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Currently Available Library Services
Visit the "COVID-19 Services" page on our website for an up-to-date summary of currently available services, including our schedule for contactless pickup and outdoor book browsing, and information on contactless printing: www.vhlibrary.org/Covid19.shtml

MV Book Festival 2021 Winter Event


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Presenting:  An Evening with Michael J. Fox
Interviewed by Harlan Coben
Thursday, February 25th at 7pm 


The Martha's Vineyard Book Festival will hold its first winter event this month -- a virtual discussion with Aquinnah seasonal resident Michael J. Fox, discussing his compelling memoir, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality.  

In a long winter, in a long year, Michael's new book on living with illness and aging is thoughtful, optimistic and fun -- something that we all need now. 

Acclaimed author Harlan Coben will interview Michael.  He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous suspense novels and the creator and executive director of many television shows.

The event is free but registration is required:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/mvbfWinterEvent/register

Upcoming Virtual Library Events


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.

9 am Tuesday February 23rd
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. 

6 pm Tuesday February 23rd
Online: Martha's Vineyard Haiku Club 

The MV Haiku Club meet monthly, led by Caroline Joy Adams, author of five published books, including The Power to Write: Seven Keys to Discover Your Writer Within. Her newest title, Have Fun with Haiku, was published in December. The theme for this month's session: "Love".

3 pm Friday February 26th
Online: Friday Knitting 

Sit and knit a bit during this dedicated weekly afternoon Zoom session. Spend some time connecting with others while working on your knitting, crocheting, or quilting. 

3 pm Sunday February 28th
Adult Take & Make Bag Pick-up: Decoupage Oyster Shell

Visit the library on Sunday afternoon to pick up your monthly Take & Make craft bags. Instructions for this month's craft will be available on CreativeBug, our online resource for arts and crafts instruction videos. Bags will be available for pickup from the library entry from 3-5 pm (if you miss the Sunday pickup time, email Jennifer at jrapuano@clamsnet.org to arrange for pickup, while supplies last). Create your Creativebug account using your 13 digit library card number, then view this jewelry holder class that demonstrates some of the relevant techniques for this month's project.

10:30 am Tuesday March 2nd
Online: MV Poetry Reading Group 

The Martha's Vineyard Poetry Reading Group is now meeting via Zoom! This is an interactive group, where the meeting's leader selects a poem(s), from the earliest Greeks to contemporary. The poetry is read and discussed as a community, which always adds new dimensions to understanding. The MV Poetry Reading Group has been meeting for over 10 years and wants to stress how much more we get out of the poems when shared and discussed. This month Arnie Reisman will take on the role of presenter and the featured poet is Wislawa Szymborska.  

Learn how to use Zoom on the Zoom Channel on Youtube! (If you need more help, contact the library to set up a Zoom practice session with one of our librarians.)

Linsey Lee: Voices of Vineyard Women




Virtual Event : VOICES OF VINEYARD WOMEN with Linsey Lee
Saturday March 6th at 4 pm

For Women’s History Month, The Chilmark and Vineyard Haven libraries present the extraordinary Linsey Lee as she shares videos presenting the voices, images and stories of some of the remarkable Vineyard women from many eras, ages, diverse ethnic backgrounds and perspectives.

Relying on their community and on their own ingenuity, Vineyard women have traditionally thrived and taken roles of leadership on what was an often and can still seem so today, an isolated island. During the era of whaling and of coastal schooner trade when husbands and sons were off sailing the seas for years at a time; women on the Vineyard managed businesses and finances, as well as the traditional responsibilities of caring for family and children. World Wars, the Depression and conflicts overseas continued the need for women to be resilient and resourceful. Since then, Vineyard women have made their mark as doctors, nurses, racial justice activists, business leaders, homemakers, writers, soldiers, teachers, sailors, politicians, actresses. With all its challenges, living on this Island inculcates strength of character as well as a creativity of spirit.

Linsey Lee is the oral history Curator at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. She has been conducting oral history interviews with people of the Vineyard for over thirty years. She is the author of Vineyard Voices – Words, Faces and Voices of Island People (1998), More Vineyard Voices (2005), Those Who Serve – Martha’s Vineyard and WWII (2010), Vineyard Voices Three (2019) and Edible Wild Plants of Martha’s Vineyard (1976/1998).

Email tthorpe@clamsnet.org  or amcdonough@clamsnet.org to sign up and get the Zoom invite.

