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Cumberland Public Library Staff Picks October 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 lost family : a novel
by Jenna Blum
Resigning himself to solitude, chef and Auschwitz survivor, Peter Rashkin, in 1965 Manhattan, devotes himself to running Masha’s restaurant, until he meets and marries June, but the horrors of his past soon overshadow him, June and their daughter.
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The banker's wife
by Cristina Alger
A heartbroken young widow and an ambitious society journalist investigate a suspicious plane crash that implicates some of the world's most powerful financial heads.
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In the midst of winter
by Isabel Allende
A minor traffic accident becomes a catalyst for an unexpected bond among a human rights scholar, his Chilean lecturer tenant and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, who explore firsthand the difficulties of immigrants and refugees in today's world.
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How we roll
by Natasha Friend
An extroverted teen who has been abandoned by all of her friends because of her alopecia and a former star football player who has lost his legs in a freak accident find healing and the confidence to be themselves again through a friendship with each other that gradually becomes something more.
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A murder for the books
by Victoria Gilbert
Moving in with her aunt in a quiet, historic town in Virginia, librarian Amy is lured into trouble by her attractive neighbor Richard, who seeks answers to an unsolved murder from the 1920s, but Amy soon uncovers more than she should
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The wife between us
by Greer Hendricks
A psychologically charged tale of suspense follows the unexpected twists that shape a divorce and second marriage that are anything but what they seem.
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Girl in the blue coat
by Monica Hesse
A grief-stricken procurer of black-market goods in World War II-era Amsterdam is compelled to help a desperate neighbor track down a missing Jewish teen who had been hiding from the Nazis.
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The calculating stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
On a cold spring night in 1952, a meteorite falls to earth and destroys much of the eastern seaboard of the United States, including Washington D.C. The Meteor, as it is popularly known, decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will eventually render the earth inhospitable to humanity.This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated timeline in the earth’s efforts to colonize space, and allows a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process.
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March : Book one
by John Lewis
A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement
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The house of unexpected sisters
by Alexander McCall Smith
Investigating the case of a woman wrongfully dismissed from her job, Precious Ramotswe discovers information that causes her to rethink her views about the case before meeting a local nurse who shares her unusual surname
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Only human
by Sylvain Neuvel
Returning to Earth after nearly ten years on another world, Rose returns to find her old alliances forfeit and the planet in shambles, a situation that challenges her to rebuild the Earth Defense Corps at the same time her friends start turning on one another. By the author of Sleeping Giants.
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Where the lost girls go
by Rosalind Noonan
A rookie cop investigates after a body burned in a fiery car crash turns out not to be the daughter of a celebrity author who owned the car, but that of a teen runaway who was living on the streets of Portland.
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Dear Mrs. Bird : a novel
by A. J . Pearce
An adventurous young woman takes a typist job to assist the war effort and lands in the employ of a renowned advice columnist before she begins secretly replying to heart-wrenching letters rejected as unsuitable.
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The Olympics and the cold war, 1948-1968 : sport as battleground in the U.S.-Soviet rivalry
by Erin Elizabeth Redihan
Early in the Cold War, when all U.S.-Soviet interactions were treated as potential matters of life and death, each side tried to manipulate the International Olympic Committee. This book looks at six consecutive Olympiads to show how high the stakes became once the Soviets began competing in 1952, threatening America's athletic supremacy
NOTE: This was written by one of the Library's own staff members!
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206 bones
by Kathy Reichs
The scientist co-producer of the television show Bones presents a latest work featuring Tempe Brennan that finds the forensic anthropologist regaining consciousness only to discover herself bound and trapped in a small enclosed space before remembering an autopsy case that resulted in a murder and an attempt on her life.
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Ghost boys
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"
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Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy
by Heather Ann Thompson
An all-encompassing account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state's violent response and the victims' decades-long quest for justice draws on previously unreleased information while detailing how the event has influenced civil rights practices in the criminal justice system.
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Envy of angels
by Matt Wallace
Blackballed in the high-end restaurant community, Lena and Darren jump at the chance to work with the executive chef of Sin du Jour, a catering company for New York's supernatural community
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