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Retired Staff Picks February 2018 Retired staff Carmen, Char, Chris, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Linda, Sara, and Trish offer their reading suggestions.
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Cooking for Picasso
by Camille Aubray
A tale inspired by a little-known interlude follows the 1936 culinary affair between a reclusive Picasso at a crossroads in his life and a rebellious teen from the French Riviera, a relationship that shapes the life of the girl's granddaughter in New York more than half a century later.
Call Number: F AUBRAY, CAMILLE
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The dollhouse
by Fiona Davis
Arriving at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952 where she is instantly rendered a misfit, a plain, self-conscious secretarial school student is befriended and introduced by a hotel maid to the city's jazz and drug counterculture and is involved in a deadly skirmish that reverberates half a century later in the life of an obsessed journalist.
Call Number: F DAVIS, FIONA
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George and Lizzie
by Nancy Pearl
A first novel by the "America's Librarian" NPR books commentator traces the story of a couple challenged by very different views of love and marriage, who must confront their disparate feelings of fulfillment as well as a difficult secret from the past.
Call Number: F PEARL, NANCY
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The indigo girl
by Natasha Boyd
To save her family's plantation, sixteen-year-old Eliza Lucas strikes up a deal with a slave, who in exchange for being taught to read will teach Eliza the secrets of the indigo trade.
Call Number: F BOYD, NATASHA
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Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
The executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn't commit.
Call Number: 353.48 STE
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Kiss Carlo
by Adriana Trigiani
Establishing a stable home and Western Union Telegraph Office in post-World War II Philadelphia, the hardworking Palazzini family is shattered by their nephew's epiphany in the wake of a telegram that changes everything for the citizens of a small Italian-American village.
Call Number: F TRIGIANI, ADRIANA
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The last ballad
by Wiley Cash
Inspired by actual events, a tale set in the Appalachian foothills of 1929 North Carolina follows the struggles of an ordinary woman to reclaim her dignity and rights in a labor mill, where she earns a paltry salary before risking her family and future to join a union.
Call Number: F CASH, WILEY
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In the midst of winter
by Isabel Allende
A minor traffic accident becomes a catalyst for an unexpected bond among a human rights scholar, his Chilean lecturer tenant and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, who explore firsthand the difficulties of immigrants and refugees in today's world. By the best-selling author of The House of the Spirits.
Call Number: F ALLENDE, ISABEL
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My absolute darling
by Gabriel Tallent
Enduring an isolated existence after the death of her mother, 14-year-old Turtle roams the rocky shores and tide pools of the California coast and refutes every outside attempt to engage her before an unexpected friendship with a newcomer helps her realize the vulnerabilities of her life with her charismatic father.
Call Number: F TALLENT, GABRIEL
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The Prague sonata
by Bradford Morrow
Coming into the possession of a mysterious 18th-century sonata manuscript, a young musicologist is astonished by the mastery of the music and embarks on a search for the identities of the composer and the manuscript's true owner. By the author of The Foragers.
Call Number: F MORROW, BRADFORD
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The story of Arthur Truluv
by Elizabeth Berg
Making daily visits to the grave of his beloved late wife, Arthur forges unexpected relationships with a nosy neighbor and a troubled teen who dubs him "Truluv" before the trio discovers healing and family together. By the best-selling author of Open House.
Call Number: F BERG, ELIZABETH
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A tree grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
A new edition of the classic novel, featuring a new foreword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen, follows young Francie Nolan, who is armed with her idealism and determination, as she struggles to escape from the poverty of life in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
Call Number: F SMITH, BETTY
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Turtles all the way down
by John Green
In his long-awaited return, the author of #1 best-selling The Fault in Our Stars shares the story of Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
Call Number: TEEN GREEN, JOHN
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The wedding shop
by Rachel Hauck
A former soldier suffering from PTSD moves to a small, Tennessee town and honors the memory of a fallen friend by re-opening a long abandoned wedding shop, discovering hope and healing through helping others.
Call Number: F HAUCK, RACHEL
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You will not have my hate
by Antoine Leiris
A man whose wife was killed in the November 13, 2015 Bataclan Theater attack in Paris, and whose open letter to the killers went viral on Facebook, provides a memoir of how he and his baby son endured after losing the most important woman in their lives.
Call Number: 362.88 LEI
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