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January
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On Shelf
99 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Easthampton Public Library - General Adult
940.531 BATALION
1 available
940.531 BATALION
1 available
Available from another library
6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Witnesses to the murder of their families and the destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland became the nerves of a wide-ranging resistance network that fought the Nazis. The Light of Days reveals the real history of these women whose little-known feats have been eclipsed by time." -- Back cover.
Documents the essential World War II contributions of Jewish-Polish female resistance fighters, sharing the stories of courageous...
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February
On Shelf
152 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Easthampton Public Library - General Adult
FIC GILBERT ELI CIT
1 available
FIC GILBERT ELI CIT
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Description
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College,...
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March
On Shelf
105 copies.
Easthampton Public Library - General Adult
FIC GARCIA GAB OF
1 available
FIC GARCIA GAB OF
1 available
Available Online
9 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
35 copies.
Easthampton Public Library - General Adult
LP FIC GARCIA GAB OF
1 available
LP FIC GARCIA GAB OF
1 available
Description
A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them was born. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...
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April
Available Online
3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.' Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die--from starvation, or disease, or even execution. This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest,...
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May
Checked Out
35 copies, 190 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
39 copies, 473 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
39 copies, 473 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
50 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, has little...
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June
On Shelf
45 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Easthampton Public Library - General Adult
AUD CD BRADBURY RAY FAH
1 available
AUD CD BRADBURY RAY FAH
1 available
Checked Out
10 copies, 34 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 43 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 43 people are on the wait list.
Description
FAHRENHEIT 451: the temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns. In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
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July
Checked Out
1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Join 'America's funniest science writer' (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict,...
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Winternight trilogy volume 1
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August
Checked Out
4 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
6 copies.
Easthampton Public Library - General Adult
LP FIC ARDEN KAT BEA
1 available
LP FIC ARDEN KAT BEA
1 available
Description
"A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern'sThe Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind--she spends the winter nights huddled around the...
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September
On Shelf
179 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Easthampton Public Library - General Adult
FIC BENNETT BRI VAN
1 available
FIC BENNETT BRI VAN
1 available
Available Online
22 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 34 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 34 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
33 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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October
On Shelf
102 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Easthampton Public Library - General Adult
814.6 GREEN
1 available
814.6 GREEN
1 available
Checked Out
7 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale--from QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar. Funny, complex, and rich with detail, the reviews chart the contradictions of contemporary humanity. John Green's...
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November
On Shelf
7 copies.
Easthampton Public Library - General Adult
LP FIC MATHIS AYA TWE
1 available
LP FIC MATHIS AYA TWE
1 available
Description
In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them for...