Book Club & Other Monthly Events 


10 am Wednesday March 10th
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. While 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, that can make it easier to make decisions when the time comes. Join the conversation to gather the toolkit! Please register at: https://bit.ly/3qDArp4

1:30 pm Thursday March 18th
Online: Vineyard Haven Library Book Group

Come enjoy a lively discussion online! Monthly book selections are available as Overdrive eBooks as well as in print format via request. Everyone is invited to join us. March selection: 'Dear Fahrenheit 451: love and heartbreak in the stacks : a librarian's love letters and breakup notes to the books in her life'  by Annie Spence.

6 pm Tuesday March 23rd
Online: Vineyard Haven Library Spice Club

A new take on a cookbook group, Spice Club meets virtually one Tuesday each month. Registration comes with a sample pack of the spice of the month and a little history about it. Prepare a recipe, and then come and discuss your opinions, experiences, and love (or hate!) of the spice on Zoom. Spice for the month of March is Turmeric. Please register: 
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqdOGhrj8qGdfG4I1EYSWlqKuLE5JxGanH

6 pm Tuesday March 30th
Online: Martha's Vineyard Haiku Club 

The MV Haiku Club meet monthly, led by Caroline Joy Adams, author of five published books, including The Power to Write: Seven Keys to Discover Your Writer Within. Her newest title, Have Fun with Haiku, was published in December. The theme for this month's session: "Love".

Free Library Events, Statewide


The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners maintains a calendar of virtual programs offered by libraries across the state! Most of these programs are free to attend, from the comfort of home via Zoom or other online platforms.

A highlight of this week, on Sunday, February 21st at 2pm, Karlus Trapp's delightful, educational, and entertaining presentation -- 'The Roots of Black Music in America' -- is a 100+ year journey back through time to hear and learn about the music of America's black musical giants. The foundation of so much American music comes from black musicians, across all genres. Karlus will examine those influences and explore how they influenced the music of today. Karlus' live performance will educate and entertain music lovers and history buffs of all ages!   

Register directly on Zoom HERE to receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.

This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Tewksbury Public Library and presented in collaboration with Libraries Working Towards Social Justice.

For information on other virtual library programs being offered statewide, visit the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners calendar

New Books Available This Week


Here's a sample of the new fiction and nonfiction titles recently added to the library's collection! Visit the new books page on our website, updated weekly, to keep up with what's new.
 
All Girls All Girls
By Layden, Emily
2021-02 - St. Martin's Press
9781250270894 Check Our Catalog

A striking debut. --Good Housekeeping
Sharp, engrossing.--Town & Country
For fans of Gossip Girl and readers of Curtis Sittenfeld and Emma Straub. --Booklist
Incisive, astute. --Publishers Weekly
An exciting, innovative debut from a fresh new voice. --Taylor Jenkins 
…More

A Fatal Lie A Fatal Lie
By Todd, Charles
2021-02 - William Morrow & Company
9780062905574 Check Our Catalog

"If there's ever been a more complex and compelling hero in crime fiction than Inspector Rutledge, I can't think of one."--Jeffery Deaver

In one of his most puzzling cases, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge must delve deep into a dead man's life and his past to find a killer determined to keep dark secrets buried.

A peaceful Welsh village is …More

Ink and Shadows Ink and Shadows
By Adams, Ellery
2021-01 - Kensington Publishing Corporation
9781496726414 Check Our Catalog

Entertaining...packed with mystery, romance, and sisterhood. --Kirkus Reviews

New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams is back with the latest in her acclaimed Secret, Book, and Scone Society series. Local bookstore owner Nora Pennington is back on the case in Miracle Springs, North Carolina when an accidental death turns out to be 
…More

A Court of Silver Flames: A Court of Thorns and Roses 4 A Court of Silver Flames: A Court of Thorns and Roses 4
By Maas, Sarah J.
2021-02 - Bloomsbury Publishing
9781681196282 Check Our Catalog

Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta.

Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem …More

Dangerous Women Dangerous Women
By Adams, Hope
2021-02 - Berkley Books
9780593099575 Check Our Catalog

Nearly two hundred condemned women board a transport ship bound for Australia. One of them is a murderer. From debut author Hope Adams comes a thrilling novel based on the 1841 voyage of the convict ship Rajah, about confinement, hope, and the terrible things we do to survive.

London, 1841. One hundred eighty Englishwomen file aboard the Rajah, embarking on a …More

The Unfinished Land The Unfinished Land
By Bear, Greg
2021-02 - John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
9781328589903 Check Our Catalog

Reynard, a young apprentice, seeks release from the drudgery of working for his fisherman uncle in the English village of Southwold. His rare days off lead him to strange encounters--not just with press gangs hoping to fill English ships to fight the coming Spanish Armada, but strangers who seem to know him--one of whom casts a white shadow.

