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Cumberland Public Library Staff Picks June 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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Book scavenger
by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Delightedly moving to San Francisco, 12-year-old Emily longs to meet a favorite author who lives nearby and who is savagely attacked just before the release of his latest online puzzle series.
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Drowned city : Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans
by Don Brown
A 10th-anniversary tribute and companion to The Great American Dust Bowl combines authoritative memoir with evocative graphic and watercolor illustrations in an account published to benefit Habitat for Humanity New Orleans.
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Star-crossed
by Barbara Dee
Star student Mattie is chosen to play Romeo opposite her crush, a newcomer named Gemma, in an eighth-grade production of Romeo and Juliet, a situation that makes her question her orientation about whether she can be attracted to both boys and girls.
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Dragon rider
by Cornelia Caroline Funke
After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy
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Symptoms of being human
by Jeff Garvin
A gender-fluid teen who identifies as a boy or girl on different days—and whose challenges are complicated by a new school and a conservative politician father—is encouraged by a therapist to write an anonymous blog that goes unexpectedly viral.
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The balance of power
by Stan Lee
When a catastrophe threatens the lives of every Zodiac in the world, 16-year-old Steven Lee is forced to decide how far he will go to protect his fellow superpowered friends.
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Murder at Rough Point
by Alyssa Maxwell
Sent by her paper to cover a celebrity house party at a sumptuous cottage owned by a distant cousin, fashion reporter Emma is surprised to encounter her own estranged parents at the party, only to be swept up by the murders of two guests.
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Valentine Murder : A Lucy Stone Mystery
by Leslie Meier
Knee-deep in cupcakes with pastel frosting and candy hearts, Lucy Stone is shocked when new librarian Bitsy Howell is murdered and Detective Horowitz announces that the murderer is among them, so she casts aside her culinary concoctions to investigate and comes face to face with a killer..
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The black book
by James Patterson
A devoted Chicago cop from a family of career detectives miraculously survives an attack that kills his partner but that he cannot remember himself, an event that causes him to be charged with double murder and tasked with uncovering what really happened to clear his name.
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Most wanted
by Lisa Scottoline
Using a sperm donor to conceive when she learns that her husband is infertile, a happily pregnant woman is shattered to learn that a man arrested for a series of brutal murders is the biological father of her baby.
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The hate u give
by Angie Thomas
After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died
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A blind guide to Stinkville
by Beth Vrabel
After moving to Stinkville from Seattle, where everyone knew her and she was comfortable, blind albino Alice finds herself floundering in her new environment, but she's determined to prove that she can be part of the community and by confronting her own blindness, everyone else in Stinkville seems to see her for the first time.
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