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Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick

The marriage of opposites : a novel / Alice Hoffman (2015 historical fiction, F Hoffman) Dreaming of an exotic life in Paris while coming of age in a St. Thomas […]

Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick

Under the wide and starry sky : a novel / Nancy Horan  (2014 fiction, F Horan) Imagines the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson and American […]

Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick

The girl from the Savoy / Hazel Gaynor (2016 historical fiction, F Gaynor) After taking a job as a chambermaid at a grand London hotel, Dolly Lane finds herself propelled […]

Saturday Reference Librarian Christine’s Pick

The white queen / Philippa Gregory (2009 historical fiction, F Gregory) A tale inspired by the War of the Roses follows the conflict from the perspective of Elizabeth Woodville, who […]

Anonymous Reference Librarian’s Pick

The passion of Artemisia / Susan Vreeland (2002 historical fiction, F Vreeland) A sweeping novel, set against the beautiful backdrops of Rome, Florence, and Genoa, vibrantly recreates the life of […]

Library Director Glenn’s Pick

Disgrace / J.M. Coetzee (1999 fiction, F Coetzee) In a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, a fifty-two-year-old college professor who has lost his job for sleeping with a student […]

Circulation Assistant Holly’s Pick

The winter sea / Susanna Kearsley (2010 fiction, F Kearsley) Carrie settles into the shadow of Slains Castle in Scotland, creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors, […]

Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick

West of sunset : a novel / Stewart O’Nan (2015 historical fiction, F O’Nan) A tale inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood finds him reflecting on past […]

Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick

The Paris architect : a novel / Charles Belfoure (2013 historical fiction, F Belfoure) A Parisian architect is paid handsomely to devise secret hiding spaces for Jews in his Nazi-occupied […]