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Staff Recommendations January 2017
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The long Utopia
by Terry Pratchett
Lobsang's pursuit of a human life, Joshua's search for his father and the adaptation efforts of "the Next" post-humans are challenged by a voracious alien race that would conquer and colonize the Long Earth. By the #1 best-selling authors of The Long Earth.
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The invoice: a novel
by Jonas Karlsson
An unassuming, Swedish, part-time video store clerk receives an invoice in the amount of 5.7 kronor to pay for every one of his life experiences. By the author of The Room.
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Small great things: a novel
by Jodi Picoult
Hesitating to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple who has demanded that a white nurse assist them, a black nurse is placed on trial in the tragic aftermath and is aided by a white public defender with whom she begins questioning their beliefs as the case becomes more racially charged. By the #1 best-selling author of Leaving Time.
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Murder at the 42nd Street library
by Cornelius Lehane
Investigating a murder in the iconic, beaux-arts flagship of the New York Public Library, crime fiction curator Ray Ambler teams up with NYPD homicide detective Mike Cosgrove to uncover disturbing relationships between a celebrated mystery writer, his missing daughter, a society woman, and one of Ambler's colleagues.
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The Obsidian chamber
by Douglas J. Preston
The best-selling authors of Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities present a latest entry in the series featuring Special Agent Pendergast.
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Mother Bruce
by Ryan T Higgins
Enjoying a life of solitude and delicious hard-boiled eggs, Bruce the bear is surprised when his goose eggs hatch live goslings who believe he is their mother, require constant care, and refuse to fly south.
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Lola Levine is not mean!
by Monica Brown
Unfairly dubbed "mean" when a soccer game during recess turns too competitive and a classmate gets hurt, Lola, a biracial and bicultural second-grader, enlists the support of her family and best friend, Josh, to navigate problems using words and humor. Simultaneous eBook. 15,000 first printing.
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The 5th Wave
by Richard Yancey
A first entry in a new series by the award-winning author of The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp follows the experiences of two survivors of apocalyptic disasters that have decimated life on Earth and transformed nearly everyone into crazed killers.
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A blind guide to Stinkville
by Beth Vrabel
After moving to Stinkville from Seattle, where everyone knew her and she was comfortable, blind albino Alice finds herself floundering in her new environment, but she's determined to prove that she can be part of the community and by confronting her own blindness, everyone else in Stinkville seems to see her for the first time.
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