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Directions to NOBLE
NOBLE : North of Boston Library Exchange
5 Cherry Hill Drive, Suite 250
Danvers, Mass. 01923
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Directions from the South on 128
- Take 128 north to Exit 45, Route 1A – take second 1A exit (north)
- Go under 128 bridge, get in left lane, and take left at traffic light
- You are now on Conant St. Follow Conant St. through light, up the hill and past first Cherry Hill Corporate Center entrance
- Go past ice cream stand and take next right into the park
- NOBLE is the first building on the right, a multi-story brick office building.
- You can enter through the front door (with stairs) into the lobby. Veer to the hallway to the right, the elevator is immediately on the left. Go to the second floor and turn right out of the elevator.
- The rear of the building has an entry ramp and handicapped parking spaces. Enter the building, veer left down the hall and the elevator is on the right past the rest rooms. Go up to the second floor and go right out of the elevator.
Directions from the North on 128
- Take Route 128 to Exit 44
- Turn Left off the ramp onto Conant St.
- Take the first right into Cherry Hill Corporate Center
- NOBLE is the first building on the right, a multi-story brick office building.
- You can enter through the front door (with stairs) into the lobby. Veer to the hallway to the right, the elevator is immediately on the left. Go to the second floor and turn right out of the elevator.
- The rear of the building has an entry ramp and handicapped parking spaces. Enter the building, veer left down the hall and the elevator is on the right past the rest rooms. Go up to the second floor and go right out of the elevator.
From the West and North (via Rt. 114, Rt. 62 or I-95):
- Follow Rt. 114 South or Rt. 62 East to Middleton Square. Follow Rt. 62 through Middleton and into Danvers.
- At the lights at Rt. I-95 and Rt. 1 at Danvers Plaza, continue straight through on Rt.62.
- The next set of lights is the intersection with Rt. 35. Continue straight through.
- At the following set of lights get in the left lane and take the left fork up the hill. You are leaving Rt. 62 at this point, going onto Conant St. A green sign will indicate “North Beverly”.
- Follow Conant St. up the hill. After the top of the hill there will be an undeveloped conservation area on the left. Immediately after the conservation area, at a small rise, Cherry Hill Drive for Cherry Hill Corporate Center will be on the left.
- NOBLE is the first building on the right, a multi-story brick office building.
- You can enter through the front door (with stairs) into the lobby. Veer to the hallway to the right, the elevator is immediately on the left. Go to the second floor and turn right out of the elevator.
- The rear of the building has an entry ramp and handicapped parking spaces. Enter the building, veer left down the hall and the elevator is on the right past the rest rooms. Go up to the second floor and go right out of the elevator.
If coming from Rt. I-95 South:
- Take Exit 70 onto Rt. 1 South. Take the second Rt. 62 exit for Rt. 62 East near Supino’s and gas station. Take right behind Supino’s to get onto Rt. 62 East. This will bring you to a set of lights, follow from step two immedately above, “From the West and North”.
Electronic Collection Policy
The North Of Boston Library Exchange purchases and provides access to digital content in the form of ebooks, e-audiobooks, databases and other online resources for direct access by users of member libraries. Decisions regarding these collections are governed by this policy and additional specific instructions of the NOBLE Executive Board. This Electronic Collections Policy is based on and reflects NOBLE’s mission, vision and goals.
Digital content shall be selected and retained on the basis of its value for the interest, education, information, and recreation of the people of the communities served by NOBLE member libraries. We recognize the challenges of purchasing for both public and academic libraries while fulfilling the needs of a diverse population. NOBLE shall consider library user suggestions of titles and subjects to be included in our network collection, and purchase materials based on this policy.
Individual member libraries are responsible for policy and decisions regarding additions to their own digital collections, even where these collections may become shared with the larger NOBLE digital collections.
The following criteria are taken into consideration in selecting materials for the collection:
- Best sellers and award winners
- Interest and demand – staff and patron requests, usage data, waiting lists
- Budget considerations
- Popularity in other library collections and formats
- Suitability of subject, style, and reading level for intended audience
- Accuracy and comprehensiveness
- Currency, where important to the topic
- Authoritativeness of author, issuing body, and/or publisher
- Diversity of viewpoint
- Reviews – in review journals, popular media
- Format – availability, popularity, suitability to the content, ease of use
- Hardware, software, licensing, networking and storage requirements
- Long term availability and perpetual access rights
Retention of Digital Collection Materials
NOBLE will periodically review digital collections using the selection criteria stated above. Content may be removed from the collection at any time at our sole discretion. Expired content may display in the catalog but may not be available or selected to repurchase. Additionally, items in the collection may become unavailable by the publisher or provider at any time. NOBLE does not control certain deselection processes made by the publishers or content carriers.