The village's ships are commandeered, and after a …More

Milk Fed Milk Fed
By Broder, Melissa
2021-02 - Scribner Book Company
9781982142490 Check Our Catalog

A Most-Anticipated Selection by Vogue * Refinery29 * Vulture * BuzzFeed * Harper's Bazaar * O, The Oprah Magazine * The Millions * Literary Hub * The Rumpus * Publishers Weekly and more

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of …More

A Simple Murder: A Kate Burkholder Short Story Collection A Simple Murder: A Kate Burkholder Short Story Collection
By Castillo, Linda
2021-02 - Minotaur Books
9781250819680 Check Our Catalog

New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo is known as a "master of the genre" (People) for her pulse-pounding mystery series set in Amish country. Now, together for the first time in print, A Simple Murder features six original short stories starring whip-smart chief of police, Kate Burkholder.

While on vacation with her partner John 
…More

An Extravagant Death: A Charles Lenox Mystery An Extravagant Death: A Charles Lenox Mystery
By Finch, Charles
2021-02 - Minotaur Books
9781250767134 Check Our Catalog

In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Age to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite.

London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work …More

The Echo Wife The Echo Wife
By Gailey, Sarah
2021-02 - Tor Books
9781250174666 Check Our Catalog

Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is "a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions."--Entertainment Weekly

I'm embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had married.

It took …More

American Delirium American Delirium
By González, Betina
Translator Cleary, Heather
2021-02 - Henry Holt & Company
9781250621283 Check Our Catalog

From award-winning novelist Argentine Betina Gonz lez, American Delirium is a dizzying, luminous English-language debut about an American town overrun by a mysterious hallucinogen and the collision of three unexpected characters through the mayhem.

In a small Midwestern city, the deer population starts attacking people. So Beryl, a feisty senior and ex-hippie with a troubled …More

Relentless Relentless
By Greaney, Mark
2021-02 - Berkley Books
9780593098950 Check Our Catalog

The Gray Man's search for missing intelligence agents plunges him deep into a maelstrom of trouble in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

The first agent disappearance was a puzzle.

The second was a mystery.

The third was a conspiracy.

Intelligence operatives around the world are disappearing. When a missing American agent re-appears …More

A Bright Ray of Darkness A Bright Ray of Darkness
By Hawke, Ethan
2021-02 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780385352383 Check Our Catalog

The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes--an utterly transfixing book about art and love, fame and heartbreak from the acclaimed actor/writer/director.

Hawke's first novel in nearly twenty years is a bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of …More

Khalil Khalil
By Khadra, Yasmina
Translator Cullen, John
2021-02 - Nan A. Talese
9780385545914 Check Our Catalog

From the internationally bestselling author of The Attack and The Swallows of Kabul, a gripping first-person narrative about one young man's involvement in France's worst terrorist attack.

Khalil, a twenty-three-year-old Belgian of Moroccan descent, plans to detonate a suicide vest in a crowd outside the Stade de France on November 13, 2015. Explosions are rocking Paris, …More

Never Far Away Never Far Away
By Koryta, Michael
2021-02 - Little Brown and Company
9780316535939 Check Our Catalog

New York Times bestselling "master" of American thriller writing Michael Koryta returns with an electrifying new novel about a mother seeking to reconnect with her children after a terrible trial tears their family apart

Nina Morgan's bloodstained car was found a decade ago on a lonely Florida road. Forensic evidence suggested she'd been murdered, although her body was …More

Let's Get Back to the Party Let's Get Back to the Party
By Salih, Zak
2021-02 - Algonquin Books
9781616209575 Check Our Catalog

A Most-Anticipated Book of 2021: BuzzFeed * The Millions Cosmopolitan Electric Literature * LGBTQ Reads * Paperback Paris

One of Advocate's "22 LGBTQ+ Books You Absolutely Need to Read This Year"

"An intimate saga that brims with necessary conversations about cultural identity."​ --O, The Oprah Magazine, "32 …More

The Burning Girls The Burning Girls
By Tudor, C. J.
2021-02 - Ballantine Books
9781984825025 Check Our Catalog

An unconventional vicar must exorcise the dark past of a remote village haunted by death and disappearances in this explosive and unsettling thriller from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man.

A dark history lingers in Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, Protestant martyrs were betrayed--then burned. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And a few …More

Untraceable Untraceable
By Lebedev, Sergei
Translator Bouis, Antonina W.
2021-02 - New Vessel Press
9781939931900 Check Our Catalog

"One of Russia's most interesting young novelists takes on Putin, poison and power in this unique novel; Lebedev provides a fascinating window on modern Russia."

--Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Twilight of Democracy and Gulag: A History

The terrifying, lengthening list of Russia's use of lethal poisons against its critics has inspired …More

No One Is Talking about This No One Is Talking about This
By Lockwood, Patricia
2021-02 - Riverhead Books
9780593189580 Check Our Catalog

I really admire and love this book. Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent and this is her best, funniest, weirdest, most affecting work yet. --Sally Rooney

A furiously original novel. --Jia Tolentino

From a formidably gifted writer (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the …More

The Bad Muslim Discount The Bad Muslim Discount
By Masood, Syed M.
2021-02 - Doubleday Books
9780385545259 Check Our Catalog

Perfect. . .I was torn between wanting to take my time to savor it, or just blazing through. This is a book that I didn't know I deeply needed. Buzzfeed

Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America. …More

Blood Grove Blood Grove
By Mosley, Walter
2021-02 - Mulholland Books
9780316491181 Check Our Catalog

"Master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley returns with this crowning achievement in the Easy Rawlins saga, in which the iconic detective's loyalties are tested on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California (National Book Foundation)

It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like smoke though the thick air, and Easy Rawlins, the Black private …More

The (Other) You The (Other) You
By Oates, Joyce Carol
2021-02 - Ecco Press
9780063035201 Check Our Catalog

A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story

In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made different choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the 
…More

The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
By Loftis, Larry
2021-02 - Atria Books
9781982143862 Check Our Catalog

"What to Read in 2021" by The Washington Post

​The international bestselling author of the "exciting, suspenseful, inspirational" (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Code Name: Lise weaves another exceptional and thrilling hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS's most daring spies in World War II before …More

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
By Grant, Adam
2021-02 - Viking
9781984878106 Check Our Catalog

Think Again is a must-read for anyone who wants to create a culture of learning and exploration, whether at home, at work, or at school... In an increasingly divided world, the lessons in this book are more important than ever.
--Bill and Melinda Gates

The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to …More

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
By Gates, Henry Louis
2021-02 - Penguin Press
9781984880338 Check Our Catalog

"Absolutely brilliant...A necessary and moving work." --Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again

From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African American experience comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in …More

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
By McGhee, Heather
2021-02 - One World
9780525509561 Check Our Catalog

One of today's most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone--not just for people of color.

"This is the book I've been waiting for."--Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an 
…More

Untitled RR Do Better
By Rachel Ricketts
2021-02 - Atria Books
9781982151270 Check Our Catalog

Thought leader, racial justice educator, and sought-after spiritual activist Rachel Ricketts offers mindful and practical steps for all humans to dismantle white supremacy on a personal and collective level.

Heart-centered and spirit-based practices are the missing but vital piece to achieving racial justice.

Do Better is a revolutionary offering that addresses …More

The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, Deadlines, and the Mother of All Decisions The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, Deadlines, and the Mother of All Decisions
By Frizzell, Nell
2021-02 - Flatiron Books
9781250268129 Check Our Catalog

Renowned journalist Nell Frizzell explores what happens when a woman begins to ask herself: should I have a baby?

We have descriptors for many periods of life--adolescence, menopause, mid-life crisis, quarter-life crisis--but there is a period of profound change that many women face, often in their late twenties to early forties, that does not yet have a name.

Nell Frizzell is …More

White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
By Stovall, Tyler
2021-01 - Princeton University Press
9780691179469 Check Our Catalog

The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom

The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White …More

Made in China: How an Engineer Ended Up in a Prison Camp Making Cheap American Goods Made in China: How an Engineer Ended Up in a Prison Camp Making Cheap American Goods
By Pang, Amelia
2021-02 - Algonquin Books
9781616209179 Check Our Catalog

A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: Newsweek Refinery29
"Timely and urgent . . . Pang is a dogged investigator." --The New York Times
"Moving and powerful." --Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author

Discover the truth behind the discounts

In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween …More

Troubled: Inside America's Behavioral Treatment Programs Troubled: Inside America's Behavioral Treatment Programs
By Rosen, Kenneth R.
2021-01 - Little a
9781542007887 Check Our Catalog

An award-winning journalist's breathtaking mosaic of the tough-love industry and the young adults it inevitably fails.

In the middle of the night, they are vanished.

Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control--suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and rage--are carted off against their will to remote wilderness programs and treatment facilities across …More

The Good Girls The Good Girls
By Faleiro, Sonia
2021-02 - Grove Press
9780802158208 Check Our Catalog

By the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation.

