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Staff PicksJune 2016 Katherine from collections is providing the picks this month.
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Amy /
Directed by Asif Kapadia
Archival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of the life and career of British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse.
Call Number: DVD B WINEHOUSE, AMY
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Bird box
by Josh Malerman
In a world where no one can go outside or open the door for fear of letting "them" in, single mother Malorie and her children must leave the house and risk everything to survive.
Call Number: F MALERMAN, JOSH
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Chi-Raq /
Directed by Spike Lee
When a child is killed by a stray bullet, a gang leader's girlfriend is suddenly called into action, and convinces a group of women to put an end to violence on the south side of Chicago by taking a vow of abstinence.
Call Number: DVD DRAMA CHI
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Night film : a novel
by Marisha Pessl
When the daughter of an enigmatic cult horror film director is found dead in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath, disbelieving the official suicide ruling, probes into the strange circumstances of the young woman's death while being drawn into the director's eerie world.
Call Number: F PESSL, MARISHA
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The rook : a novel
by Daniel O'Malley
A high-ranking member of a secret organization that battles supernatural forces wakes up in a London park with no memory, no idea who she is and with a letter that provides instructions to help her uncover a far-reaching conspiracy.
Call Number: F O'MALLEY, DANIEL
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Breakdown : an Alex Delaware novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
When an emotionally unstable actress turns up dead after a dramatic public breakdown weeks earlier, psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware assists police lieutenant Milo Sturgis with the case and wonders if there is a connection to the victim's missing daughter and a second celebrity killing.
Call Number: M KELLERMAN, JONATHAN
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15th affair
by James Patterson
When an alluring blonde with links to the CIA disappears from the scene of a brutal murder at a luxury hotel, detective Lindsay Boxer is forced to uncover difficult truths about her husband's secret life. By the Edgar Award-winning author of the Alex Cross series.
Call Number: F PATTERSON, JAMES
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The life-changing magic of tidying up : the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing
by Marie Kondō
Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results.
Call Number: 648.8 KON
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One summer : America, 1927
by Bill Bryson
The story of a pivotal cultural year in the United States when mainstream pursuits and historical events were marked by contributions by such figures as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth and Al Capone. Bryson captures that year's outsized personalities, exciting events, and occasional just plain weirdness with his trademark vividness, eye for telling detail, and delicious humor. In that year America stepped out onto the world stage as the main event, and One Summer transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.
Call Number: 973.915 BRY
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Property of a noblewoman : a novel
by Danielle Steel
The discovery of a cache of letters, photos and jewels in an abandoned safe deposit box brings together several unlikely people who investigate the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful young countess 75 years earlier.
Call Number: F STEEL, DANIELLE
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The after party : a novel
by Anton DiSclafani
Devoted to Joan since childhood, Cece Buchanan is either her chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on whom you ask. But as Joan’s radical behavior escalates, Cece’s perspective shifts—forcing one provocative choice to appear the only one there is.
Call Number: F DISCLAFANI, ANTON
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Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
by F. B. M. de Waal
People often assume a cognitive ladder, from lower to higher forms, with our own intelligence at the top. But what if it is more like a bush, with cognition taking different forms that are often incomparable to ours? De Waal reviews the rise and fall of the mechanistic view of animals and opens our minds to the idea that animal minds are far more intricate and complex than we have assumed. De Waal’s landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal—and human—intelligence.
Call Number: 591.513 WAA
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The book of Harlan
by Bernice L McFadden
A successful pair of Harlem jazz musicians are invited to Montmartre France to perform. When the City of Light falls under Nazi occupation, Harlan and Lizard are thrown into Buchenwald, the notorious concentration camp in Weimar, Germany. The experience irreparably changes the course of Harlan’s life.
Based on exhaustive research and told in McFadden’s mesmeric prose, The Book of Harlan skillfully blends the stories of McFadden’s familial ancestors with those of real and imagined characters.
Call Number: F MCFADDEN, BERNICE L.
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The everything box
by Richard Kadrey
An angel, poised to destroy the last remnants of humanity in 2000 BC, discovers that he's lost the device set to end it all.
A thief named Coop-a specialist in purloining magic objects-steals and delivers a small box to the mysterious client who engaged his services. Coop doesn’t know that his latest job could be the end of him-and the rest of the world. Suddenly he finds himself in the company of the Department of Peculiar Science, a fearsome enforcement agency that polices the odd and strange. The box isn’t just a supernatural heirloom with quaint powers, they tell him.
It’s a doomsday device. They think. . . And suddenly, everyone is out to get it.
Call Number: F KADREY, RICHARD
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Infomocracy
by Malka Older
Two decades and two major elections after a powerful search engine monopoly pioneers the switch from warring nation-states to a global microdemocracy, three high-ranking political insiders struggle to advance their respective agendas in the face of increasingly corrupt adversaries.
Call Number: SF OLDER, MALKA
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