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Annie Ernaux Exteriors
Annie Ernaux A frozen woman
Annie Ernaux Getting lost
Annie Ernaux A girl's story
Annie Ernaux Happening
Annie E...
THIS WEEK!
Wednesday, July 17 | 6:15 pm | Meet the Author: The Jazzmen with acclaimed author Larry Tye and Dr. Michael Krasny
Thursday, July 18 | 12:00 pm | Meet the Author: The Sugar King of California: The Life of Claus Spreckels
Friday, July 19 | 6:00 pm | July CinemaLit - Hairspray (1988)
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Annie Ernaux Exteriors
Annie Ernaux A frozen woman
Annie Ernaux Getting lost
Annie Ernaux A girl's story
Annie Ernaux Happening
Annie E...
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Harper Lee To kill a mockingbird
Emiko Jean Mika in Real Life : a novel
John Davies The red atlas : how the Soviet Union secretly mapped the world
Christine Barker Third girl from the left : a memoir
Alison...
After a break of a few strange years, the Institute’s annual magazine sale is back! Come visit the sales nook on the 2nd floor of the library to buy bundles of your favorite titles. You can find older issues of art magazines, cooking, history, and even the beautiful Country Life! We’ll be adding new titles and bundles of magazines throughout the summer and then as more become available. While you are in our sales nook, check out our other items for sale like books, DVDs, postcards, Mechanics’...
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Vinay Bhat How I became a chess grandmaster 794.1092 B575
The first recipient of the Mechanics’ Institute Chess Club's "Falconer Award" (a cash prize given to the highest rated junior player under Age 18 in Northern California), Vinay Bhat has gone on to overc...
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Want to get away with murder? Kill someone that New York City police and DAs do not consider important. This was only one of the more disconcerting "take-aways" I found in Judy Melinek's Working Stiff : two years, 262 bodies, and the making of a medical examiner. During a time when T.V. shows and movies have so glamorized forensic science to the...
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EBOOKS
Anzia Yezierska Bread Givers
Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ Collected stories
1859-1916 Sholem Aleichem Three passover tales
Christopher Stasheff Escape velocity : Warlock of gramarye
Christopher Stasheff...
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FICTION
Kang Han Greek lessons : a novel Fic Han
Belén Gopegui Stay this day and night with me Fic Gopegui
Dave Barry Swamp story : a novel Fic Barry
Don Winslow City of dreams : a novel...
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NON-FICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Stephen Berkman Predicting the past : Zohar Studios, the lost years 779.99 B513
Biography & Genealogy
James Risen The last honest man : the CIA, the FBI, the mafia, and the Kennedys--and one senator's fight to save democra...
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Joanne B Freeman The Field of Blood : Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Eric Bentley Are you now or have you ever been?
Anzia Yezierska Bread givers : 3rd edition
Richard Nelson Some Americans abro...
The library is happy to announce librarian Myles Cooper as our new Library Manager! Myles has been with Mechanics’ Institute for 8 years, first as an on-call Library Assistant and progressing into teaching classes and overseeing various book groups, becoming an essential part of the programming team. Myles has a background in teaching, loves providing adult education services, and is eager to focus more on the library, man...
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