Upcoming Virtual Library Programs
While the library building is closed we'll be offering online workshops using the video meeting platform Zoom. To register or for more information, contact our Program Coordinator Anne McDonough at amcdonough@clamsnet.org. Attendance for all programs may be limited and you will need internet access to participate.
10 am Monday September 21st
Online : Advance Care Planning with Healthy Aging MV
Sharing your wishes for end-of-life care can bring you closer to the people you love. It’s critically important. We know that no guide and no single conversation can cover all the decisions that you and your family may face. What a conversation can do is provide a shared understanding of what matters most to you and your loved ones. This can make it easier to make decisions when the time comes. Join the conversation to gather the toolkit! Please register at: https://bit.ly/3jvl0Ml
9 am Tuesday September 22nd
Online: Conversation en Francais
Join our weekly French conversation group. All levels are welcome. For more language learning support try Mango Languages, an online language-learning system available to library cardholders.
7 pm Tuesday September 22nd
Online: "The Moon Always Rising," with Alice Early
Join us for an online talk with Alice Early, Author of "The Moon Always Rising." A moving and lyrical novel that transports readers from lush tropics to rugged highlands and back again, The Moon Always Rising explores how the power of forgiveness can help even the most damaged person fix whatever is broken.
Rescheduled! 6 pm Thursday October 22nd
Online: Petroglyphs with Duncan Caldwell
This event was postponed from September 15th due to technical difficulties. Duncan Caldwell will give a presentation on Jordanian petroglyphs and their preservation. Duncan Caldwell is a prehistorian and writer whose current projects involve archaeological research and conservation projects in France, Jordan, and Nepal, the up-coming publication of both a monograph and essay on the ways that collecting prehistoric artifacts influenced Henry David Thoreau, and further studies in the archaeo-musicology of northeastern North America.
For information on virtual library programs being offered statewide, visit the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners calendar of virtual programs!
Learn how to use Zoom on the Zoom Channel on Youtube! Videos created by Zoom staff will show you how to sign up for a free account, download Zoom software on your computer and the Zoom app on your phone, as well as learn the ins and outs of scheduling, joining, and participating in meetings. (If you need more help, contact the library to set up a Zoom practice session with one of our librarians.)
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Backyard Book Browsing
Weather permitting, library patrons will have an opportunity to browse and checkout a selection of new books outdoors in the courtyard behind the library. By appointment only -- to participate, please register and the library will contact you to arrange an arrival time.
Register for Tuesday September 22nd, 10 am to 12 pm
Register for Saturday September 26th, 10 am to 12 pm
Entry will be by the path behind the building from Greenwood Avenue. Participants will be required to wear a mask, sanitize hands prior to browsing, practice social distancing, and refrain from handling books they do not intend to check out. Browsing may be limited to 15 minutes per person.
There will be no building access, and book selection will be limited to items in the courtyard area. (If you are looking for a particular item, please call the library to arrange for contactless pickup during our scheduled daily pickup hours.)
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National Book Award 2020 Longlist
Here's a sample of NBA nominated fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles available from Vineyard Haven Library and CLAMS. For more reading suggestions visit the new books page on our website, updated weekly, to keep up with what's new.
National Book Awards 2020 Longlist
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A Burning
By Majumdar, Megha
2020-06 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780525658696 Check Our Catalog
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK
For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise--to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies--and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.
Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, …More
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A Children's Bible
By Millet, Lydia
2020-05 - W. W. Norton & Company
9781324005032 Check Our Catalog
Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel--her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven--follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion.
Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor, drugs, and sex, the children feel neglected and …More
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The Great Offshore Grounds
By Veselka, Vanessa
2020-08 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780525658078 Check Our Catalog
A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologies--national, individual, and collective--that drive and define us.
On the day of their estranged father's wedding, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It's been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly …More
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If I Had Two Wings: Stories
By Kenan, Randall
2020-08 - W. W. Norton & Company
9781324005469 Check Our Catalog
In Kenan's fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage. An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high-school fling. Howard …More
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The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
By Beha, Christopher
2020-05 - Tin House Books
9781947793828 Check Our Catalog
What makes a life, Sam Waxworth sometimes wondered--self or circumstance?
