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Retired Staff Picks April 2017 Retired staff Carmen, Char, Chris, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Linda, Sara, and Trish offer their reading suggestions.
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13 ways of looking at a fat girl : A Novel
by Mona Awad
Follows Lizzie, a young woman growing up in Mississauga, as she fights her way from fat to thin, but who still, even as a married adult woman, sees herself as a fat girl.
Call Number: OVERDRIVE
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Broken Harbor [electronic resource] : A Novel
by Tana French
In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorcher's haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood.
Call Number: OVERDRIVE
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Caught in the Revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – a World on the Edge
by Helen Rappaport
The New York Times best-selling author of The Romanov Sisters presents a gripping portrait of Petrograd at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, drawing on foreign-national eyewitness accounts to trace key events as recorded in letters and journals.
Call Number: OVERDRIVE
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Crazy love you
by Lisa Unger
Enjoying a successful career at the side of a destructive friend who helped him escape bullies in childhood, Ian fears for his life when his friend becomes irrationally angry about Ian's new relationship.
Call Number: F UNGER, LISA
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The girls in the garden : a novel
by Lisa Jewell
Deep in the heart of London, in a lush communal square, as a festive garden party is taking place, a thirteen year-old girl lies unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner. What really happened to her? And who is responsible? For fans of Liane Moriarty and Jojo Moyes comes a family drama with a dark mystery at its core.
Call Number: F JEWELL, LISA
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The ocean at the end of the lane
by Neil Gaiman
When otherworldly beings are set loose on the world, threatening the life of a little boy, the extraordinary Hempstock women--Lettie, her mother and her grandmother--summon all of their courage and cleverness to keep him alive, but soon discover that his survival comes with a high--and deadly--price.
Call Number: F GAIMAN, NEIL
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On Turpentine Lane
by Elinor Lipman
Living a mostly peaceful existence in her small suburban hometown where she struggles to ignore the dysfunctional people in her life, Faith discovers mysterious artifacts that make her question a promising new relationship and everything she believes.
Call Number: F LIPMAN, ELINOR
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The one & only : a novel
by Emily Giffin
Centering her life on the successful Walker family, into which she plans to marry, Shea struggles to end her affair with a less-than-stellar boyfriend only to have her entire existence placed in question by the death of the family's mother.
Call Number: F GIFFIN, EMILY
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One thousand white women : the journals of May Dodd
by Jim Fergus
Based on actual historical events, this novel follows the indomitable May Dodd as she travels to the Cheyenne, becomes the bride of Little Wolf, chief of that tribe, and struggles with living in and being loyal to two different worlds.
Call Number: F FERGUS, JIM
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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question.
Call Number: F LEE, MIN JIN
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A study in scarlet women
by Sherry Thomas
When Victorian London is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her father, Charlotte Holmes is desperate to find the true culprits and clear the family name.
Call Number: M THOMAS, SHERRY
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The wicked city
by Beatriz Williams
A follow-up to A Certain Age traces a scandalous Jazz Age love triangle involving a rugged Prohibition agent, a saucy redheaded flapper and a debonair Princetonian from a wealthy family.
Call Number: F WILLIAMS, BEATRIZ
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The winter sea
by Susanna Kearsley
Carrie settles into the shadow of Slains Castle in Scotland, creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors, and starts to write about the Jacobite invasion of 1708. When she can no longer tell the difference between today and centuries ago, is shedealing with an ancestral memory-- a memory that might destroy her?
Call Number: F KEARSLEY, SUSANNA
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