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Retired Staff PicksJune 2016 They're Back! Retired staff members, Char, Chris, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Linda, Sara and Trish, offer their reading suggestions.
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Alice & Oliver : a novel
by Charles Bock
An intelligent and dynamic woman who attracts attention wherever she goes and enjoys life with her husband and newborn daughter is astounded by her cancer diagnosis, which pits her family against a difficult healthcare system, well-meant intentions and other stressors that threaten her health and marriage.
Call Number: F BOCK, CHARLES
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The boys in the boat : nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Daniel Brown
The story of the University of Washington’s 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.
Call Number: 797.123 BRO
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Descent : a novel
by Tim Johnston
When their daughter disappears while out for a morning run during a late-summer vacation in the Rocky Mountains, her parents embark on a harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths where they must answer some difficult questions to find the truth.
Call Number: F JOHNSTON, TIM
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The girl in the spider's web
by David Lagercrantz
A follow-up to The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest finds genius-hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist teaming up to confront a dangerous new threat against the United States.
Call Number: F LARSSON, STIEG
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Loving Eleanor
by Susan Wittig Albert
Presents a fictionalized version of the complicated relationship between First lady Eleanor Roosevelt and journalist Lorena Hickok which endured through the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War.
Call Number: LP F ALBERT, SUSAN W.
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The Paris wife : a novel
by Paula McLain
Follows the life of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, as they navigate 1920s Paris. Despite their extraordinary bond, they eventually find themselves facing the ultimate crisis of their marriage—a deception that will lead to the unraveling of everything they’ve fought so hard for.
Call Number: F MCLAIN, PAULA
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Tiny little thing : a novel
by Beatriz Williams Book 2 Schuyler Sisters series
One half of a political power couple struggles to keep up her perfect life despite the unwelcome arrival of her unpredictable sister, Pepper, and an incriminating photograph.
Call Number: F WILLIAMS, BEATRIZ
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Secrets of a charmed life
by Susan Meissner
An elderly Oxford woman reminisces about her childhood during World War II, during which she was evacuated from London during the Blitz and was separated from her sister.
Call Number: OVERDRIVE
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The Two-family House
by Lynda Cohen Loigman
Brooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. They are sisters by marriage with an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic night; but as the years progress, small cracks start to appear and their once deep friendship begins to unravel. No one knows why, and no one can stop it. One misguided choice; one moment of tragedy. Heartbreak wars with happiness and almost but not quite wins.
Call Number: OVERDRIVE
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