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"Wuthering Heights" By Emily Brontë, Illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg New York: Random House Publishers, 1943 Pequot Library Special Collections We featured this book in our 2019 "Art of the Book" exhibition. https://t.co/6DX8jw65NU

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Join us tomorrow, Thursday, February 18 at 6:00 p.m. as we talk to Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and author Ayad Akhtar about his book "Homeland Elegies" (Little, Brown & Co.), which The New York Times selected as a Top 10 Book of 2020. To register: https://t.co/6HIOzsIm1X https://t.co/9WrmXHasN7

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Check out our online bookstore, which offers great deals on novels like Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid for $4! Click here: https://buff.ly/3NPeFtR. A striking and surprising yarn about race and privilege, this book became an instant NY Times bestseller. https://t.co/BJw7HhmXP2

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Robert Louis Stevenson's best-known works, "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", share a common theme: our inability to recognize and/or separate evil from good. "Treasure Island" New York: Rand McNally (1915) Pequot Library Special Collections https://t.co/9GzTgryoPc

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Don DeLillo's 1985 masterpiece "White Noise" was pretty darn prescient, as Dana Spiotta writes here: https://t.co/PFupt1hP9O. Check out a copy and decide for yourself: https://t.co/yEoTUH7tfC. https://t.co/NmBa6XhWPG

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William Kent Krueger disusses his book "Lightning Strike" in this interview: https://t.co/FRXFpx6Yo1. Sign up today for a digital author talk with him on April 27 at 8:00 p.m.: https://t.co/9gMgOGVXGd. This talk is produced in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium. https://t.co/qzQp3aOFIv

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This is the day (7/26) when Aldous Huxley was born in 1894. We have a copy of Brave New World Revisited in our Special Collections. Its daring and influential precursor, Brave New World, was a daring dystopian novel that presented stark warnings about consumerism & promiscuity. https://t.co/ycPDeK6xOw

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Father's Day is coming soon! Shop our online bookstore for titles any dad would treasure, including Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen and A Column of Fire by Ken Follett - either can be yours for $4! Click here: https://buff.ly/33cEE9H. https://t.co/d2DSXsmTbn

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@Williammaz1's debut "The Bucharest Dossier" was a Chanticleer Internat'l Book Awards 2020 Grand Prize Winner in Global Thrillers, among others. Tune in for a 1/12 (6 p.m.) virtual talk - hear all about this love story/spy thriller/historical novel: https://t.co/Ii6Q5i5I6j. https://t.co/oLwH42MhXC

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We celebrate William Shakespeare's birth on April 23! Mark your calendars: May 15 at 6:00 p.m., Shakespeare on the Sound will guide you through "As You Like It" in an in-person, interactive presentation: https://t.co/4XyqbWSO6r. https://t.co/Kgi7lLeqpL

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