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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 3-5 titles we think you will enjoy. Fill out the form online ( https://www.parkridgelibrary.org/book-match-adult/) 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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Goodbye, Vitamin
by Rachel Khong
Struggling with disillusionment in the aftermath of a broken engagement, Ruth moves back home with her parents to discover that her professor father's erratic memory loss and her mother's eccentricity are manifesting in near-comical ways that help Ruth transform her grief. A first novel.
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Manhattan Beach
by Jennifer Egan
Years after she is placed in the hands of a stranger vital to her family's survival, Anna takes a job at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during the war while meeting with the man who helped them and learning important truths about her father's disappearance. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad.
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The House Girl
by Tara Conklin
This stunning debut novel of love, family and justice follows Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, as she searches for the "perfect plaintiff" to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.
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Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
The executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn't commit.
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