Reconsideration of Digital Collection Materials
Review Criteria:
Best practices in collection development assert that materials should not be excluded from a collection solely because the content or its creator may be considered offensive or controversial. Refusing to select resources due to potential controversy is considered censorship, as is withdrawing resources for that reason. Libraries have a responsibility to address challenges that limit a collection’s diversity of content. Challenges commonly cite content viewed as inappropriate, offensive, or controversial, which may include but is not limited to prejudicial language and ideas, political content, economic theory, social philosophies, religious beliefs, scientific research, sexual content, and representation of diverse sexual orientations, expressions, and gender identities.The Executive Board will evaluate whether the material still has significant value to the intended audience according to NOBLE’s selection criteria, and whether it has any material deficiency or error that significantly impairs its value to that audience. If the review fails that test the material may be removed from the collection if the Executive Board concurs.
Requests for Reconsideration:
Patrons residing in a NOBLE community or affiliated with a NOBLE academic member library with concerns about the content of materials in NOBLE’s Digital Collection are invited to document specific concerns using the online Request for Reconsideration of Digital Content form. Anonymous submissions will not be considered.
These form submissions will be collected by NOBLE’s Executive Director and relayed to the Executive Board for review and discussion.
It is the responsibility of the Executive Director to communicate the results of the review to the patron submitting the request and to the library directors of NOBLE.
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Adult Fiction
The four winds
Summary:"Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. The Dust Bowl era has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west to California in search of a better life."
The vanishing half
Summary:"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters’ storylines intersect?
The midnight library
Summary:Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
The guest list : a novel
Summary:On an island off the windswept Irish coast, guests gather for the wedding of the year – the marriage of Jules Keegan and Will Slater. Old friends. Past grudges. Happy families. Hidden jealousies. Thirteen guests. One body. The wedding cake has barely been cut when one of the guests is found dead. And as a storm unleashes its fury on the island, everyone is trapped. All have a secret. All have a motive. One guest won’t leave this wedding alive…
Anxious people : a novel
Summary:"Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers, a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else, a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything, an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face, a flustered real estate agent, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom — truly the worst group of hostages in the world.
Golden Girl : a novel
Summary:Entering the afterlife due to a hit and run accident, a successful author learns she can observe the earthly lives of her nearly grown children and is also permitted three "nudges" to alter the outcome of events
A time for mercy
Summary:Clanton, Mississippi, 1990: Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake’s fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line. There is a time to kill and a time for justice. Now comes A Time for Mercy.
Win : a novel
Summary:"Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family’s estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for months. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors — and the items stolen from her family were never recovered. Until now. On the Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, alongside two objects of note: a stolen Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials WHL3. For the first time in years, the authorities have a lead — not only on Patricia’s kidnapping, but also on another FBI cold case — with the suitcase and painting both pointing them toward one man: Windsor Horne Lockwood III."
Sooley
Summary:After seventeen-year-old Samuel Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season.Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called off the bench, the legend begins.
A gambling man
Summary:The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start. He hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made for someone who’s hard-working, lucky, a criminal, or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible, plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood. But when the two arrive in Bay Town, California, Archer quickly discovers that the hordes of people who flocked there seeking fame and fortune landed in a false paradise that instead caters to their worst addictions and fears. Archer lands
NOBLE’s Most Popular Books of 2021
Here are lists of the most-borrowed print books and ebooks for 2021, linked to the library catalog to make it easy to find and request them!
Adult Fiction
- — The four winds
- — The vanishing half
- — The midnight library
- — The guest list : a novel
- — Anxious people : a novel
- — Golden Girl : a novel
- — A time for mercy
- — Win : a novel
- — Sooley
- — A gambling man
Adult Fiction OverDrive eBooks
- — 28 summers
- — American dirt: a novel
- — Anxious people : a novel
- — The four winds
- — The giver of stars
- — The guest list : a novel
- — The invisible life of Addie Larue
- — The midnight library : a novel
- — The silent patient
- — The vanishing half
Adult Nonfiction
- — Caste : the origins of our discontents
- — A promised land
- — Untamed
- — The splendid and the vile : a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz
- — Becoming
- — Keep sharp : build a better brain at any age
- — The premonition : a pandemic story
- — Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, HER therapist, and our lives revealed
- — The best of me
- — Think again : the power of knowing what you don’t know
Adult Nonfiction OverDrive eBooks
- — Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, HER patients, her therapist, and life’s essential questions
- — A promised land
- — Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century
- — Caste : the origins of our discontents
- — Untamed
- — The splendid and the vile
- — Educated : a memoir
- — Hidden Valley Road : inside the mind of an American family
- — The warmth of other suns the epic story of America’s great migration
- — Becoming
Children’s Books
- — Dog man : fetch-22
- — Dog man and cat kid
- — For whom the ball rolls
- — Dog Man : a tale of two kitties
- — Dog man : brawl of the wild
- — Dog Man unleashed
- — Dog Man : grime and punishment
- — Dog Man : lord of the fleas
- — My new friend is so fun!;
- — A big guy took my ball!
