[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] The Professor by Charlotte Bronte reserve now! The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Brontë completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846--Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights--it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Brontë's death. Like Villette [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] The Lord of the Rings (series) by J.R.R. Tolkien reserve now! Hobbits and wizards and Sauron--oh, my! Mild-mannered Oxford scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien had little inkling when he published The Hobbit; Or, There and Back Again in 1937 that, once hobbits were unleashed upon the world, there would [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks reserve now! From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Left Neglected by Lisa Genova reserve now! In neuroscientist Genova's second novel (after Still Alice), a car crash gives a successful younger woman an obscure neurological syndrome called Left Neglect. Upwardly mobile Sarah and Bob Nickerson live in suburban Massachusetts with their three small children. Both work 60-hour weeks, [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Tales of the North by Jack London reserve now! If you enjoy nonstop adventure and heroic exploits, then you are sure to love Tales of the North. This masterful compilation includes - in facsimile of the original turn-of-the-century magazines-the complete novels of White Fang, The Sea Wolf, The Call [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje reserve now! From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm [...]
[box type="1" class="rounded-5 shadow" width="600"] Just Kids by Patti Smith reserve now! In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An [...]
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This summer's reading program will have you going places! Phoenixville Public Library invites adults over age 18 to participate in its Adult Summer Reading Program, Novel Destinations.
The Endowment Fund for the Phoenixville Public Library was established in 2004 by the Phoenixville Library Foundation to permanently benefit our community.
