Collections

Clift Rodgers Library is a recreational library with approximately 9,000 books in our collection – 6,000 for adults and 3,000 for children. Since we are an independent library, there are short waiting lists – or no waiting lists at all - for books.

A wide variety of current fiction and non-fiction is available as well as classic works by authors such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Mark Twain. A lighter collection, known as the "Peggy Beals' semi-classics," includes many cherished novelists like Joseph Lincoln, John Buchan, and D.E. Stevenson. Adult nonfiction offers biography, health books, cookbooks, gardening, and more.

The children's collection includes picture books, early readers, fiction chapter books, and popular mysteries. In juvenile nonfiction are biographies and nature and science books. A young adult section features many popular authors. Ongoing programs include a weekly story hour during the school year for young children, and a book club in the summer for
8 – 12 year olds.

Our limited space precludes a reference section, but we can help with some requests.


May 2008 Books

Power of One
by Bryce Courtenay
Miracle at Speedy Motors
by Alexander McCall Smith
Careless in Red
by Elizabeth George
The Day I Ate Whatever I wanted by Elizabeth Berg
Home by Julie Andrews (biography)
Phantom Prey by John Sandford
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler
Down Lie by Carl Hiaasen,( non-fiction, golf)
Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch,( non-fiction)

April Books

Guilty
by Karen Robards
Sundays at Tiffanys by James Patterson
What Now
by Ann Patchett (non-fiction)
Whole Truth
by David Baldacci
Three Girls and their Brother
by Theresa Rebeck
Hold Tight
by Harlan Coben
Traveler
by Ron McLarty
Suddenly
by Barbara Delinsky
Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri

March 2008 Books

Certain Girls
by Jennifer Weiner
Charley's Web
by Joy Fielding
Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Where Are You Now by Mary Higgins Clark
Miss Julia Paints the Town by Ann B. Ross
Forever Lily by Beth Nonte Russell
Dead Time
by Stephen White
Lemon Tree
by Sandy Tolan
In Defense of Food
by Michael Pollan
Buckingham Palace
by Anne Perry
The Blue Star
by Tony Early
Mighty Heart by Mariane Pearl
Change of Heart
by Jodi Picoult
Song Yet Sung
by James McBride
Killer Heat
by Linda Fairstein

February 2008 Books

Mr. Adam's Last Crusade by Joseph Wheelan
Soul Thief by Charles Baxter
Supreme Conflict
by Jan Greenburg
Tangy Tart Hot and Sweet
by Padma Lakshmi
Eye of Jade
by Diane Wei Liang
Two Meatballs in the Italian Kitchen
by Pino Luongo
Ice Trap
by Kitty Sewell
1st Patient
by Michael Palmer
Lady Killer
by Lisa Scottoline
Home to Holly Springs
by Jan Karon
The Soloist
by Mark Salzman
Betrayal
by John LesCroart
Black Olives
by Martha Tod Dudman
Friend of the Devil
by Peter Robinson
Incomplete Revenge
by Jacqueline Winspear
The Gathering
by Ann Enright
Faithful Spy
by Alex Berenson
Dakota
by Martha Grimes
Homecoming
by Bernard Schlink
Unknown Means
by Elizabeth Becka
The Appeal
by John Grisham
The Secret Between Us
by Barbara Delinsky
L. A. Outlaws
by T. Jefferson Parker
Plum Lucky
by Janet Evanovich
Stranger in Paradise
by Robert Parker
The Tenderness of Wolves
by Stef Penney
7th Heaven
by James Patterson
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak

January 2008 Books
Beverly Hills Dead
by Stuart Woods
Capital Conspiracy
by William Bernhardt
Almost
by Elizabeth Benedict
The Choice
by Nicholas Sparks
People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
The Senator's Wife
by Sue Miller
Last Call
by James Grippando
Pale Horse
by Charles Todd
Bleeding Kansas
by Sara Paretsky
Annette Vallon, A Novel of the French Revolution by James Tipton
Lottery
by Patricia Wood

 

 

 

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