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Read in October 2023
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Keane
1 available
FICTION Keane
1 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
FICTION Keane
1 available
FICTION Keane
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
FICTION Keane,M. Ask
1 available
FICTION Keane,M. Ask
1 available
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT Keane,M. Ask
1 available
LARGE PRINT Keane,M. Ask
1 available
Description
"A family saga about two Irish American families in a New York suburb, the love between two of their children, and the tragedies that threaten to tear them apart and destroy their futures"--
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Read in February 2023
Checked Out
5 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT Wilkerson, C. Black
1 available
LARGE PRINT Wilkerson, C. Black
1 available
Description
"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
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Read in June 2022
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Picoult,J. Book
1 available
FICTION Picoult,J. Book
1 available
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
CD SPOKEN Picoult
1 available
CD SPOKEN Picoult
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
LARGE PRINT Picoult, J. Book
1 available
LARGE PRINT Picoult, J. Book
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
LARGE PRINT Picoult, J. Book
1 available
LARGE PRINT Picoult, J. Book
1 available
Description
"After my son Kyle Ferriera van Leer declared his major in Egyptology at Yale in 2010, he mentioned the Book of Two Ways in passing. Without knowing a thing about it, I said, "That's a great title for a novel." It was only after he began to explain what it actually was that I realized what I needed to write about - the construct of time, and love, and life, and death"--
Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing....
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Read in May 2024
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
797.123 BRO
1 available
797.123 BRO
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
797.123 BRO
1 available
797.123 BRO
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 104 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
14 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
Description
This book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. It traces the story of the team that defeated elite rivals at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of their enigmatic coach, a visionary boat builder, and a homeless teen rower.
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Read in March 2023
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
STAFF PICKS FICTION Reid, T. Carrie
1 available
STAFF PICKS FICTION Reid, T. Carrie
1 available
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT Reid, T. Carrie
1 available
LARGE PRINT Reid, T. Carrie
1 available
Description
"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
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Read in September 2022
Checked Out
5 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT 927.8 Zauner
1 available
LARGE PRINT 927.8 Zauner
1 available
Description
"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
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Read in January 2024
eBook
Checked Out
1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Set against Nantucket's Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear . . . Nantucket in 1846 is an island set apart not just by its geography but by its unique circumstances. With their menfolk away at sea, often for years at a time, women here know a rare independence -- and the challenges that go with it. Eliza Macy is struggling to conceal her financial trouble...
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Read in February 2024
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Chang, L. Family
1 available
FICTION Chang, L. Family
1 available
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT Chang, L. Family
1 available
LARGE PRINT Chang, L. Family
1 available
Description
"The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, content to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. Whether or not Big Leo Chao is honest, or his wife, Winnie, is happy, their food tastes good and their three sons earned scholarships to respectable colleges. But when the brothers reunite in Haven, the Chao family's secrets and simmering resentments...
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Read in December 2021
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
CD SPOKEN Hannah
1 available
CD SPOKEN Hannah
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
CD SPOKEN Hannah
1 available
CD SPOKEN Hannah
1 available
Checked Out
6 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT Hannah, K. Four
1 available
LARGE PRINT Hannah, K. Four
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
LARGE PRINT Hannah,K. Four
1 available
LARGE PRINT Hannah,K. Four
1 available
Description
"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
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Read in March 2022
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
MYSTERY Foley, L. Guest
1 available
MYSTERY Foley, L. Guest
1 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
MYSTERY Foley
1 available
MYSTERY Foley
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
MYSTERY Foley,L. Guest
1 available
MYSTERY Foley,L. Guest
1 available
eBook
Checked Out
2 copies, 37 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 37 people are on the wait list.
Description
On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has...
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Read in April 2024
Description
William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy: his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. His skill on the basketball court earned him a scholarship to a college far away from his childhood home. Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman, surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her three younger sisters: Sylvie, the dreamer, happiest with her nose in a book and dreams...
12) Horse
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Read in July 2023
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Brooks, G. Horse
1 available
FICTION Brooks, G. Horse
1 available
Checked Out
17 copies, 37 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
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Read in January 2022
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Schwab,V. Invisible
1 available
FICTION Schwab,V. Invisible
1 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
FICTION Schwab,V. Invisible
1 available
FICTION Schwab,V. Invisible
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
Description
France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever--and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across...
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Read in November 2021
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION See
2 available
FICTION See
2 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
FICTION See
1 available
FICTION See
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
FICTION See
1 available
FICTION See
1 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their villages all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take...
15) Lady Clementine
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Read in July 2022
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Benedict,M. Lady
1 available
FICTION Benedict,M. Lady
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
FICTION Benedict,M. Lady
1 available
FICTION Benedict,M. Lady
1 available
Description
"New from Marie Benedict, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room! An incredible novel that focuses on one of the people who had the most influence during World War I and World War II: Clementine Churchill. In 1909, Clementine steps off a train with her new husband, Winston. An angry woman emerges from the crowd to attack, shoving him in the direction of an oncoming train. Just before he stumbles, Clementine grabs him by...
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Read in August 2022
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Dave, L. Last
1 available
FICTION Dave, L. Last
1 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
FICTION Dave, L. Last
1 available
FICTION Dave, L. Last
1 available
Checked Out
6 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT Dave, L. Last
1 available
LARGE PRINT Dave, L. Last
1 available
Description
"Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers- Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as a US marshal...
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Read in December 2023
Checked Out
24 copies, 134 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT Garmus, B. Lessons
2 available
LARGE PRINT Garmus, B. Lessons
2 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
LARGE PRINT Garmus, B. Lessons
1 available
LARGE PRINT Garmus, B. Lessons
1 available
Description
"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
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Read in October 2022
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Towles, A. Lincoln
1 available
FICTION Towles, A. Lincoln
1 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
FICTION Towles, A. Lincoln
1 available
FICTION Towles, A. Lincoln
1 available
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
CD SPOKEN Towles
1 available
CD SPOKEN Towles
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
CD SPOKEN Towles
1 available
CD SPOKEN Towles
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
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Read in February 2022
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Jin,M. Little
1 available
FICTION Jin,M. Little
1 available
Description
"On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China--to her,...
20) The maid
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Read in April 2023
Checked Out
6 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT Prose, N. Maid
1 available
LARGE PRINT Prose, N. Maid
1 available
Description
"A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery--in this utterly original debut. Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since...