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Staff Recommendations October 2017
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Gwendy's Button Box
by Stephen King ~ Betty says,"A good read. I'm hoping for the second. Tame and short for Stephen but it's worth it."
A novel co-written by the #1 best-selling author of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams returns to the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine, to take on a terrifying man in a trim, black suit, and a girl named Gwendy who was brave enough to talk to him.
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Only With Your Love
by Lisa Kleypas ~ Jonalee says, " It's a pirate love story but it's not one of my favorites."
Kidnapped by brigands and ransomed to a privateer, Celia Vallerand is in no mood for love, but the handsome pirate soon stirs unexpected and irresistbile feelings of passion in her.
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood ~ Dorothy says, "Beautifully written. I liked it a lot!"
Offred, a Handmaid, describes life in what was once the United States, now the Republic of Gilead, a shockingly repressive and intolerant monotheocracy, in a satirical tour de force set in the near future, in a classic work that is soon to be a 10-part Hulu series.
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A Secret History of Witches
by Louisa Morgan ~ Kathy says, "They try to keep their magic from dying, keep themselves from danger, and help change the course of history."
Follows five generations of women—all of whom happen to be witches—from 19th-century Brittany to London during World War II.
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The Vampyre : A Tale
by John William Polidori ~ Olivia says, "The real original vampire tale. It was interesting to read."
The Vampyre is based on a fragment written by Lord Byron in 1816 during a gathering of author friends who, trapped inside due to bad weather, decided to write ghost stories. At the request of a friend, Polidori wrote a complete story from the premise outlined in Byron's fragment. Without either author's prior knowledge, the story was published in the April 1819 issue of New Monthly Magazine as "The Vampyre: A Tale by Lord Byron"; despite immediate protests from both Byron and polidori, the attribution stuck, for a well-known author such as Byron attracted a much better audience. The Vampyre was the first vampire story in English prose, and as such had a wide-ranging influence, almost singlehandedly creating the now-popular image of the vampire as an aristocratic seducer.
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Small Great Things : a novel
by Jodi Picoult ~ Marie says, "Great read! This is one of my favorite Jodi Picoult books."
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.
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The Color of Distance
by Amy Thomson ~ Amber says,"An interesting sci-fi novel that handles exploration without the invasion."
The award-winning author of Virtual Girl creates a strange new world of infinite possibilities where honor, sacrifice, and friendship between humans and aliens can mean many different things at once.
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
by Lisa See ~ Jodie says, "It's interesting to read how tea is part of these people's lives."
Explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.
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The Sun and Her Flowers
by Rupi Kaur ~ Jon says,"Ferociously beautiful poems of love, pain, and strength that follow themes of immigrants. Simple but searing."
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of milk and honey comes a long-awaited second collection of poetry, a transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one’s roots and expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself, augmented by the author's own illustrations.
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Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery ~ Ranea says,"The old classic about our favorite orphan turned teacher. Anne Shirley, an oldie, but a goody."
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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