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Celebrate the Newly Renovated Plumb Memorial Library!

April 10, 2023680 Views Book Sale, Plumb Memorial Library, Renovation, Music, Art, Party

The Plumb Memorial Library will be hosting an Open House celebrating the completion of the renovation with a variety of Read More

The Elderly Brothers: Rock Out to the Oldies!

July 21, 20221405 Views Music

Friday, August 5, 6:00pmRegistration required. Register Online. Long-time popular solo artists, T-Bone Stankus and Brian Gillie have teamed up as Read More

Wowbrary Service

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You can see this week’s listings below:

New Items at the
Plumb Memorial Library

The Penguin: Season 1

The Penguin: Season 1

Trolls Band Together

Trolls Band Together

Tulsa King: Season Two

Tulsa King: Season Two

Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival in Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen

Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival in Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen

New England Brunch: Seasonal Midday Meals for Leisurely Weekends

New England Brunch: Seasonal Midday Meals for Leisurely Weekends

Super-Italian: More Than 110 Indulgent Recipes Using Italy's Healthiest Foods

Super-Italian: More Than 110 Indulgent Recipes Using Italy's Healthiest Foods

Clever Girl: Jurassic Park (Electronic Format)

Clever Girl: Jurassic Park (Electronic Format)

Now They're All Here: The King Family; Over 100 Years of Entertainment from America's First Family of Song

Now They're All Here: The King Family; Over 100 Years of Entertainment from America's First Family of Song

Make Magic: The Book of Inspiration You Didn't Know You Needed

Make Magic: The Book of Inspiration You Didn't Know You Needed

The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward (Electronic Format)

The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward (Electronic Format)

Barbara

Counting Backwards

Counting Backwards

Early Thirties

Elphie: A Wicked Childhood

Elphie: A Wicked Childhood

The Colony Club

The Colony Club

The Old Girls' Chateau Escape (Electronic Format)

The Old Girls' Chateau Escape (Electronic Format)

The One Before the One (Electronic Format)

The One Before the One (Electronic Format)

The Story She Left Behind

The Story She Left Behind

Three Days in June (Electronic Format)

Three Days in June (Electronic Format)

Tilt

The Penguin: Season 1

DVDs

The Penguin: Season 1

Starring Colin Farrell in the title role, the DC Studios drama THE PENGUIN continues The Batman epic crime saga that filmmaker Matt Reeves began with Warner Bros. Pictures' global blockbuster and centers on the character played by Farrell in the film.

Trolls Band Together

DVDs

Trolls Band Together

Poppy discovers that Branch and his four brothers were once part of her favorite boy band. When one of his siblings, Floyd, gets kidnapped by a pair of nefarious villains, Branch and Poppy embark on a harrowing and emotional journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd from a fate even worse

Tulsa King: Season Two

DVDs

Tulsa King: Season Two

THE BOSS IS BACK IN SEASON 2! Dwight (Sylvester Stallone) and his crew continue to build up and defend their growing empire in Tulsa, but just as they get their bearings, they realize that they’re not the only ones who want to stake their claim. With looming threats from the Kansas City mob and a very

Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival in Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen

Biographies & Memoirs

Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival in Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen

By Renee Salt and Kate Thompson. One of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her family's imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope."A deeply moving memoir, beautifully written and researched."—Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling

New England Brunch: Seasonal Midday Meals for Leisurely Weekends

Cooking, Food & Wine

New England Brunch: Seasonal Midday Meals for Leisurely Weekends

By Tammy Donroe Inman. A culinary journey through local flavors and global influences, featuring 100+ creative recipes for every season.Brunch can lean sweet or savory. It can be as low-key or as luxe as you like. And making brunch at home allows you to get creative with local and seasonal ingredients—like

Super-Italian: More Than 110 Indulgent Recipes Using Italy's Healthiest Foods

Cooking, Food & Wine

Super-Italian: More Than 110 Indulgent Recipes Using Italy's Healthiest Foods

By Giada De Laurentiis. Discover the Italian approach to healthful eating—where nothing is off the menu—with 100 delicious, superfood-packed recipes from New York Times bestselling author Giada De Laurentiis.From the day Giada De Laurentiis started cooking professionally, her fundamental formula for

Clever Girl: Jurassic Park (Electronic Format)

Entertainment

Clever Girl: Jurassic Park (Electronic Format)

By Hannah McGregor. In Electronic Format A smart and incisive exploration of everyone’s favorite dinosaur movie and the female dinosaurs who embody what it means to be angry, monstrous, and freeThe Jurassic Park series is one of the most famous and profitable movie franchises of all time — an entire

Now They're All Here: The King Family; Over 100 Years of Entertainment from America's First Family of Song

Entertainment

Now They're All Here: The King Family; Over 100 Years of Entertainment from America's First Family of Song

By Cam Clarke and Lex De Azevedo, II. Now They're All Here is more than just a celebration of television history; it's a family album from one of America's most iconic entertainment families. The King Family has been performing together (and with solo careers) since the 1920s: vaudeville, radio, musical

Make Magic: The Book of Inspiration You Didn't Know You Needed

Religion & Spirituality

Make Magic: The Book of Inspiration You Didn't Know You Needed

By Brad Meltzer. "If you really want to shock the world, unleash your kindness."Based on bestselling author Brad Meltzer’s viral commencement speech for his son’s graduating class at the University of Michigan, Make Magic is the little book of hope for anyone who has ever wished for more. More authenticity.