The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an …More

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
By Gates, Bill
2021-02 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780385546133 Check Our Catalog

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.

Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political …More

A Knot a Day: 365 Knot Challenges for All Abilities A Knot a Day: 365 Knot Challenges for All Abilities
By Compton, Nic
2021-02 - Adlard Coles Nautical Press
9781472985163 Check Our Catalog

This beautifully produced compendium gives you a knot challenge for every day of the year. With hundreds to choose from, all colour coded by use, you can work through the book from start to finish, gradually building on your knowledge as you go, or alternatively dipping in and out for your daily knotting fix.

Covers:

- all the essential knots
- useful hitches, bends, 
…More

Between Two Kingdoms Between Two Kingdoms
By Jaouad, Suleika
2021-02 - Random House
9780399588587 Check Our Catalog

A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman's journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of healing and self-discovery.

"A work of breathtaking creativity."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love

"Elegant and heartbreaking."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All 
…More

The Scaffold Effect: Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety The Scaffold Effect: Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety
By Koplewicz, Harold
2021-02 - Harmony
9780593139349 Check Our Catalog

Prevent and counteract the general anxiety and emotional fragility prevalent in children and teenagers today--a new parenting philosophy and strategies that give children the tools to flourish on their own.

"A master synthesizer of attachment science, medical practice, and his own experience as a father, Harold Koplewicz capably and compassionately leads us through the art of …More

The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
By Loftis, Larry
2021-02 - Atria Books
9781982143862 Check Our Catalog

"What to Read in 2021" by The Washington Post

​The international bestselling author of the "exciting, suspenseful, inspirational" (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Code Name: Lise weaves another exceptional and thrilling hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS's most daring spies in World War II before …More

Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
By Jenkins, Jedidiah
2021-02 - Convergent Books
9780593137239 Check Our Catalog

"As inviting, wide-ranging, and philosophical as an all-night conversation with a best friend, and as revealing and thought-provoking as the diary of a curious adventurer."--Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We

You can travel the world looking for yourself, but if you don't know what you're looking for, how can you find it? Like Streams To The Ocean is …More

The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
By Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach
2021-02 - Penguin Press
9780525560685 Check Our Catalog

The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won

The Daughters of Kobani is an unforgettable and nearly mythic tale of women's power and courage. The young women profiled in this book fought a fearsome war against brutal men in impossible circumstances--and proved in the process what girls and women can accomplish when given the chance to lead. Brilliantly …More

The Last Queen: Elizabeth II's Seventy Year Battle to Save the House of Windsor The Last Queen: Elizabeth II's Seventy Year Battle to Save the House of Windsor
By Irving, Clive
2021-01 - Pegasus Books
9781643136141 Check Our Catalog

A timely and revelatory new biography of Queen Elizabeth (and her family) exploring how the Windsors have evolved and thrived, as the modern world has changed around them.

Clive Irving's stunning new narrative biography The Last Queen probes the question of the British monarchy's longevity. In 2021, the Queen Elizabeth II finally appears to be at ease in the modern world, helped …More

A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
By Matteson, John
2021-02 - W. W. Norton & Company
9780393247077 Check Our Catalog

December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country's law, literature, …More

Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now
By Osnos, Evan
2020-10 - Scribner Book Company
9781982174026 Check Our Catalog

FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2020

A concise, brilliant, and trenchant examination of Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s successful lifelong quest for the presidency by National Book Award winner Evan Osnos.

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest--fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career …More

Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
By Carroll, Rebecca
2021-02 - Simon & Schuster
9781982116255 Check Our Catalog

A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America.

Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early …More

The Digital Library is Always Open


While printed books, movies, audiobooks, and magazines are now available for pickup from Vineyard Haven Library, cardholders can continue to access our digital library for streaming video, eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, genealogy, and eLearning resources.

Access to most resources requires a Vineyard Haven Library Card and PIN number. Contact the library if you need assistance getting started with digital resources.

      

            




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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: DIY Bird Feeder, Trail Mix, Felix Neck Bird Watching!

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 weekly on Sundays from 3pm - 5pm (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, 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.

Hours & Contact Information


Call: (508) 696-4210 
Email:  vhpl_mail@clamsnet.org 
Staff Hours:  Monday-Saturday, 10 AM - 5 PM


Contactless Pickup Hours:  
Monday-Saturday, 12 PM - 5 PM, & until 6 PM  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/.

Programming at Vineyard Haven Public Library is supported by the Friends of the Library, the Bergman Foundation, and by bequests from Ruth Redding and Stephen C. Luce.
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