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Retired Staff Picks July 2018 Retired staff Carmen, Char, Chris, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Sallie, Sara, and Trish offer their reading suggestions.
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Everyone brave is forgiven
by Chris Cleave
Shocking her blueblood political family by volunteering for the war effort in 1939 London, socialite Mary teaches evacuated and marginalized children and bonds with her employer, Tom, before their romance is challenged by a painful love triangle and the grueling realities of the war. By the author of Little Bee.
Call Number: F CLEAVE, CHRIS
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Everything, everything
by Nicola Yoon
A girl confined to her house by rare and profound allergies falls hopelessly in love with her new neighbor, in a story told through vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists and illustrations.
Call Number: TEEN YOON, NICOLA
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Florida
by Lauren Groff
A collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman.
Call Number: F GROFF, LAUREN
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Gateway to the moon
by Mary Morris
From award-winning novelist Mary Morris comes the remarkable story of a remote New Mexican town coming to grips with a dark history it never imagined. Gateway to the Moon is a moving and memorable portrait of a family and its journey through the centuries.
Call Number: F MORRIS, MARY
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A gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. By the best-selling author of Rules of Civility.
Call Number: F TOWLES, AMOR
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The Lost Family
by Jenna Blum
Jenna Blum artfully brings to the page a husband devastated by a grief he cannot name, a frustrated wife struggling to compete with a ghost she cannot banish, and a daughter sensitive to the pain of both her own family and another lost before she was born. Spanning three cinematic decades, The Lost Family is a charming, funny, and elegantly bittersweet study of the repercussions of loss and love.
Call Number: F BLUM, JENNA
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The President Is Missing
by Bill Clinton
The White House is the home of the President of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a U.S. President vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so? An unprecedented collaboration between President Bill Clinton and the world's bestselling novelist, James Patterson, The President Is Missing is a breathtaking story from the pinnacle of power.
Call Number: F PATTERSON, JAMES
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The stars are fire
by Anita Shreve
A novel based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history follows the experiences of a pregnant woman who struggles to protect her two young children and watches her home burn while her husband joins the volunteer firefighters. By the best-selling author of The Pilot's Wife.
Call Number: F SHREVE, ANITA
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Trajectory
by Richard Russo
A new collection of short fiction by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author includes the stories of a professor who confronts a plagiarist during a Thanksgiving holiday, a realtor who faces an ominous medical prognosis that places him in his father's shadow and a lapsed novelist who struggles with a spouse's illness while rekindling his career.
Call Number: LP F RUSSO, RICHARD
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Winter sisters
by Robin Oliveira
When the two young daughters of friends killed in a late-19th-century storm vanish without a trace, a former Civil War surgeon launches a determined rescue effort that is challenged by a community that believes there is no hope and a violin student niece who returns home from Paris with a secret agenda. By the best-selling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter.
Call Number: F OLIVEIRA, ROBIN
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