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Shakespeare

Our favorite adaptations

Shakespeare

Staff Picks

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Staff Picks

In Pieces

All picks, past & present

In Pieces

New Non Fiction

Mood machine : the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist

Vanishing treasures : a bestiary of extraordinary endangered creatures

A room of one's own

American bulk : essays on excess

Black in blues : how a color tells the story of my people

Briefly perfectly human : making an authentic life by getting real about the end

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

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

Hopper

To make their own way in the world : the enduring legacy of the Zealy daguerreotypes

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

Save Our Souls : The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder

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

Oversized

The lost subways of North America : a cartographic guide to the past, present, and what might have been

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

Poetry

Water, water : poems

Another day : sabbath poems 2013-2023

Continued cases

You are here : poetry in the natural world

Mom in space : poems

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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