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Retired Staff Picks July 2017 Retired staff Carmen, Char, Chris, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Linda, Sara, and Trish offer their reading suggestions.
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Anything is possible
by Elizabeth Strout
Two sisters, one who trades self-respect for a wealthy husband and one who discovers a kindred spirit in the pages of a book, struggle with intimate human dramas at the sides of their community members and a returned Lucy Barton. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.
Call Number: F STROUT, ELIZABETH
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From across the room
by Gina L. Mulligan
Thomas Gadwell has traveled from Boston to California to at last finish his novel when he meets clever Mary Harting. At once Thomas tosses aside his literary pursuits for a charmed summer of romance. However, Mary Harting is the daughter of notorious railroad tycoon Charles Harting, who has no intention of letting Thomas derail his own critical plans for Mary. The couple must continue a clandestine courtship, but Thomas's ingenuity has unexpected repercussions and he unwittingly uncovers a sinister plot of deception, greed, and blackmail.
Call Number: F MULLIGAN, GINA L.
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A doubter's almanac : a novel
by Ethan Canin
A controversial mathematician pursues hedonist vices in 1970s university environments while coming to terms with the mysteries of his father's outsized life and his own personal legacy. By the New York Times best-selling author of America America.
Call Number: F CANIN, ETHAN
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The Hamilton affair : a novel
by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, a tale inspired by the true romance between Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler traces Hamilton's rise to one of America's most unlikely heroes and Schuyler's establishment of New York's first orphanage.
Call Number: F COBBS HOFFMAN, ELIZABETH
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The little red chairs : a novel
by Edna O'Brien
Disgraced when her village's mysterious healer, who she loved and begged to help her have a child, is arrested as a war criminal, Fidelma flees to England to take migrant work. only to confront her nemesis at a tribunal in The Hague. Reading-group guide available. By the award-winning author of Country Girl.
Call Number: F O'BRIEN, EDNA
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The longest night : a novel
by Andria Williams
Reluctantly moving to a remote Idaho outpost when her Army Specialist husband is reassigned, 1950s military wife Nat is horrified when her husband discovers that the local nuclear reactor is crumbling and that his superiors are more interested in concealing the imminent disaster.
Call Number: F WILLIAMS, ANDRIA
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Major Pettigrew's last stand : a novel
by Helen Simonson
Forced to confront the realities of life in the 21st century when he falls in love with widowed Pakistani descendant Mrs. Ali, a retired Major Pettigrew finds the relationship challenged by local prejudices that view Mrs. Ali, a Cambridge native, as a perpetual foreigner.
Call Number: F SIMONSON, HELEN
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A Midsummer's equation
by Keigo Higashino
Speaking at a conference in a once-grand summer resort town, Detective Galileo investigates a murder that might have been spurred by an ongoing, local development dispute. By the Edgar Award-finalist author of The Devotion of Suspect X. A #1 international best-seller.
Call Number: F HIGASHINO, KEIGO
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Miller's Valley : a novel
by Anna Quindlen
Coming of age in a dwindling 1960s farming community in eastern Pennsylvania, Mimi struggles with profound family secrets and the pain of falling in love with the wrong person against a backdrop of dynamic historical periods. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Object Lessons.
Call Number: F QUINDLEN, ANNA
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The nix
by Nathan Hill
Astonished to see the mother who abandoned him in childhood throwing rocks at a presidential candidate, a bored college professor struggles to reconcile the radical media depictions of his mother with his small-town memories and decides to draw her out by penning a tell-all biography.
Call Number: F HILL, NATHAN
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The plague of thieves affair
by Marcia Muller
Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery #4
While Sabina reluctantly searches for the madman who claims to be Sherlock Holmes after receiving information about his possible true identity, John investigates a suspicious death at the risk of his professional reputation. By the award-winning authors of The Body Snatchers Affair.
Call Number: M MULLER, MARCIA
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The ringmaster's wife
by Kristy Cambron
When hard times fall on her family's Yorkshire estate in the aftermath of the Great War, earl's daughter Rosamund, believing she is destined for something other than marriage, follows the beloved horse her father has sold to the home of American circus entertainer John Ringling, who offers her a bareback riding apprenticeship.
Call Number: F CAMBRON, KRISTY
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Say nothing : a novel
by Brad Parks
When their children are abducted by a man who blackmails them to follow instructions at the risk of the children's lives, a judge and his wife endure a terrorizing ordeal of no-holds-barred deceit and bond-breaking suspicions. By the award-winning author of The Player.
Call Number: M PARKS, BRAD
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Where my heart used to beat : a novel
by Sebastian Faulks
Robert, a British doctor haunted by World War II memories, agrees to write a biography of a renowned specialist in memory loss who possesses unsettling knowledge of Robert's past. By the best-selling author of Birdsong.
Call Number: F FAULKS, SEBASTIAN
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Youngblood : a novel
by Matt Gallagher
As the U.S. military prepares to leave Iraq, lieutenant Jack Porter becomes obsessed with the story of a lost American soldier who had a romance with a local sheikh’s daughter and tries to discover what happened to him.
Call Number: F GALLAGHER, MATT
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