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Are you in a reading rut? Overwhelmed by all the choices? Want to discover new authors? We can help! Introducing BOOK MATCH! Tell us your reading preferences and our Reader Services staff will suggest or pick one up at the Library, and we’ll respond with a personalized book list for you. We will also put the books on hold for you if you’d like. Let us help you discover your next great read!
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The Radium Girls : The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
by Kate Moore
This is the story of hundreds of young, vibrant women who were sentenced to death by their employers. The so-called “Radium Girls” painted luminescent faces on clock and watch dials using a paint mixture that contained radium. Instructed to “lip-point” their brushes as they painted, they absorbed high doses of radium into their bodies. When the effects of the radium led to horrific disfigurement and pain, the company refused to take responsibility.
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The Snow Child
by Eowyn Ivey
A childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own.
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The Chaperone
by Laura Moriarty
A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer in 1922 and how it changes both their lives. Generously donated by The Friends of the Park Ridge Library.
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Serena
by Ron Rash
Traveling to the mountains of 1929 North Carolina to forge a timber business with her new husband, Serena Pemberton champions her mastery of harsh natural and working conditions but turns murderous when she learns she cannot bear children.
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