The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward (Electronic Format)

Religion & Spirituality

The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward (Electronic Format)

By Malcolm Foley. In Electronic Format "A forceful call to recognize the roots of American inequality and a solid starting point for Christians who want to help fix them."--Publishers WeeklyRacism is not about hate and ignorance. It's about greed. And it always has been.Black Christian historian Malcolm

Barbara

Literature & Fiction

By Joni Murphy. Like Nolan’s Oppenheimer by way of Lucia Berlin, a radiant novel tracking the lifecycle of a silver screen starlet rising against the backdrop of the Atomic Age.Barbara is born shortly before World War II and lives through the conflict as a desert child trailing her father, an engineer

Counting Backwards

Literature & Fiction

Counting Backwards

By Binnie Kirshenbaum. A middle-aged couple struggles with the husband’s descent into early onset Lewy Body dementia in this profound and deeply moving novel shot through with Kirshenbaum’s lacerating humor.It begins with hallucinations. From their living room window, Leo sees a man on stilts, an acting

Early Thirties

Literature & Fiction

By Josh Duboff. A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about two thirtysomething best friends’ messy search for connection and love in New York, perfect for fans of Rebecca Serle, Gabrielle Zevin, and Dolly Alderton.Sometimes friendship can be its own love story.Victor and Zoey are getting old—well,

Elphie: A Wicked Childhood

Literature & Fiction

Elphie: A Wicked Childhood

By Gregory Maguire. What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West—setting the stage for the blockbuster

The Colony Club

Literature & Fiction

The Colony Club

By Shelley Noble. From New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a thrilling historical novel about the inception of the Colony Club, the first women’s club of its kind, set against the dazzling backdrop of Gilded Age New York.When young Gilded Age society matron Daisy Harriman is refused

The Old Girls' Chateau Escape (Electronic Format)

Literature & Fiction

The Old Girls' Chateau Escape (Electronic Format)

By Kate Galley. In Electronic Format

The One Before the One (Electronic Format)

Literature & Fiction

The One Before the One (Electronic Format)

By Emma Cooper. In Electronic Format Liv is given the chance to live one life-changing week over, but can she change her future...? And does she want to?When Liv's boyfriend Kit disappeared on a hike, seven years earlier, she thought her life was over. But with the help of their family and friends, she's

The Story She Left Behind

Literature & Fiction

The Story She Left Behind

By Patti Callahan Henry. Inspired by a true literary mystery, New York Times bestselling author of the mesmerizing The Secret Book of Flora Lea returns with the sweeping story of a legendary book, a lost mother, and a daughter’s search for them both.In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington’s magical

Three Days in June (Electronic Format)

Literature & Fiction

Three Days in June (Electronic Format)

By Anne Tyler. In Electronic Format A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding.Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her

Tilt

Literature & Fiction

By Emma Pattee. Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, there’s nothing to do but walk.Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences

New Items at the
Huntington Branch Library

Gladiator II

Separated

The Penguin: Season 1

The Penguin: Season 1

The Room Next Door

The Room Next Door

Tulsa King: Season Two

Tulsa King: Season Two

Care and Feeding: A Memoir

Care and Feeding: A Memoir

Immemorial

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

On My Honor: The Secret History of the Boy Scouts of America

On My Honor: The Secret History of the Boy Scouts of America

Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco

Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity

We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity

Bitter & Sweet: Global Flavors from an Iranian-American Kitchen

Bitter & Sweet: Global Flavors from an Iranian-American Kitchen

Delicious Tonight: Foolproof Recipes for 150+ Easy Dinners

Delicious Tonight: Foolproof Recipes for 150+ Easy Dinners

Home Food: 100 Recipes to Comfort and Connect: Ukraine, Cyprus, Italy, England, and Beyond

Home Food: 100 Recipes to Comfort and Connect: Ukraine, Cyprus, Italy, England, and Beyond

Last Minute Brunch Party: Over 100 Inspiring Dishes to Feed Family and Friends at a Moment's Notice

Last Minute Brunch Party: Over 100 Inspiring Dishes to Feed Family and Friends at a Moment's Notice

Gladiator II

DVDs

Twenty years after the death of gladiator Maximus, his son Lucius is captured in Carthage when it falls to the Romans. Trained as a gladiator and brought back to fight in the Colosseum as an anonymous barbarian, Lucius quickly gains notoriety and becomes the center of a power struggle for the very fate

Separated

DVDs

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes the darkest chapter in recent American history: family separations. Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family’s plight with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored

The Penguin: Season 1

DVDs

The Penguin: Season 1

Starring Colin Farrell in the title role, the DC Studios drama THE PENGUIN continues The Batman epic crime saga that filmmaker Matt Reeves began with Warner Bros. Pictures' global blockbuster and centers on the character played by Farrell in the film.

