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Retired Staff Picks May 2017 Retired staff Carmen, Char, Chris, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Linda, Sara, and Trish offer their reading suggestions.
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The bear and the nightingale : a novel
by Katherine Arden
A debut novel inspired by Russian fairy tales follows the experiences of a wild young girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces.
Call Number: F ARDEN, KATHERINE
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Broadchurch
by Erin Kelly
A novelization of the hit television show follows detectives Alec Hardy and Ellie Miller as they search for a young boy's killer among numerous suspects and a brewing media storm. TV tie-in.
Call Number: F KELLY, ERIN
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The chemist : a novel
by Stephenie Meyer
An ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life.
Call Number: F MEYER, STEPHENIE
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The dark room
by Jonathan Moore
SFPD homicide inspector Gavin Cain is forced to set aside a cold case when a ruthless killer attempts to blackmail San Francisco's mayor with exposures of grisly secrets unless the mayor commits suicide. By the author of The Poison Artist.
Call Number: F MOORE, JONATHAN
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Did you ever have a family
by Bill Clegg
Surviving a disaster that kills everyone else in her family, June relocates West and settles into a directionless existence while other people impacted by the tragedy struggle with new circumstances. A first novel by the best-selling author of Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man.
Call Number: F CLEGG, BILL
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How will I know you? : a novel
by Jessica Treadway
When the drowning of a small-town high school senior is determined to be a murder, the ensuing investigation is told from the viewpoints of the victim's mother, an accused black graduate student, the victim's best friend and a rescue diver.
Call Number: F TREADWAY, JESSICA
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I am having so much fun here without you
by Courtney Maum
A romance in reverse is set in Paris and London and follows an artist's attempts to fall back in love with his wife after the end of his affair, an effort that is challenged by the sale of a personal painting and his wife's discovery of his infidelity.
Call Number: F MAUM, COURTNEY
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Iris and Ruby
by Rosie Thomas
An octogenarian bonds with her teenage granddaughter, who has run away from a difficult relationship with her mother in England to seek refuge in Cairo. By the best-selling author of The Kashmir Shawl.
Call Number: LP F THOMAS, ROSIE
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The last days of night : a novel
by Graham Moore
When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals and deception. By the best-selling author of The Sherlockian.
Call Number: F MOORE, GRAHAM
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Mr. Churchill's secretary
by Susan Elia MacNeal
After German Luftwaffe bomb London, Maggie Hope--trained in math and code breaking, but only able to find a job as Winston Churchill's secretary--uses the access her position demands to try to unravel an assassination plot.
Call Number: M MACNEAL, SUSAN E.
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One light still shines : my life beyond the shadow of the Amish schoolhouse shooting
by Marie Monville
'My story is not about my past, but about your future.' In the startling tragedy of the Amish schoolhouse shooting at Nickel Mines, one story has never been told. Marie Roberts Monville, the wife of the man who created such horror, tells her story for the very first time. It is a story of sorrow, of madness and destruction, but also one of deliverance, compassion, forgiveness and beauty.
Call Number: 277.3 MON
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Open heart
by Elie Wiesel
In this unforgettable book, the award-winning writer, during his recovery after a life-threatening heart surgery, reflects on his many losses and accomplishments, and on all that remained to be done, sharing his aspirations for his writings and his hope that he made the world a better place.
Call Number: B WIESEL, ELIE
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The poet's dog
by Patricia MacLachlan
A dog with unusual communication talents, loses his poet owner before rescuing two children trapped in a snowstorm and leading them to the shelter of the poet's cabin, where the children explore the memories that the poet has left behind. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of Sarah, Plain and Tall.
Call Number: JF MACLACHLAN, PATRICIA
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The remains of the day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
An English butler reflects--sometimes bitterly, sometimes humorously--on his service to a lord between the two world wars and discovers doubts about his master's character and about the ultimate value of his own service to humanity.
Call Number: F ISHIGURO, KAZUO
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The restaurant critic's wife
by Elizabeth LaBan
A stay at home mom begins questioning her life choices after her husband’s job as food critic causes him to go to extremes to keep his identity a secret and protect his professional credibility.
Call Number: F LABAN, ELIZABETH
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