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Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick

A fine romance / Candice Bergen (2015 biography, 92 Bergen) Traces the milestone events of the actress’s life, including her first marriage, the birth of her daughter, her work on […]

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 […]

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The eagle huntress / Sony Pictures Classics  (2017 non-fiction DVD, DVD 305.235 Eagle) Follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of […]

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He’arat shulayim = Footnote (2012 movie, DVD Foreign Footnote) Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that […]

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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 […]

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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk : a novel / Kathleen Rooney (2017 fiction, F Rooney) Embarking on a walk across Manhattan on New Year’s Eve in 1984, eighty-five-year-old Lillian Boxfish […]

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How to murder your life : a memoir / Cat Marnell (2017 biography, 92 Marnell) A former beauty editor at “Lucky” describes her secret life as a prescription-drug addict and […]

Reference Librarian Patrice’s Pick

The signature of all things / Elizabeth Gilbert (2013 fiction, F Gilbert) Traces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before […]

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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 […]