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This column will highlight new arrivals at the Milford Town Library, and trends in what people are reading.
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. Catherine the Great: Portait of a Woman, By Robert K. Massie. From Random House. "The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and …
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. Seal Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden, By Chuck Pfarrer. From St Martin’s Press. "On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D. C.: “Geronimo, Echo, KIA.” These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden’s three-decade-…
The titles at Milford Town Library 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.Steve Jobs, By Walter Isaacson. From Simon & Schuster. “Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years — as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues — Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for …
The titles at Milford Town Library 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 Next Always: Book One of the Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy, By Nora Roberts. From Berkley Trade. "The historic hotel in BoonsBoro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it's getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. As the architect of the family, Beckett's social life consists mostly of talking shop over pizza and beer…
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. Killing Lincoln: The Assassination that Changed America Forever, By Bill O’Reilly. From Henry Holt and Co. "The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history — how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of incredibly bloody battles." 2. Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible: …
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. 77 Shadow Street, By Dean Koontz. From Bantam. "Enter the world of the Pendleton, a beautiful limestone Gilded Age palace that's been converted into a set of highly desirable condominiums. Its tenants feel lucky to live there. Yet luck and the Pendleton have little in common — its years have been colored by madness, kidnappings, murder, and strange, inexplicable accidents." 2. The Sisters …
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, By Caroline Kennedy. From Hyperion. "In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded seven historic interviews about her life with John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time, they can be heard and read in this deluxe, illustrated book and 8-CD set.Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and…
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. Kill Shot, By Vince Flynn. From Atria. "Vince Flynn is back with another nail-biting political thriller that follows the young Mitch Rapp on a deadly mission to hunt down the men responsible for the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack. For months, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the…
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. Amulet #4: the Last Council, By Kazu Kibuishi. From GRAPHIX. "Emily and her friends think they'll find the help they need in Cielis, but something isn't right. Streets that were once busy are deserted, and the townspeople who are left live in crippling fear. Emily is escorted to the Academy where she's expected to compete for a spot on the Guardian Council, the most powerful Stonekeepers. But as …
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, By Thomas L. Friedman. From Farrar, Straus and Giroux. "America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading …
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, By Dick Cheney. From Threshold Editions. "For the first time, former Vice President Dick Cheney opens up about a life and career in politics that has spanned more than four decades." 2. Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure, By Caldwell B. Esselstyn. From Avery. "Based on the groundbreaking …
The titles at Milford Town Library 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 Best of Me, By Nicholas Sparks. From Grand Central Publishing. "The Best of Me is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they've taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world." 2. Cold …
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, By Charles C. Mann. From Knopf. "From the author of 1491 — the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas — a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of…
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. Joy Bauer's Food Cures: Eat Right to Get Healthier, Look Younger and Add Years to Your LIfe, By Joy Bauer. From Rodale Books. "In 2007, New York Times bestseller Joy Bauer’s Food Cures taught readers what and how they should eat to achieve optimal health. Now, in a brand new, fully revised edition, Joy brings readers up to date on the most current science and research regarding nutrition and diet…
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. Portrait of a Spy, by Daniel Silva. From Harper. "Gabriel Allon has been hailed as the most compelling creation since 'Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond' (Rocky Mountain News). A man with a deep appreciation for all that is beautiful, Gabriel is also an angel of vengeance, an international operative who will stop at nothing to see justice done. Sometimes he must journey far…
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. A Stolen Life: A Memoir, By Jaycee Dugard. From Simon & Schuster. "In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was …
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. Dick Francis's Gamble, By Felix Francis. From Putnam Adult. "Felix Francis continues his father's New York Times- bestselling legacy with another edge-of-your-seat read that's classic Francis. Nicholas "Foxy" Foxton, a former jockey who suffered a career- ending injury, is out for a day at the Grand National races when his friend and coworker Herb Kovak is murdered, execution style, right in …
The titles at Milford Town Library 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." …
The titles at Milford Town Library 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. Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, by Dorothy Wickenden. From Scribner. "A captivating book about Dorothy Wickenden’s grandmother, who left her affluent East Coast life to “rough it” as a teacher in Colorado in 1916." 2. Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld, by Howie Carr. …
The titles at Milford Town Library 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 Help, by Kathryn Stockett. A New York Times bestseller. "Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, …
 
 
 

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