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Beverly Sills, A Life
Date: Saturday, May 19, 2012Start time: 2:00 PM
End time: 3:00 PM
Location: Northfield Branch
Registration required
Beverly Sills captured Americas heart with her glorious artistry, engaging personality and salty intelligence. In her solo show, Roberta Randall brings to life this internationally acclaimed soprano, covering her remarkable life from child performer to co-director of the New York City Opera.
Registration required.
Playaways for Adults
Fiction
| LIT ADAMS | Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Live in Concert | ||
| LIT ADIGA | Adiga, Aravind | Last Man in Tower | ||
| LIT ADIGA | Adiga, Aravind | The White Tiger | ||
| LIT AUEL | Auel, Jean M. | The Land of Painted Caves | ||
| LIT AUSTEN | Austen, Jane | Emma | ||
| LIT BALDACCI | Baldacci, David | Camel Club | ||
| LIT BALDACCI | Baldacci, David | Deliver Us from Evil | ||
| * | LIT BALDACCI | Baldacci, David | One Summer | |
| LIT BALDACCI | Baldacci, David | The Sixth Man | ||
| * | LIT BARBERY | Barbery, Muriel | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | |
| LIT BARR | Barr, Nevada | The Rope | ||
| * | LIT BENJAMIN | Benjamin, Melanie | The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb | |
| LIT BERG | Berg, Elizabeth | The Art of Mending | ||
| LIT BERG | Berg, Elizabeth | Once Upon a Time, There Was You | ||
| = | LIT BERLINSKI | Berlinski, Mischa | Fieldwork | |
| * | LIT BINCHY | Binchy, Maeve | Minding Frankie | |
| = | LIT BLAKE | Blake, Sarah | The Postmistress | |
| LIT BLOCK | Block, Stefan Merrill | The Story of Forgetting | ||
| LIT BOHJALIAN | Bohjalian, Chris | The Night Strangers | ||
| LIT BRONTE | Brontë, Charlotte | Jane Eyre | ||
| LIT BROOKS | Brooks, Geraldine | People of the Book | ||
| LIT BUCK | Buck, Pearl S. | The Good Earth | ||
| = | LIT BURKE | Burke, James Lee | Rain Gods | |
| LIT CASTLE | Castle, Jayne | Obsidian Prey | ||
| LIT CHILD | Child, Lee | The Affair | ||
| LIT CHILD | Child, Lee | The Hard Way | ||
| LIT CHILD | Child, Lee | Running Blind | ||
| LIT CHILD | Child, Lee | Tripwire | ||
| LIT CHILD | Child, Lee | Die Trying | ||
| LIT CLANCY | Clancy, Tom | Locked On | ||
| LIT CLEAVE | Cleave, Chris | Little Bee | ||
| * | LIT COBEN | Coben, Harlan | Deal Breaker | |
| * | LIT COBEN | Coben, Harlan | Live Wire | |
| LIT COBEN | Coben, Harlan | Promise Me | ||
| + | LIT COBEN | Coben, Harlan | Stay Close | |
| LIT COBEN | Coben, Harlan | The Woods | ||
| LIT COELHO | Coelho, Paulo | Aleph | ||
| LIT CONNELLY | Connelly, Michael | Angels Flight | ||
| LIT CONNELLY | Connelly, Michael | The Drop | ||
| LIT CONNELLY | Connelly, Michael | The Fifth Witness | ||
| LIT CONNELLY | Connelly, Michael | The Lincoln Lawyer | ||
| LIT CORNWELL | Cornwell, Patricia | Red Mist | ||
| = | LIT COULTER | Coulter, Catherine | Whiplash | |
| LIT COULTER | Coulter, Catherine | The Wyndham Legacy | ||
| LIT CRAIS | Crais, Robert | The Sentry | ||
| LIT CRAIS | Crais, Robert | Taken | ||
| LIT CRUSIE | Crusie, Jennifer | Maybe This Time | ||
| LIT CUSSLER | Cussler, Clive | Crescent Dawn | ||
| LIT DEMILLE | DeMille, Nelson | The Lion | ||
| LIT DICKENS | Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield | ||
| = | LIT DONOGHUE | Donoghue, Emma | Room | |
