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Cumberland Public Library Staff Picks January 2017
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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, or Children's Desk.
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Sentenced to death
by Lorna Barrett
When her friend Deborah, the festivities organizer for Stoneham's Founders' Day celebration, is killed in a freak accident during the opening ceremonies, mystery bookstore owner Tricia Miles discovers that there is more to this story than meets the eye.
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The girls : a novel
by Emma Cline
Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle, only to find herself drawn into a cult and seduced by its charismatic leader.
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The invisible library
by Genevieve Cogman
An undercover librarian who works for an occult organization that collects books from different realities must determine what happened to a particularly dangerous book that has been stolen and becomes mired in a mystery infused with peril and conflicting clues.
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One
by Sarah Crossan
Conjoined twins Tippi and Grace, who are joined everywhere below their hearts, are challenged by their encroaching shared adolescence and financial restraints that require them to leave the privacy of homeschooling to attend public high school.
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She's not there
by Joy Fielding
Haunted by the kidnapping of her infant 15 years earlier, Carole Shipley receives a phone call from a sweet-voiced girl claiming to be her lost daughter, an event that plunges Carole back into a world of heartbreak, suspicion and questions. By the New York Times best-selling author of Someone Is Watching.
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We were liars
by E Lockhart
A modern, sophisticated suspense tale by the National Book Award finalist author of The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks follows the revolutionary activities of four friends who turn against each other in the wake of trauma, differing political views and a devastating secret.
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How to hang a witch
by Adriana Mather
Bullied by a group of girls who claim that the Salem Witch Trial victims are their ancestors, Sam, a descendant of witch-hunter Cotton Mather, is also targeted by an angry ghost before realizing that she is at the center of a curse tracing back to the original trials.
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Murder at Beechwood
by Alyssa Maxwell
Caring for an abandoned infant during the summer of 1896, Emma Cross uses her connections to search for the child's family and discovers a link between the baby and a textile magnate who drowns under suspicious circumstances.
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27 magic words
by Sharelle Byars Moranville
Although Kobi's parents sailed into a storm five years ago, she believes they are alive, and when she is sent from her grandmother's luxurious Paris apartment to live with an uncle in Iowa, Kobi tells lies that soon catch up with her
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Pax
by Sara Pennypacker
When his father enlists in the military and makes him return his beloved pet fox to the wild, Peter, who has been sent to live with his grandfather hundreds of miles away, embarks on a journey filled with astonishing discoveries in order to be reunited with his fox.
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Paper girls. 1
by Brian K Vaughan
Supernatural mysteries and suburban drama collide in the early hours after the Halloween of 1988 for four twelve-year-old newspaper delivery girls
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The mischief of the mistletoe : A Pink Carnation Christmas
by Lauren Willig
When schoolmarm Arabella Dempsey and Reginald "Turnip" Fitzhugh, often mistaken for the elusive spy The Pink Carnation, stumble upon a Christmas pudding with a cryptic message, the pair embark on a Yuletide adventure that ranges from Jane Austen's modest drawing room to a duchess's lavish 12-day Christmas celebration.
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Ellie's story : a dog's purpose novel
by W. Bruce Cameron
Helping to find lost children and accident victims after being trained as a search-and-rescue dog, Ellie discovers an additional purpose by bringing help and comfort to her handlers, the widowed Jakob and lonely Maya.
The Rooster Readers (Grades 3-5) Group will be talking about this title on Thursday, January 12 at 6:00 pm.
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