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05/03/2018 - 9:25am

BOOKS

FICTION
Elaine Castillo America is not the heart
Carys Davies West
Nicola Lagioia Ferocity
Patrick Modiano Sundays in August
Audrey Schulman...

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05/02/2018 - 11:44am

BOOKS

FICTION
Julian Barnes The only story
Iris Martin Cohen The little clan
Négar Djavadi Disoriental
Rebekah Frumkin The comedown
Steve Israel...

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04/29/2018 - 3:49pm

From the classic black and white suspense of Hitchcock to colorful, modern CGI films like Inside Out, writers love placing their storie...

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04/20/2018 - 11:30am

BOOKS

FICTION
Therese Bohman Eventide
Christina Lauren Love & other words
Kopano Matlwa Evening primrose
Alexander McCall Smith The good pilot Peter Woodhouse
Madeline Miller...

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04/18/2018 - 5:46pm

BOOKS

FICTION
Luke Allnutt We own the sky
Liam Callanan Paris by the book
Damian Dibben Tomorrow
Jonathan Evison Lawn boy
Denis Johnson Ange...

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04/14/2018 - 12:54pm

by John A. Hodgson

Because I am a stalled biographer I have become a voracious reader of biographies. I read and read and read - to learn about the lives of the subjects but mainly to glean writing technique. I want to learn how to present history when the chronology isn't perfect, when the facts don't line up, and when the subject seems to have deliberately obfuscated the part of his life most tantalizing.

One...

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04/12/2018 - 10:33am

As I interact with members on a daily basis, I often hear how grateful they are for a welcoming library and open stacks where they can browse, find comfortable chairs for reading and space to write or work. They appreciate our blazing fast and secure Internet, helpful staff and access to professional librarians for answers to their research questions.

The Library’s collection of some 160,000 print volumes, DVDs, music CDs, audiobooks, tens of thousands of ebooks, emagazines, ecomics a...

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04/08/2018 - 4:54pm

The Wrecking Crew was an informal name given to a group of Los Angeles based studio musicians who played on countless popular music releases of the 1960s and early 1970s. Although these union musicians stationed at Gold Star Studios had jazz and classical backgrounds, in the hands of Phil Spector, they became the new sound of pop in his “Wall of Sound” playing on popular radio songs by the Crystals, the Ronettes, Ike & Tina Turner, and the Righteous Brothers. Before overdubbing allowed fo...

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04/05/2018 - 5:40pm

BOOKS

FICTION
Rebecca Kauffman The Gunners
Michael Nava Street people
Chuma Nwokolo The extinction of Menai
Tom Rachman The Italian teacher
Mark Sarvas...

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03/30/2018 - 12:28pm

The Zinio for Libraries app will be discontinued in the near future. As a result, we need you to download the RBdigital app on your mobile device to access e-magazines. Your username and password will remain the same. You won't lose any of your previously checked out content.

 

Download the Mobile Apps

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