On the day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for the Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A data journalist and recent media celebrity--he correctly forecast every outcome of the 2008 election--Sam knows a few things about predicting the future. But …More
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Interior Chinatown
By Yu, Charles
2020-01 - Pantheon Books
9780307907196 Check Our Catalog
"One of the funniest books of the year has arrived, a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." --The Washington Post
"Fresh and beautiful . . . Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition." --Jeff VanderMeer, The New York Times Book Review
From …More
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Leave the World Behind
By Alam, Rumaan
2020-10 - Ecco Press
9780062667632 Check Our Catalog
A Recommended Book From
Vogue * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * AARP * PopSugar * Kirkus * Alma
A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong
Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island …More
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By Philyaw, Deesha
2020-09 - West Virginia University Press
9781949199734 Check Our Catalog
"Tender, fierce, proudly black and beautiful, these stories will sneak inside you and take root." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Triumphant." --Publishers Weekly
"The stories of these women and their friendships come alive . . . to create a beautiful melody of female determination." --Amazon Book Review, "12 Must-Read Books by Black …More
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Shuggie Bain
By Stuart, Douglas
2020-02 - Grove Press
9780802148049 Check Our Catalog
Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings.
Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden …More
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The Vanishing Half
By Bennett, Brit
2020-06 - Riverhead Books
9780525536291 Check Our Catalog
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick
"Bennett's tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it's especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye." --Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal
"A story of absolute, universal timelessness ...For any era, it's an …More
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Afropessimism
By Wilderson, Frank
2020-04 - Liveright Publishing Corporation
9781631496141 Check Our Catalog
Why does race seem to color almost every feature of our moral and political universe? Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery--in all its political, intellectual, and cultural forms--continue to define the Black experience? And why is anti-Black violence such a predominant feature not only in the United States but around the world? These are just some of the compelling questions that animate …More
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By Wilkerson, Isabel
2020-08 - Random House
9780593230251 Check Our Catalog
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
"An instant American classic."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times
"As we go …More
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
By Payne, Les
Author Payne, Tamara
2020-10 - Liveright Publishing Corporation
9781631491665 Check Our Catalog
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X--all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to …More
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How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
By Walker, Jerald
2020-11 - Mad Creek Books
9780814255995 Check Our Catalog
For the black community, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave, "anger is often a prelude to a joke, as there is broad understanding that the triumph over this destructive emotion lay in finding its punchline." It is on the knife's edge between fury and farce that the essays in this exquisite collection balance. Whether confronting the medical profession's racial biases, considering …More
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If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
By Lepore, Jill
2020-09 - Liveright Publishing Corporation
9781631496103 Check Our Catalog
The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica. Jill Lepore, best-selling author of These Truths, came across the company's papers in MIT's archives and set out to tell this forgotten history, the long-lost backstory to …More
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Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
By Bowdler, Michelle
2020-07 - Flatiron Books
9781250255631 Check Our Catalog
She Said meets Lucky in Michelle Bowdler's provocative debut, telling the story of her rape and recovery while interrogating why one of society's most serious crimes goes largely uninvestigated.
The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person stands whole, and in a moment of unexpected violence, that life, …More
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
By Shapland, Jenn
2021-02 - Tin House Books
9781951142292 Check Our Catalog
While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson and a woman named Annemarie--letter that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters' language--but does not see Carson as history has portrayed her.
And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the …More
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
By Slaght, Jonathan C.
2020-08 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
9780374228484 Check Our Catalog
A terrifically exciting account of Slaght's] time in the Russian Far East studying Blakiston's fish owls, huge, shaggy-feathered, yellow-eyed, and elusive birds that hunt fish by wading in icy water . . . Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you."
--Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk
A field scientist …More
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Undocumented Americans
By Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla
2020-03 - One World
9780399592683 Check Our Catalog
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.
"Karla's book sheds light on people's personal experiences and allows their stories to be told and their voices to be heard."--Selena Gomez
Writer Karla Cornejo …More
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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By Saunt, Claudio
2020-03 - W. W. Norton & Company
9780393609844 Check Our Catalog
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington's small but growing bureaucracy. But as the policy unfolded over the next decade, thousands of Native Americans died under the federal …More
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A Treatise on Stars
By Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei
2020-02 - New Directions Publishing Corporation
9780811229388 Check Our Catalog
A Treatise on Stars extends Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's intensely phenomenological poetics to the fiery bodies in a "field of heaven...outside spacetime." Long, lyrical lines map a geography of interconnected, interdimensional intelligence that exists in all places and sentient beings. These are poems of deep listening and patient waiting, open to the cosmic loom, the channeling of daily …More
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DMZ Colony
By Choi, Don Mee
2020-04 - Wave Books
9781940696966 Check Our Catalog
Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of personal and political reckoning set over eight acts. Evincing the power of translation as a poetic device to navigate historical and linguistic borders, it explores Edward Said's notion of "the intertwined and overlapping histories" in regards to South Korea and the United States …More
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The Galleons: Poems
By Barot, Rick
2020-02 - Milkweed Editions
9781571315236 Check Our Catalog
For almost twenty years, Rick Barot has been writing some of the most stunningly crafted lyric poems in America, paying careful, Rilkean attention to the layered world that surrounds us. In The Galleons, he widens his scope, contextualizing the immigrant journey of his Filipino-American family in the larger history and aftermath of colonialism.
