From Fiction to NonFiction, we're celebrating all things library!
It's NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK!
Check out a great read to show your support of your local RCLS library.
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What You Hide
Natalie D. Richards · Sourcebooks Fire Pages: 384 Format: Paperback
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Mallory didn't want to leave home, but it wasn't safe to stay. So she sleeps at her best friend's house and spends the rest of her time at the library, doing her online schoolwork and figuring out what comes next. Because she's not going live in fear like her mother. Spencer volunteers... |
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Claws for Concern
MIRANDA JAMES · Berkley Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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Charlie Harris and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel, are embroiled in a new mystery when a cold case suddenly heats up in the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series.
Charlie Harris has been enjoying some peace and quiet with his new grandson when a mysterious... |
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Summer Hours at the Robbers Library: A Novel
Sue Halpern
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From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its refugees. Halpern's novel is an unforgettable tale of family...the kind you come from and the kind you create. People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most com |
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The Altered History of Willow Sparks
Tara O'Connor · Oni Press Pages: 152 Format: Paperback
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What happens when you can finally get everything you ever wanted? Willow Sparks and her best friend Georgia Pratt are at the bottom of the social ladder at Twin Pines High School, just trying to get through each day relatively unscathed. But when Willow finds a mysterious book... |
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The Spook in the Stacks: A Lighthouse Library Mystery
EVA GATES · Crooked Lane Books Pages: 313 Format: Hardcover
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Halloween in North Carolina's Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body.
Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical... |
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Smoke and Iron
Rachel Caine
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To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.
The opening moves of a deadly game hav |
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The Library Book
SUSAN ORLEAN · Simon & Schuster Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Susan Orlean, hailed as a "national treasure" by The Washington Post and the acclaimed bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling... |
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Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
Jane Mount · Chronicle Books Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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The ultimate gift for book lovers, this volume brims with literary treasures, all delightfully illustrated by beloved artist and founder of Ideal Bookshelf, Jane Mount. Book lovers, rejoice! In this love letter to all things bookish, Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things... |
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Mr. Lemoncello's great library race
Chris Grabenstein · Listening Library Format: Audiobook
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"Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library"-- |
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Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
Wayne A Wiegand · Oxford University Press, USA Pages: 331 Format: Hardcover(New Edition)
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Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library... |
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I Work At A Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
Gina Sheridan · Adams Media Corporation Pages: 157 Format: Paperback
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Straight from the library--the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out!From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the stacks, I Work at a Public Library showcases the oddities that have come across Gina Sheridan's circulation desk. Throughout... |
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The Public Library: A Photographic Essay
Robert Dawson · Chronicle Books Llc Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and many more.
Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty... |
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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
Marilyn Johnson · HarperCollins Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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In This Book is Overdue!, acclaimed author Marilyn Johnson celebrates libraries and librarians, and, as she did in her popular first book, The Dead Beat, discovers offbeat and eloquent characters in the quietest corners. In defiance of doomsayers, Johnson finds librarians more vital and necessary... |
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Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
Neil Gaiman · William Morrow Pages: 128 Format: Hardcover
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A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman illustrated with the striking four-color artwork of Chris Riddell.
"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before." - Neil... |
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