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Staff Picks August 2018 Susan N. is providing our picks for the month.
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The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
In 1947, pregnant Charlie St. Clair, an American college girl banished from her family, arrives in London to find out what happened to her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, and meets a former spy who, torn apart by betrayal, agrees to help her on her mission.
Call Number: F QUINN, KATE
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Beartown
by Fredrik Backman
In a forgotten town fractured by scandal, an amateur hockey team might just be able to change everything. By the New York Times best-selling author of A Man Called Ove.
Call Number: F BACKMAN, FREDRIK
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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city
by Matthew Desmond
A Harvard sociologist examines the under-represented challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by dysfunctional legal systems.
Call Number: 339.4 DES
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Flight of the sparrow : a novel of early America
by Amy Belding Brown
In 1676, Mary Rowlandson is captured by Indians and sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader where she, a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people, witnesses harrowing brutality as well as unexpected kindness.
Call Number: F BROWN, AMY B.
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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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Circling the sun
by Paula McLain
Raised by her father and the Kipsigis tribe in 1920s Kenya, Beryl endures painful losses before entering a passionate love triangle and discovering her unconventional true calling. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Paris Wife.
Call Number: F MCLAIN, PAULA
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A house in the sky : a memoir
by Amanda Lindhout
The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia--a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace.
Call Number: B LINDHOUT, AMANDA
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The late show
by Michael Connelly
Renee Ballard #1
Relegated to the night shift after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor, a once up-and-coming LAPD detective disobeys orders by refusing to walk away from two cases, including an assault on a prostitute and the death of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. By the best-selling author of The Crossing.
Call Number: M CONNELLY, MICHAEL
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One hundred years of solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
Call Number: F GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL
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The power of moments : why certain experiences have extraordinary impact
by Chip Heath
The best-selling authors of Made to Stick explore why certain defining moments can be elevating and transforming, sharing the stories of people who have created and experienced such moments and how readers can facilitate meaningful, powerful moments of positive change themselves.
Call Number: 128.4 HEA
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Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian lions
by Mario Giordano
For fans of A Man Called Ove and the novels of Adriana Trigiani: a charming, delightfully sexy, and bighearted novel starring Auntie Poldi, Sicily's newest amateur sleuth.Retiring to Sicily in the hopes of spending her final years enjoying the ocean view, the wine and the company of friends, 60-year-old Auntie Poldi discovers that her new home is not quite as tranquil as anticipated when her handsome young handyman is found murdered.
Call Number: F GIORDANO, MARIO
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Girl With a Gun : An Annie Oakley Mystery
by Kari Bovee
Annie Oakley Mystery #1
Fifteen-year-old Annie Oakley is the sole supporter of her widowed mother and two siblings. After a stunning performance in a shooting contest, Annie is offered a position in the renowned Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. But when two innocent people close to her wind up dead, Annie begins to fear the deaths are related to her. And so, with the help of a sassy, blue-blooded reporter, Annie sets out to prove they were murdered and solve the mystery.
Call Number: M BOVEE, KARI
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The square and the tower : networks and power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
by Niall Ferguson
A reevaluation of history's turning points as collisions between old power hierarchies and new social networks explains how networks have always existed and have been responsible for key innovations and revolutionary ideas, from clustering and degrees of separation to contagions and phase transitions. By an award-winning author.
Call Number: 302.309 FER
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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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Woman of the ashes
by Mia Couto
Sands of the Emperor #1
Alternating between the voices of Imani and Germano, Mia Couto’s Woman of the Ashes combines vivid folkloric prose with extensive historical research to give a spellbinding and unsettling account of war-torn Mozambique at the end of the nineteenth century.
Call Number: F COUTO, MIA
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