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Top 5 New Book Arrivals

The following titles are available at Milford Town Library this week, according to wowbrary.com

The titles at are constantly being updated. According to an online service Wowbrary.com, which compiles lists of new titles at public libraries, Milford now has the following:

1. The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture, By David Mamet. From Sentinel HC.

"David Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics. In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-called mainstream media outlets he relied on were irredeemably biased, peddling a hypocritical and deeply flawed worldview."

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2. Summer Rental, by Mary Kay Andrews. From St. Martin's Press.

"Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction…. Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices she's made over the past decade of her life."

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3. Robopocalypse, By Daniel H. Wilson. From Doubleday.

"They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you.Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication."

4. The Aging Myth: Unlocking the Mysteries of Looking and Feeling Young, By Joseph Chang PhD. From Aylesbury Publishing, LLC.

"Do you wonder why some people look and feel younger than their actual age while others appear older than they really are? Do you believe that the way you age is genetically predetermined? Do you believe your aging destiny is inherited on the day you are conceived? Do you feel helpless about aging, as if there is nothing you can do about it? You do not have to buy into the myths about aging."

5. Divergent, By Veronica Roth. From Katherine Tegen Books.

"In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives."


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