The Room Next Door

DVDs

The Room Next Door

Successful novelist Ingrid (Julianne Moore) reached out to onetime magazine colleague Martha (Tilda Swinton) upon learning of her battle with cervical cancer. As the old friends reconnected, Martha opened up about a past marked by estrangement from family, as well as a physically painful present... and

Tulsa King: Season Two

DVDs

Tulsa King: Season Two

THE BOSS IS BACK IN SEASON 2! Dwight (Sylvester Stallone) and his crew continue to build up and defend their growing empire in Tulsa, but just as they get their bearings, they realize that they’re not the only ones who want to stake their claim. With looming threats from the Kansas City mob and a very

Care and Feeding: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Care and Feeding: A Memoir

By Laurie Woolever. A candid, funny, and occasionally devastating memoir of a woman making her way through the food world, navigating addiction, a cultural reckoning, and an unexpected tragedyIn this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood

Immemorial

Biographies & Memoirs

By Lauren Markham. "Markham delivers a probing meditation on grief, memory, and memorialization... Plaintive and powerful, this is hard to forget."—Publishers WeeklyA speculative essay on language in the face of climate catastrophe: how we memorialize what has been lost and what soon will be, pushing

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You

Biographies & Memoirs

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You

By Neko Case. Singer-songwriter Neko Case paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary life—one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood in “slummy, one-horse towns”; obsessive desire; bursts of comedy; and indispensable friendships, reflecting on the way art, music, and a deep connection to nature

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Biographies & Memoirs

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

By Sarah Wynn-Williams. An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.From trips on

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

Biographies & Memoirs

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

By Nancy Goldstone. From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe—Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France—and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue,

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

History

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

By John Green. John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease. Signed editionTuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia.

On My Honor: The Secret History of the Boy Scouts of America

History

On My Honor: The Secret History of the Boy Scouts of America

By Kim Christensen. From a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, the shocking rise and fall of an American institution.Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has been the nation’s premier youth organization, espousing self-reliance and honor. More than 100 million Americans have been Boy

Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco

History

Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco

By Gary Krist. The sensational, forgotten true story of a woman who murdered her married lover in Gilded Age San Francisco and the trial that epitomized the city's transformation from raucous frontier town into modern metropolis—from the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of SinShortly before

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Society

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the convergence of mass protest and mass formations of mutual aid, and consider what this confluence of power can teach us

Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

Society

Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

By David Enrich. David Enrich, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and the #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers, produces his most consequential and far-reaching investigation yet: an in-depth exposé of the broad campaign—orchestrated by elite Americans—to overturn sixty years of Supreme

We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity

Society

We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity

By Phillip C. McGraw. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and beloved television host comes We’ve Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity, a new book on how to come home to our core values, fortify our families and re-embrace self-determination and self-governance.Do

Bitter & Sweet: Global Flavors from an Iranian-American Kitchen

Cooking, Food & Wine

Bitter & Sweet: Global Flavors from an Iranian-American Kitchen

By Omid Roustaei. Discover a world of flavors in this elegantly designed cookbook from Omid Roustaei—the Caspian Chef—featuring 75 mouthwatering recipes that blend Iranian dishes with global cuisines, accompanied by moving stories of Omid’s life and culinary journey from Iran to the US.Bitter & Sweet

Delicious Tonight: Foolproof Recipes for 150+ Easy Dinners

Cooking, Food & Wine

Delicious Tonight: Foolproof Recipes for 150+ Easy Dinners

By Nagi Maehashi. Global best-selling home cook Nagi Maehashi is back to solve the perennial problem of what’s for dinner tonight . . . and every night.Following her debut New York Times best-selling cookbook, Dinner, Nagi brings us more than 150 brand-new, fully Americanized recipes, 800 variations

Home Food: 100 Recipes to Comfort and Connect: Ukraine, Cyprus, Italy, England, and Beyond

Cooking, Food & Wine

Home Food: 100 Recipes to Comfort and Connect: Ukraine, Cyprus, Italy, England, and Beyond

By Olia Hercules. Acclaimed Ukrainian chef and food writer Olia Hercules shares 100 comforting recipes that can unite us no matter where we are from and where we end up.In her most personal book yet, Olia Hercules distills a lifetime of kitchen curiosity into her 100 most loved recipes. She draws on

Last Minute Brunch Party: Over 100 Inspiring Dishes to Feed Family and Friends at a Moment's Notice

Cooking, Food & Wine

Last Minute Brunch Party: Over 100 Inspiring Dishes to Feed Family and Friends at a Moment's Notice

By Amelia Wasiliev. With its mix of light and rich, sweet and savory, caffeinated and boozy offerings, brunch is one of the most popular meals to host. But just like dinner parties, brunches can be stressful to host. Last Minute Brunch Party solves this problem with tips and tricks to make your next

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