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Suggestions from Cary Area Public Library Staff Members
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The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets by Molly FaderForced to set aside a long estrangement when their mother's health begins to decline, two sisters and a rebellious teen struggle to reconnect before a shocking revelation forces them to confront their difficult past.
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Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane BuxtonSensing something is wrong with his owner, a domesticated crow abandons the only life he ever knew to discover that humans are turning into zombies and must use knowledge gleaned from his TV-viewing to save them.
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The Chocolate Maker's Wife by Karen BrooksAn illegitimate nobleman’s daughter is rescued from abuse and drudgery by a chocolate proprietor in 17th-century London, where her high-society popularity is unknowingly threatened by her employer’s secret past. By the author of The Locksmith’s Daughter.
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Stars of Alabama by Sean DietrichWhen two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her baby in the forest, her whole world is painted black. Coot, a child preacher on the Kansas plains, escapes the outfit that's been handling him--and takes the collection plate full of money with him. As the years pass, these stories intertwine in surprising ways--proving how ugly circumstances can produce beautiful people.
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Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine CenterWhen a family emergency compels her move from Texas to Boston, a skilled firefighter becomes the only woman in her new firehouse and navigates discrimination, low funding and her private edicts about falling in love with another firefighter. By the New York Times best-selling author of How to Walk Away.
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Nottingham by Nathan MakarykMakaryk's epic and daring debut rewrites the Robin Hood legend, giving voice to those whose history is never mentioned and challenging who's really a hero and a villain. As the leaves turn gold in Sherwood Forest, the lives of six people become intertwined. And a strange story begins to spread...
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukWhen her neighbor turns up dead, and then other bodies turn up under strange circumstances, Janine, a recluse in a remote Polish village who prefers the company of animals over humans, inserts herself into the investigation, certain she knows whodunit.
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Tomorrow's Bread by Anna Jean MayhewFrom the author of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award-winning The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched Southern-set novel. In 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina, the predominantly black neighborhood of Brooklyn is a bustling city within a city. When Loraylee Hawkins hears rumors that the city plans to bulldoze her neighborhood, claiming it's dilapidated and dangerous, she searches for a way to keep her family together in this novel that explores the conflicts of gentrification.
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All the Water in the World by Karen RaneyMaddy is 16. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer. Deeply curious, wry, and vivacious, she's poised at the outset of adulthood, ready to untangle all the mysteries that living holds--if she survives her teens.
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Finding Lady Enderly by Joanna Davidson PolitanoA rag woman in London's east end meets a handsome stranger who offers her a chance to remake herself at Rothburne Abbey. But something about the abbey is unsettling. Will uncovering its secrets ruin her life?
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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