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.
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Other People's Children
By Hoffmann, Rj
2021-04 - Simon & Schuster
9781982159092 Check Our Catalog
A riveting debut novel about a couple whose dream of adopting a baby is shattered when the teenage mother reclaims her child.
What makes a family?
Gail and Jon Durbin moved to the Chicago suburbs to set up house as soon as Gail got pregnant. But then she miscarried--once, twice, three times. Determined to expand their family, the Durbins turn to adoption. When several adoptions fall …More
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Festival Days
By Beard, Jo Ann
2021-03 - Little Brown and Company
9780316497237 Check Our Catalog
A searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville, who "honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life" (Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winner for The Friend)
When "The Fourth State of Matter," her now famous piece about a …More
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Sunflower Sisters
By Kelly, Martha Hall
2021-03 - Ballantine Books
9781524796402 Check Our Catalog
Martha Hall Kelly's million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday's ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Anne-May Wilson, a Southern …More
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Half Life
By Cantor, Jillian
2021-03 - Harper Perennial
9780062969880 Check Our Catalog
The USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time reimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that mirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if she'd made a different choice.
In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya …More |
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Northern Spy
By Berry, Flynn
2021-04 - Viking
9780735224995 Check Our Catalog
The acclaimed author of Under the Harrow and A Double Life returns with her most thrilling novel to date: the story of two sisters who become entangled with the IRA
A producer at the BBC and mother to a new baby, Tessa is at work in Belfast one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground in the …More
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The Widow Queen
By Cherezinska, Elzbieta
2021-04 - Forge
9781250218001 Check Our Catalog
Elzbieta Cherezinska's The Widow Queen is the epic story of a Polish queen whose life and name were all but forgotten until now.
The bold one, they call her--too bold for most.
To her father, the great duke of Poland, Swietoslawa and her two sisters represent three chances for an alliance. Three marriages on which to build his empire.
But Swietoslawa refuses …More
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Meant to Be
By Deveraux, Jude
2021-03 - Mira Books
9780778331445 Check Our Catalog
An inspiring new family saga by New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux
Two headstrong sisters are bound by tradition but long to forge their own path. It's 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas, Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions. Vera is an activist who wants to join her boyfriend in …More
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Paradise, Nevada
By Diofebi, Dario
2021-04 - Bloomsbury Publishing
9781635576207 Check Our Catalog
"Diofebi is an irreverent and audacious new voice."- Susan Choi, National Book Award-Winning author of TRUST EXERCISE
Vegas has been right there forever, waiting for a great novelist, and Dario Diofebi has come dealing nothing but aces.--Darin Strauss, NBCC Award-Winning author of HALF A LIFE
From an exhilarating new literary voice--the story of four transplants …More
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The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
By Freitas, Donna
2021-04 - Pamela Dorman Books / Viking
9781984880598 Check Our Catalog
A deeply moving novel about a woman who thought she never wanted to be a mother--and the many ways that life can surprise us
In every woman there are many stories . . .
Rose Napolitano is fighting with her husband, Luke, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she'd take them, but didn't. He promised before they got married that he'd never want children, but now he's changed his mind. …More
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An Artist of the Floating World
By Ishiguro, Kazuo
Illustrator Hische, Jessica
2013-05 - Penguin Group
9780143124283 Check Our Catalog
This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggling through the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience. Ishiguro's first novel. …More
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Mother May I
By Jackson, Joshilyn
2021-04 - William Morrow & Company
9780062855343 Check Our Catalog
13th book in Virgil Flowers series
Chilling, thought-provoking, and hauntingly written, Mother May I kept me on the edge of my seat with its breathless race against time. -- Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl from Widow Hills
The New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Never …More
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Caul Baby
By Jerkins, Morgan
2021-04 - Harper
9780062873088 Check Our Catalog
New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins makes her fiction debut with this electrifying novel, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jacqueline Woodson, that brings to life one powerful and enigmatic family in a tale rife with secrets, betrayal, intrigue, and magic.
Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous pregnancies has ended in heartbreak …More
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You Love Me: A You Novel
By Kepnes, Caroline
2021-04 - Random House
9780593133781 Check Our Catalog
The highly anticipated new thriller in Caroline Kepnes's hit You series, now a blockbuster Netflix show--a compulsively readable trip into the deviant mind of the uniquely antisocial, savvy bookseller . . . Joe Goldberg.
"Fiendish, fast-paced, and very funny."--Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train
ONE OF …More
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Mrs. Wiggins
By Monroe, Mary
2021-03 - Dafina Books
9781496732583 Check Our Catalog
New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns to the Deep South Depression-era town of her scandalous Mama Ruby series, in this tale of a woman determined to have a respectable life--and she'll do anything to keep it...
The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. …More
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The Five Wounds
By Quade, Kirstin Valdez
2021-03 - W. W. Norton & Company
9780393242836 Check Our Catalog
It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient …More
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Animal Instinct: A K Team Novel
By Rosenfelt, David
2021-04 - Minotaur Books
9781250257208 Check Our Catalog
2nd book in The k team
The K Team is back in the second installment in this spinoff series from bestselling author David Rosenfelt's beloved Andy Carpenter mysteries.
