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Cumberland Public Library Staff Picks November 2017
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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, or Children's Desk
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I will always write back : how one letter changed two lives
by Caitlin Alifirenka
Traces the friendship between an American girl and her pen pal from an impoverished region of Zimbabwe, describing how 12-year-old Caitlin wrote to an unknown student for a class assignment and shared a life-changing six-year correspondence.
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Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
by Irin Carmon
In a lively illustrated biography of the feminist icon and legal pioneer, readers can get to know the Supreme Court Justice and fierce Jewish grandmother, who has changed the world despite our struggle with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, standing as a testament to what a little chutzpah can do.
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How to write short : word craft for fast times
by Roy Peter Clark
A senior scholar at a prestigious journalism school offers advice and tips for packing a punch while being succinct and writing effective, powerful and brilliant titles, essays, Tweets, letters and emails in short form.
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The address : a novel
by Fiona Davis
Struggling to rebuild after rehab, an interior designer leaps at a chance to renovate her heiress cousin's lavish apartment and learns the scandalous history of a distant ancestor's connection to the murder of the building's architect a century earlier.
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The Marsh King's daughter
by Karen Dionne
A woman whose birth occurred as a result of her teen mother's abduction and imprisonment in an isolated marshland cabin risks the adult family that does not know her past when she uses survival skills honed in childhood to track down her murderous father.
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Y is for yesterday
by Sue Grafton
Kinsey Millhone monitors the release from prison of a sociopath who is determined to exact revenge on a fellow perpetrator who went missing after they sexually assaulted a fourteen-year-old classmate
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Conclave
by Robert Harris
After the demise of the Pope, 118 cardinals converge on the Sistine Chapel to cast their votes in the world's most secretive election, where ambition and rivalry play out over the course of 72 hours.
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The other boy
by M.G. Hennessey
Hiding his transgender identity behind a veneer of an everyday student who loves baseball and working on his graphic novel, 12-year-old Shane is threatened with exposure by a classmate and begins a painful journey toward acceptance and empathy.
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Murder at Chateau sur Mer
by Alyssa Maxwell
After a woman who demanded to speak to the wife of a prominent senator is found murdered, reporter Emma Cross discovers family secrets when she agrees to help with the investigation, doing everything she can to avoid becoming the next victim of a desperate killer
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The scourge
by Jennifer A Nielsen
Sent to a quarantine colony for plague victims where she anticipates a short and painful life, Ani Mells uncovers sinister truths about the plague and the colony as well as her own unwitting role in a devious plot.
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The Wendy project
by Melissa Jane Osborne
Fifteen-year-old Wendy struggles to navigate fantasy and reality after a car crash that leaves her brother Michael missing
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Crazy house
by James Patterson
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row
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The seventh most important thing
by Shelley Pearsall
In 1963, 13-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man's head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects.
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The bell jar
by Sylvia Plath
Esther Greenwood, a talented and successful writer, finally succumbs to madness when the world around her begins to falter
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The Lawrence Browne Affair
by Cat Sebastian
A brilliant scientist and lord hides himself away in his family's crumbling estate, unwilling to venture into the outside world. When an annoyingly handsome man arrives at Penkellis, claiming to be Lawrence's new secretary, his carefully planned world is turned upside down.
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The women in the castle
by Jessica Shattuck
In a novel set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, three widows' lives and fates become intertwined.
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The ghost ship of Brooklyn : an untold story of the American Revolution
by Robert P. Watson
Drawing on hundreds of accounts culled from old newspapers, diaries and military reports, the author of The Nazi Titanic and America's First Crisis follows the lives and ordeals of the survivors of the HMS Jersey, the most infamous prison ship of the American Revolution, and its role in the fight for independence. 12,000 first printing.
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