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Here are the books our Jax Library staff loved in 2018!
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The faithful spy : Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the plot to kill Hitler
by John Hendrix
The creator of Shooting at the Stars interweaves handwritten text and his signature art in the story of the German Lutheran pastor who spoke out against the Nazi party, led a church rebellion against the Third Reich and eventually conspired to assassinate Hitler. Simultaneous
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Sadie
by Courtney Summers
Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance
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Searching for stars on an island in Maine
by Alan P. Lightman
The acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams presents a lyrical meditation on religion and science as they relate to the human yearning for permanence and certainty in spite of discoveries that prove the world's impermanent and uncertain nature.
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Educated : a memoir
by Tara Westover
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond
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The winter soldier
by Daniel Mason
A young doctor and nurse fall in love while navigating the brutal realities of World War I at an underequipped and understaffed field hospital in the Carpathian Mountains. By the best-selling author of The Piano Tuner. 50,000 first printing
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My morning routine : how successful people start every day inspired
by Benjamin Spall
Draws on interviews with 64 of today's most successful people—including three-time Olympic gold medalist Rebecca Soni, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and General Stanley McChrystal—to offer strategic advice on how to build a structured morning routine that promotes greater productivity, creativity and calm throughout the entire day.
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Calypso
by David Sedaris
A latest collection of personal essays by the best-selling author of Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls and Me Talk Pretty One Day shares even more revealing and intimate memories from his upbringing and family life. 800,000 first printing.
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Rock steady : brilliant advice from my bipolar life
by Ellen Forney
In a follow-up to the 2012 best-selling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, the author presents a survival guide for people with bipolar disorder that is filled with tips, tricks and tools. Original.
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Guess who : a novel
by Chris McGeorge
After solving a high-profile crime as a child, which led into a series of daytime-television gigs, Morgan Sheppard finds himself waking up, handcuffed, in a hotel room with five strangers and a corpse in the bathtub. 40,000 first printing.
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Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
by Zora Neale Hurston
Presents a previously unpublished work that illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery in the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade, Cudjo Lewis, who was abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States
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