Children’s OverDrive eBooks
- — Big Nate. Makes a splash
- — Diary of a wimpy kid : the deep end
- — Smile
- — Logan likes Mary Anne! : Baby-Sitters Club graphix series, book 8
- — Grime and punishment : Dog Man series, book 9
- — Drama
- — Diary of a wimpy kid: Greg Heffley’s journal
- — Diary of a wimpy kid. The getaway
- — Diary of a wimpy kid. The meltdown
- — Lord of the fleas
Women’s History Month: Children’s Books
Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
Summary:
Featuring the true stories of women creators and thinkers from around the world, throughout history, this book shows that sometimes seeing things a little differently can lead to big changes. Some names are well known, some are not, but all the women had a lasting effect on the fields they worked in. Whether they were breaking ground for innovative structures or breaking rules and creating new ones, the women profiled here not only made a place for themselves in the world but made the world a better place to live.
Latinitas : celebrating big dreamers in history!
Summary:"A celebration of Latinas and Latin American women who followed their dreams, with portraits and short bios."
Good night stories for rebel girls. 2
Summary:While still inspiring rebel girls of the world to dream bigger, aim higher, and fight harder, this sequel is bigger than each of us, bigger than our individual hopes, and certainly bigger than our fears.
Not playing by the rules : 21 female athletes who changed sports
Summary:Profiles noteworthy women athletes from field hockey pioneer Constance Applebee to Little League pitcher Mo’ne Davis, including Althea Gibson, Mia Hamm, and Syrian refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini.
Brave. Black. First. : 50+ African American women who changed the world
Summary:Profiles notable African American women in various fields from Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Tubman, and Ida B. Wells to Condoleeza Rice, Beyoncé, and the founders of Black Lives Matter.
Born curious : 20 girls who grew up to be awesome scientists
Summary:"A collection of biographies of twenty groundbreaking women scientists who were curious kids and grew up to make incredible discoveries."
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Celebrating John Steinbeck
The grapes of wrath
Summary:The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.
East of Eden
Summary:The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California.
In dubious battle
Summary:A riveting novel of labor strife and apocalyptic violence, now a major motion picture starring James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Selena Gomez, and Zach BraffA Penguin ClassicAt once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young man’s struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, where a strike by migrant workers against rapacious landowners spirals out of control, as a principled defiance metamorphoses into blind fanaticism. Caught in the upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who find himself in the course of the strike, briefly becomes its leader, and is ultimately crushed in its service.
Travels with Charley : in search of America
Summary:Steinbeck hits the highways with his French poodle, Charley. In a custom-built camper he named Rosinante after Don Quixote’s steed, the two traveled the country–10,000 miles and 34 states. Their varied experiences comprise several slices of small-town, back-roads Americana. Steinbeck laments the rise of plastic-covered everything, the vacuousness of "sad souls" he encounters, and the homogenization of local and regional culture. But bright spots abound, and Steinbeck rarely forsakes his humor and his hope in the human spirit. He reluctantly swings through the segregated Deep South before he concludes his trip. Here, the ugly specter of racism pervades all, and Steinbeck’s chronicle is profoundly disturbing.
Of mice and men
Summary:Set in depresson-era California this book tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who dream of better days on a ranch of their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dreams seems within their grasp until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and commits an unintentional act of violence. Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him.
The red pony
Summary:Traces a boy’s journey into manhood after his father gives him a pony to train and care for.
The pearl
Summary:For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems.
Sweet Thursday
Summary:“In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that is just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of “Cannery Row”, the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears – from Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter. [Illustrates the theme that] ‘the common bonds of humanity and love make goodness and happiness possible’ “–P. 4 of cover
Tortilla flat
Summary:In the shabby district called Tortilla Flat above Monterey, California lives a gang whose exploits compare to those of King Arthur’s knights.
