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Staff Picks December 2018 Nancy O. in Services is providing our picks for the month.
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Britt-Marie was here
by Fredrik Backman
Walking away from her loveless marriage and taking a job in a derelict, financially devastated town, 63-year-old Britt-Marie uses her fierce organizational skills to become a local soccer coach to a group of lost children, becoming a vital community member along the way. By the author of A Man Called Ove.
Call Number: F BACKMAN, FREDRIK
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The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season. By the best-selling author of The Nightingale.
Call Number: F HANNAH, KRISTIN
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The hate u give
by Angie Thomas
After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
Call Number: TEEN THOMAS, ANGIE
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Ready player one
by Ernest Cline
Immersing himself in a mid-21st-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir.
Call Number: SF CLINE, ERNEST
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The sun does shine : how I found life and freedom on death row
by Anthony Ray Hinton
A revelatory memoir by a man who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he did not commit describes how he became a victim of a dangerously flawed legal system, recounting the years he shared with dozens of fellow inmates who were eventually executed before his exoneration and his post-release decision to commit his life to prison reform.
Call Number: 364.66 HIN
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The escape artist
by Brad Meltzer
Discovering that a military artist-in-residence who has been officially declared dead by the government is actually alive and on the run, Zig, a worker at Dover Air Force Base, uncovers disturbing facts about the young woman's past before learning that she witnessed something she was not supposed to see.
Call Number: F MELTZER, BRAD
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Imagine wanting only this
by Kristen Radtke
A graphic memoir. After becoming interested in ruins and abandoned places, the author journeys around the world, depicting deserted Midwestern towns, empty villas in Italy, islands in the Philippines, and locales in New York City and her own personal experiences of love and loss.
Call Number: GN RADTKE, KRISTEN
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Not a sound
by Heather Gudenkauf
Losing her hearing in a tragic accident, nurse Amelia Winn suffers through two years of depression before rebuilding her life with the help of an assistance dog, only to find herself enmeshed in a fellow nurse's suspicious death. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Silence.
Call Number: IOWA F GUDENKAUF, HEATHER
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Sharp objects
by Gillian Flynn
Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, 13-year-old half-sister. By a #1 best-selling author.
Call Number: F FLYNN, GILLIAN
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Big Damn Hero
by Nancy Holder
The first original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon. While picking up a new cargo on Persephone, Captain Malcolm Reynolds is kidnapped by a bunch of embittered veteran Browncoats who suspect him of sabotaging the Independents during the war. As the rest of the crew struggle to locate him, Mal is placed on trial for his life. As old comrades and old rivals crawl out of the woodwork, Mal must prove his innocence, but his captors are desperate and destitute, and will settle for nothing less than the culprit's blood.
Call Number: SF LOVEGROVE, JAMES
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An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
by Helene Tursten
Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.
Call Number: M TURSTEN, HELENE
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Mad Love
by Paul Dini
Harleen Quinzel witnesses her father being beat up by thugs when she is seven years old. Years later she is able to put her past behind her and pursues a career in psychiatry. Assigned to Arkham Hospital, she will discover The Joker and begin her own metamorphosis into supervillain Harley Quinn.
Call Number: F DINI, PAUL
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One Day in December
by Josie Silver
Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.
Call Number: F SILVER, JOSIE
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Paperback Crush : The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction
by Gabrielle Moss
Every twenty- or thirty-something woman knows these books. The pink covers, the flimsy paper, the zillion volumes in the series that kept you reading for your entire adolescence. Spurred by the commercial success of Sweet Valley High and The Babysitters Club, these were not the serious-issue YA novels of the 1970s, nor were they the blockbuster books of the Harry Potter and Twilight ilk. They were cheap, short, and utterly beloved. Paperback crush dives in deep to this golden age with affection, history, and a little bit of snark.
Call Number: 801.95 MOS
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