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Staff Picks September 2016 Laurene F. from services is providing our picks for the month.
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Attachments
by Rainbow Rowell
Gossiping and sharing their personal secrets on e-mail in spite of their company's online monitoring practices, Beth and Jennifer unwittingly amuse Internet security officer Lincoln, who unexpectedly falls for Beth while reading their correspondences.
Call Number: F ROWELL, RAINBOW
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Eligible : a novel
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Returning with her sister, Jane, to their Ohio hometown when their father falls ill, New York magazine editor Lizzy Bennett confronts challenges in the form of her younger sisters' football fangirl antics, a creepy cousin's unwanted attentions, and the infuriating standoffish manners of a handsome neurosurgeon.
Call Number: F SITTENFELD, CURTIS
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What she knew
by Gilly Macmillan
A recently divorced mom finds herself in the eye of an increasingly suspicious public after her 8-year-old son suddenly vanishes at a park on a Sunday afternoon and must follow the clues to find him herself.
Call Number: F MACMILLAN, GILLY
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Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time.
His is a Hamilton far more human than we’ve encountered before—from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr.
Call Number: B HAMILTON, ALEXANDER
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Before the fall
by Noah Hawley
On a foggy summer night, eleven people—ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter—depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs—the painter—and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family.
Call Number: F HAWLEY, NOAH
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Here's to us : a novel
by Elin Hilderbrand
Gathering at a ramshackle Nantucket cottage, a late celebrity chef's wives and children confront the sources of their bitter rivalries and slowly let go of resentments as they remember positive times and share long-held secrets.
As his unlikely family says good-bye to the man who brought them together--for better or worse--will they be able to put aside their differences long enough to raise a glass in Deacon's honor?
Call Number: F HILDERBRAND, ELIN
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The nature of the beast
by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #11
When a young boy prone to crying wolf goes missing, village newcomers Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache join a frantic search for the child only to stumble on a community secret about a long-ago betrayal and murder.
Call Number: M PENNY, LOUISE
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The obsession
by Nora Roberts
Years after discovering her father's predatory double life, successful photographer Naomi Bowes struggles to hide her painful past from her fellow residents in a community thousands of miles away, a situation that introduces her to a new relationship and forces her to confront her demons.
Call Number: F ROBERTS, NORA
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Baby doll
by Hollie Overton
After escaping the basement prison she'd been held in for eight years, kidnapping victim Lily and her young daughter return to her family only to discover that the hardest part still lies ahead.
Call Number: F OVERTON, HOLLIE
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The hating game
by Sally Thorne
Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is impossibly complicated by her growing attraction to him.
Call Number: F THORNE, SALLY
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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
by J. D. Vance
Shares the poignant story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle-class life and the collective demons of the past.
Call Number: 305.5 VAN
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The sixth idea
by P. J Tracy
When their holiday respite is interrupted by a murder investigation involving two online friends who were meeting in person for the first time, detectives Leo and Gino identify other victims and search for answers 60 years in the past with the help of the Monkeewrench geniuses.
Call Number: M TRACY, P.J.
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Still here : a novel
by Lara Vapnyar
In her warm, absorbing and keenly observed new novel, Lara Vapnyar follows the intertwined lives of four immigrants in New York City as they grapple with love and tumult, the challenges of a new home, and the absurdities of the digital age.
Call Number: F VAPNYAR, LARA
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