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Must-Read Books March 2023 |
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| The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-DaleThe setup: Former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis endured a rigid, emotionally isolated childhood. Now an adult, she must return home to Milwaukee to settle her mother's affairs. What goes wrong: Saskia learns her mother has willed the family fortune to an ex-colleague, a man whom Saskia loathes with good reason. Is it for you? The Ingenue deals frankly with predatory grooming, sexual abuse, and the trauma that survivors like Saskia carry into adulthood. |
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| Decent People by De'Shawn Charles WinslowWhat's inside: This evocative follow-up to the author's literary debut, In West Mills, takes place in the same North Carolina town, but this time, the character-driven plot revolves around a terrible crime. A triple murder: In 1976, a wealthy Black doctor and her two siblings are shot in their family home. Their half brother is a prime suspect and everyone in town is talking, so his fiancée, newly retired and home after years in New York City, digs into the case, picking at town secrets. Reviewers say: "propulsive...a murder mystery that doubles as a savvy examination of race and class" (Los Angeles Times). |
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The Last Kingdom
by Steve Berry
When his protǧ ̌infiltrates a renegade group intent on winning Bavarian independence from Germany, with everything hinging on a lost 19th-century deed that is the legal title to lands that Germany, China and US want, Cotton Malone battles an ever-growing list of deadly adversaries, all intent on finding the last kingdom.
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The Mosquito Bowl : a game of life and death in World War II
by Buzz Bissinger
Relates the unique story behind a football game played on Christmas Eve, 1944, between Marine regiments training for the invasion of Okinawa, a game that featured one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled and would become known as The Mosquito Bowl
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Still, I Cannot Save You : A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go
by Kelly S. Thompson
Kelly Thompson and her older sister, Meghan, are proof that sisterhood doesn't always equate to friendship.
Growing up within a military family, the girls were close despite being temperamental opposites--Kelly, anxious and studious, looked to her big sister for comfort, and Meghan, who battled kidney cancer as a toddler, was gregarious and protective. But as she approached adulthood, Meghan spiralled into a cocaine and opioid addiction, and Kelly's relationship with her sister was torn apart.
Their paths diverge as they live their own lives, and it is only when Meghan becomes a mother that she and Kelly tentatively face past hurts and reexamine what sisterhood really means. But their reunion is threatened when Meghan receives a shocking new diagnosis on a day that should be one for celebration. Now, as the family reels at the prospect of the biggest loss imaginable, Kelly and Meghan must share all that they can in the time that they have, using their mutual sense of humour to chart a course through the darkest of days.
At once funny and heartbreaking, Still, I Cannot Save You is a story about addiction, abuse, and tragedy, but above all, it is a powerful portrait of an enduring love between sisters.
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Deadly Triangle : the famous architect, his wife, their chauffeur, and murder most foul
by Susan Goldenberg
Presents details of the 1935 murder of architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury, famous for his design of the iconic Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his 30-years-younger second wife, Alma, and her lover, the family chauffeur, George Percy Stoner.
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The Stolen Heir : a novel of Elfhame
by Holly Black
Hiding in the human world, Suren, the tormented child queen of the Court of Teeth, must guard her heart against a manipulative prince whom she cannot trust when she agrees to join him on a mysterious quest.
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The Shattered City
by Lisa Maxwell
With only one artifact left, Esta and Harte return to New York where it all began, but nothing in Manhattan is as they left it and their time is running out to end the threat they've created and save the heart of magic and the world.
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| Promise Boys by Nick BrooksThe crime: the murder of Kenneth Moore, principal of Washington, D.C.'s Urban Promise Prep. The suspects: three students. Trey, a jokester basketball player who supposedly supplied the gun; Ramon, a future chef whose hairbrush was found at the scene; and J.B., a quiet guy covered in the principal's blood. To clear their names, the boys must identify the killer themselves. For fans of: Jason Reynolds' examinations of systemic injustice and Karen McManus' twisty thrillers. |
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