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RFPL Staff PicksSeptember 2018
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Then She was Gone: A Novel by Lisa JewellStruggling to put her life back together a decade after her beloved teen daughter's disappearance, a divorced woman bonds with a charming single father whose young child eerily resembles the woman's own lost daughter and who compels a wrenching search for answers. By the best-selling author of The Third Wife.
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Hurts to Love You by Alisha RaiHarboring a secret crush on her big brother’s friend, who happens to be the son of her family’s housekeeper, heiress Evangeline Chandler, forbidden to date the help, follows her heart when a wedding party forces them into tight quarters, a situation that becomes the start of something special until long-buried secrets threaten to tear them apart. Original. 75,000 first printing.
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It Ends with Us by Colleen HooverFalling for a stubborn but sensitive neurosurgeon after a youth spent working hard to earn an education and start her own business, Lily is frustrated by his aversion to commitment before reconnecting with a first love from the past she left behind. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author. Original.
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The Bollywood Bride by Sonali DevTraveling home to Chicago to attend a family wedding and ride out a scandal, Bollywood star Ria Parkar reunites with Vikram Jathar, whose heart she broke to pursue her career. Original.
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The Gunners: A Novel by Rebecca KauffmanReconnecting with a group of childhood friends after one of them committed suicide, Mikey needs to confront dark secrets from his past involving his father to assess how much of this is impacting his current emotional stupor.
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Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Korbel AlbrightA former U.S. secretary of state and New York Times best-selling author presents a timely, considered and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity and peace. 150,000 first printing.
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The Fifth Season by N. K JemisinA first entry in a new trilogy by the award-winning author of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms finds the sole continent of the earth threatened by murder, betrayal, a super-volcano and overlords who use the planet's power as a weapon. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamaraAn account of the unsolved Golden State Killer case, written by the late author of the TrueCrimeDiary.com website and featuring an afterword by her husband, comedian Patton Oswalt, traces the rapes and murders of dozens of victims and the author's determined efforts to help identify the killer and bring him to justice. 100,000 first printing.
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A Quiet Place After an apocalyptic event, a family discovers that they must live in silence to hide from monsters with extra-sensitive hearing.
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Life of The PartyWhen her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college - landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna -- now Dee Rock -- embraces freedom, fun, and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected.
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The Sinner Season One A young mother must find out what is causing her to commit horrific acts of violence and rage.
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Double Blind by Iris JohansenKendra Michaels is reluctant to help the FBI with the most recent case they've brought to her...until she hears the details: The body was found just blocks away from Kendra's condo. The man was carrying an envelope with Kendra's name on it, and inside was an SD card with what appears to be an innocuous video of a wedding reception. And just one week before the attempted delivery of this mysterious video, the groom in the video was murdered. As the body count rises, they discover that each victim played a part in convicting a serial killer years before.
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A Rule Against Murder by Louise PennyAnticipating a wedding anniversary trip to luxurious Menoir Bellechasse, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache finds his plans interrupted by his fellow guests--members of the wealthy Finney family, who plan to unveil a memorial to their late father, and Peter and Clara Morrow, from the village of Three Pines--as well as old secrets that serve as a prelude to murder. 35,000 first printing.
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The Day of the Dead: A Novel by Nicci FrenchA decade ago, psychologist Frieda Klein was sucked into the orbit of Dean Reeve -- a killer able to impersonate almost anyone, a man who can disappear without a trace, a psychopath obsessed with Frieda herself. In the years since, Frieda has worked with -- and sometimes against -- the London police in solving their most baffling cases. But now she's in hiding, driven to isolation by Reeve. When a series of murders announces his return, Frieda must emerge from the shadows to confront her nemesis. And it's a showdown she might not survive.