| LIT DOYLE | Doyle, Arthur Conan | The Hound of the Baskervilles | ||
| LIT EDWARDS | Edwards, Kim | The Lake of Dreams | ||
| LIT EGGERS | Eggers, Dave | What Is the What | ||
| LIT EVANOVICH | Evanovich, Janet | Explosive Eighteen | ||
| = | LIT EVANOVICH | Evanovich, Janet | Hot Stuff | |
| * | LIT EVANOVICH | Evanovich, Janet | Smokin' Seventeen | |
| = | LIT FALLON | Fallon, Siobhan | You Know When the Men Are Gone | |
| LIT FEEHAN | Feehan, Christine | Dark Peril | ||
| LIT FITZGERALD | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby | ||
| LIT FLAUBERT | Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary | ||
| * | LIT FOLLETT | Follett, Ken | Fall of Giants | |
| LIT FORSTER | Forster, E. M. | Howards End | ||
| = | LIT FRANKLIN | Franklin, Tom | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter | |
| LIT FRAZIER | Frazier, Charles | Nightwoods | ||
| LIT GARWOOD | Garwood, Julie | The Bride | ||
| LIT GARWOOD | Garwood, Julie | The Ideal Man | ||
| LIT GEORGE | George, Margaret | Elizabeth I | ||
| * | LIT GOLDBERG | Goldberg, Amanda | Celebutantes | |
| LIT GOODKIND | Goodkind, Terry | Wizard's First Rule | ||
| LIT GRAFTON | Grafton, Sue | V Is for Vengeance | ||
| LIT GRAHAM | Graham, Heather | The Killing Edge | ||
| LIT GRAHAM-SMITH | Grahame-Smith, Seth | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | ||
| LIT GRIPPANDO | Grippando, James | Born to Run | ||
| * | LIT GRISHAM | Grisham, John | The Confession | |
| LIT GRISHAM | Grisham, John | The Last Juror | ||
| LIT GRISHAM | Grisham, John | The Litigators | ||
| LIT GRISHAM | Grisham, John | Playing for Pizza | ||
| = | LIT GRISSOM | Grissom, Kathleen | The Kitchen House | |
| LIT GRUEN | Gruen, Sara | Ape House | ||
| LIT GRUEN | Gruen, Sara | Water for Elephants | ||
| = | LIT HANNAH | Hannah, Kristin | Night Road | |
| * | LIT HANNAH | Hannah, Kristin | Winter Garden | |
| LIT HARDY | Hardy, Thomas | Far from the Madding Crowd | ||
| + | LIT HAWLEY | Hawley, Noah | The Good Father | |
| LIT HEDGES | Hedges, Peter | The Heights | ||
| LIT HIGGINS | Higgins, Jack | A Devil Is Waiting | ||
| = | LIT HIGGINS | Higgins, Jack | Rough Justice | |
| LIT HIJUELOS | Hijuelos, Oscar | Beautiful Maria of My Soul | ||
| LIT HILDERBRAND | Hilderbrand, Elin | The Island | ||
| LIT HOAG | Hoag, Tami | Down the Darkest Road | ||
| LIT HOAG | Hoag, Tami | Secrets to the Grave | ||
| LIT HOFFMAN | Hoffman, Alice | Blue Diary | ||
| LIT HORAN | Horan, Nancy | Loving Frank | ||
| LIT HORN | Horn, Dara | The World to Come | ||
| * | LIT IGNATIUS | Ignatius, David | Body of Lies | |
| LIT ILES | Iles, Greg | The Devil's Punchbowl | ||
| LIT ILES | Iles, Greg | Third Degree | ||
| LIT ISAACS | Isaacs, Susan | As Husbands Go | ||
| LIT JAMES | James, P. D. | Death Comes to Pemberley | ||
| LIT JOHANSEN | Johansen, Iris | Bonnie | ||
| LIT JOHANSEN | Johansen, Iris | Eve | ||
| LIT KELLERMAN | Kellerman, Jonathan | Mystery | ||
| LIT KENT | Kent, Kathleen | The Wolves of Andover | ||
| = | LIT KEPLER | Kepler, Lars | The Hypnotist | |
| LIT KIDD | Kidd, Sue Monk | The Secret Life of Bees | ||
| LIT KLEYPAS | Kleypas, Lisa | Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor | ||
| LIT KOONTZ | Koontz, Dean | Relentless | ||
| LIT KOONTZ | Koontz, Dean | What the Night Knows | ||
