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Handpicked by Meghan October 2018 Hello, I am the Adult Programming Librarian at the River Forest Public Library. My favorite hobbies include reading, travel, spending time with family, and going to see musicals. My reading tastes are all over the map, but the genres I tend to enjoy most often include nonfiction (especially Irish or American history), psychological thrillers, humor, memoirs, and fantasy. I love to get to know the amazing patrons of RFPL and help people discover books, movies, or television shows. Let's chat about books and media!
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The Library Book by Susan OrleanThe acclaimed best-selling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution—our libraries.
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The Little Shop of Found Things by Paula BrackstonA woman who takes over an antique shop with her mother finds herself transported back to the 17th century while examining a beautiful silver chatelaine. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Witch's Daughter.
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100 Songs for a Centennial Ella Fitzgerald was unsurpassed as an expressive vocalist who dominated the musical scene, whether singing little ditties or the works of seasoned composers like Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, or the Gershwins. 100 songs culled from the many recordings she made, often with some of the best musical units of the time, mark her many contributions in music across jazz & pop. This extraordinary collection is bound to delight everyone with a deep abiding love for music in general & vocal music in particular.
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Avengers: Infinity War An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
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The Good Place After her death, a woman wakes up in the Good Place, an afterlife town inhabited by the people who have led righteous lives, but the problem is that she gets sent there by mistake.
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Spotlight On: Debut Author Visit!
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Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners by Gretchen AnthonyA formidable matriarch learns the hard way that no family is perfect in this witty, sparkling debut novel. Violet Baumgartner has opened her annual holiday letter the same way for the past three decades. And this year she's going to throw her husband, Ed, a truly perfect retirement party, one worthy of memorializing in her upcoming letter. But the event becomes a disaster when, in front of two hundred guests, Violet learns her daughter Cerise has been keeping a shocking secret from her, shattering Violet's carefully constructed world. In an epic battle of wills, Violet goes to increasing lengths to wrest back control of her family, infuriating Cerise and snaring their family and friends in a very un-Midwestern, un-Baumgartner gyre of dramatics. And there will be no explaining away the consequences in this year's Baumgartner holiday letter. Full of humor, emotion and surprises at every turn, Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners brings to life a remarkable cast of quirky, deeply human characters who must learn to adapt to the unconventional, or else risk losing one another. This is the story of a family falling to pieces--and the unexpected way they put it all back together.
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