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Staff Picks

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Staff Picks

Shakespeare

Our favorite adaptations

Shakespeare

In Pieces

All picks, past & present

In Pieces

Biography

Romney: A Reckoning

American classicist : the life and loves of Edith Hamilton

A memoir of my former self : a life in writing

Milton Friedman : the last conservative

Sonic life : a memoir

Chasing Bright Medusas : A Life of Willa Cather

Tom Lake

Hillary's Pick

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Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett

This is a simple story doing spectacular things. It's a pandemic novel that skirts around the anxiety of the time to delve into the unexpected silver linings of time slowed and plans changed. It's a family story that's tender without being saccharine. It's a great man-genius story that relegates the great man to the sidelines to elevates the stories of the people around him.

Art

The private lives of the impressionists

The moving image as public art : sidewalk spectators and modes of enchantment

The Black Trilogy

A field guide to American houses : the definitive guide to identifying and understanding America's domestic architecture

Turner : the extraordinary life and momentous times of J.M.W. Turner

Small, medium, large, extra-large : Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas, and Bruce Mau

Children

Every leaf a hallelujah

Change sings : a children's anthem

Fly high! : the story of Bessie Coleman

Where the wild things are

Toy boat

Audiobooks

Brave Companions

Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life.

These precious days

Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster

Lincoln in the Bardo

Travel

The scorpion-fish

The lost city of Z : a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.

The Last Resort : A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach

South to America : a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation

Letter to a stranger : essays to the ones who haunt us

Oversized

Picturing Frederick Douglass : an illustrated biography of the nineteenth century's most photographed American

The library : a world history

Preternatural

The Trojan women : a comic

100 Years New York Daily News in Iconic Photos and Front Pages

Poetry

I done clicked my heels three times : poems

Storm Swimmer

Gay Poems for Red States

Alone in the house of my heart : poems

If some god shakes your house

Inverse informed thoughts by an unfit poet

Shakespeare

The book of William : how Shakespeare's first folio conquered the world

Reading Shakespeare's sonnets : a new commentary

North by Shakespeare : a rogue scholar's quest for the truth behind the Bard's work

Shakespeare in a divided America : what his plays tell us about our past and future

Shakespeare : the world as stage

Tyrant : Shakespeare on politics

Cincinnati

Cincinnati in the Civil War : the union's queen city

Cincinnati Neighborhood Guidebook

O Caledonia : a novel

Lost Cincinnati Concert Venues of the '50s and '60s : From the Surf Club to Ludlow Garage

Cincinnat's Lost Architects Joseph and Bernard Steinkamp

Oldest Cincinnati

About the Collection

With about 85,000 volumes, our collection of print, e-books, and audiobooks covers a broad spectrum of works and subjects for 187 years of organic growth reflecting shifting interests, tastes, and influences.

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