| LIT KOONTZ | Koontz, Dean R. | 77 Shadow Street | ||
| = | LIT KRENTZ | Krentz, Jayne Ann | White Lies | |
| LIT LAHIRI | Lahiri, Jhumpa | Interpreter of Maladies | ||
| = | LIT LARSSON | Larsson, Stieg | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | |
| = | LIT LARSSON | Larsson, Stieg | The Girl Who Played with Fire | |
| = | LIT LARSSON | Larsson, Stieg | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | |
| LIT LAWRENCE | Lawrence, D. H. | Sons and Lovers | ||
| LIT LEAVITT | Leavitt, Caroline | Pictures of You | ||
| = | LIT LECARRE | Le Carré, John | Our Kind of Traitor | |
| = | LIT LEE | Lee, Chang-Rae | The Surrendered | |
| * | LIT LESCROART | Lescroart, John T. | A Plague of Secrets | |
| LIT LIPMAN | Lipman, Elinor | Then She Found Me | ||
| LIT LUSTBADER | Lustbader, Eric | Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Dominion | ||
| LIT LYNDS | Lynds, Gayle | The Book of Spies | ||
| = | LIT MACOMBER | Macomber, Debbie | 1022 Evergreen Place | |
| LIT MACOMBER | Macomber, Debbie | 92 Pacific Boulevard | ||
| LIT MACOMBER | Macomber, Debbie | Hannah's List | ||
| LIT MALLERY | Mallery, Susan | Only Mine | ||
| = | LIT MARLANTES | Marlantes, Karl | Matterhorn | |
| LIT MARTEL | Martel, Yann | Life of Pi | ||
| LIT MCCARTHY | McCarthy, Cormac | All the Pretty Horses | ||
| LIT MCDERMID | McDermid, Val | A Darker Domain | ||
| = | LIT MCLAIN | McLain, Paula | The Paris Wife | |
| = | LIT MICHAELS | Michaels, Fern | Betrayal | |
| LIT MICHAELS | Michaels, Fern | Return to Sender | ||
| LIT MICHAELS | Michaels, Fern | Southern Comfort | ||
| LIT MINA | Mina, Denise | Slip of the Knife | ||
| LIT MONROE | Monroe, Mary Alice | The Butterfly's Daughter | ||
| LIT MORGENSTERN | Morgenstern, Erin | The Night Circus | ||
| = | LIT MORTON | Morton, Kate | The Distant Hours | |
| LIT MURAKAMI | Murakami, Haruki | Kafka on the Shore | ||
| * | LIT NESBO | Nesbø, Jo | The Snowman | |
| LIT NIFFENEGGER | Niffenegger, Audrey | The Time Traveler's Wife | ||
| LIT O'BRIAN | O'Brian, Patrick | Master and Commander | ||
| LIT ONDAATJE | Ondaatje, Michael | The Cat's Table | ||
| * | LIT OWENS | Owens, Sharon | The Ballroom on Magnolia Street | |
| LIT PALAHNIUK | Palahniuk, Chuck | Pygmy | ||
| LIT PARETSKY | Paretsky, Sara | Body Work | ||
| LIT PARETSKY | Paretsky, Sara | Breakdown | ||
| LIT PARKER | Parker, Robert B. | Blue-Eyed Devil | ||
| = | LIT PATCHETT | Patchett, Ann | State of Wonder | |
| LIT PATTERSON | Patterson, James | 10th Anniversary | ||
| LIT PATTERSON | Patterson, James | The 9th Judgment | ||
| + | LIT PATTERSON | Patterson, James | Guilty Wives | |
| LIT PATTERSON | Patterson, James | Kill Alex Cross | ||
| LIT PATTERSON | Patterson, James | The Postcard Killers | ||
| LIT PATTERSON | Patterson, James | Private, #1 Suspect | ||
| LIT PATTERSON | Patterson, James | Tick Tock | ||
| LIT PATTERSON | Patterson, James | Toys | ||
| LIT PATTERSON | Patterson, James | Worst Case | ||
| LIT PEARSON | Pearson, Ridley | Killer Weekend | ||
| = | LIT PENNY | Penny, Louise | Still Life | |
| LIT PETERS | Peters, Elizabeth | The Mummy Case | ||
| = | LIT PETERS | Peters, Elizabeth | A River in the Sky | |
| = | LIT PICKARD | Pickard, Nancy | The Scent of Rain and Lightning | |
| LIT PRESTON | Preston, Douglas | Gideon's Corpse | ||
| LIT PRESTON | Preston, Douglas J. | Cold Vengeance | ||
