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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 BER
1 available
028.9 BER
1 available
Valley Cottage Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 BER
1 available
028.9 BER
1 available
Description
The healing power of reading has been renowned since Aristotle; focus, flow and enlightenment can all be discovered through this universal act.
The Art of Mindful Reading embraces the joy of absorbing words on a page, encouraging a state of mind as deeply therapeutic and vital to our wellbeing as breathing.
Bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud asks if reading is our daily nourishment how best should it be consumed? How should you read mindfully? And why...
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Florida Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
381.45 McP
1 available
381.45 McP
1 available
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
381.45 MCP
1 available
381.45 MCP
1 available
Orangeburg Library - Adult Nonfiction
381.45 McP
1 available
381.45 McP
1 available
Description
Whether curled up on a sofa with a good mystery, lounging by the pool with a steamy romance, or brooding over a classic novel, Americans love to read. Despite the distractions of modern living, nothing quite satisfies many individuals more than a really good book. And regardless of how one accesses that book-through a tablet, a smart phone, or a good, old-fashioned hardcover-those choices have been tallied for decades.
In Bestseller: A Century of...
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Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 Har
1 available
028.9 Har
1 available
Valley Cottage Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
028.8083 HAR
1 available
028.8083 HAR
1 available
Washingtonville-Moffat Library of Washingtonville - Parenting
PAR 649.58 HAR
1 available
PAR 649.58 HAR
1 available
Description
"Needed now more than ever: a guide that includes 500 diverse contemporary fiction and memoir recommendations for preteens and teens with the goal of inspiring greater empathy for themselves, their peers, and the world around them. As young people are diagnosed with anxiety and depression in increasing numbers, or dealing with other issues that can isolate them from family and friends--such as bullying, learning disabilities, racism, or homophobia--characters...
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Chester Public Library - Adult Fiction
Green
1 available
Green
1 available
Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Fiction
Green
1 available
Green
1 available
Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Fiction
FIC Green
1 available
FIC Green
1 available
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP GREEN
1 available
LP GREEN
1 available
Nanuet Public Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Green
1 available
LP Green
1 available
Pine Bush Area Public Library District - Popular Large Type
LP GREEN
1 available
LP GREEN
1 available
Description
"In 1942, an impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to close the library, she invents a book club to keep its doors open. The women she convinces to attend the first meeting couldn't be more different -- a wealthy spinster determined to aid the war effort, an...
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Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 Dirda
1 available
028.9 Dirda
1 available
Haverstraw Garnerville - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 Dir
1 available
028.9 Dir
1 available
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 DIR
1 available
028.9 DIR
1 available
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Blauvelt Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
956.9104 Min
1 available
956.9104 Min
1 available
Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Nonfiction
956.91 Min
1 available
956.91 Min
1 available
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
956.910423 MIN
1 available
956.910423 MIN
1 available
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Nanuet Public Library - Adult Large Type Nonfiction
LP 956.9104 Min
1 available
LP 956.9104 Min
1 available
Stony Point-Rose Memorial Library - Adult Nonfiction
LP / 956.91 MIN
1 available
LP / 956.91 MIN
1 available
Suffern Free Library - Adult Large Type Nonfiction
LP / 956.91 MIN
1 available
LP / 956.91 MIN
1 available
Description
"Daraya is a town outside Damascus, the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Long a site of peaceful resistance to the Assad regimes, Daraya fell under siege in 2012. For four years, no one entered or left, and aid was blocked. Every single day, bombs fell on this place--a place of homes and families, schools and children, now emptied and broken into bits. And then a group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books in the rubble....
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Chester Public Library - Adult Fiction
Ozeki
1 available
Ozeki
1 available
Fallsburg Library - Adult Fiction
FIC OZEKI
1 available
FIC OZEKI
1 available
Florida Public Library - Adult Fiction
Oze
1 available
Oze
1 available
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Greenwood Lake Public Library - Adult Fiction
LP Ozeki, R.
1 available
LP Ozeki, R.
1 available
Narrowsburg-Western Sullivan Public Library Tusten Cochecton - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Oze
1 available
LP Oze
1 available
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP OZEKI
1 available
LP OZEKI
1 available
Description
"A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being After the tragic death his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house-a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their...
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Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Fiction
F Swy
1 available
F Swy
1 available
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Fiction
Swyler
1 available
Swyler
1 available
Gardiner Library - Adult Fiction
SWYL
1 available
SWYL
1 available
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP SWYLER
1 available
LP SWYLER
1 available
Nanuet Public Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Swyler
1 available
LP Swyler
1 available
New City Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP SWYLER
1 available
LP SWYLER
1 available
Description
"Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home--a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards, and seldom calls. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious package from...
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Blauvelt Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.5318144 Ryd
1 available
940.5318144 Ryd
1 available
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.5405 Rydell
1 available
940.5405 Rydell
1 available
Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Nonfiction
943.086 Ryd
1 available
943.086 Ryd
1 available
Description
"While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves--Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe's libraries and bookshops, large and small, the...
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Book woman of Trouble Creek volume 2
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Blauvelt Free Library - Adult Fiction
Richardson
1 available
Richardson
1 available
Chester Public Library - Adult Fiction
Richardson
1 available
Richardson
1 available
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Fiction
Richardson
1 available
Richardson
1 available
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Chester Public Library - Adult Book on CD
BCD Richardson
1 available
BCD Richardson
1 available
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Book on CD
Richardson
1 available
Richardson
1 available
Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Book on CD
AUDIO CD Ric
1 available
AUDIO CD Ric
1 available
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Chester Public Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Richardson
1 available
LP Richardson
1 available
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Richardson
1 available
LP Richardson
1 available
Greenwood Lake Public Library - Adult Fiction
LP Richardson, K.
