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Retired Staff Picks August 2016 Retired staff members, Char, Chris, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Linda, Sara, and Trish, offer their reading suggestions.
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Along the infinite sea : a novel
by Beatriz Williams
Fixing up and selling a rare vintage Mercedes in the hopes of earning enough to provide for her illegitimate baby, Pepper Schuyler is taken under the wing of the car's owner and learns about its astonishing ties to star-crossed lovers in pre-World War II Europe.
Call Number: F WILLIAMS, BEATRIZ
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Everybody's fool
by Richard Russo
The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is now staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he only has a year or two left, and he's busy as hell keeping the news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years ... the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren't still best friends. Sully's son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure. Doug Raymer, now Chief of Police and still obsessing over the identity of the man his wife might have been having an affair with before she died in a freak accident. Bath's mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, who also has a pressing wife problems and then there's Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upwards might now come to ruin.
Call Number: F RUSSO, RICHARD
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The forgotten room
by Karen White
A young doctor is unwittingly drawn into a mystery surrounding three generations of her family after a critically wounded military captain is brought to the hospital in critical condition.
Call Number: F WHITE, KAREN
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Heat and light
by Jennifer Haigh
A latest tale set in the Pennsylvania town depicted in Baker Towers finds an agreement to lease mineral rights to frackers causing unexpected complications in the life of farmer Rich Devilin, his family members and his neighbors throughout Bakerton.
Call Number: F HAIGH, JENNIFER
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Love and treasure
by Ayelet Waldman
A tale inspired by the World War II Hungarian Gold Train follows the 1945 American capture of a locomotive filled with riches and the efforts of a Jewish-American lieutenant's granddaughter to track down a mysterious woman 70 years later.
Call Number: F WALDMAN, AYELET
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A man called Ove : a novel
by Fredrik Backman
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.
Call Number: F BACKMAN, FREDRIK
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Sisi : Empress on her own : a novel
by Allison Pataki
A tale inspired by the life of Empress Sisi in 19th-century Vienna places such events as the opening of the Suez Canal, Vienna's World Exhibition and the outbreak of World War I against a backdrop of imperial court temptations, rivalries and cutthroat intrigues.
Call Number: F PATAKI, ALLISON
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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 storied life of A.J. Fikry : a novel
by Gabrielle Zevin
When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life.
Call Number: F ZEVIN, GABRIELLE
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