| LIT QUICK | Quick, Amanda | Burning Lamp | ||
| LIT RAND | Rand, Ayn | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| LIT REICH | Reich, Christopher | Rules of Betrayal | ||
| LIT REICH | Reich, Christopher | Rules of Deception | ||
| = | LIT RICHMOND | Richmond, Michelle | The Year of Fog | |
| = | LIT ROBARDS | Robards, Karen | Pursuit | |
| LIT ROBARDS | Robards, Karen | Shattered | ||
| LIT ROBB | Robb, J. D. | Fantasy in Death | ||
| LIT ROBB | Robb, J. D. | Indulgence in Death | ||
| LIT ROBB | Robb, J. D. | Innocent in Death | ||
| LIT ROBB | Robb, J. D. | New York to Dallas | ||
| LIT ROBERTS | Roberts, Nora | Bed of Roses | ||
| * | LIT ROBERTS | Roberts, Nora | Black Hills | |
| LIT ROBERTS | Roberts, Nora | Black Rose | ||
| * | LIT ROBERTS | Roberts, Nora | Chasing Fire | |
| LIT ROBERTS | Roberts, Nora | Ever After | ||
| LIT ROBERTS | Roberts, Nora | High Noon | ||
| LIT ROBERTS | Roberts, Nora | Savor the Moment | ||
| * | LIT ROBERTS | Roberts, Nora | The Search | |
| * | LIT ROSENFELT | Rosenfelt, David | Play Dead | |
| LIT ROTH | Roth, Philip | American Pastoral | ||
| * | LIT RUSSO | Russo, Richard | Bridge of Sighs | |
| LIT SCHWARTZ | Schwartz, John Burnham | Northwest Corner | ||
| LIT SHREVE | Shreve, Anita | Rescue | ||
| + | LIT SHRIVER | Shriver, Lionel | The New Republic | |
| LIT SHRIVER | Shriver, Lionel | So Much for That | ||
| * | LIT SIDDONS | Siddons, Anne Rivers | Burnt Mountain | |
| LIT SILVA | Silva, Daniel | Moscow Rules | ||
| LIT SILVA | Silva, Daniel | The Rembrandt Affair | ||
| LIT SIMMONS | Simmons, Dan | Black Hills | ||
| * | LIT SMILEY | Smiley, Jane | Private Life | |
| LIT SPARKS | Sparks, Nicholas | The Best of Me | ||
| LIT SPARKS | Sparks, Nicholas | Safe Haven | ||
| LIT STEEL | Steel, Danielle | 44 Charles Street | ||
| + | LIT STEEL | Steel, Danielle | Betrayal | |
| LIT STEEL | Steel, Danielle | Big Girl | ||
| LIT STEEL | Steel, Danielle | Happy Birthday | ||
| LIT STEEL | Steel, Danielle | Hotel Vendome | ||
| * | LIT STEEL | Steel, Danielle | Legacy | |
| * | LIT STROUT | Strout, Elizabeth | Olive Kitteridge | |
| LIT TAN | Tan, Amy | The Bonesetter's Daughter | ||
| LIT THAYER | Thayer, Nancy | Beachcombers | ||
| * | LIT TUROW | Turow, Scott | Innocent | |
| * | LIT WALLS | Walls, Jeannette | Half Broke Horses | |
| = | LIT WEINER | Weiner, Jennifer | Certain Girls | |
| LIT WHARTON | Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence | ||
| LIT WIESEL | Wiesel, Elie | The Sonderberg Case | ||
| LIT WINTON | Winton, Tim | Breath | ||
| LIT YOUNG | Young, William P. | The Shack |
Nonfiction
| 200.9 WRI | Wright, Robert | The Evolution of God | ||
| 248.4 WAR | Warren, Rick | The Purpose Driven Life | ||
| * | 291.44 TOL | Tolle, Eckhart | The Power of Now | |
| 299.514 DYE | Dyer, Wayne W. | Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life | ||
| * | 302 GLA | Gladwell, Malcolm | The Tipping Point | |
| 302.3 CHR | Christakis, Nicholas A. | Connected | ||
| 306.7 HAN | Handler, Chelsea | Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea | ||
| 306.81 CHA | Chapman, Gary | The Five Love Languages | ||
| 320.01 LAK | Lakoff, George | The Political Mind | ||
| 332.1 AHA | Ahamed, Liaquat | Lords of Finance | ||
| 332.6 FIS | Fisher, Kenneth L. | The Only Three Questions That Count | ||
