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10/22/2021 - 11:49am

We are huge nonfiction fans here at Mechanics’ Institute Library, and we are thrilled that TV and film producers have chosen to adapt several recent bestsellers, such as Nomadland, Dopesick, Maid, and others. Watching true stories migrate to film and TV is high excitement indeed. Even better, the l...

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10/13/2021 - 11:10am

If you're anxiously awaiting Dune in theaters later this month, we are right there with you. Frank Herbert's science fiction masterpiece about the dangerous mining of a life-extending substance called "the spice" has fascinated readers ever since it was first published in 1965. A blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the 1966 Nebula Award and tied with Roger Zelazny's...

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10/01/2021 - 3:12pm

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NON-FICTION

Applied Sciences
David Rooney About time : a history of civilization in twelve clocks 681.11 R674
Melissa Shapiro Piglet : the unexpected story of a deaf blind pink puppy and his family 636.7 S222

Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Charlie English...

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10/01/2021 - 3:08pm

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FICTION
Chandler Baker The husbands
Lyndsay Faye The king of infinite space
Gianfranco Calligarich Last summer in the city
Amy Koppelman A mouthful of air
Virginia Feito...

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09/21/2021 - 11:41am

California: its Gold and its Inhabitants: a British gentleman’s impressions of the barbarous Far West, review by Taryn Edwards, staff librarian. 

I adore first person accounts of people’s travels to California, and we have several in our library’s collection. One of the funniest is Henry Vere Huntley’s pithy California: Its Gold and its Inhabitants.

Sir...

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09/14/2021 - 11:43am

There's a crispness in the air these days that makes us want to grab a pile of mysteries and head down the rabbit hole (figuratively, of course). If you too can't get enough of those dark thrillers that make you shiver with the lights on, here are our recommendations to keep you turning the pages well after sundown. 

Straight off the library's New Mystery shelf, we found four titles with a hefty chill factor. A...

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09/09/2021 - 11:23am

E-AUDIOBOOKS

Marcel Proust In search of lost time
Julie K Brown Perversion of justice : the Jeffrey Epstein story
Graham Greene The power and the glory
Saul Bellow Ravelstein
Rachel Vogelstein...

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