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A Gathering of Secrets by Linda CastilloA deadly fire exposes the dark side of Amish life in this harrowing new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series. When a historic barn burns to the ground in the middle of the night, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to investigate. At first, it looks like an accident, but when the body of eighteen-year-old Daniel Gingerich is found inside--burned alive--Kate suspects murder. Who would want a well-liked, hardworking young Amish man dead? Kate delves into the investigation only to find herself stonewalled by the community to which she once belonged.
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Jar of Hearts by Jennifer HillierThis is story of three best friends: one who was murdered, one who went to prison, and one who's been searching for the truth all these years.
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River Cottage Veg: 200 Inspired Vegetable Recipes by Hugh Fearnley-WhittingstallA comprehensive collection of vegetarian recipes includes more than 60 vegan options and offers insights into the joys of a vegetable-centric diet, providing instructions for preparing such dishes as Kale and Mushroom Lasagna, Winter Stir-Fry with Chinese Five-Spice and Herby, Peanutty, Noodly Salad.
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This Is How It Always Is by Laurie FrankelA family reshapes their ideas about family, love and loyalty when youngest son Claude reveals increasingly determined preferences for girls' clothing and accessories and refuses to stay silent. By the author of Goodbye for Now.
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Exit West: A Novel by Mohsin HamidThe internationally best-selling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist presents the story of two young lovers whose furtive affair is shaped by local unrest on the eve of a civil war that erupts in a cataclysmic bombing attack, forcing them to abandon their previous home and lives.
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamaraAn account of the unsolved Golden State Killer case, written by the late author of the TrueCrimeDiary.com website and featuring an afterword by her husband, comedian Patton Oswalt, traces the rapes and murders of dozens of victims and the author's determined efforts to help identify the killer and bring him to justice. 100,000 first printing.
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Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life by Peggy OrensteinPresents a collection of essays, drawn from three decades of writing, that traces the progress and setbacks of women and girls as reflected in areas ranging from princess culture and miscarriage to breast cancer and motherhood.
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The Wicked King by Holly BlackThe enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince. After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.
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Unshelved by Bill BarnesAt the Mallville Public Library they've seen it all. Like Ned, who takes Freedom of Expression to new lengths. Or Merv, who does everything in the library but read. Or Buddy the Book Beaver, ex-con tree surgeon turned summer reading program mascot. Or the missing books that keep showing up on eBay. Or the amorous teenagers who won't take it outside. In all this chaos and insanity, who ya gonna call? Why, a librarian of course. But please - do it quietly.
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Little Moments of Love by Catana ChetwyndLittle Moments of Love is a sweet collection of comics about the simple, precious, silly, everyday moments that make up a relationship.
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Soppy by Philippa RicePresents selections from the popular webcomic that captures small, intimate moments shared by the artist and her boyfriend, from grocery shopping to assembling a bookshelf.
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Everless by Sara HollandIn a magical world where time is extracted from blood as currency and where the poor are doomed to short existences, a girl is forced to return to the wealthy estate she fled years earlier and becomes entangled in violent secrets that shape the fate of time itself. A first novel. 100,000 first printing.
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Manfried the Man by Caitlin MajorIn this hilarious graphic novel, the roles of cats and humans are reversed, putting humanoid felines in charge of tiny, dimwitted little man-pets. Manfried is a stray taken in by Steve Catson, a slacker with a dead-end job and nonexistent love life. Soon Manfried becomes the Garfield to Steve's Jon Arbuckle: lazy, selfish, and sometimes maddening in his weird human behavior. Yet the pair depends on each other to get through life's troubles.
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Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand Marion: The newbie. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she's sure she'll never find. Zoey: The pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Val: The queen bee. Gorgeous and privileged, ruthless and regal. Words like silk and eyes like knives; a heart made of secrets and a mouth full of lies. Their stories come together on the island of Sawkill Rock, where kids whisper the legend of an insidious monster at parties and around campfires. Where girls have been disappearing for decades, stolen away by a ravenous evil no one has dared to fight...until now.
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Herding Cats
by Sarah Andersen
In a humorous collection of comics, the author, an introvert, shares her experiences, which are at times weird, awkward and embarrassing, as she tries adulting on a daily basis. Original.
