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Retired Staff Picks September 2016 Retired staff members, Char, Chris, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Linda, Sara, and Trish, offer their reading suggestions.
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Be frank with me
by Julia Claiborne Johnson
Reluctantly hired into the home of a famed reclusive writer who would recapture her lost fortunes by completing a new manuscript, Alice Whitley becomes obsessed with identifying the paternity of her employer's precocious young son.
Call Number: F JOHNSON, JULIA C.
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Bettyville : a memoir
by George Hodgman
In a powerful story of secrets, silences and enduring love, a veteran magazine and book editor returns to his hometown of Paris, Missouri, to take care of his aging mother, Betty, a strong-willed woman who speaks her mind and has never really accepted the fact that her son is gay.
Call Number: B HODGMAN, GEORGE
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The blue notebook : a novel
by James Levine
Sold into sexual slavery as a young girl, fifteen-year-old Batuk spends her days in a cage on Mumbai's child-prostitute district while recording thoughts and stories in a diary, in a tale by a renowned scientist whose proceeds will be donated to the International and National Centers for Missing and Exploited Children.
Call Number: F LEVINE, JAMES
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The girl in the red coat : a novel
by Kate Hamer
Eight-year-old Carmel has always been different--sensitive, distracted, with an heart-stopping tendency to go missing. Her mother Beth, newly single, worries about her daughter's strangeness, especially as she is trying to build a new life for the two of them. When she takes Carmel to a local festival, her worst fear is realized: Carmel disappears into the crowd. Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone forever, Beth embarks on a mission to find her. Meanwhile, Carmel begins an extraordinary and terrifying journey of her own. But do the real clues to Carmel's disappearance lie in the otherworldly qualities her mother had only begun to guess at?
Call Number: F HAMER, KATE
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The Mayan secrets
by Clive Cussler
While vacationing in Mexico, Sam and Remi Fargo discover a skeleton with an ancient Mayan book, full of secrets and information so powerful, many people who do anything to possess it in this new mystery adventure.
Call Number: CD F CUSSLER, CLIVE
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My name is Lucy Barton : a novel
by Elizabeth Strout
Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters.
Call Number: F STROUT, ELIZABETH
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The Spook Lights Affair : a Carpenter and Quincannon mystery
by Marcia Muller
A would-be Sherlock Holmes assists a dual investigation in 1895 San Francisco that finds Sabina Carpenter struggling to solve the disappearance of a suicide-victim debutante's body and John Quincannon hunting down a murderous gang of bank robbers.
Call Number: M MULLER, MARCIA
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The stonecutter
by Camilla Läckberg
When a young girl's body is pulled out of the harbor in the small Swedish resort town of Fjallbacka, Det. Patrik Hedström becomes the lead investigator as he struggles with lazy and inept colleagues and an even remoter-than-usual boss. It's his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of the child both he and his partner Erica knew well.
Call Number: F LACKBERG, CAMILLA
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Summerlong
by Dean Bakopoulos
The simmering tensions beneath the surface of a Claire and Don Lowry's seemingly contented marriage explode in the bedrooms and backyards of a small town over the course of a long, hot summer, as they discover married life is not what they had predicted.
Call Number: F BAKOPOULOS, DEAN
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They may not mean to, but they do
by Cathleen Schine
Refusing to age quietly, take antidepressants or accept the inevitable loss of her longtime husband, Joy Bergman shocks her children when, after becoming a widow, she reconnects with a former flame from her college days, turning as willful and rebellious as the younger members of their family.
Call Number: LP F SCHINE, CATHLEEN
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A walk across the sun : a novel
by Corban Addison
Orphaned and homeless after a tsunami decimates their coastal India town, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister, Sita, are abducted and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner, where they endure a torturous existence before they are helped by a Washington, D.C. attorney who is able to combat human trafficking.
Call Number: F ADDISON, CORBAN
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What Alice forgot
by Liane Moriarty
Suffering an accident that causes her to forget the last 10 years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is 39 years old, a mother of three children and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves.
Call Number: F MORIARTY, LIANE
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