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Cecile David-Weill The suitors
Brian Kimberling Snapper
Patrick McGrath Constance
Elizabeth Strout The burgess boys
Historical Fiction
Edward Rutherfurd...
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BOOKS
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Cecile David-Weill The suitors
Brian Kimberling Snapper
Patrick McGrath Constance
Elizabeth Strout The burgess boys
Historical Fiction
Edward Rutherfurd...
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FICTION
Jane Gardam Last friends
Rachel Kushner The flamethrowers
Jennie Shortridge Love water memory
Historical Fiction
James Salter All that is
Rose Tremain...
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May 1-7, 2013, is the American Library Association's Choose Privacy Week. As such, I decided to round up some of the Institute's resources about onli...
In the spirit of staff picks, this month we’ll be offering books chosen by librarians across the nation! The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction was established in 2012 to recognize the best of the books published in the U.S. during the previous year: the shortlist is pulled from selections made by the library professionals’ magazine Booklist and the Reference and User Services Association’s “Notable Books List”.
The prize will be awarded in June so, while y...
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André Aciman Harvard Square
Allison Amend A nearly perfect copy
Elizabeth Berg Tapestry of fortunes
Barbara Taylor Bradford Secrets from the past
Ford Madox Ford...
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A.L. Kennedy The blue book
Jill McCorkle Life after life
Mystery, Suspense, Espionage & Intrigue
M.C. Beaton Death of yesterday
Kerry Greenwood Out of the Black...
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April is National Poetry Month – a time to appreciate the wisdom and beauty of the written word! San Francisco has long been an epicenter for poets with an edgy, progressive and passionate message and the books that we have in our collection are representative of the poetry originating in the Bay Area. Many of these bo...
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FICTION
Anita Hughes Market Street
Kristopher Jansma The unchangeable spots of leopards
Dina Nayeri A teaspoon of earth & sea
Historical Fiction
Jennifer Cody Epstein The...
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FICTION
Jane Austen Pride & prejudice
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Oleander girl
Ernest Hemingway A farewell to arms
Virginia Woolf Orlando: a biography
Historical Fiction...
[read more]Much like books, the visual arts are one of many media used for storytelling. This month, the Mechanics' Institute staff members have chosen materials at the intersection of film and print: books about film, books so fantastic that someone decided to make films out of them, and, maybe, even a few DVDs and film soundtracks as well.
Some of our picks were adapted into amazing films and television, and some were, well, not so great. A few of these celluloid adaptations were even…ahem…bett...
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