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Retired Staff Picks February 2017 Retired staff Carmen, Char, Chris, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Linda, Sara, and Trish offer their reading suggestions.
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Before the fall
by Noah Hawley
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs - the painter, and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the crash and the backstories of the passengers and crew members the mystery surrounding the tragedy heightens. As the passengers' intrigues unravel, odd coincidences point to a conspiracy. Events soon threaten to spiral out of control in an escalating storm of media outrage and accusations.
Call Number: F HAWLEY, NOAH
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The couple next door
by Shari Lapeña
When a terrible crime committed on the night of a dinner party casts suspicion on a young couple who seemed to have it all, Detective Rasbach discovers that the panicked duo had been hiding dangerous secrets from each other for years.
Call Number: F LAPENA, SHARI
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El Paso : a novel
by Winston Groom
When the Colonel's famous Valle del Sol ranch is raided, it was Pancho Villa who not only stole the cattle, murdered the ranch manager, and worse his henchmen abducted the Colonel|s grandchildren in another daring raid only days later. Frantic, the aging patriarch and his adopted son race to El Paso, hoping to gather a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt down the generalissimo. When a twist of fate unites his party with that of Johnny Ollas, an aspiring matador whose wife has also been kidnapped by the marauding revolutionaries, the two factions gallop off on an extraordinary manhunt through some of the most inhospitable terrain on earth: the vast and snake-ridden Sierra Madre.
Call Number: F GROOM, WINSTON
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The ever-running man
by Marcia Muller
Narrowly escaping an explosion in her apartment building that had been set by a man under investigation for blowing up her husband's security firm offices, Sharon McCone is dismayed to uncover the security firm's shadowy past, a finding that compromises her marriage.
Call Number: M MULLER, MARCIA
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Faithful
by Alice Hoffman
Overwhelmed by guilt when she walks away from an accident that destroys her best friend's future, Shelby connects with a circle of lost and found souls, including a guardian angel, to fight her way back to her own future.
Call Number: F HOFFMAN, ALICE
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The girls : a novel
by Emma Cline
Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle, only to find herself drawn into a cult and seduced by its charismatic leader.
Call Number: F CLINE, EMMA
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Lisette's list : a novel
by Susan Vreeland
A tale centered on the lives of Provence-inspired master artists follows the experiences of an exiled young Parisian who cares for her husband's ailing grandfather during the Vichy regime and rediscovers love through the master works of Cezanne, Pissarro, Chagall and Picasso.
Call Number: F VREELAND, SUSAN
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The little Paris bookshop : a novel
by Nina George
Prescribing books that offer therapeutic benefits to his customers, a literary apothecary in a floating bookstore on the Seine struggles with private heartbreak before embarking on a journey of healing at the side of a blocked writer and a lovelorn chef.
Call Number: F GEORGE, NINA
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Mischling : a novel
by Affinity Konar
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks--a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin--travel through Poland's devastation.
Call Number: F KNOAR, AFFINITY
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Salt to the sea : a novel
by Ruta Sepetys
Frantically racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive.
Call Number: TEEN SEPETYS, RUTA
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The secrets of wishtide : a Laetitia Rodd mystery
by Kate Saunders
A debut entry in a new series by the award-winning author of Five Children on the Western Front introduces archdeacon's widow and private investigator Laetitia Rodd, who goes undercover to assist her barrister brother during a case involving the illicit affairs of a nobleman's son.
Call Number: M SAUNDERS, KATE
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She was sheriff
by Melody Groves
Maud Overstreet figured she'd grow up, get married, have a house with a white picket fence and more kids than she could count. After thirty-five years, she still hopes it will happen. Now, in 1872, Dry Creek's town council offers her the job of replacement sheriff; she accepts — with trepidation. The discovery of gold brings unsavory characters, including the notorious James Mooney Gang. Impending bank robbery rumors spread. Maud enlists the help of Mayor Seth Critoli, but it's all on her to save Dry Creek from disaster.
Call Number: LP F GROVES, MELODY
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Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the game
by Tilly Bagshawe
The Game #2
In the long-awaited sequel to Sidney Sheldon's The Master of the Game, the children of Kate Maxwell's granddaughters, Eve and Alexandra, battle to carry on Kate's fierce legacy; but in a family of secrets, the player who wins the game may be the only one who can survive.
Call Number: F BAGSHAWE, TILLY
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Terrible typhoid Mary : a true story of the deadliest cook in America
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
In a riveting biography that reads like a crime novel, a Sibert Medalist and Newbery-Honor winner uncovers the true story of Mary Mallon, a.k.a. Typhoid Mary, one of the most notorious and misunderstood women in American history.
Call Number: JB TYPHOID, MARY
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The whole town's talking : a novel
by Fannie Flagg
The late citizens of a small Missouri community wake up underground after death and reconnect with loved ones over the course of 150 years before some of them begin to actually disappear, prompting a town-wide investigation.
Call Number: F FLAGG, FANNIE
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