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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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