1 available
LP Richardson, K.
1 available
Description
"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...
11) Books for living
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Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 Sch
1 available
028.9 Sch
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Chester Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
028 Schwalbe
1 available
028 Schwalbe
1 available
Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 Schwalbe
1 available
028.9 Schwalbe
1 available
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Monticello-Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library - New Adult Book On CD
B SCHWALBE
1 available
B SCHWALBE
1 available
New City Library - Adult Book on CD
BCD B SCHWALBE
1 available
BCD B SCHWALBE
1 available
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Book on CD
BK/CD 028.9 SCH
1 available
BK/CD 028.9 SCH
1 available
Description
"From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club--a wonderfully engaging new book: both a celebration of reading in general and an impassioned recommendation of specific books that can help guide us through our daily lives. 'I've always believed that everything you need to know you can find in a book, ' writes Will Schwalbe in his introduction to this thought-provoking, heartfelt, and inspiring new book about books....
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Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 Boo
1 available
028.9 Boo
1 available
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
028.8 BOO
1 available
028.8 BOO
1 available
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 BOO
1 available
028.9 BOO
1 available
Description
Collects one hundred reflections by prominent authors, politicians, actors, musicians, and celebrities on a book that changed their lives.
13) The borrower
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Highland Falls Library - Adult Fiction
Fic Mak
1 available
Fic Mak
1 available
Highland Mills-Woodbury Public Library Rushmore Branch - Adult Fiction
MAKKAI, REBECCA
1 available
MAKKAI, REBECCA
1 available
Nanuet Public Library - Adult Fiction
Makkai
1 available
Makkai
1 available
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Walden-Josephine-Louise Public Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Mak
1 available
LP Mak
1 available
Description
In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road.
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly...
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly...
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 DIR
1 available
028.9 DIR
1 available
Narrowsburg-Western Sullivan Public Library Tusten Cochecton - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 Dir
1 available
028.9 Dir
1 available
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 DIR
1 available
028.9 DIR
1 available
Description
Shares personal essays on diverse topics ranging from literary pets and cursive writing to book inscriptions and the pleasures of science fiction conventions.
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Nanuet Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
028.8 Ken
1 available
028.8 Ken
1 available
Nyack Library - Adult Nonfiction
028 SMA
1 available
028 SMA
1 available
Orangeburg Library - Adult Nonfiction
028 Sma
1 available
028 Sma
1 available
Description
"One night in 2014, two readers named Logan Smalley and Stephanie Kent discussed their favorite literary opening lines. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," one suggested. "All of this happened, more or less," the other pointed out. And then, one phrase came immediately to mind: "Call Me Ishmael." As they talked more, the pair wondered what would happen if they invited readers to call a phone number and ask them to leave a voicemail...
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Mobile library mysteries volume 1
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Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Mystery
M San
1 available
M San
1 available
Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Mystery
M Sansom
1 available
M Sansom
1 available
Jeffersonville-Western Sullivan Public Library Jeffersonvill - Adult Mystery
F-M San
1 available
F-M San
1 available
Description
Introducing Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed Ring Road. Israel is an intelligent, shy, passionate, sensitive sort of soul: he's Jewish; he's a vegetarian; he could maybe do with losing a little weight. And he's just arrived in Ireland to take up his first post as a librarian. But the library's been shut down and Israel ends up stranded on the...
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Blauvelt Free Library - Adult Fiction
Doerr
1 available
Doerr
1 available
Chester Public Library - Adult Fiction
Doerr
1 available
Doerr
1 available
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Fiction
Doerr
1 available
Doerr
1 available
On Shelf
Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Book on CD
CD Doe
1 available
CD Doe
1 available
Chester Public Library - Adult Book on CD
BCD Doerr
1 available
BCD Doerr
1 available
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Book on CD
Doerr
1 available
Doerr
1 available
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Checked Out
1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
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Chester Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
002 Rosenbloom
1 available
002 Rosenbloom
1 available
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
002 ROS
1 available
002 ROS
1 available
Nanuet Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
002 Ros
1 available
002 Ros
1 available
Description
"A medical librarian presents a fascinating, terrifying look into history's rarest books-- those bound in human skin-- and the stories of their creation and collection"--
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Eldred-Sunshine Hall Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 Spe
1 available
028.9 Spe
1 available
Florida Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 Spe
1 available
028.9 Spe
1 available
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
028.9 SPE
1 available
028.9 SPE
1 available
Description
If you love to read, and presumably you do since youve picked up this book, you know that some books affect you so profoundly they forever change the way you think about the world. Some books, on the other hand, disappoint you so much you want to throw them against the wall. Either way, its clear that a book can be your new soul mate or the bad relationship you need to end. In Dear Fahrenheit 451, librarian Annie Spence has crafted love letters and...
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Series
Blue Ridge Library mysteries volume 7
On Shelf
Monticello-Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library - Adult Fiction
MYS GILBERT
1 available
MYS GILBERT
1 available
Description
It's early summer, and while Richard Muir and his dance partner, Karla, are preparing their new choreographic piece, Richard's wife, Amy, is gathering the dance's source materials. Based on folktales and the music of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the production is set to premiere at an old cinema that has been converted to a theater. But when dancer Meredith Fox Richard's former fiancé is found dead backstage, Amy is once again propelled into a murder...