location. All services are CASH…
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… email to print the text body or attachments, or start a new email and upload attachments or text body to print Send … into the coin tower for print release A list of print jobs will display, indicating that the printouts are ready to …
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