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Piano servicing, tuning, & rebuilding : for the professional, the student, the hobbyist

Recent Arrivals - Book - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 3:07am

Author: Reblitz, Arthur A., author.
Published: 1976
Call Number: 786.23
Format: Books

Demeter's daughters : the women who founded America, 1587-1787

Recent Arrivals - Book - Sat, 08/08/2020 - 3:07am

Author: Williams, Selma R. Ahern, Mary, book designer.
Published: 1976 1975
Call Number: 920.72
Format: Books
Summary: Details the varied activities of colonial women, the extensive legal rights they enjoyed, and the difficulties they faced in a new land. Includes bibliographical sketches of representative women of that period.

Isabel Wilkerson Talks About ‘Caste’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 1:59pm

Wilkerson describes the ideas about race in America that fuel her new book, and David Hill discusses “The Vapors.”

Hot and Bothered: Four New Romance Novels

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 5:00am

Looking for a pitch-perfect summer escape? We’ve got some recommendations.

New in Paperback: ‘Around the World in 80 Trees’ and ‘The Truths We Hold’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 5:00am

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Three New Memoirs Offer a Glimpse Into the Writer’s Mind

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 5:00am

Literary biographies take you from the ’70s New York underground to a contemporary writer’s residency at Google, recalling all the verses and prose along the way.

Letters to the Editor

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 08/07/2020 - 5:00am

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

'Tomboyland' Stresses The Importance Of Roots — And Knowing When To Grow Up And Away

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 08/06/2020 - 5:00pm

Throughout her essays, Melissa Faliveno is constantly straddling blurry lines, never willing to let any of her topics lie comfortably still, always turning them over to look at another facet.

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Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 08/06/2020 - 3:27pm

“Nabokov’s job in the book is to make you like the monstrous Humbert Humbert. In the 1960s readers were too swinging to see how evil he was and now readers are too prudish to see how charming he can be.”

Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 08/06/2020 - 1:00pm

Two new books look at World War II from the perspectives of outsiders on the fringes of conflict.

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 08/06/2020 - 12:57pm

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Whatever You're Expecting, 'Harrow The Ninth' Is Not That Kind Of Book

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 08/06/2020 - 7:00am

Whatever you expected from Tamsyn Muir's followup to her lesbian-necromancers-in-space epic Gideon the Ninth, this is not that book — it's something wilder, darker and much, much weirder.

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Piano servicing, tuning, & rebuilding : for the professional, the student, the hobbyist

Demeter's daughters : the women who founded America, 1587-1787

Isabel Wilkerson Talks About ‘Caste’

Hot and Bothered: Four New Romance Novels

New in Paperback: ‘Around the World in 80 Trees’ and ‘The Truths We Hold’

Three New Memoirs Offer a Glimpse Into the Writer’s Mind

Letters to the Editor

'Tomboyland' Stresses The Importance Of Roots — And Knowing When To Grow Up And Away

Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’

Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Whatever You're Expecting, 'Harrow The Ninth' Is Not That Kind Of Book

‘Luster,’ by Raven Leilani: An Excerpt

Unfortunately, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.’s Book is Well-Timed

You Can’t Avoid Death, but You Can Make It Easier

In ‘Luster,’ Young Black Women Feel Uneasy in a White American Home

Coming of Age Amid the Troubles

‘The Lost Pianos of Siberia,’ and the Lost Individuals Who Played Them

The Many Varieties of Donald Trump

How Hitler Took the World Into War

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