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Literary Classics Bingo Challenge

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Classics BINGO Beanstack Challenge This October through December, join us for a BINGO challenge inspired by beloved classics!As you read… Read More

Huntington Branch Library Book Bingo

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Book Bingo for Adults! Starting this January 2023! Read a book, cross off a space, make one bingo or complete… Read More

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New Items at the
Plumb Memorial Library

Marshals: Season One

Alexander: God, King, Man

An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

Brady: An American Story and the Price of Greatness

Cancel Me If You Can

The Everest Mystery: Sandy Irvine, George Mallory, and the Truth Still Buried on Everest

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life

Touching All the Bases: A Story of Power, Purpose, and Surviving the Bronx

Shadow Before the Flame: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War

The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World

They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

Are They Dead Yet? The Art of the Obit

The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything

Birth of a Culture

The W: A History of the WNBA

I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends

Return to the Shack: A Journey into Redemption

A Tender Age

Adam and Eve

Marshals: Season One

DVDs

Marshals: Season One

Y: Marshals expands the Yellowstone universe with a gritty neo-Western procedural set in modern-day Montana. Following the explosive conclusion of Yellowstone, Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) leaves ranch life behind to join an elite unit of U. S. Marshals. Combining his skills as a cowboy and former Navy

Brady: An American Story and the Price of Greatness

Biographies & Memoirs

Brady: An American Story and the Price of Greatness

By Lars Anderson. Based on years of in-depth reporting and sources from every corner of his life, Brady is the definitive biography of the life, career, and retirement of one of football’s most legendary figures, Tom Brady.New York Times bestselling author and former Sports Illustrated journalist Lars

The Everest Mystery: Sandy Irvine, George Mallory, and the Truth Still Buried on Everest

Biographies & Memoirs

The Everest Mystery: Sandy Irvine, George Mallory, and the Truth Still Buried on Everest

By Julie Summers and Jochen Hemmleb. The unsolved mysteries of George Mallory, Sandy Irvine, and their legendary 1924 Everest expeditionThere is no mystery more compelling in the history of mountaineering than the disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine close to the summit of Mount Everest on

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life

Biographies & Memoirs

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life

By Helen Whybrow. “Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book—beautiful, real, full of life.”—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature“Sheep have helped me become a good shepherd, not just to them, but to a place that is my sustenance and joy as well as my unending labor

Touching All the Bases: A Story of Power, Purpose, and Surviving the Bronx

Biographies & Memoirs

Touching All the Bases: A Story of Power, Purpose, and Surviving the Bronx

By Dave Winfield. "An ex-Yankee star’s entertaining tell-all details his long-running feud with the team’s mercurial owner."—KirkusA fearless and insightful portrait of power, race, and resilience from one of baseball’s most unique and dynamic Hall of Fame legends, offering an unflinching look at the

Shadow Before the Flame: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War

History

Shadow Before the Flame: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War

By Catherine Grace Katz. The gripping, definitive history of the Hindenburg disaster, the rise of the Nazis, and the road to World War II as never before toldOn the evening of May 6, 1937, the majestic German zeppelin Hindenburg arrived before cheering crowds in Lakehurst, New Jersey, when suddenly,

The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World

History

The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World

By Nathaniel Philbrick. National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States—and lit the long fuse to civil warIn January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold

They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

History

They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

By Lauren Collins. In this ambitious and groundbreaking history, Lauren Collins weaves together stories of four Wilmington, North Carolina, families over 125 years to create a full accounting of the long-term effects of the 1898 white supremacist massacre and coup and its critical role in subverting

Are They Dead Yet? The Art of the Obit

Society

Are They Dead Yet? The Art of the Obit

By Sam Roberts. "Goes down like a dirgeful beach read."-Harper's Magazine"I almost died laughing."-ROZ CHAST"My own departure would not be so bad if only Mr. Roberts could write the obit!"-KAI BIRDFrom celebrated New York Times obituarist Sam Roberts, the art of the obit: Who we remember, how we forget,

The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

Society

The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

By Gil Durán. A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the international stage, exploring the wild and dystopian ambition of the technocrats at its center, and offering a road map to resistance.When Silicon

The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything

Society

The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything

By Kathryn Jezer-Morton. An eye-opening look at how social media shapes the stories we tell and the lives we leadOver the past two decades, platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok have revolutionized how we document and share our lives. We once archived our experiences in photo albums, and now

I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends

Health, Mind & Body

I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends

By Jessica Tarlov. The outspoken liberal voice on the Fox News show The Five shows us how to stay true to our values, find common ground, and communicate with confidence when engaging across political and social divides.Imagine you’re sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner, knowing it’s going to get heated.