The winter of our discontent
Summary:Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty, and today ranks alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition.
Cannery row
Summary:Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California.
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Discover the Lives of Women Authors
In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
Summary:Captures the exceptional life, imagination, and passion of the author of "Goodnight Moon," drawing on unpublished manuscripts, songs, personal letters, and diaries that the author discovered in the attic of Margaret Wise Brown’s sister.,"The extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children’s classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown. Margaret’s books have sold millions of copies all over the world, but few people know that she was at the center of a children’s book publishing revolution. Her whimsy and imagination fueled a steady stream of stories, songs, and poems, and she was renowned for her prolific writing and business savvy, as well as her stunning beauty and endless thirst for adventure. "–Dust jacket.
The distance between us
Summary:"At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated than it seemed."–Provided by publisher.
I am Scout : the biography of Harper Lee
Summary:This biography tells the story of how Harper Lee struggled to become an author and created one of the most popular novels of the 20th century.
The last love song : a biography of Joan Didion
Summary:Explores the life of the distinguished American author and journalist, following Didion’s life as a young woman in Sacramento to her adult life as a writer interviewing those who know and knew her personally.
Jane and Dorothy : a true tale of sense and sensibility : the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
Summary:"An intimate portrait of Jane Austen, Dorothy Wordsworth, and their world– two women torn between revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, artistic creativity and emotional upheavals."–Front jacket flap.
Sontag
Summary:"Benjamin Moser’s Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism."
Fire!! : the Zora Neale Hurston story
Summary:"Peter Bagge has defied the expectations of the comics industry by changing gears from his famous slacker hero Buddy Bradley to documenting the life and times of historical 20th century trailblazers. If Bagge had not already had a New York Times bestseller with his biography of Margaret Sanger, his newest biography, Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story, would seem to be an unfathomable pairing of author and subject. Yet through Bagge’s skilled cartooning, he turns what could be a rote biography into a bold and dazzling graphic novel, creating a story as brilliant as the life itself. Hurston challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society. The fifth of eight kids from a Baptist family in Alabama, Hurston’s writing prowess blossomed at Howard University, and then Barnard College, where she was the sole black student. She arrived in NYC at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and quickly found herself surrounded by peers such as Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. Hurston went on to become a noted folklorist and critically acclaimed novelist, including her most provocative work Their Eyes Were Watching God. Despite these landmark achievements, personal tragedies and shifting political winds in the midcentury rendered her almost forgotten by the end of her life. With admiration and respect, Bagge reconstructs her vivid life in resounding full-color."
Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
Summary:"Still known to millions only as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) remains curiously absent from the American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America better than anyone. Now, biographer Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author behind such classics as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Placing Jackson within an American Gothic tradition of Hawthorne and Poe, Franklin demonstrates how her unique contribution to this genre came from her focus on "domestic horror" drawn from an era hostile to women. Based on a wealth of previously undiscovered correspondence and dozens of new interviews, Shirley Jackson, with its exploration of astonishing talent shaped by a damaged childhood and a troubled marriage to literary critic Stanley Hyman, becomes the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary giant."
Agatha : the real life of Agatha Christie
Summary:The life of Agatha Christie was as mysterious and eventful as her fiction. This beautifully illustrated graphic novel traces the life of the Queen of Whodunnit from her childhood in Torquay, England, through a career filled with success, mischief, and adventure, to her later years as Dame Agatha. Revealing a side to Christie that will surprise and delight many readers, Agatha introduces us to a free-spirited and thoroughly modern woman who, among other things, enjoyed flying, travel, and surfing.
In other words
Summary:"A series of reflections on the author’s experiences learning a new language and living abroad, in a dual-language edition."
Where the past begins : a writer’s memoir
Summary:“From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood, and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory.”
Monster, she wrote : the women who pioneered horror & speculative fiction
Summary:"Horror and speculative fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From forgotten visionaries like Margaret ‘Mad Madge’ Cavendish, to literary icons like Mary Shelley and Shirley Jackson, to modern-era marvels such as Anne Rice and Helen Oyeyemi, women authors have always been at the vanguard of frightening fiction. And their life stories are as intriguing as the novels, short stories, and novellas they crafted. Part biography, part reader’s guide, Monster, She Wrote will introduce you to
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On the come up
Summary:When sixteen-year-old Bri, an aspiring rapper, pours her anger and frustration into her first song, she finds herself at the center of a controversy.