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The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana HeadleyFrom the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall's periphery, the subdivision is a fortress guarded by an intense network of gates, surveillance cameras, and motion-activated lights. For Willa, the wife of Roger Herot, life moves at a charmingly slow pace. Meanwhile, in a cave in the mountains just beyond the limits of Herot Hall lives Gren and his mother Dana, a former soldier. When Gren, unaware of the borders erected to keep him at bay, ventures into Herot Hall and runs off with Dylan, Dana and Willa's worlds collide.
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Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben PassmoreCollection of culturally charged comics. Passmore masterfully tackles race, gentrification, the prison system, online dating, gross punks, bad street art, kung fu movie references, beating up God, and lots of other grown-up stuff with refreshing doses of humor and lived relatability.
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You Were Never Really Here A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Book One by Emil FerrisFilled with B-horror movie and pulp monster iconography, the diary of ten-year-old Karen Reyes records her investigation into the murder of her upstairs neighbor Anka Silverberg, a Holocaust survivor.
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Sabrina by Nick DrnasoWhen Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. An indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake news climate.
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No Shape Perfume Genius releases the follow-up to Too Bright that features 13 new tracks. Mike Hadreas and his collaborators blow through church music, makeout music, an array of the gothier radio popular formats, rhythm and blues, art pop, krautrock, and queer soul.
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Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago by Linda GartzSet against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even one black resident. As blacks move deeper into Chicago's West Side during the 1960s, whites flee by the thousands. Told through the lens of the personal and political, Gartz delivers a riveting story of a community fractured by racial turmoil, an unraveling marriage, a daughter's fight for sexual independence, and an up-close view of the racial and social upheavals of the 1960s.
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A Stitch in Time by Daphne KalmarIn 1927 Vermont, eleven-year-old Donut, recently orphaned after the death of her beloved pops, stands to lose everything when she learns her Aunt Agnes plans to move her to Boston, but little does her aunt know that Donut has no intentions of leaving her friends or her home.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies by Dawn RaffelThe extraordinary tale of how an immigrant "doctor" became the revolutionary innovator of saving premature babies--by placing them in incubators in side shows. How this turn-of-the-twentieth-century émigré became the savior to families with premature infants, known then as "weaklings"--while ignoring the scorn of the medical establishment and fighting the climate of eugenics--is one of the most astounding stories of modern medicine.
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam M. GrantExamines how leaders can champion originality in their organizations, drawing on illustrative studies and stories spanning a range of disciplines to explain how to identify a good idea, speak up, build allies, choose a time to act, and manage doubts.
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Soundtrack Return to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi with an all-new original musical based on the songs of ABBA. The returning Mamma Mia cast is joined by new additions Lily James and Academy Award winner Cher.
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When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren WeisbergerWelcome to Greenwich, CT, where everyone has something to say about the neighbor. Let's be clear: Emily Charlton, Miranda Priestly's ex-assistant, does not do the suburbs. Karolina Hartwell is as A-list as they come. A mega-supermodel recognized the world over and now the wife of a newly elected senator from New York. Miriam was a partner at one of Manhattan's most prestigious law firms but is taking time off to spend with her children. Emily, Karolina, and Miriam make an unlikely trio, but together they'll navigate the social landmines of life in America's favorite suburb on steroids, revealing the truths--and the lies--that simmer just below the glittering surface.
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All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth KlehfothSeventeen-year-old Charlie seeks to become a member of an elite secret society at her school by playing The Game, a semester-long, high-stakes scavenger hunt that will reveal the terrible truth about her family, her school, and her own life.
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The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany HaddishThe stand-up comedian and co-star of The Carmichael Show presents a humorous collection of autobiographical essays that reflect her disadvantaged youth as a foster child in South Central Los Angeles, her discovery of her talent for comedy and her struggles with gender, race and class boundaries in the entertainment industry.