Corey Douglas and his K-9 partner, a German shepherd named Simon Garfunkel, are recently retired police officers turned private investigators. Along with fellow former cop Laurie Collins and her investigating partner, Marcus, they call …More
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Good Company
By Sweeney, Cynthia D'Aprix
2021-04 - Ecco Press
9780062876003 Check Our Catalog
A Most Anticipated Book From: OprahMag.com * Refinery29 * Houston Chronicle * The Millions * Elle * Buzzfeed
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney plumbs the depths of marriage, motherhood and friendship with warmth and wit. I devoured it in one gulp Treat yourself to some Good Company. --Maria Semple, author …More
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Gold Diggers
By Sathian, Sanjena
2021-04 - Penguin Press
9781984882035 Check Our Catalog
"Gold Diggers takes a wincingly hilarious coming-of-age story, laces it with magical realism and a trace of satire, and creates a world that's both achingly familiar and marvelously inventive...This is a dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise novel about the seductive powers--and dangers--of borrowed ambition." --Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere
A …More
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Under the Wave at Waimea
By Theroux, Paul
2021-04 - Houghton Mifflin
9780358446286 Check Our Catalog
"Theroux's work is like no one else's." -Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review
From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.
Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime and is losing his "stoke." The younger surfers …More
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
By Walton, Dawnie
2021-03 - 37 Ink
9781982140168 Check Our Catalog
A kaleidoscopic fictional oral history of the beloved rock 'n' roll duo who shot to fame in 1970s New York, and the dark, fraught secret that lies at the peak of their stardom.
Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can't imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job--despite …More
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
By Murphy, Mannie
2021-03 - Fantagraphics Books
9781683964100 Check Our Catalog
Mannie Murphy is a gender queer Portland native. This work of graphic nonfiction, told in the style of an illustrated diary, begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix but morphs into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's dark history of white nationalism. …More
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Finding Freedom
By French, Erin
2021-04 - Celadon Books
9781250312341 Check Our Catalog
From Erin French, owner of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME world dining destination, a life-affirming memoir about survival, renewal, and finding a community to lift her up
Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a …More
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The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack
By Blumenthal, Ralph
2021-03 - High Road Books
9780826362315 Check Our Catalog
The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened.
Nothing in Mack's four decades of psychiatry …More
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The Beauty of Living Twice
By Stone, Sharon
2021-03 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780525656760 Check Our Catalog
"Not your typical Hollywood autobiography. Brutally honest, restless and questing."
--O, The Oprah Magazine
"Elegantly written with her wicked sense of humor on full display, the memoir is catnip for fans who have never managed to crack the exterior of the elusive star."
--Vogue
Sharon Stone tells her own …More
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Broken (in the Best Possible Way)
By Lawson, Jenny
2021-04 - Henry Holt & Company
9781250077035 Check Our Catalog
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let's Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.
As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health …More
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Hype: Inside the Golden Age of Grift
By Bluestone, Gabrielle
2021-04 - Hanover Square Press
9781335016492 Check Our Catalog
From former Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age--and why we can't stop falling for them.
We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic …More
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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
By Green, Elon
2021-03 - Celadon Books
9781250224354 Check Our Catalog
In this astonishing and powerful work of nonfiction, Green meticulously reports on a series of baffling and brutal crimes targeting gay men. It is an investigation filled with twists and turns, but this is much more than a compelling true crime story. Green has shed light on those whose lives for too long have been forgotten, and rescued an important part of American history.…More
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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
By Weidensaul, Scott
2021-03 - W. W. Norton & Company
9780393608908 Check Our Catalog
In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch has exploded. What we've learned of these key migrations--how billions of birds circumnavigate the globe, flying tens of thousands of miles between hemispheres on an annual …More
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Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old
By Steele, Andrew
2021-03 - Doubleday Books
9780385544924 Check Our Catalog
A startling chronicle by a brilliant young scientist takes us onto the frontiers of the science of aging, and reveals how close we are to an astonishing extension of our life spans and a vastly improved quality of life in our later years.
Aging--not cancer, not heart disease--is the true underlying cause of most human death and suffering. We accept as inevitable that as we advance in …More
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The New Normal: A Roadmap to Resilience in the Pandemic Era
By Ashton, Jennifer
2021-02 - William Morrow & Company
9780063083233 Check Our Catalog
From Dr. Jennifer Ashton--the Chief Medical Correspondent at ABC News covering breaking medical news for Good Morning America and GMA3: What You Need to Know--comes a doctor's guide to finding resilience in the time of COVID, while staying safe and sane in a rapidly changing world.
In March 2020, "normal" life changed, perhaps forever. In its …More
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Laundry Love: Finding Joy in a Common Chore
By Richardson, Patric
Author Miller, Karin B.
2021-03 - Flatiron Books
9781250235190 Check Our Catalog
Patric Richardson, aka the Laundry Evangelist," reveals his revolutionary methods for cleaning clothes--and making laundry loads more fun.
