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Library Staff Reads The topic for this edition of the newsletter will be books selected because of their cover art- "Art is a harmony parallel with nature." Paul Cezanne
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Let's explore diabetes with owls
by David Sedaris
A new collection of essays by the humorist and best-selling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day traces his offbeat world travel experiences, which involved surreal encounters with everything from French dentistry and Australian kookaburra eating habits to Beijing squat toilets and a wilderness Costco in North Carolina.
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Green angel
by Alice Hoffman
Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.
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Lost Lake
by Sarah Addison Allen
Seeking solace in a Georgia lakeside cottage with her eccentric 8-year-old daughter, recently widowed Kate wonders if the area's almost-magical ability for sparking romances has been imagined before experiencing a poignant renewal. By the best-selling author of Garden Spells.
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The namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
An incisive portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life, in a debut novel that spans three decades, two continents, and two generations. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies.
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Nowhere but here
by Katie McGarry
The sheltered daughter of a motorcycle club leader falls unexpectedly in love with a blue-eyed youth who aspires to join the club by protecting her from vindictive rivals.
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On writing : a memoir of the craft
by Stephen King
A dual autobiography and primer on writing follows King's childhood and coming of age, the struggling years that led to the creation of his first novel, his personal demons, and his recommendations on developing the writer's craft.
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Safe haven
by Nicholas Sparks
Katie, a newcomer to the small town of Southport, North Carolina, resists forming any personal ties until she is drawn into relationships with Alex, a young widower, and Jo, her plainspoken single neighbor, who help her overcome her fearful past.
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The brief history of the dead
by Kevin Brockmeier
In The City, an afterlife world inhabited by the recently departed as long as they remain in the memories of the living, Marion and Phillip Byrd find themselves falling in love again after decades of marriage, while on Earth, their daughter, Laura, is stranded alone in an Antarctic research station, cut off by extreme weather.
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April witch
by Majgull Axelsson
Born severely disabled in 1950s Sweden and institutionalized for life, Desiree cannot walk or talk but can use her clairvoyant and omniscient powers to travel through time and space into the lives of her three foster sisters--taken in by her birth mother after Desiree had been given up at birth--none of whom no anything about Desiree.
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Bloodroot : a novel
by Amy Greene
A tale told from myriad viewpoints follows a family from the Great Depression to the present, describing the experiences of a wild young mountain girl, her protective grandmother, the men who love her and the children who struggle to manage her untamed legacy.
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Secrets. Everyone has one. Some are bigger than others. And when secrets are revealed, some will heal you and some will end you. Kate Sedgwick’s life has been anything but typical. She’s endured hardship and tragedy, but throughout it all she remains happy and optimistic (there’s a reason her best friend Gus calls her "Bright Side"). Kate is strong-willed, funny, smart, and musically gifted. She’s also never believed in love so when Kate leaves San Diego to attend college in the small town of Grant, Minnesota, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with Keller Banks. They both feel it. But they each have a reason to fight it. They each have a secret.
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The invention of wings
by Sue Monk Kidd
Traces more than three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a child before finding courage and a sense of self.
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Write Away : One Writer's Approach to the Novel
by Elizabeth George
A guide to writing fiction and understanding the creative process by the best-selling author of I, Richard and A Traitor to Memory presents dozens of literary and commercial examples that demonstrate how to construct a novel, in a reference complemented by personal anecdotes from the writer's life.
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The signature of all things
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Traces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before his daughter, a gifted botanist, researches the mysteries of evolution while falling in love with an artist.
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Water for elephants : a novel
by Sara Gruen
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
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Master of Desire
by Kinley MacGregor
At the order of the king and to unite their two warring families, Draven de Montague, Earl of Ravenswood, is forced to take in his archenemy's lovely, youngest daughter, Lady Emily, for a year, never expecting that the gentle beauty will ignite a passion that will turn both their lives upside down.
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A thread of grace : a novel
by Mary Doria Russell
In September 1943, fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with thousands of other Jewish refugees seeking safety, only to find an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allied forces, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italians struggling to survive the harsh realities of World War II.
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Slammerkin
by Emma Donoghue
Born to poverty in eighteenth-century London, Mary Saunders's love of fine clothes and a dream of a better life take her from the world of prostitution to life as a household seamstress in Monmouth to a search for true freedom.
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Bowled over : Library Edition
by Victoria Hamilton
When her glass bowl is used as a murder weapon, vintage kitchenware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton must figure out who wants to implicate her in the death of a former friend.
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The secret history of the Pink Carnation
by Lauren Willig
Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers lost historical information that reveals the secret life of the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion.
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The Book of Life
by Deborah E. Harkness
Historian and witch Diana Bishop and her vampire scientist husband Matthew Clairmont return from a trip to the past still searching for the elusive alchemy tome Ashmole 782 in the final installment of the best-selling trilogy following Shadow of Night.
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She's come undone : a novel
by Wally Lamb
Overweight and sensitive, Dolores Price grows from painful childhood, through excruciating adolescence, to lonely adulthood, experiencing the heartache of being a misfit in a confusing world
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Rin Tin Tin : the life and the legend
by Susan Orlean
A New Yorker staff writer and author of The Orchid Thief chronicles the rise of the iconic German shepherd character while sharing the stories of the real WWI dog and the canine performer in the 1950s television show, in an account that also explores Rin Tin Tin's relevance in the military and popular culture.
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Plan B : further thoughts on faith
by Anne Lamott
A spiritual guide by the author of the best-selling Traveling Mercies shares humorous and inspirational advice on how to manage with grace in today's world of terrorism, while caring for aging parents and children simultaneously, and in the face of environmental threats.
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