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Heat
by Mike Lupica
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
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Ghost by Jason ReynoldsAspiring to be the fasted sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, a gifted runner finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violence-prone father, in a debut entry of a series about four teammates from very different backgrounds. By the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award-winning author of When I Was the Greatest. Simultaneous eBook.
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You Go First by Erin Entrada KellyCharlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.
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The Doughnut Fix by Jessie JanowitzWhen his family moves to tiny Petersville, eleven-year-old Tris stops focusing on his perfect sister, Jeanine, by using his cooking expertise to revive a town tradition of chocolate cream doughnuts.
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. DanforthPlaced in the custody of a conservative aunt in Montana after losing her parents in a car crash, teen Cameron secretly falls in love with her cowgirl best friend and is cruelly dispatched to a religious conversion camp when the truth about her sexual orientation is discovered. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.
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Hope Never Dies by Andrew ShafferVice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident, leaving behind a trail of clues. To unravel the mystery, "Amtrak Joe" re-teams with the only man he's ever fully trusted--the 44th president of the United States. Together they'll plumb the darkest corners of Delaware, traveling from cheap motels to biker bars, as they uncover the sinister forces advancing America's opioid epidemic. Part noir thriller, part bromance novel, and a cathartic read for anyone distressed by the current state of affairs.
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Meg by Steve AltenCarcharodon megalodon, the most fearsome creature that ever lived, a 70-foot, 60,000-pound Great White Shark. For Deep Sea submersible pilot Jonas Taylor, on a top-secret dive seven miles down into the Mariana Trench, Jonas came face to face with an ancient monster everyone believed extinct. Jonas must prove to the world that Meg still exists. When an opportunity to return to the trench presents itself, he takes it. Reprint.
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The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go by Amy E. ReichertThree generations. Seven days. One big secret. Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her fastidious mother, Lorraine, cataloguing all her faults, and her sullen teenage daughter, May, snubbing her. Her relentlessly sunny disposition annoys them both, no matter how hard she tries. But when Lorraine suffers a sudden stroke, Gina stumbles upon a family secret Lorraine's kept hidden for forty years. In the face of her mother's failing health and her daughter's rebellion, this optimist might find that piecing together the truth is the push she needs to let go.
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The Forest by Ricardo BozziA lyrical book about the adventure of life uses sensory-driven, highly textured spreads comprised of die-cuts, embossing, cutouts and a gatefold designed to enhance vibrantly illustrated scenes of the natural world. Original.
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We Regret to Inform You by A. E. KaplanMischa is a walking, talking, top-scoring, perfectly well-rounded college application in human form. So when she's rejected not only by the Ivies, but her loathsome safety school, she is shocked and devastated. As Mischa grapples with the prospect of an increasingly uncertain future, she questions how this could have happened in the first place. Mischa launches an investigation that will shake the quiet community of Blanchard Prep to its stately brick foundations. Kaplan cranks the humor to full blast, and takes a serious look at the extreme pressure of college admissions.
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The Word Is Murder by Anthony HorowitzWhen a wealthy woman is found murdered after planning her own funeral service, disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, investigate.
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The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen WangThe best-selling cartoonist of In Real Life presents a graphically illustrated fairy-tale set in Paris at the dawn of the modern age, where a cross-dressing prince hides his identity as a popular fashion icon and falls for a brilliant dressmaker who knows his secret at the same time his royal parents begin searching for a traditional bride for him to marry. Simultaneous.
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Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgFighting an ugly custody battle with an artistic tenant who has little regard for the strict rules of their progressive Cleveland suburb, a straitlaced family woman who is seeking to adopt a baby becomes obsessed with exposing the tenant's past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both of their families.
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K RowlingAn illustrated rendering of the third volume in the internationally best-selling series follows the efforts of the wizard Boy Who Lived to outmaneuver an escaped criminal believed to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasDragged off to a treacherous magical land as retribution for killing a wolf, huntress Feyre learns that her captor is one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.
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