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Staff Picks February 2017 Kayla S from Services is providing our picks this month.
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Another day
by David Levithan
Every Day #2
Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted her life, convinced herself that she deserves her distant, temperamental boyfriend, Justin, even established guidelines by which to live: Don’t be too needy. Avoid upsetting him. Never get your hopes up. Until the morning everything changes. Justin seems to see her, to want to be with her for the first time, and they share a perfect day—a perfect day Justin doesn’t remember the next morning. Confused, depressed, and desperate for another day as great as that one, Rhiannon starts questioning everything. Then, one day, a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person…wasn’t Justin at all.
Call Number: TEEN LEVITHAN, DAVID
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Beauty : a novel
by Susan Wilson
Traveling to New Hampshire to paint the portrait of novelist Leland Crompton, Alix Miller finds a man hideously deformed by a rare genetic disease, but as she spends hours working on the portrait, Alix discovers the magnificent man inside the recluse.
Call Number: F WILSON, SUSAN
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But Like Maybe? 1
by Arianna Margulis
Based on the hit Instagram account But Like Maybe? is a new comic book about life and stuff examining the complicated world of selfies brunch hangovers love rejection and over-analyzing everything.Issue 1 follows millennial heroine “BLM” as she obsesses over her love interest “Hot Brad" while her teddy bear confidant attempts to intercept her crazy-girl antics. The voice of a generation...But Like Maybe?
Call Number: HOOPLA
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Every day
by David Levithan
Every Day #1
Waking up in the body of a different person every day and struggling to pass through each experience without raising alarm, "A" endures a lonely existence before falling in love with a girl named Rhiannon, with whom he endeavors to reunite.
Call Number: TEEN LEVITHAN, DAVID
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Snow White
by Matt Phelan
A darkly stylized, noir adaptation of the classic story is set against a backdrop of Depression-era Manhattan and depicts, in vibrant graphic-novel detail, the story of a beleaguered girl who finds shelter with seven street urchins after the sudden death of her former Wall Street king father and suffering cruelty at the hands of her Queen of the Follies stepmother.
Call Number: TEEN GN PHELAN, MATT
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Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
by Trevor Noah
The host of The Daily Show With Trevor Noah traces his wild coming of age during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, offering insight into the farcical aspects of the political and social systems of today's world.
Call Number: B NOAH, TREVOR
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Closed casket : the new Hercule Poirot mystery
by Sophie Hannah
New Hercule Poirot Mysteries #2
Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at her mansion in Clonakilty, County Cork, but it is no ordinary gathering. As guests arrive, Lady Playford summons her lawyer to make an urgent change to her will. She has decided to cut off her two children without a penny and leave her fortune to someone who has only weeks to live...When a crime is committed in spite of Poirot's best efforts to stop it, and the victim is not who he expected it to be, will he be able to find the culprit and solve the mystery?
Call Number: M HANNAH, SOPHIE
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The innocents
by Ace Atkins
When a high-school dropout's brutal burning death shatters the tough Mississippi community of Tibbehah, Sheriff Quinn Colson and his deputy, Lillie Virgil, follow leads to uncover a disturbing pattern of killings.
Call Number: F ATKINS, ACE
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Small great things : a novel
by Jodi Picoult
Hesitating to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple who has demanded that a white nurse assist them, a black nurse is placed on trial in the tragic aftermath and is aided by a white public defender with whom she begins questioning their beliefs as the case becomes more racially charged.
Call Number: F PICOULT, JODI
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A Sugar Creek chronicle : observing climate change from a midwestern woodland
by Cornelia Fleischer Mutel
Moving between two timelines, Mutel pairs chapters about a single year in her Iowa woodland with chapters about her life as a fledgling and then professional student of nature. Stories of her childhood ramblings in Wisconsin and the solace she found in the Colorado mountains during early adulthood are merged with accounts of global environmental dilemmas that have redefined nature during her lifespan. Throughout, in a straightforward manner for a concerned general audience, Mutel integrates information about the science of climate change and its dramatic alteration of the planet in ways that clarify its broad reach, profound impact, and seemingly relentless pace.
Call Number: 577.3 MUT
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Long way gone
by Charles Martin
Having lost everything he stole from his father before being framed for a crime and injured in ways that make his music career impossible, Cooper quietly returns home to seek forgiveness and reconciliation by using his gifts to help others.
Call Number: F MARTIN, CHARLES
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Nicotine
by Nell Zink
Inheriting her hippie father's childhood home in New Jersey, a young woman who has rebelled against her family her entire life arrives at the house and encounters a group of charming anarchist squatters who share her political beliefs and fervent approach to life.
Call Number: F ZINK, NELL
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The Unreal and the Real : The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula K. Le Guin’s best short stories. She has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years, but this is the first short story volume combining a full range of her work.
Call Number: SF LE GUIN, URSULA K.
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The white ghost :
by James R Benn
When he is sent by the powerful Kennedy family to investigate a murder in which PT skipper (and future president) Jack Kennedy has been implicated in 1943, Lieutenant Billy Boyle must cast aside his own suspicions to prove that the charmer, liar and womanizer is not guilty.
Call Number: M BENN, JAMES R.
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