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Retired Staff PicksJune 2014
They're Back!
Retired staff members, Char, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Linda, Sara and Trish, offer their reading suggestions.
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The art of hearing heartbeats : a novel
by Jan-Philipp Sendker
When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be--until they find a love letter he wrote many years before, to a Burmese woman they never heard of. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.) Original.
Call Number: F Sendker
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By its cover
by Donna Leon
Investigating the thefts of rare book pages from a prestigious Venetian library, Commissario Guido Brunetti is stymied by numerous possible suspects and the murder of a seemingly harmless theologian. 50,000 first printing.
Call Number: M Leon
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A change in altitude : a novel
by Anita Shreve
Struggling to maintain her sense of self and her understanding of the world while spending the first year of her marriage in Kenya, Geraldine participates in a climbing expedition to Mt. Kenya and is challenged to come to terms with a devastating accident. By the Orange-finalist author of Testimony. 400,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Shreve
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The kitchen house
by Kathleen Grissom
Working as an indentured servant alongside slaves on a tobacco plantation, Lavinia, a 7-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, finds her light skin and situation placing her between two very different worlds that test her loyalties. A first novel. Original.
Call Number: F Grissom
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Luncheon of the boating party
by Susan Vreeland
Meeting his closest friends for a summer lunch on a café terrace along the Seine, master Impressionist painter Auguste Renoir undertakes the most challenging project of his career while struggling with the issues that are polarizing post-Franco-Paris War France. 100,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Vreeland
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NYPD red
by James Patterson
Detective Zach Jordan investigates a series of brutal, public crimes that coincide with the arrival of dozens of glamorous celebrities in town for parties and premieres in this new novel from the authors of Kill Me If You Can.
Call Number: F Patterson
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The plague of doves
by Louise Erdrich
Unaware of a violent event that marked the beginning of her mixed ancestry, ambitious young Evelina Harp, a part-Ojibwe, part-white girl prone to falling hopelessly in love, learns disturbing truths from her gifted storyteller grandfather, while a sentimental judge weighs the legacy of a century-old crime as reflected by his own love life. By the author of The Painted Drum. 125,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Erdrich
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The possibilities : a novel
by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Overwhelmed by her son Cully's avalanche-related death, single mother Sarah St. John struggles through the well-meant advice of loved ones before a young woman appears on her doorstep, claiming that she is carrying Cully's child. By the best-selling author of The Descendants.
Call Number: F Hemmings
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The signature of all things
by Elizabeth Gilbert
The best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love traces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before his daughter, a gifted botanist, researches the mysteries of evolution while falling in love with an utopian artist against a backdrop of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
Call Number: F Gilbert
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Stella Bain : a novel
by Anita Shreve
Suffering memory loss due from time on a French battlefield during World War I, American Stella Bain, is taken in by a London surgeon and his wife in this new novel from the author of The Last Time They Met. 250,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Shreve
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Those who save us
by Jenna Blum
A professor of German history begins a long journey back into a past she has pushed aside, returning to Germany to reopen the wounds of her own life--as well as that of her mother--as a child living in Nazi Germany. Reprint.
Call Number: F Blum
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Thunderstruck & other stories
by Elizabeth McCracken
The author of The Giant's House—a National Book Award finalist—presents a stunning collection of stories that navigate the fragile space between love and loneliness, including the title story in which a family finds their lives irrevocably changed by their teenage daughter's risky behavior. 15,000 first printing.
Call Number: F McCracken
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You should have known
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
A successful New York City oncologist with the perfect family she always wanted has her life turned upside after her husband goes missing and a chain of horrible revelations sends her reeling, in this new novel from the author of Admission. 75,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Korelitz
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