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Friday Fiction Midwinter Edition January 20, 2017 Presented by: Jessica FitzHanso, Head of Reader Services Sara Dempster, Head of Teen Services
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Friday Fiction Welcome Spring Edition
Friday, March 17, 10:30 am
Fireplace Area
Friday Fiction by the Fireside! March 17th, 2017 – Spring forward into the new season of releases from your favorite authors!
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All our wrong todays : a novel
by Elan Mastai - February 7, 2017
Living in an alternate world of flying cars, moon bases and plentiful food, aimless Tom Barren is blindsided by an accident of fate that leads to a time-travel mishap that lands him in our less-than-ideal 2016, where he discovers wonderful unexpected versions of his own life.
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All the bright places
by Jennifer Niven
Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world
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Bone Gap
by Laura Ruby
Treated as an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, Finn is the only witness to an abduction, but his inability to distinguish between faces hampers his ability to help with the investigation and subjects Finn to further ridicule
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Difficult women
by Roxane Gay
A collection of stories by the award-winning author of Bad Feminist explores the hardscrabble lives, passionate loves and quirky human connections experienced by diverse protagonists, including a woman who pretends she does not know that her husband and his identical twin switch places with her.
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Exit west : a novel
by Mohsin Hamid - March 7
From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet-- sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors--doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As violence and the threat of violence escalate, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. Exit West is an epic compressed into a slender page-turner--both completely of our time and for all time, Mohsin Hamid's most ambitious and electrifying novel yet
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The female of the species
by Mindy McGinnis
Living a life in the shadows after violently retaliating against the killer who walked free after murdering her sister, Alex unexpectedly befriends guilt-ridden athlete Jack and defiant preacher's kid Peekay, who must navigate Alex's darker nature throughout their senior year.
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Her Every Fear
by Peter Swanson
A woman prone to panic attacks in the aftermath of a violent kidnapping relocates to a cousin's home in Boston, where a neighbor's murder embroils her in speculation about her cousin's nature and the intentions of an appealing stranger.
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History Is All You Left Me
by Adam Silvera
Having lost his first boyfriend in a terrible accident, Griffin, a youth with OCD, forges a friendship with his lost love's ex-boyfriend, Jackson, who exhibits suspicious signs of guilt. By the best-selling author of More Happy Than Not..
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History of wolves : a novel
by Emily Fridlund
Living with her parents in a nearly abandoned counterculture commune, 14-year-old Linda finds her perspectives and desires changed by the scandal-marked arrest of a teacher and the secrets of a new neighbor family as she wrestles with the consequences of actions and failures in the name of love.
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Homesick for another world : stories
by Ottessa Moshfegh
A highly anticipated first collection by the award-winning author of Eileen features protagonists who stumble on their own base impulses in their unsettling and laugh-out-loud pursuits of fulfillment.
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Idaho : a novel
by Emily Ruskovich - January 3, 2017
A tale told from multiple perspectives traces the complicated relationship between Ann and Wade on a rugged landscape and how they came together in the aftermath of his first wife's imprisonment for a violent murder.
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I'll give you the sun
by Jandy Nelson - September 16, 2014
A story of first love and family loss follows the estrangement between daredevil Jude and her loner twin brother, Noah, as a result of a mysterious event that is brought to light by a beautiful, broken boy and a new mentor.
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Ill Will
by Dan Chaon - March 7, 2017
Dan Chaon was already a master of the short story well before he wrote his tense and delightfully twisted thriller, Await Your Reply. Ill Will finds Chaon back in thriller territory, with an even more propulsive narrative. It’s one of those books that looks big and heavy, but with pacing so tight it will likely only take a couple of days to read.
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Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders - February 14, 2017
A long-awaited first novel by the National Book Award-nominated, New York Times best-selling author of Tenth of December traces a night of solitary mourning and reflection as experienced by the 16th President after the death of his 11-year-old son at the dawn of the Civil War.
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Little Deaths
by Emma Flint
A gripping suspense tale set in 1960s New York and inspired by true events follows the investigation of a cocktail waitress whose two young children have been brutally murdered and a rookie tabloid reporter who would uncover the truth.
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Out of darkness
by Ashley Hope Pérez - September 2015
Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas, in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people
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The Refugees
by Viet Thanh Nguyen - February 7
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer presents a new collection of stories, written over a 20-year period, which explores questions of home, family, immigration, the American experience and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.
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Salt to the sea : a novel
by Ruta Sepetys - February 2
Frantically racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive. By the award-winning author of Out of the Easy.
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The serpent king : a novel
by Jeff Zentner - March 8
Struggling through his senior year of high school, where he is targeted by bullies because of his father's extreme faith, Dill teams up with fellow outcast Lydia, who is determined to escape their tiny town by pursuing a career in fashion, and Travis, whose obsession with an epic book series and a fangirl turns his reality into real-life fantasy.
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The sun is also a star
by Nicola Yoon
A scientifically minded girl who avoids relationships to help keep her family from being deported and a dutiful student who endeavors to live up to his parents' high expectations unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together. By the best-selling author of Everything, Everything.
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Swing time
by Zadie Smith
Two dark-skinned dancers with very different talents share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in early adulthood in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa. By the award-winning author of On Beauty.
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These shallow graves
by Jennifer Donnelly
A young woman in 19th-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide that she believes is more than meets the eye, but in order to uncover the truth, she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
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To capture what we cannot keep
by Beatrice Colin
A tale set against a backdrop of the late-19th-century construction of the Eiffel Tower follows the romantic relationship between a widow whose precarious financial situation forces her to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges and a bourgeois family businessman who must marry a suitable wife. By the author of The Glimmer Palace.
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Born to run
by Bruce Springsteen
In a personal account inspired by the remarkable 2009 Super Bowl halftime show, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer traces his life from his childhood in a Catholic New Jersey family and the musical experiences that prompted his career to the rise of the E Street Band and the stories behind some of his most famous songs.
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The Private Life of Mrs Sharma
by Ratika Kapur
Renuka Sharma considers herself a proper and respectable Indian woman. She is a dedicated wife and mother, taking care of her son and her in-laws at home in Delhi, while her husband lives in Dubai, where there is more money to be made. But she is not completely traditional. Working part-time in an upscale doctor’s office, she is exposed to intoxicating modernities, and she dreams of finding a place for her family, especially her son, in whom she tries to instill a respect for learning and self-advancement in this upward-moving India. Then she meets a handsome young stranger at the train station, and, like an Indian Anna Karenina, embarks on a truly modern relationship that will forever change her life.
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The summer guest : a novel
by Alison Anderson
When she discovers the diary of young Ukrainian doctor Zinaida Lintvaryova, who documented her extraordinary friendship with Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Katya Kendall, believing that this journal could save her publishing house, is captivated by the voice of the dying young doctor and determined to solve the great mystery that lies within its pages.
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New Book Group: Environmental Book Discussion Group
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The sixth extinction : an unnatural history
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Drawing on the work of geologists, botanists, marine biologists and other researchers, an award-winning writer for The New Yorker discusses the five devastating mass extinctions on earth and predicts the coming of a sixth.
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OneBook Chelmsford: Stronger, by Jeff Bauman
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Stronger
by Jeff Bauman
A survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon, who set off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history, talks about his experiences that early spring day and his ongoing mission to walk again after losing both legs, proving to the entire world what Boston Strong really means.
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