Return to the Shack: A Journey into Redemption

Religion & Spirituality

Return to the Shack: A Journey into Redemption

By Wm. Paul Young. In the long-awaited sequel to one of the world’s most beloved and widely read books of the last twenty years―The Shack―unrivaled storyteller Wm. Paul Young leads us back to the great questions of human existence: How does life go on in the face of irreconcilable loss? How can the irredeemable

New Items at the
Huntington Branch Library

Cormac McCarthy: A Legacy Revisited

Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves, and Art of Whitney Houston

Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir About Writing

Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska

The Steps

Madame Composer: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara Schumann

The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence

Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece

Jefferson's Wolf: A Founding Father's Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery

The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America's Innovation Machine

Witchland: A Deadly Moral Panic in Seventeenth-Century Britain

Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era

The Great Refusal: A New Vision of Resistance

This Is Also a Love Story: A Reporter's Search for Goodness in a Cruel World

We Are Called to Rise: The Power of Refugee Women

Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future

Star Fox [Nintendo Switch 2]

A Tender Age

Bitterfeld

Cooking in the Wrong Century

Cormac McCarthy: A Legacy Revisited

Biographies & Memoirs

Cormac McCarthy: A Legacy Revisited

By Tracy Daugherty. A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Cormac McCarthy, from Tracy Daugherty, the New York Times bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist biography Larry McMurtry: A Life.Cormac McCarthy is hailed as one of America’s greatest novelists, often compared

Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves, and Art of Whitney Houston

Biographies & Memoirs

Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves, and Art of Whitney Houston

By Emily Lordi. "A top-notch biography of a generational talent."- Kirkus Reviews (starred)A showstopping portrait of Whitney Houston as we’ve never seen her before—a woman in her full power, a musician who knew the impact of her gift, and a fulcrum of Black celebrity—in this first major biography of

Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir About Writing

Biographies & Memoirs

Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir About Writing

By Harlan Coben. #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben offers a look behind the curtain at his own writing process in an inspiring, candid memoir filled with indispensable insights and techniques.With 100 million books in print world-wide and over twenty blockbuster television and film adaptations

Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska

Biographies & Memoirs

Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska

By Rebecca Wright Stevens. The stunning and complex story of a gruesome double homicide in the vibrant Inupiat community at the northernmost edge of the Alaska—and the public defender who represented the drifter at its centerIn her early forties, Rebecca Wright, a defense attorney living in Olympia,

Madame Composer: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara Schumann

Biographies & Memoirs

Madame Composer: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara Schumann

By Sarah Fritz. A triumphant and striking portrait of a cultural icon who changed the course of music history, and an invitation to reconsider artistic legacies.A child prodigy equal to Mozart, Paganini called her a “genuine artist;” Goethe said “she plays with the strength of six boys.” She premiered

The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence

Computers & Internet

The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence

By Kevin Roose. "Exciting and brilliantly reported . . . Roose makes the technology understandable while also conveying the historic nature of a new world being born."―Walter Isaacson, author of Elon MuskThis is the story of the twenty-first century’s Manhattan Project: the race to create artificial

Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece

History

Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece

By Adrian Goldsworthy. From an award-winning historian, the definitive history of classical Greece and the rivalry between its two greatest citiesNo period has more profoundly influenced the Western world than classical Greece, and at its center stood two cities: Athens and Sparta. Side by side, they

Jefferson's Wolf: A Founding Father's Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery

History

Jefferson's Wolf: A Founding Father's Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery

By Christa Dierksheide and Nicholas Guyatt. A decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United States.Toward the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson made his

The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America's Innovation Machine

History

The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America's Innovation Machine

By Josh Dean. The extraordinary true story of Lockheed Martin's “Skunk Works”—the radical innovation hub that designed the greatest airplanes of the twentieth century—and the visionary who made it all possibleIt began with a humble warehouse building in Burbank, California, and a charismatic young engineer

Witchland: A Deadly Moral Panic in Seventeenth-Century Britain

History

Witchland: A Deadly Moral Panic in Seventeenth-Century Britain

By Marion Gibson. The captivating, compassionate account of a moral panic that swept across Britain in the decades before the Salem Witch Trials, leaving hundreds of so-called witches dead in its wake, by acclaimed historian and bestselling author Marion Gibson.During the English Civil War of the 1640s,

Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era

Society

Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era

By Susan Neiman. The eminent moral philosopher Susan Neiman shows how naming and confronting evil is essential for preserving democracy in an age of demagogues.Call It Evil is a bold reckoning with one of the most fraught words in our vocabulary. Far from being a religious or outdated concept, evil is

The Great Refusal: A New Vision of Resistance

Society

The Great Refusal: A New Vision of Resistance

By Casey Gerald. In the spirit of American cultural prophecy―from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Rebecca Solnit―acclaimed writer Casey Gerald offers a groundbreaking work of joyous dissent and stunning vision, a survival guide to a society in crisis.“Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political,

This Is Also a Love Story: A Reporter's Search for Goodness in a Cruel World

Society

This Is Also a Love Story: A Reporter's Search for Goodness in a Cruel World

By Sally Hayden. An acclaimed reporter takes us on an unforgettable journey, capturing the human capacity for love and connection against all odds.We live in an era defined by crisis—whether it be war and displacement, climate collapse, or growing inequality, and how the powerful profit from violence

We Are Called to Rise: The Power of Refugee Women

Society

We Are Called to Rise: The Power of Refugee Women

By Jina Krause-Vilmar. A rousing, inspiring call-to-action that encourages us to embrace the economic potential of refugee women and break the invisible barriers that constrain their powerEvery day, thousands of women are forced from their homes by armed conflict, persecution, and violence. Jina Krause-Vilmar

Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future

Society

Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future

By Rye Barcott. From a U. S. Marine and co-founder of With Honor, and written ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, comes the story of principled veterans who work across party lines to shape our nation and inspire us to serve with courage in our own lives.* Mikie Sherrill

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