Doing laundry is rarely anyone's favorite task. But to Patric Richardson, laundry isn't just fun--it's a way of life. After years of running Laundry Camp at the Mall of America for thousands of eager learners, he's ready to …More
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Instant Pot Cheese: Discover How Easy It Is to Make Mozzarella, Feta, Chevre, and More
By Lucero, Claudia
2020-09 - Storey Publishing
9781635862409 Check Our Catalog
The beloved Instant Pot can be used to do just about anything: caramelize onions, boil eggs, steam rice . . . and now, make cheese Cheesemaking in a multicooker is not only time- and money-saving, but the cooker's accurate and consistent temperatures make it an ideal tool for the craft. Claudia Lucero, author of the best-selling One-Hour Cheese, presents the cheesemaking basics, then …More
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Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America
By Washington, Kate
2021-03 - Beacon Press
9780807011508 Check Our Catalog
The story of one woman's struggle to care for her seriously ill husband--and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support.
Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing …More
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Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
By Morton, Andrew
2021-03 - Grand Central Publishing
9781538700464 Check Our Catalog
Perfect for fans of The Crown, this captivating biography from a New York Times bestselling author follows Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret as they navigate life in the royal spotlight.
They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between …More
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Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
By Ostler, Jeffrey
2020-09 - Yale University Press
9780300255362 Check Our Catalog
"Intense and well-researched, . . . ambitious, . . . magisterial. . . . Surviving Genocide sets a bar from which subsequent scholarship and teaching cannot retreat."--Peter Nabokov, New York Review of Books
In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally …More
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Spilt Milk
By Zoffness, Courtney
2021-03 - McSweeney's
9781952119149 Check Our Catalog
What role does a mother play in raising thoughtful, generous children? In her literary debut, internationally award-winning writer Courtney Zoffness considers what we inherit from generations past--biologically, culturally, spiritually--and what we pass on to our children. Spilt Milk is an intimate, bracing, and beautiful exploration of vulnerability and culpability. Zoffness relives her …More
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Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling th
By Swan, Shanna
Author Colino, Stacey
2021-02 - Scribner Book Company
9781982113667 Check Our Catalog
In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing--and endangering--human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale, from renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan.
In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a …More
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Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible
By Cervantes, Jorge
2006-03 - Van Patten Publishing
9781878823236 Check Our Catalog
Featuring information by more than 300 contributors--a veritable "who's who" of cannabis cultivation--this is the most complete book on the subject available. New greenhouse and outdoor growing chapters have been added to this edition. …More
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The Ultimate Meal-Prep Cookbook: One Grocery List. a Week of Meals. No Waste.
By America's Test Kitchen
2021-03 - America's Test Kitchen
9781948703581 Check Our Catalog
Turn meal prep aspirations into dinnertime reality
1 short shopping list gets you 5 weeknight meals
Meal prep no longer means filling your freezer with boring casseroles, dipping into the same pot of beans every day for a week, or spending all day Sunday cooking. Instead, use these smart meal plans to customize fast, fresh dinners that fit your ever-changing schedule. We've done the …More
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Charles Dowding's No Dig Gardening, Course 1
By Dowding, Charles
2020-10 - No Dig Garden
9781916092037 Check Our Catalog
An in-depth course for experienced gardeners or those new to no dig gardening
This book is for anyone wishing to learn the no dig method from the beginning, or to consolidate what they already know: it helps readers to see the simplicity of no dig, why it works so well, and how much time they can save. The course has six modules and totals 18 lessons, each one packed …More
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Emotional Healing: How to Put Yourself Back Together Again
By Barry, Harry
2021-03 - Pegasus Books
9781643136646 Check Our Catalog
In this instructive and uplifting narrative, Dr. Barry explores how to recover from loss, trauma, grief, and loneliness by helping readers identify their emotions and providing the steps to emotionally heal yourself.
When we experience trauma, loss or grief the pain can feel as if it will last forever. We begin to wonder if our old selves--the ones who felt hope and happiness and …More
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The 80/80 Marriage: A New Model for a Happier, Stronger Relationship
By Klemp, Nate
Author Klemp, Kaley
2021-02 - Penguin Life
9781984880772 Check Our Catalog
An accessible, transformative guide for couples seeking greater love, connection, and intimacy in our modern world
Nate and Kaley Klemp were both successful in their careers, consulting for high-powered companies around the world. Their work as mindfulness and leadership experts, however, often fell to the wayside when they came home in the evening, only to end up fighting about …More
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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.
Martha's Vineyard library patrons now have free access the New York Times online. Simply click HERE and enter the code c59d2806040934a2. Create a username and password that you may use for your first login and for every future visit to the New York Times online.
Your code will give you unlimited access to articles for 72 hours. When your 72 hour access expires, simply return to the library website to activate a redemption code for additional 72 hours of access with your existing New York Times account.
Complimentary access to NYTimes.com is sponsored by the Martha's Vineyard Library Association.
More 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 Journal, Cucumber Sandwich, Quill & Ink!
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.
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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/.
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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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