Movies

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As many of you know, we are open with limited access.  We are still open with our Pick-Up Window, at the rear of the building, as well. Many of us (staff as well as patrons) have been keeping lists of items we would like to borrow from the library, or libraries when you include the Minerva lending system.  I know that my list grew rather rapidly, and by the time the items were available for requesting, there were many other folks ahead of me in the queue. So, that led me to . . . . What can I find …

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New Items ~ July 2020

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FICTION All adults here by Emma Straub.  A funny and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family – as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes. The ancestor by Danielle Trussoni.  A bewitching gothic novel of suspense that plunges readers into a world of dark family secrets, the mysteries of human genetics, and the burden of family inheritance. The astonishing life of August March by Aaron Jackson.  An irrepressibly optimistic oddball orphan is thrust into the wilds of postwar New York City after an extraordinary childhood in a …

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New Items ~ March 2020

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FICTION The authenticity project by Clare Pooley.  The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship…and even love. A beautiful crime by Christopher Bollen.  A twisty story of deception, set in contemporary Venice and featuring a young American couple who have set their sights on a high-stakes con. Cesare by Jerome Charyn.  Beginning in 1937 Germany, this is a literary thriller and love story born of the horrors of a country whose culture has died, whose history has been warped, and whose soul has disappeared. The chill by Scott Carson.  A century …

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February Events ~ 2020

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Children’s Events ~ February 2020 Just letting you know some of the upcoming events in February. Story & Craft Time Tuesday, Feb. 18th & 25th We will have a story, songs and a craft at 10:00 am for preschoolers.   Free Movie night at the Gardiner Public Library Born in China Thursday, February 20th Movie starts at 6:00 pm Doors open at 5:30 pm Children must be accompanied by an adult. Hosted by the Gardiner Library Association.   Art @ the Library will be presented by Upstream Tuesday, Feb. 25th from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. Paint a wooden fish for …

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New Items ~ February 2020

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FICTION American dirt by Jeanine Cummins.  Intensely suspenseful and deeply humane, this novel makes migrants seeking to cross the southern US border indelibly individual. The bells of hell by Michael Kurland.  A counter-intelligence agent recruits a number of civilians to help foil a suspected terrorist attack by German spies in New York in 1938. The better liar by Tanen Jones.  When a woman conceals her sister’s death to claim their joint inheritance, her deception exposes a web of dangerous secrets. The blaze by Chad Dundas.  One man knows the connection between two extraordinary acts of arson, fifteen years apart, in …

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New Items ~ January 2020

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FICTION Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin.  Set in a small Nova Scotia Town settled by former slaves, this depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. After Kilimanjaro by Gayle Woodson.  Medical fiction of this kind is rare – it’s not a thriller or tearjerker, but a thoughtful novel about doctors, the work they do, and the impact that has on their patients. The Andromeda evolution by Michael Crichton.  In this sequel to the techno-thriller that started it all, the threat returns in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.  …

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