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Who can resist Everyday Pasta, Everyday Italian, and Giada’s Family Dinners? Like new condition!

Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon, with Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen. Like-new condition!

Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, with the award winning Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. Like-new condition!

Home inspiration this season…More Space + New American Additions and Renovations. Like-new condition!

Middlesex, Ship Fever, and The Sense of an Ending, all in like-new condition. Proceeds benefit the library!

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine + The Overstory (Pulitzer Prize winner!) – In excellent, like-new condition, and all proceeds benefit the library.

For the science fiction lover on your list, Dune + The Martian. In excellent, like-new condition, and all proceeds benefit the library.

Woe is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English, The Bugaboo Review, topped of with the hilarious Delusions of Grammar: The Worst of the Worse. In excellent, like-new condition, and all proceeds benefit the library.

The recent trend of building a guesthouse or guest cottage on one’s property offers the perfect solution to the houseguest dichotomy. After all, everyone enjoys entertaining visitors yet sharing one’s own space with houseguests can be rather trying. The erection of a new self-contained building – designed just for company – accommodates everyone while maintaining privacy. Many of these innovative contemporary guesthouses are architectural gems. The small scale, limited program, and intimate nature of the guesthouse offers a rich testing ground for the architect and client. Hardcover, like new condition.

When Lotta Jansdotter steps out in one of her signature outfits, fans always ask, “Did you make that yourself?” Often the answer is, “Yes, and so can you!” With that in mind, the style icon created Lotta Jansdotter Everyday Style, a pattern book/inspiration guide anchored by five easy, versatile sewing patterns—skirt, dress, blouse, pants/shorts, and jacket/coat—and highlighted with quick DIY accessories, including hats, bags, scarves, and jewelry. Hardcover, like new condition. All patterns included.

The recent trend of building a guesthouse or guest cottage on one’s property offers the perfect solution to the houseguest dichotomy. After all, everyone enjoys entertaining visitors yet sharing one’s own space with houseguests can be rather trying. The erection of a new self-contained building – designed just for company – accommodates everyone while maintaining privacy. Many of these innovative contemporary guesthouses are architectural gems. The small scale, limited program, and intimate nature of the guesthouse offers a rich testing ground for the architect and client. Hardcover, like new condition.

Live/ Work is filled with innovative and inspired ideas for incorporating work into the home. The author profiles thirty live/work environments and their owners, who share solutions for everything from design problems to meeting the conflicting emotional demands of work and leisure. The profiles include houses designed from the ground up to shelter businesses; renovated lofts and recycled spaces; offices and studios cleverly tucked away in backyards or above cafés and galleries; and residences designed to be earth-friendly. Their styles range from traditional to modern, but the balance struck between life and work is completely natural throughout. This is a book about design that answers everyday needs vital to a rewarding life at home as well as at work.

Here is an extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and the United States over the course of a century. Combining the romance and intricate narrative of a nineteenth-century novel with a very modern sense of culture and politics, both sexual and international, Ahdaf Soueif has created a thoroughly seductive and mesmerizing tale. Paperback.

The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976—an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home—that rends the fabric of their family life…with tragic consequences. Years later, the youngest son attempts to piece together the fragments of the Mulvaneys’ former glory, seeking to uncover and understand the secret violation that brought about the family’s tragic downfall.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. ‎Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished. Hardcover.

The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off British woman collide in this page-turning #1 New York Times bestseller and book club favorite from Chris Cleave.

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love – and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery. Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man. Hardcover.

The full set of EL James’ Fifty Shades of Grey series. Paperback.

“Speak up for yourself–we want to know what you have to say.” From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her.

In Pompeii, in the summer of A.D. 79, Julia and Sura appear to lead opposite lives. Julia is the daughter of a wealthy ship-builder; Sura is an orphan. Julia bears the Curse of Venus—a withered arm; Sura’s beauty turns heads. Julia is free; Sura is her slave. Then Julia learns that her parents are planning to put her in the service of the Temple of Damia, the center of a cultish new religion, and Sura will be sold to an awful man who plans to make her his concubine. But when Mt. Vesuvius erupts, Julia’s and Sura’s fates are forever altered, forcing them both to face the true meaning of freedom.

Four titles from the beloved Avi. Midnight Magic, The Seer of Shadows, and Poppy and Rye (paperbacks), plus Poppy’s Return (hardcover).

Sturdy canvas tote shows off your support of the library while carrying your literary treasures. Price includes local Barrington delivery.

Sturdy canvas tote shows off your support of the library while carrying your literary treasures. Price includes local Barrington delivery.

Each card displays a unique photo of our beautiful community. HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Purchase four decks and we’ll add a free fifth deck to your delivery! Price includes local Barrington delivery.

Each card displays a unique photo of our beautiful community. HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Purchase four decks and we’ll add a free fifth deck to your delivery! Price includes local Barrington delivery.

Show your support of the library with this 3-ply cotton mask. Price includes shipping or local delivery. Set of 2 for $25!