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  1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton Norton discusses the sixteen months during which the traditional loyalists to King George III began their discordant “discussions” that led to their acceptance of the inevitability of war against the British Empire and to the clashes at Lexington and Concord in mid-April 1775. Arguing…

  Agency by William Gibson Verity Jane becomes the beta tester for the latest product of a San Francisco start-up: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses who soon manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and an unnervingly canny grasp of combat strategy. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Lydia Quixano Perez lives…

Love stories, cook books, religion, history, self-help, and suspense.  This week’s shelf has something for everyone. The Dark Game by Jonathan Janz Ten writers think they are signing up for a weeklong writing retreat with the most celebrated author in the world, but they are really entering the twisted imagination of a deranged genius, a…

  Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer In a city with no name of its own, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways with the fate of Earth at stake. The Doll Factory by Elizabeth MacNeal In 1850s London two people meet by happenstance, Iris, an…

First shelf of new books for 2020!   Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton Exiled far from the rest of the world in Darra, Australia, twelve-year-old Eli is just trying to follow his heart, learn what it takes to be a good man, and train for a glamorous career in journalism while life insists on…

The Miami Public Library Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service helps us connect you to the joy of reading and information for lifelong learning by allowing you to borrow items we do not own from other libraries nationwide. Patrons must have a current MPL card with no attached fines. Allow a minimum of 2 weeks from the…

The Miami Public Library will be closed for the holidays on Tuesday, Dec. 24th, Wednesday, Dec. 25th, and Wednesday, Jan. 1.

This week’s list includes authors with many books to their credit such as Janet Evanovich, Clive Cussler, and Mary Higgins Clark as well as the continuation of the story of a deadly microparticle, the Andromeda Strain, by an author no longer living and much, much more!   36 Righteous Men by Steven Pressfield Joining forces…

Check out a cozy Christmas book, such as the four on this week’s shelf, add a cup of cocoa, a comfortable chair, and a crackling fire.  It just doesn’t get any better!  Literary fiction, suspense, and science fiction are also here along with history and current events.  Let us know if we don’t have what…

  Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer Moorer turns her lyrical storytelling powers to recount the events leading up to the moment that forever altered her own life and that of her older sister, Shelby. Blue Moon by Lee Child Jack Reacher offers aid to an elderly couple only to be confronted by the most…