These poems are engaged in the …More
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Guillotine: Poems
By Corral, Eduardo C.
2020-08 - Graywolf Press
9781644450307 Check Our Catalog
The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize
Guillotine traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants, the grief of loss, betrayal's lingering scars, the border itself--great distances in which violence and yearning find roots. Through the voices of undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and …More
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Obit
By Chang, Victoria
2020-04 - Copper Canyon Press
9781556595745 Check Our Catalog
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In Obit, Chang writes of "the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking." These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died ("civility," …More
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Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems
By Diaz, Natalie
2020-03 - Graywolf Press
9781644450147 Check Our Catalog
Natalie Diaz's highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award
Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages--bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers--be touched and held as beloveds. …More
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The Age of Phillis
By Jeffers, Honoree Fanonne
2020-03 - Wesleyan University Press
9780819579492 Check Our Catalog
Poems imagine the life and times of Phillis Wheatley
In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honor e Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her …More
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Weekly Children's Room Newsletter
Our Children's Librarian Emily is sending out a new weekly email newsletter for families. To sign up, email Emily at elapierre@clamsnet.org, or just reply to this email and ask to be added to the children's email list. You can follow this link to view this week's issue: National Keep Kids Creative Week, Pancake Day, Family STEAM Competition!
Weekly Children's Programs
Each week our Youth Services librarians create "Take & Make" bags filled with themed educational activities. Virtual Storytime and video tutorials on our Facebook and YouTube pages enhance the Take & Make bag activities. Bags are available for pickup on Fridays from 3 - 5 pm (on a first come basis while supplies last). For more information, contact Emily our Children's Librarian! Teen "Take & Make" craft bags are also available weekly, with pickup on Sundays at 3pm. Young Adult Librarian Jennifer can provide the details!
For program announcements follow our Kids & Young Adults Facebook Page, and check out our new YouTube channel. Books are now available from the library through contactless pickup, and eBooks are available through our digital library resources for kids.
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Available Library Services
The Library Building is temporarily closed to the public. Contactless pickup of books, movies, CDs, magazines, and other library material is available 6 days a week, for items requested in advance. We cannot fill walk-up requests at this time, but we will do our best to fill same day holds placed by 2 pm.
Library Staff can assist you by phone or email
Contact us: (508) 696-4210 Email: vhpl_mail@clamsnet.org
Staff Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 AM - 5 PM
Contactless Pickup Hours
Monday-Saturday, 12 PM - 4 PM, & until 6 PM on Thursday
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Remote Document Printing
Monday-Saturday, 12 PM - 4 PM, & until 6 PM on Thursday
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Interlibrary Loans
Items may be requested from other libraries for pickup in Vineyard Haven, but may take longer than usual to arrive, and not all lending sources are available.
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"Safer at Home" Delivery
Limited home delivery is available for qualifying Tisbury residents
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"Virtual" Book Browsing & Recommendations
New books, Standing Orders, and personalized recommendations
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24 hour Digital Library
Free online resources for all ages, including eBooks and streaming video
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Hours & Contact Information
Call: (508) 696-4210
Email: vhpl_mail@clamsnet.org
Staff Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 AM - 5 PM
Pickup Hours: Monday-Saturday, 12 PM - 4 PM, & until 6 PM on Thursday
The Library Building is temporarily closed to the public. Contactless pickup of books, movies, CDs, magazines, and other library material is available 6 days a week. Items must be requested in advance. We cannot fill walk-up requests at this time, but we will do our best to fill same day holds placed by 2pm. Learn more: http://www.vhlibrary.org/contactless.shtml
For the latest information on library services and programs, visit our website http://vhlibrary.org/ or follow our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/vhlibrary/.
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Programming at Vineyard Haven Public Library is supported by the Friends of the Library and by bequests from Ruth Redding and Stephen C. Luce.
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