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Cumberland Public Library Staff Picks March 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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Murder on the half shelf
by Lorna Barrett
When she discovers the proprietress of a cozy inn murdered, bookshop owner Tricia Miles must protect the hotel's co-owner, the prime suspect, who turns out to be a man she loved and has believed to be dead for twenty years
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The Oregon Trail : a new American journey
by Rinker Buck
Recounts the author's two-thousand-mile trip on the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way, in a covered wagon with a team of mules, and discusses the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the United States
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The dollhouse : a novel
by Fiona Davis
Arriving at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952 where she is instantly rendered a misfit, a plain, self-conscious secretarial school student is befriended and introduced by a hotel maid to the city's jazz and drug counterculture and is involved in a deadly skirmish that reverberates half a century later in the life of an obsessed journalist.
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Beatrice and Benedick
by Marina Fiorato
A tale set a year before the events of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing imagines the first youthful encounters between famous lovers Beatrice and Benedick to consider their original romance and bitter breakup.
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Second chance
by Jane Green
Reunited by the tragic death of one of their number, a group of former schoolmates works through their shared grief while evaluating the unforeseen ways in which each of their lives have been impacted.
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Trap line
by Carl Hiaasen
One of the best fishing captains on Key West, Florida, Breeze Albury comes under pressure from cocaine smugglers to ferry their contraband who threaten to make his son disappear, driving him to vigilantism.
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The book that matters most
by Ann Hood
Joining a reading group in the wake of a failed marriage, Ava rediscovers a mysterious book from her childhood that helped her through past difficulties, while her troubled daughter, Maggie, descends into a destructive relationship with an older man in Paris.
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Illuminae
by Amie Kaufman
Caught in the crossfire of a megacorporation rivalry in 2575, Kady and Ezra, who have just broken up, flee their home planet on an evacuation ship that is quickly overwhelmed by a fast-spreading plague.
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Outrun the moon
by Stacey Lee
Gaining admittance into an elite school usually limited to white girls, 15-year-old Mercy Wong, who strives to escape from her disadvantaged life through education, endures harsh conditions in a park encampment when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroys her home and school.
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The perfect girl
by Gilly Macmillan
Fighting to start over after serving time for her role in a fatal accident, teen musical prodigy Zoe Maisey is horrified when her mother is found dead after a career-launching recital, in a high-suspense tale told over the course of twenty-four hours
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I'll give you the sun
by Jandy Nelson
A story of first love and family loss follows the estrangement between daredevil Jude and her loner twin brother, Noah, as a result of a mysterious event that is brought to light by a beautiful, broken boy and a new mentor.
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I am Princess X
by Cherie Priest
Years after writing stories about a superheroine character she created with a best friend who died in a tragic car accident, 16-year-old Libby is shocked to see stickers, patches and graffiti images of the superheroine appearing all over town.
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Prince Lestat and the realms of Atlantis
by Anne Rice
Via the tale of the lost realms of Atlantis, readers will come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of the ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit.
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