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books and music to enjoy this autumn :)

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  • "Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and her assistant Caz--a magically sentient spider plant--have spent the last decade sequestered among the empire's most precious…
    Book, 2024New York : Bramble, Tor Publishing Group, 2024.
  • Pottering

    a Cure for Modern Life

    McGovern, Anna,
    "The perfect antidote to the stuff of life, pottering helps you discover the place where contentment lies. It is the simple joy of doing nothing and something, with a profound truth at its core: the happiness we find when we learn to let go and…
    Book, 2020City Road, London : Laurence King Publishing, Ltd, 2020.
  • Enchantment

    Awakening Wonder in An Anxious Age

    May, Katherine,
    "From the New York Times bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings of awe and wonder available to us all. Many of us feel trapped in a grind of constant change: rolling news cycles, the chatter of social media, our…
    Book, 2023New York : Riverhead Books, 2023.
  • "What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail…
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, 2023.
  • Modoc

    the True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived

    Helfer, Ralph
    "A captivating true story of loyalty, friendship, and high adventure that spans several decades and three continents, Modoc is one of the most remarkable true stories ever told, perfect for fans of The Zookeeper's Wife or Water for…
    Book, 1997New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1997.
  • "In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native Sámi reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and…
    Book, 2023New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
  • "Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion... and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more. Determined to make…
    Book, 2016New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
  • Making Things

    Finding Use, Meaning & Satisfaction in Crafting Everyday Objects

    Boyle, Erin,
    "Through easy-to-follow tutorials for over 100 projects that are both accessible and aspirational, Making Things invites readers to try their hands at a variety of crafts and celebrate the satisfaction that comes from slowly and carefully creating…
    Book, 2024Berkeley, CA : Hardie Grant North America, [2024]
  • "Presenting radical new ways to think about love, the author examines the role of love in our personal and professional lives and how it can be used to end struggles between individuals, communities, and societies." - Available in print & ebook
    Book, 2001New York : Perennial, [2001]
  • Legends & Lattes

    a Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes

    Baldree, Travis, 1977-
    "The much-beloved BookTok sensation from Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes is a novel of high fantasy and low stakes. The new paperback edition will include a very special, never-before-seen bonus story, Pages to Fill. Come take a load off at Viv's…
    Book, 2022New York : TOR, 2022.
  • Available in audiobook, ebook, & eaudiobook
    eBook, 1996New York : Vintage Books, 1996, c1983.
  • "Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse.…
    Book, 2019New York : Flatiron Books, 2019.
  • "The much-acclaimed BookTok sensation, Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six--now newly revised and edited with additional content. The tag #theatlassix has millions of views on TikTok. A dark academic debut fantasy with an established cult following that…
    Book, 2022New York : Tor, 2022.
  • "At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police…
    Book, 2023New York : Dutton, [2023]
  • "Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of HMS Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have…
    Book, 2018New York : Back Bay Books, 2018.
  • "From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime…
    Book, 2018New York, New York : Viking, [2018]
  • "Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret…
    Book, 2021New York : Celadon Books, 2021.
  • "When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn't just any thirteen-year-old: she's the…
    Book, 2024New York : Riverhead Books, 2024.
  • "An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his…
    Book, 2024New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
  • "A modern masterpiece from one of Italys most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrantes inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of…
    Book, 2012New York : Europa Editions, 2012.