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Most Requested BooksApril 2026 |
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most requested books in Marin. |
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The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits Driving his youngest child to college and quietly avoiding both a long-deferred marital reckoning and health problems, a middle‑aged man veers past his planned exit and continues west, stopping in on friends, family and former loves as he goes, using the makeshift road trip to revisit earlier versions of himself and consider what kind of life he is still willing to claim.
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The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit Tracing social, political, scientific and cultural shifts since 1960, Solnit argues that, despite powerful efforts to reverse progress, the past several decades have seen a gradual move toward more interconnected ways of thinking - embracing antiracism, feminism, expanded understandings of gender, environmental awareness and Indigenous and non‑Western perspectives.
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A Far-Flung Life by M. L. Stedman When a sudden accident on a lonely road shatters a sheep‑station family in remote Western Australia in 1958, the youngest son is drawn into years of consequences involving a dead sibling, an adopted child and long‑kept secrets, forcing him to weigh love against obligation and to decide how much of his own future he is willing to surrender in order to live with what cannot be undone.
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Lake Effect by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney In 1977 Rochester, when a dissatisfied wife in a Catholic, Kodak-era neighborhood begins an affair with a prominent neighbor, the fallout reshapes her teenage daughter’s first experience of love, leaving lasting fault lines between two families, until decades later, when that daughter - now working in New York - returns home for a wedding, still wrestling with the old scandal as a new choice forces her to reconsider what she owes to her past and to herself.
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Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences by Neal Allen Pairing thirty-six concise principles with contrasting mini-essays by two experienced writers, this guide shows how choices in verbs, detail, rhythm and structure can sharpen any kind of prose - from emails to essays and stories - while also touching on revision, collaboration with editors and the occasional benefits of breaking the rules once you understand why they exist.
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The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout As a seemingly ordinary history teacher and longtime husband and father quietly prepares a drastic act he believes will alter his world, a sudden accident forces him to reconsider his assumptions about control, responsibility and what his life has meant so far, sending him on a more uncertain path that mixes remorse, dark humor and a late effort to understand the ties that still bind him.
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The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett In 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, an abandoned orphan girl, an unmarried visitor confronting the hollowness of her sister’s privilege and a down‑on‑her‑luck woman with little left to lose find their lives unexpectedly entangled and together risk a daring scheme in a Depression‑strained town, where gossip, class prejudice and strict limits on women’s choices make even small acts of solidarity and defiance carry serious consequences.
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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden KeefeAfter their nineteen-year-old son is filmed jumping from a balcony near Britain’s spy headquarters and later pulled from the Thames, a grieving London couple begin probing his last months and uncover the invented persona, risky associations and criminal underworld he had slipped into, forcing them to confront both the limits of what they knew about him and a justice system that seems unable to fully account for his death.
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Nonesuch by Francis Spufford As London braces for war and bombs begin to fall, a sharp‑witted young secretary drawn into the orbit of an inventive television engineer stumbles into a hidden struggle involving magic, unstable time and a fervent fascist moving through the Blitz with a gun and a plan, forcing her to navigate blacked‑out streets, dangerous allegiances and the eerie new medium of television to keep the past - and the future - from being rewritten.
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