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Staff Picks October 2018 Shobana from Services is providing our picks for the month.
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The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
In 1947, pregnant Charlie St. Clair, an American college girl banished from her family, arrives in London to find out what happened to her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, and meets a former spy who, torn apart by betrayal, agrees to help her on her mission.
Call Number: F QUINN, KATE
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Before we were yours
by Lisa Wingate
A tale inspired by firsthand accounts about the notoriously corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society follows the efforts of a Baltimore assistant D.A. to uncover her parents' fateful secrets in the wake of a political attack and a chance encounter with a stranger. By the best-selling author of Tending Roses.
Call Number: F WINGATE, LISA
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Lilac girls
by Martha Hall Kelly
A debut novel inspired by the life of unlikely World War II heroine Caroline Ferriday follows the experiences of a Manhattan debutante, who resolves to help upon learning of the atrocities at the Ravensbruck concentration camp; and a Catholic teen, who is swept up in the Polish resistance movement.
Call Number: F KELLY, MARTHA H.
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The Roanoke girls
by Amy Engel
Returning to her family's Kansas estate in the hopes of discovering the fate of her missing cousin, Lane reconnects with a young man from her past and is confronted by dark family secrets that prompted her to flee years earlier. A first adult novel by the author of The Book of Ivy.
Call Number: F ENGEL, AMY
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The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane
by Lisa See
Explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.
Call Number: F SEE, LISA
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Crazy rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan
Envisioning a quality-time summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that viciously competes against other wealthy families and strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.
Call Number: F KWAN, KEVIN
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The hurricane sisters
by Dorothea Benton Frank
When an emotional hurricane blows through their lives, testing them in ways they never thought possible, 23-year-old Ashley Anne Waters, her mother Liz and Maisie, the family matriarch, must turn to each other for strength and support as the bonds they share are ultimately transformed.
Call Number: F FRANK, DOROTHEA B.
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The power of habit : why we do what we do in life and business
by Charles Duhigg
Identifying the neurological processes behind behaviors while explaining that self-control and success are largely driven by habits, a guide by a Yale-educated investigative reporter for The New York Times shares scientifically based guidelines for achieving personal goals and overall well-being by adjusting specific habits.
Call Number: 158.1 DUH
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Still me
by Jojo Moyes
The irrepressible Louisa Clark from Me Before You and After You arrives in New York to start a new life and a long-distance relationship with Ambulance Sam while working for the super-wealthy Gopniks, a job that introduces her to New York high society and a secretive man who reminds her of her own past.
Call Number: F MOYES, JOJO
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Well-behaved women seldom make history
by Laurel Ulrich
The Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning author of A Midwife's Tale looks at the making of history from a woman's perspective, looking at three key works--the fifteenth-century Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton's memoirs, and Virginia Woolf's essay, A Room of One's Own, to reveal how women both make and record history.
Call Number: 305.42 ULR
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The Awkward Squad
by Sophie Hénaff
A new crime series starring Anne Capestan, a brilliant but disgraced police officer placed in charge of a team of department misfits to investigate decades old unsolved crimes.
Call Number: M HENAFF, SOPHIE
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Pride and Prometheus
by John Kessel
In a fusion of two popular classics—Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein—Victor Frankenstein, who must make a bride for his Creature or face a certain death, meets and falls in love with Mary Bennet, who hopes he will save her from approaching spinsterhood, while wondering what dark secret he is keeping from her.
Call Number: F KESSEL, JOHN
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Shylock is my name : The merchant of Venice retold
by Howard Jacobson
In a magnificent modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most provocative characters—Shylock—Simon Strulovitch, riddled with grief after the death of his wife, struggles with his daughter Beatrice’s betrayal of family and his daughter Jessica’s rejection of her Jewish roots.
Call Number: F JACOBSON, HOWARD
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Witchmark
by C. L. Polk
In an original world reminiscent of Edwardian England in the shadow of a World War, cabals of noble families use their unique magical gifts to control the fates of nations, while one young man seeks only to live a life of his own. Miles Singer went to war to escape his destiny and came home a different man, but he couldn't leave his past behind. After faking his own death, Miles reinvents himself as a doctor at a cash-strapped veteran’s hospital where he can no longer hide what he truly is.
Call Number: F POLK, C. L.
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