Lu
Summary:"Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly, there are hurdles in Lu’s way–literally and not-so-literally–and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means"–
Jackpot
Summary:"When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she and her popular and wildly rich classmate, Zan can find the ticket holder who hasn’t claimed the prize"–
The rose that grew from concrete
Summary:His talent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic — a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable — remaining vibrant and alive. Here now, newly discovered, are Tupac’s most honest and intimate thoughts conveyed through the pure art of poetry — a mirror into his enigmatic life and its many contradictions. Written in his own hand at the age of nineteen, they embrace his spirit, his energy … and his ultimate message of hope.
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While you wait for Bridgerton Season 2
Wilde in love : The Wildes of Lindow Castle
Summary:Lord Alaric Wilde, son of the Duke of Lindow, is the most celebrated man in England, revered for his dangerous adventures and rakish good looks. Arriving home from years abroad, he has no idea of his own celebrity, until his boat is met by mobs of screaming ladies. Alaric escapes to his father’s castle, but just as he grasps that he’s not only famous but notorious, he encounters the very private, very witty Miss Willa Ffynche.
Get a life, Chloe Brown
Summary:Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost (but not quite) dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family’s mansion. The next items? Enjoy a drunken night out; ride a motorcycle; go camping; have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex; travel the world with nothing but hand luggage; and do something bad. But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job. Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.
Duke of my heart
Summary:When he finds a naked–and very much dead–earl tied to his missing sister’s bed, Captain Maximus Harcourt turns to Miss Ivory Moore, who is known throughout London for smoothing over scandals, for help and is drawn to this fearless woman who takes charge of the situation–and his heart.
Someone to love
Summary:"Humphrey Wescott, Earl of Riverdale, has died, leaving behind a fortune and a scandalous secret that will forever alter the lives of everyone in his family–including the daughter no one knew he had…. Anna Snow grew up in an orphanage in Bath, knowing nothing of the family she came from. Now she discovers that the late Earl of Riverdale was her father and that she has inherited his fortune. She is also overjoyed to learn she has siblings. However, they want nothing to do with her or her attempts to share her new wealth. But the new earl’s guardian is interested in Anna….Avery Archer, Duke of Netherby, keeps others at a distance. Yet something prompts him to aid Anna in her transition from orphan to lady. As London society and Anna’s newfound relatives threaten to overwhelm her, Avery steps in to rescue her and finds himself vulnerable to feelings and desires he has hidden so well for so long."
To have and to hoax : a novel
Summary:"In this fresh and hilarious historical rom-com, an estranged husband and wife in Regency England feign accidents and illness in an attempt to gain attention-and maybe just win each other back in the process. Five years ago, Lady Violet Grey and Lord James Audley met, fell in love, and got married. Four years ago, they had a fight to end all fights, and have barely spoken since. Their once-passionate love match has been reduced to one of cold, detached politeness. But when Violet receives a letter that James has been thrown from his horse and rendered unconscious at their country estate, she races to be by his side-only to discover him alive and well at a tavern, and completely unaware of her concern. She’s outraged. He’s confused. And the distance between them has never been more apparent. Wanting to teach her estranged husband a lesson, Violet decides to feign an illness of her own. James quickly sees through it, but he decides to play along in an ever-escalating game of manipulation, featuring actors masquerading as doctors, threats of Swiss sanitariums, faux mistresses-and a lot of flirtation between a husband and wife who might not hate each other as much as they thought. Will the two be able to overcome four years of hurt or will they continue to deny the spark between them?"
A princess in theory: reluctant royals
Summary:"Between grad school and multiple jobs, Naledi Smith doesn’t have time for fairy tales…or patience for the constant e-mails claiming she’s betrothed to an African prince. Sure. Right. Delete! As a former foster kid, she’s learned that the only things she can depend on are herself and the scientific method, and a silly e-mail won’t convince her otherwise. Prince Thabiso is the sole heir to the throne of Thesolo, shouldering the hopes of his parents and his people. At the top of their list? His marriage. Ever dutiful, he tracks down his missing betrothed. When Naledi mistakes the prince for a pauper, Thabiso can’t resist the chance to experience life—and love—without the burden of his crown. The chemistry between them is instant and irresistible, and flirty friendship quickly evolves into passionate nights. But when the truth is revealed, can a princess in theory become a princess ever after?"–Back cover.
Bringing down the duke
Summary:England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women’s suffrage movement. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain’s politics at the Queen’s command. Her challenge: not to give in to the powerful attraction she can’t deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for. Sebastian is appalled to find a suffragist squad has infiltrated his ducal home, but the real threat is his impossible feelings for green-eyed beauty Annabelle. He is looking for a