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Handpicked by Dana March 2018 I'm an Adult Services Librarian at the River Forest Public Library. I adore historical and domestic fiction, romance, books about animals, and biographies on First Ladies. I also like to read police procedural mysteries, psychological thrillers, and women's fiction. I find reading most enjoyable when I'm curled up with my two cats Timmy and Piper. One of my favorite things about my job is that I have the opportunity to connect readers with books, whether that be through our home delivery service or staffing the reference desk. Please contact me at djanisch@rflib.org if you're interested in receiving a custom book list from me.
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What I've Read So Far This Month:
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A lady's code of misconduct
by Meredith Duran
Facing an unwanted marriage and the theft of her fortune, Jane Mason, done with being agreeable, strikes a devil’s bargain with the most dangerous man she knows and soon they find salvation—and passion—in each other’s arms. By the USA Today best-selling author of Lady Be Good and Luck Be a Lady. Original.
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Varina by Charles Frazier Intimate in its detailed observations of one woman's tragic life and epic in its scope and power, Varina is a novel of an American war and its aftermath. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of a woman who comes to realize that complicity carries consequences.
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After a friend of Alison's becomes the latest victim of a serial killer who knocks women on the head and drowns them in Dublin's Grand Canal, Alison's boyfriend, 19-year-old Will Hurley, confesses to the crimes. Alison flees to the Netherlands to escape the shame she feels over not knowing the "true" Will. Ten years later, two women are found in the Grand Canal, killed in the very same way as those before. At the request of two detectives, Alison reluctantly returns to Dublin, where the imprisoned Will claims to have information pertaining to the murders that he will tell only her. Thrust back into the nightmare of her past, Alison assists the police in their effort to uncover whether a copycat killer is at work-or whether Will was unjustly convicted. Howard keeps the reader turning the pages right through to the shocking and satisfying resolution--Publisher's Weekly
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The Patriot : The Stunning True Story of Aaron Hernandez: His Rise and Fall As a Football Superstar, His Two Explosive Trials for Murder, His Shocking Death by James PattersonAaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. His every move as a tight end with the New England Patriots played out the headlines, yet he led a secret life--one that ended in a maximum-security prison. What drove him to go so wrong, so fast?Between the summers of 2012 and 2013, not long after Hernandez made his first Pro Bowl, he was linked to a series of violent incidents culminating in the death of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player who dated the sister of Hernandez's fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins.All-American Murder is the first book to investigate Aaron Hernandez's first-degree murder conviction and the mystery of his own shocking and untimely death.
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Sweet salt air
by Barbara Delinsky
Two childhood friends reunite at a summer retreat, each harboring a horrible secret that would test the bounds of their longtime relationship if revealed in this new novel from the author of Threats and Promises.
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Erotic stories for Punjabi widows
by Balli Kaur Jaswal
The modern daughter of Indian immigrants in cosmopolitan London impulsively takes a creative writing job to help her family and is assigned to a class of proper Sikh widows who reveal personal memories and fantasies through their writing. 75,000 first printing.
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Stars over Sunset Boulevard
by Susan Meissner
When a hat worn by Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind ends up in her vintage clothing boutique by mistake, Christine McAllister embarks on a journey to return it to its rightful owner that becomes even more magical than any classic movie. By the author of Secrets of a Charmed Life. Original.
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Big little lies by Liane MoriartyFollows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.
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The house of the spirits
by Isabel Allende
Traces the lives of members of the Trueba family, beginning with clairvoyant Clara del Valle's summoning of the man she intends to marry, ambitious Esteban Trueba, and following three generations over the course of a century of violent change and their participation in the history of their times. 15,000 first printing.
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Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Two half-sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations marked by wealth, slavery, war, coal mining, the Great Migration and the realities of 20th-century Harlem.
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North and South by John JakesFrom master storyteller John Jakes comes the epic story of two families--the Hazards and the Mains. Separated by vastly different ways of life, joined by the unbreakable bonds of true friendship, and torn asunder by a country on the brink of a bloody conflict that will irrevocably change them all...
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The thorn birds : a novel by Colleen McCulloughColleen McCullough's sweeping saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback has enthralled readers the world over. This is the chronicle of three generations of Clearys, ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land while contending with the bitterness, frailty, and secrets that penetrate their family. Most of all, it is the story of only daughter Meggie and her lifelong relationship with the haunted priest Father Ralph de Bricassart-an intense joining of two hearts and souls that dangerously oversteps sacred boundaries of ethics and dogma.
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No angel by Penny VincenziNo Angel is an irresistibly sweeping saga of power, family politics, and passion-a riveting drama and a fervent love story. Celia Lytton is the beautiful and strong-willed daughter of wealthy aristocrats and she is used to getting her way. She moves through life making difficult and often dangerous decisions that affect herself and others-her husband, Oliver, and their children; the destitute Sylvia Miller, whose life is transformed by Celia's intrusion; as well as Oliver's daunting elder sister, who is not all she appears to be; and Sebastian Brooke, for whom Celia makes the most dangerous decision of all.
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No Rhyme or Reason, Just Good Books
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ALA Notable Book. Yolanda Garcia has managed to put herself at the center of many lives. Each part of this novel is told from the viewpoint of one of those first tangled in her web and now frozen in the spotlight her literary fame has generated. While everybody from her three sisters to her third husband attempts to sort out Yo's character, motivations, and behavior, Yo herself never speaks on her own behalf, even though, in her native Spanish, her nickname means "I." "A literary dance . . .lively and engaging."--Los Angeles Times Book Review.
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Written on your skin
by Meredith Duran
Fleeing to America after an insensitive mistake that may have ended hundreds of British lives, Mina Morehouse reencounters her unfaithful childhood love, who has acquired a title and fortune and who is determined to uncover the truth about Mina's indiscretions. Original.
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The woman who stole my life
by Marian Keyes
Surviving an illness that kept her hospitalized for months, Stella Sweeney discovers that a successful book has been published about her case that compels her to relocate to New York and pursue a career as a self-help memoirist. By the best-selling author of Saved by Cake. 40,000 first printing.
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Bread and Butter : a novel by Michelle WildgenRunning a successful, ethical restaurant in a small Pennsylvania community, Britt and Leo face a perplexing dilemma when their younger brother, Harry, opens a restaurant nearby and steals their talented pastry chef, a situation that leads to a competitive rivalry and compromised values. By the author of But Not for Long.
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First bite : how we learn to eat
by Bee Wilson
The award-winning food writer and author of Consider the Fork draws on current research to trace the origins of food habits in culture, memory and appetite to explain how to alter one's palate to promote better health and fulfillment. 50,000 first printing.
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