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Staff Picks

Things take an unexpected turn at a small H.P. Lovecraft fan convention when one of the featured writers is gruesomely murdered

I Am Providence

Isaiah Pittman

Librarian

Four generations; one amazing journey

All the Way to America

Summer Reading Committee

New & Noteworthy

The Reason You're Alive

Matthew Quick

Adults

Fiction

Woolly

Ben Mezrich

Adults

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The Long Drop

Denise Mina

Adults

Mystery

Kiss Carlo

Adriana Trigiani

Adults

Romance

Persons Unknown

Susie Steiner

Adults

Mystery

Star Wars: Han Solo

Marjorie Liu

Adults

Graphic Novel

Words in Deep Blue

Cath Crowley

Teens

Fiction

Queer, There, and Everywhere

Sarah Prager

Teens

Nonfiction

Fighterfighter Duckies!

Frank Dormer

Kids

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Margaret and the Moon

Dean Robbins

Kids

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The Librarian Is In.

Summer Reading Challenge, Greeks vs. Romans: The Librarian is In, Ep. 48

For Summer Reading, Gwen and Frank chose a book for each other that they thought they'd love but would never read otherwise.

Gwen Glazer

Librarian, Readers Services

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Podcast #173: Phillip Glass, Words Without Music

The giant of 20th-century American music took to the LIVE stage in June.

Aidan Flax-Clark

Manager of Public Programs

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