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Staff Picks April 2017 Julie F. from Services is providing our picks this month.
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Happy accidents [sound recording] : a memoir
by Jane Lynch
Part humor, part inspiration, the star of TV's hottest show Glee and former real-life Sue Sylvester shares how she was finally able to embrace her sexuality and find the contentment she thought she'd never have.
Call Number: CD B LYNCH, JANE
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The hammer of Thor
by Rick Riordan
Magnus Chase #2
When Thor's hammer goes missing once again, Magnus Chase and his companions are challenged to retrieve the weapon from enemy forces that are threatening the Nine Worlds with an army of giants, an effort that requires an agreement with the demanding Loki.
Call Number: JF RIORDAN, RICK
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A tale for the time being [sound recording]
by Ruth L. Ozeki
A novelist on a remote island in the Pacific is linked to a bullied and depressed Tokyo teenager after discovering a Hello Kitty lunchbox that washed ashore.
Call Number: CD F OZEKI, RUTH L.
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Water
by Jennifer Wilson
It is the fictional story of Freja Folsom, a reporter in Des Moines who wants nothing to do with the environmental story she’s been assigned. But a man who illegally dropped a well into the city’s aquifer leads Freja to the passionate showdown between farmers, government workers, worried citizens, and the sexy head of the Water Works utility. Suddenly, the poisoned water of Iowa seems like the story that might save Freja’s life — and revive the spirit of the state she loves before it gives up and becomes Mississippi. Okay, so maybe it’s not that fictional.
F WILSON, JENNIFER
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All good children
by Dayna Ingram
Everyone tells Jordan Fontaine not to worry about the summer camp that isn't really a summer camp, not to worry about the survival statistics she's been calculating since elementary school, or about the quickly averted eyes and frowning mouths of her peers when she tells them her Liaison is coming to visit she and her brothers. But the Liaison, whose role is to supply their inhuman masters with bodies, is being manipulated by another. Jordan will be drawn into a dangerous coup. This is a world where women are bred like cattle, ensuring the continuation of the human race--or, as they are known to the malevolent Over, sustenance. Perhaps some children need to be seen and heard.
Call Number: SF INGRAM, DAYNA
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Between the world and me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life comes a bold and personal investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes.
Call Number: 305.8 COA
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Bone box : a Decker/Lazarus novel
by Faye Kellerman
When Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods near her upstate New York community, her husband, police detective Peter Decker, becomes embroiled in a series of gruesome, decades-old unsolved murders.
Call Number: M KELLERMAN, FAYE
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The light between oceans : a novel
by M. L. Stedman
Moving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant who has washed up on the shore only to witness a rift in their marriage that is further complicated by a search by the baby's desperate mother.
Call Number: F STEDMAN, M.L.
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My own words
by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A first book by the Supreme Court Justice since her 1993 appointment collects engaging, serious and playful writings and speeches on topics ranging from gender equality and the workings of the Court to Judaism and the value of looking beyond U.S. shores when interpreting the Constitution.
Call Number: B GINSBURG, RUTH B.
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The burning world : a novel
by Isaac Marion
Learning survival skills and considering a relationship with the woman who restarted his heart, reluctant zombie R watches as helicopters appear on the horizon to restore order in his undead, mysterious world.
Call Number: F MARION, ISAAC
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Ruined : a memoir
by Ruth Everhart
The author shares her experiences after being the victim of a home invasion in which her and her five roommates were raped at gunpoint, and how she struggled with feelings of being ruined before finally coming to terms with the event and her faith.
Call Number: B EVERHART, RUTH
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Rusty puppy
by Joe R. Lansdale
Hap and Leonard #12
Hap, a former flower-power activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, teams up with Leonard, a hardened, gay, Vietnam vet to investigate the murder of a young black man who was conducting his own civilian investigation into the white cop that was stalking his sister.
Call Number: F LANSDALE, JOE R.
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This close to happy : a reckoning with depression
by Daphne Merkin
A former New Yorker staff writer and award-winning author of Dreaming of Hitler draws on her journalistic essays on depression to trace her lifelong battle with the disease, marked by her wealthy but inconsistent family and her numerous pursuits in therapy and hospitalization.
Call Number: 616.8527 MER
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Treasured grace
by Tracie Peterson
Grace Martindale has known more than her share of hardship. After her parents died, raising her two younger sisters became her responsibility. A hasty marriage to a minister headed to the untamed West seemed like an opportunity for a fresh start, but a cholera outbreak along the wagon trail left Grace a widow in a very precarious position. With the help of Alex Armistead, a French-American fur trapper, Grace begins to provide natural remedies and midwifery care for her neighbors, including some of the native populace. But not everyone welcomes her skills--or her presence--and soon Grace finds herself and those she loves in more danger than she imagined possible.
Call Number: F PETERSON, TRACIE
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