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Staff Picks

What are we reading?

Staff Picks

Shakespeare

Our favorite adaptations

Shakespeare

In Pieces

All picks, past & present

In Pieces

Biography

Surreal : the extraordinary life of Gala Dalí

The 10 : a memoir of family and the open road

Yoko : A Biography.

We Tell Ourselves Stories : Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

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

My wish for the world

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

When we see us : a century of Black figuration in painting

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

It's Hard to be Hip Over Thirty

A little daylight left

True Mistakes

Interstitial archaeology

Scorched earth

I always carry my bones

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

Workers on the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788 - 1890

Cincinnati Christmas : history, tradition, food

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

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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