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Cumberland Public Library Staff Picks March 2018
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In this Issue
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Check out some of these great reads that members of the staff at the library think you might enjoy because, well, we really enjoyed them. Copies of Book Discussion titles are available to be checked out at the Circulation Desk, Reference Desk, the Teen Center or Children's Desk.
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The taster
by V. S. Alexander
Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined—one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler’s dictatorship.
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A crafty killing
by L. L. Bartlett
When her business partner, Ezra Hilton, is found murdered, Katie Bonner, the new manager of Artisans Alley, launches her own investigation and discovers a shocking link between Ezra's death and her late husband's death six months earlier.
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Cooking with grease : stirring the pots in American politics
by Donna Brazile
A behind-the-scenes account of the author's political and personal life describes such events as her childhood in New Orleans, her witness to the events surrounding Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, and her role as the first African-American woman to head a major presidential campaign.
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Meddling kids : a novel
by Edgar Cantero
The surviving members of a forgotten teen detective club and their dog reunite as broken adults to embark on a wacky effort to solve a terrifying cold case that ruined them all and sent the wrong man to prison.
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The alienist
by Caleb Carr
In 1896 New York, psychologist--or in period terminology, an alienist--Laszlo Kreizler joins forces with journalist John Schuyler Moore to track a vicious serial killer.
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Turtles all the way down
by John Green
In his long-awaited return, the author of #1 best-selling The Fault in Our Stars shares the story of Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
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Plea of insanity
by Jilliane Hoffman
The prosecutor: Julia Vacanti. Young, ambitious, and facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant: David Marquette. A successful Miami surgeon and devoted family man. The victims: Marquette's wife and three small children. The plea: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. The perfect father and model husband, David Marquette seemingly just snapped one night. Or did he? To bring a killer to justice, Julia will have to journey into the mind of madness herself, embarking on a terrifying personal journey back into her own past
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Except the dying
by Maureen Jennings
A young girl's naked body is found in a deserted lane in the middle of winter 1895, and Toronto Detective William Murdoch must find out why she had to die that way in order to prevent another similar murder.
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Wires and nerve : Gone Rogue Volume 2, Gone rogue
by Marissa Meyer
Tasked with hunting down the leader of a rogue band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers, audacious android Iko, best friend to the Lunar Queen, Cinder, confronts difficult truths about her unusual programming while endeavoring to save hostages who have been abducted as part of their enemy's plot to sabotage peace talks between Earth and Luna.
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Waking gods
by Sylvain Neuvel
A sequel to Sleeping Giants finds an elite physicist investigating the nature of what appears to be a giant metal hand found decades earlier deep underground, a mystery that leads to the greatest discovery of the millennium and the appearance of a world-changing technology.
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Jacky Ha-Ha : my life is a joke
by James Patterson
Wanting to spend the summer on the stage but required by her parents to take a job instead, Jacky tackles the serious responsibilities of babysitting while dreaming of performing in a summer-stock Shakespeare production, an ambition that challenges her organizational skills.
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Treasure Hunters : Quest for the City of Gold
by James Patterson
wins Bick and Beck Kidd and their family of professional treasure hunters race against mercenaries, rival treasure hunters, and a lumber baron through the jungles and mountains of Peru in search of Paititi, the legendary lost Inca city of gold, in hope of conserving the archaeological treasure and preventing deforestation of the rain forest.
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Long way down
by Jason Reynolds
Driven by the secrets and vengeance that mark his street culture, 15-year-old Will contemplates over the course of 60 psychologically suspenseful seconds whether or not he is going to murder the person who killed his brother. By the National Book Award finalist author of When I Was the Greatest. Simultaneous eBook.
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The shadow cipher
by Laura Ruby
A debut entry in an alternate-history series depicts three kids who try to solve a modern-world puzzle and complete a treasure hunt laid into the streets and buildings of New York City.
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Imagine that! : how Dr. Seuss wrote The cat in the hat
by Judy Sierra
A bouncy account of the early career of Ted Geisel, otherwise known as Dr. Seuss, describes how he adhered to strict literary guidelines while writing The Cat in the Hat, proving how even limitations can be inspiring. Illustrated by the award-winning artist of Library Lion.
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Behind the scenes at the museum
by Kate Atkinson
A family saga chronicles a century of life as four generations of Yorkshire women move through two World Wars, coronations, secrets, heartbreak, and happiness, all seen through the eyes of an inimitable narrator named Ruby Lennox.
The Evening Book Discussion Group will be talking about this title on Monday, March 12 at 6:30 pm.
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Winter garden
by Kristin Hannah
Reunited when their beloved father falls ill, sisters Meredith and Nina find themselves under the shadow of their disapproving mother, whose painful history is hidden behind her rendition of a Russian fairy tale told to the sisters in childhood.
The Daytime Book Discussion Group will be talking about this title on Thursday, March 15 at 10:00 am.
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