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Cumberland Public Library Staff Picks November 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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Karolina's twins
by Ronald H Balson
Holocaust survivor Lena Woodward enlists the help of lawyer Catherine Lockhart and private investigator Liam Taggart to help her resolve a secret from her past in Nazi-occupied Poland
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Little & Lion
by Brandy Colbert
Returning home to Los Angeles from her New England boarding school, Suzette considers staying home for good so that she can be near her friends, her crush, and her recently diagnosed bipolar brother, a situation that is complicated by her growing feelings for the girl her brother loves.
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Illegal
by Eoin Colfer
Resolved to join the siblings who left months earlier, 12-year-old Ebo ventures through the Sahara and the dangerous streets of Tripoli before embarking on a hazardous voyage from Ghana to a safe haven in Europe.
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Less : a novel
by Andrew Sean Greer
Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his 50th birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself and making connections with the past.
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Northmen : the Viking saga, AD 793-1241
by John Haywood
Offers a historical look at the Vikings that places them within the wider geographical context of their world, from their origins to their eventual incorporation into Latin Christendom
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An unwanted guest
by Shari Lapeña
Weathering a storm that has cut them off from the outside world, the guests at a Catskills skiing lodge panic as an unknown assailant starts killing them off one by one.
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Crown of midnight : a Throne of glass novel
by Sarah J. Maas
Designated as Adarlan's royal assassin after winning the king's contest, Celaena Sardothien feigns loyalty while secretly fighting tyranny and struggling with feelings for both Dorian and Chaol.
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Love and ruin : a novel
by Paula McLain
The best-selling author of The Paris Wife returns to her fan-favorite subject, Ernest Hemingway, in a tale set on the eve of World War II that is inspired by his passionate, stormy marriage to a fiercely independent, ambitious young Martha Gellhorn, who would become one of the 20th century's leading war correspondents.
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I'll be gone in the dark : one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer
by Michelle McNamara
An account of the unsolved Golden State Killer case, written by the late author of the TrueCrimeDiary.com website and featuring an afterword by her husband, comedian Patton Oswalt, traces the rapes and murders of dozens of victims and the author's determined efforts to help identify the killer and bring him to justice.
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Mistress of all evil : a tale of the dark fairy
by Serena Valentino
An adaptation of Disney's Sleeping Beauty, told from Maleficent's point of view, shares insights into how she became an evil fairy and why she resolved to curse an innocent princess.
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A gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold.
The Evening Book Discussion Group will be talking abou tthis title on Monday, November 19 at 6:30 pm.
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