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Collections

Clift Rodgers Library is a recreational library with approximately 9,000 books in our collection – 6,000 for adults and 3,000 for children. Since we are an independent library, there are short waiting lists – or no waiting lists at all - for books.

A wide variety of current fiction and non-fiction is available as well as classic works by authors such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Mark Twain. A lighter collection, known as the "Peggy Beals' semi-classics," includes many cherished novelists like Joseph Lincoln, John Buchan, and D.E. Stevenson. Adult nonfiction offers biography, health books, cookbooks, gardening, and more.

The children's collection includes picture books, early readers, fiction chapter books, and popular mysteries. In juvenile nonfiction are biographies and nature and science books. A young adult section features many popular authors. Ongoing programs include a weekly story hour during the school year for young children, and a book club in the summer for
all ages.

Our limited space precludes a reference section, but we can help with some requests.

Below are adult books added to the collection this year:

May 2013

Inferno
by Dan Brown
And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini
The Ophelia Cut
by John Lescroart
Silken Prey by John Sandford
Benjamin Franklin's Bastard by Sally Cabot
Starting Now by Debbie Macomber
Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer
Cooked by Michael Pollan
Don't Go by Lisa Scottoline
The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver
The Good House by Ann Leary
The Hit by David Baldacci
No Way Back by Andrew Gross
Taking Eve Iris Johansen
Unintended Consequences by Stuart Woods
The Woman Upstairs by Clair Messud
Lazarus by Ray Amorosi


April 2013

Old School Comfort Food by Alex Guarnaschelli
Benediction by Kent Haruf
Burgess Boys
by Elizabeth Strout
Death of Yesterday
by M. C. Beaton
Girls of Atomic City
by Denise Kiernan
Golden Egg
by Donna Leon
Last Letter from Your Lover
by Jo Jo Moyes
Leaving Everything Most Loved
by Jacqueline Winspear
Me Before You
by Jo Jo Moyer
Obituary Writer
by Ann Hood
6 Years
by Harlan Coben
Hitman
by Howie Carr
Operation Mincemeat
by Ben MacIntyre

March 2013

Call the Midwife
by Jennifer Worth
The Girl in the Garden
by Kamala Nair
The Borrower
by Rebecca Makkai
Distant Shores
by Kristin Hannah
The Buddha in the Attic
by Julie Otsuka
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
by Jan-Philipp Sendker
City of Women
by David R. Gillham
The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult
The Boyfriend by Thomas Perry
The Painted Girls
by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Resolve by Bob Welch
My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business by Dick Van Dyke
Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Blood Stains by Catriona McPherson

February 2013

A Week in Winter
by Maeve Binchy
Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson
Blackberry Winter by Sarah Jio
Deadly Stakes by J.A. Jance
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander, M.D.
The Sound of Broken Glass by Deborah Crombie
Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner
Violets of March by Sarah Jio
Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Proof of Guilt by Charles Todd

January 2013

Suspect by Robert Crais
The Language Wars
by Henry Hitchings
The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Francona: The Red Sox Years
by Terry Francona and Dan Shaughnessy
Standing on Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin
The Fifth Assassin
by Brad Meltzer
The American Heiress
by Daisy Goodwin
The Time of Our Lives
by Tom Brokaw
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
by Ayana Mathis
Because I Said So
by Ken Jennings
Buddy: How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man by Brian McGrory
The Great Pearl Heist by Molly Caldwell Crosby
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
Unsaid by Neil Abramson
What We Saw at Night
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Dear Life
by Alice Munro
Collateral Damage
by Stuart Woods
Boston Noir 2
edited by Dennis Lehane
Blood Money
by James Grippando




 

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