| 332.66 COH | Cohan, William D. | House of Cards | ||
| 337 SMI | Smick, David M. | The World Is Curved | ||
| 355.009 KEE | Keegan, John | A History of Warfare | ||
| 363.124 OLL | Ollestad, Norman | Crazy for the Storm | ||
| 364.1532 SEB | Sebold, Alice | Lucky | ||
| 364.162 MEZ | Mezrich, Ben | Sex on the Moon | ||
| 370.973 MAT | Mathews, Jay | Work Hard. Be Nice | ||
| 371.1 KOZ | Kozol, Jonathan | Letters to a Young Teacher | ||
| 371.822 MOR | Mortenson, Greg | Stones into Schools | ||
| 371.822 MOR | Mortenson, Greg | Three Cups of Tea | ||
| 460 SPA | Spanish. The Complete Language Course | |||
| 492.7 DIM | DiMeo, David F. | Arabic for Dummies | ||
| 610 GRO | Groopman, Jerome | How Doctors Think | ||
| 612.82 WOL | Wolf, Maryanne | Proust and the Squid | ||
| 613.25 FRE | Freedman, Rory | Skinny Bitch | ||
| 627.82 HIL | Hiltzik, Michael A. | Colossus | ||
| 630.973 KIN | Kingsolver, Barbara | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | ||
| * | 643.1 BRY | Bryson, Bill | At Home | |
| 650.1 PAL | Palmer, Stephanie | Good in a Room | ||
| 658.311 SMA | Smart, Geoff | Who | ||
| 658.314 MIT | Mitchell, Jack | Hug Your People | ||
| 658.406 KOT | Kotter, John P. | A Sense of Urgency | ||
| 658.4092 FOR | Forbes, Steve | Power Ambition Glory | ||
| 658.473 BON | Bonner, William | Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets | ||
| 658.8 GOD | Godin, Seth | Meatball Sundae | ||
| 791.4309 PRI | Price, David A. | The Pixar Touch | ||
| 798.25 LET | Letts, Elizabeth | The Eighty-Dollar Champion | ||
| 812.54 WAS | Wasserstein, Wendy | The Heidi Chronicles | ||
| 814.54 SED | Sedaris, David | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | ||
| 814.54 SED | Sedaris, David | Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk | ||
| 814.54 SED | Sedaris, David | When You Are Engulfed in Flames | ||
| 824.914 SMI | Smith, Zadie | Changing My Mind | ||
| 921 BERTINELLI, V. | Bertinelli, Valerie | Losing It | ||
| 921 BLAIR, T. | Blair, Tony | A Journey | ||
| * | 921 FEY, T. | Fey, Tina | Bossypants | |
| 921 FRANKS, L. | Franks, Lucinda | My Father's Secret War | ||
| 921 KENNEDY, E. | Kennedy, Edward M. | True Compass | ||
| 921 LINCOLN | Carwardine, Richard | Lincoln | ||
| 921 PALIN, S. | McGinniss, Joe | The Rogue | ||
| 921 POWELL, J. | Powell, Julie | Cleaving | ||
| 921 RAND, A. | Heller, Anne Conover | Ayn Rand and the World She Made | ||
| = | 921 RICHARDS, K. | Richards, Keith | Life | |
| 921 SIDIQI, K. | Tzemach Lemmon, Gayle | The Dressmaker of Khair Khana | ||
| 921 SPELLING, T. | Spelling, Tori | Mommywood | ||
| + | 921 STRAYED, C. | Strayed, Cheryl | Wild | |
| 921 TWAIN, M. | Twain, Mark | Autobiography of Mark Twain | ||
| 940.5405 BRA | Bradley, James | Flyboys | ||
| 940.5472 NOR | Norman, Michael | Tears in the Darkness | ||
| 956.94 TOL | Tolan, Sandy | The Lemon Tree | ||
| 958.1047 JUN | Junger, Sebastian | War | ||
| 973.3 ELL | Ellis, Joseph J. | American Creation | ||
| 973.7 SWA | Swanson, James L. | Bloody Crimes | ||
| 973.742 GLA | Glatthaar, Joseph T. | General Lee's Army | ||
| 973.92 BRO | Brokaw, Tom | Boom! Voices of the Sixties | ||
| 973.92 BRO | Brokaw, Tom | The Time of Our Lives | ||
| = | 976.335 EGG | Eggers, Dave | Zeitoun |
Page last updated on: May 16, 2012
