Knight, Brenda
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 KNIMiller, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.09 MILDrabble, Margaret
Summary: Receiving the two-hundred-year-old memoir of a Korean crown princess from an anonymous sender, Oxford student Barbara Halliwell reads about the princess's life and finds profound changes occurring within her present-day London home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRANafisi, Azar.
Summary: Prof. Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in Tehran in 1995 due to repressive government policies. For the next 2 years, until she left Iran, she gathered 7 young women, former students, at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss works of Western literature forbidden by the new regime. They used this forum to learn to speak freely, not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9 NAFBollmann, Stefan
Summary: "A compendium of more than 70 iconic works of art featuring women who read, from the Virgin Mary to Marilyn Monroe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704 BOLMorgan, Ann (Ann Beatrice)
Summary: "A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author's year-long journey through a book from every country. Following an impulse to read more internationally, journalist Ann Morgan undertook first to define "the world" and then to find a story from each of 196 nations. Tireless in her quest and assisted by generous, far-flung strangers, Morgan discovered not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 MORGornick, Vivian
Summary: "A series of essays exploring the different books that shaped Gornick throughout her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.92 GOROwens, Zibby
Summary: "Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy, tasteful authenticity, and smart, steadfast support of authors started in childhood, a precedent set by the profound effect books and libraries had on her own family. But after losing her closest friend on 9/11 and later becoming utterly stressed out and overwhelmed by motherhood, Zibby was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2022
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Summary: "The president of a reclusive writer's fan club is found dead after a book signing. Charlotte Reed, the owner of Chapters B&B and her neighbors Ellen and Ellen's trusty Yorkshire terrier, must page through the clues to catch a killer before the author meets the same fate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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Summary: In the early days of the pandemic, Etta is stranded in Kansas City and takes refuge with an old man in need of a caretaker. She finds his library and begins having vivid dreams of the city in the 1870s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEVLaurain, Antoine
Summary: "When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers' room is convinced it's something special. And the committee for France's highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt, agrees. But when the shortlist is announced, there's a problem for editor Violaine Lepage: she has no idea of the author's identity. As the police begin to investigate a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUMcDermid, Val.
Summary: A modern retelling of Jane Austen's classic novel finds bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joining her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falling for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCDShakespeare, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2003
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Bivald, Katarina
Summary: It all began with a correspondence between two quite different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy from the small town of Broken Wheel, Iowa. After years of exchanging books, letters and thoughts on the meaning of literature and life, Sara, mousy, disheveled, who has never been anywhere in her life; has really lived only for her work in a beloved bookshop, which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016
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Summary: "One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister's No Two Persons is "a gloriously original celebration of fiction, and the ways it deepens our lives." That was the beauty of books, wasn't it? They took you places you didn't know you needed to go... Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: The threat of all-out Genre war looms over BookWorld. But with the real Thursday Next retired in the real world, the Council of Genres has no other choice than to tap the fictional Thursday to save the day. Her mission as emissary is to prevent the brewing war--but her task is made more difficult by a hidden foe manipulating events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: "Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIVMcDermid, Val
Summary: A modern retelling of Jane Austen's classic novel finds bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joining her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falling for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: A last-of-her-kind outcast and member of the Pack Horse Library Project braves the hardships of Kentucky's Great Depression and hostile community discrimination to bring the near-magical perspectives of books to her neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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Summary: "A woman finds solace in Jane Austen following the death of her father and the birth of her child"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020