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Cumberland Public Library Staff Picks August 2018
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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 devil crept in
by Ania Ahlborn
In a town plagued by mysterious disappearances and unsolved crimes, one of which resulted in murder, young Stevie Clark is determined to find out what really happened to his best friend, Jude, who has been missing for several days, but the awful truth may be too horrifying to imagine.
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Heating & cooling : 52 micro-memoirs
by Beth Ann Fennelly
A genre-defying memoir by the author of Unmentionables and Great with Child offers glimpses into a richly experienced life, detailing her observations as a wife, mother and writer as well as the humor she discovered in everyday interactions.
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I believe in a thing called love
by Maurene Goo
A high achieving Korean-American student whose botched attempts at romance have made her a laughingstock decides to conquer her insecurities when the most attractive boy she has ever met walks into her life.
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The way of all fish
by Martha Grimes
A sequel to Foul Matter finds writer Cindy Sella struggling with writer's block and a lawsuit by her unscrupulous former agent, L. Bass Hess, who is targeted by bumbling hitmen Candy and Karl's zany efforts to drive him out of New York City.
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The hero's guide to saving your kingdom
by Christopher Healy
Exiled from their castles when they are rejected by the princesses they love, the prince rescuers of Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White and Rapunzel discover an evil plot that threatens all of their kingdoms.
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Bad monkey
by Carl Hiaasen
Anticipating his retirement from the Key West Police, Andrew Yancy tackles a murder case involving a human arm in his freezer, an investigation that pits him against a twitchy widow, a clueless real estate developer and a voodoo witch with a string of hapless lovers.
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The Abbot's Tale
by Conn Iggulden
In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to go to war in the north. His dream of a united kingdom of all England will stand or fall on one field--on the passage of a single day. At his side is the priest Dunstan of Glastonbury, full of ambition and wit (perhaps enough to damn his soul). His talents will take him from the villages of Wessex to the royal court, to the hills of Rome--from exile to exaltation. Through Dunstan's vision, by his guiding hand, England will either come together as one great country or fall back into anarchy and misrule...From one of our finest historical writers, The Abbott's Tale is an intimate portrait of a priest and performer, a visionary, a traitor and confessor to kings--the man who can change the fate of England.
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Batman : Nightwalker
by Marie Lu
An entry in the popular series depicting DC superheroes as teens follows a reckless young Bruce Wayne who must team up with a brilliant killer and overcome the challenges of not having superpowers in order to defend against Nightwalker attackers who are targeting the elite of Gotham City. Simultaneous eBook.
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I am legend
by Richard Matheson
A lone human survivor in a world that is overrun by vampires, Robert Neville leads a desperate life in which he must barricade himself in his home every night and hunt down the starving undead by day
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Fifty, fifty
by James Patterson
Violating protocol in her efforts to defend her brother against murder charges, Detective Harriet Blue is forced to relocate to a virtual ghost town in the outback, where a diary found on the roadside reveals shocking plans to massacre the community's few remaining residents.
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Life as we knew it
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
When a meteor pushes the moon closer to the earth, setting into motion a series of destructive weather events that wipe out coasts, rock the continents, and block out the sun, Miranda and her family must find a way to survive in a desperate and unfamiliar world.
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The soldier's scoundrel
by Cat Sebastian
After the chaos of war, Oliver Rivington craves the safe predictability of a gentleman's life-- one that doesn't include sparring with a ne'er-do-well who flouts the law at every turn. But Jack tempts Oliver like no other man has before. Soon his yearning for the unapologetic criminal is only matched by Jack's pleasure in watching his genteel polish crumble every time they're together.
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Wytches. Volume 1
by Scott Snyder
"When the Rooks family moves to the remote town of Litchfield, NH to escape a haunting trauma, they're hopeful about starting over. But something evil is waiting for them in the woods just beyond town. Watching from the trees. Ancient...and hungry"
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Artemis : a novel
by Andy Weir
Augmenting his limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
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The book of Essie : a novel
by Meghan MacLean Weir
A novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the emotionally stirring, wildly captivating story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family's hit reality show, and the secret pregnancy that threatens to blow their entire world apart.
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The female persuasion
by Meg Wolitzer
A shy college freshman finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned at the side of her boyfriend.
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The girl from Venice
by Martin Cruz Smith
A new standalone novel by the award-winning author of Gorky Park follows a turbulent love affair between a fisherman and a Jewish woman on the run in occupied 1945 La Serenissima.
The Daytime Book Discussion Group will be talking about this title on Thursday, August 16 at 10:00 am.
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The all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton : a novel
by Jane Smiley
Two years after her academic satire, Moo, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author brings to light the ante-Civil War memoirs of Lidie Harkness, an abolitionist who in 1855 enters the fray between Kansas free-staters and slave-holding Missourians.
The Evening Book Discussion Group will be talking about this title on Monday, August 20 at 6:30 pm.
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