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Retired Staff Picks August 2018 Retired staff Carmen, Char, Chris, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Sallie, Sara, and Trish offer their reading suggestions.
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America's First Daughter
by Stephanie Dray
A carefully researched tale based on thousands of original sources imagines the experiences of third American President's daughter Patsy, who while accompanying her father to Paris struggles with his past affair with a slave and falls in love with his protégé against a backdrop of a growing revolution.
Call Number: F DRAY, STEPHANIE
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Bring Me Back
by B. A. Paris
She went missing. He moved on. A whole world of secrets remained, until now. A tour de force of psychological suspense, Bring Me Back will have you questioning everything and everyone until its stunning climax.
Call Number: F PARIS, B. A.
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The Girl with No Name
by Diney Costeloe
After escaping Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, thirteen-year-old Lise struggles to fit in at school, but when the Blitz destroys her home and robs her of her memory she gets a new name and sent to a children's home.
Call Number: HOOPLA EBOOK
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The Last Secret of the Deverills
by Santa Montefiore
Deverill Chronicles #3
Ireland, early 1939. Much has changed for the Deverill family and a new generation is waiting in the wings. But eyes are once again turning towards Europe where the storm clouds of war are building.
Call Number: F MONTEFIORE, SANTA
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My Dear Hamilton : A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
by Stephanie Dray
Tells the story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy. Tells not just as the wronged wife at the center of a political sex scandal - but also as a founding mother who shaped an American legacy in her own right.
Call Number: F DRAY, STEPHANIE
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My Ex-life
by Stephen McCauley
David Hedges's boyfriend, Soren, left him for an older man. His job is exasperating. His weight has reached a new high. Across the country, Julie Fiske's husband Henry left her for a younger woman. Her teenage daughter Mandy refuses to apply for college. And then Mandy stuns Julie by saying she's been working with David Hedges, Mom's first husband from long ago. It's a lie, but when Julie calls David and asks if he'll help Mandy, he says of course. And David and Julie pick up where they left off.
Call Number: F MCCAULEY, STEPHEN
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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question.
Call Number: F LEE, MIN JIN
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The Perfect Couple
by Elin Hilderbrand
It's Nantucket wedding season. The Otis-Winbury wedding promises to be an event to remember: the groom's wealthy parents have spared no expense to host a lavish ceremony at their oceanfront estate. But it's going to be memorable for all the wrong reasons after tragedy strikes: a body is discovered in Nantucket Harbor just hours before the ceremony-and everyone in the wedding party is suddenly a suspect.
Call Number: F HILDERBRAND, ELIN
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The Rocks
by Peter Nichols
A tale set around a popular Mediterranean seaside resort follows the story of two honeymooners who abruptly split in 1948 and live separately for decades until children from their rivaling families fall in love.
Call Number: F NICHOLS, PETER
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The Wife : A Novel of Psychological Suspense
by Alafair Burke
Marrying an economics professor she met while catering an East Hampton dinner party, Angela finds her tragic past coming under scrutiny at the same time she is asked to defend her husband against wrongful accusations. By the New York Times best-selling author of the Edgar Award-nominated The Ex.
Call Number: F BURKE, ALAFAIR
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