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Staff Picks Newsletter April 2024
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What to read next? Here are titles our staff read and thought you might like as well. Hopefully you can find one to enjoy.
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Books we really enjoyed ...
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Absolution
by Alice McDermott
Sixty years after they lived as wives of American servicemen in early 1960s Vietnam, two women reconnect and relieve their shared experiences in Saigon in the new novel by the author of The Ninth Hour.
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Batman: The Audio Adventures
by Dennis McNicholas
"A string of attacks has plagued Gotham's seedy underbelly, sending criminals into a panic. But it's not Batman who is striking at the heart of the city, it's a group of mysterious assailants on the hunt for an ancient artifact. As Batman hunts down these assassins, he finds clues that keep drawing him to their true goal: the sword of King Scimitar!"
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Dirty Thirty
by Janet Evanovich
Trenton, New Jersey's most underappreciated bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, while taking care of her boyfriend's giant orange dog, tracks the former security guard of a local jeweler who supposedly stole a fortune of diamonds, and must keep herself clean when everyone else is playing dirty.
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The Exchange : After The Firm
by John Grisham
In this explosive sequel to The Firm, Mitch, a partner at the largest law firm in the world, is asked for a favor by a mentor in Rome that plunges him into a sinister plot that has global implications and once against places everyone he holds dear in danger.
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The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell : A Novel
by Robert Dugoni
Born with ocular albinism, small-town eye doctor Sam Hill, who was called “Devil Boy” in his youth, must finally face a past tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown and the life he’d always known—a journey that makes him realize what truly matters.
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Fangirl Down : A Novel
by Tessa Bailey
A professional golfer with a bad-boy reputation quits in a heated blaze but reconsiders his decision after his biggest fan, a gorgeous redhead, offers to caddy for him in exchange for splitting tournament prize money.
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Free Period
by Ali Terese
Forced to join the school's Community Action Club, troublemaking best friends Helen and Gracie take over the club's campaign for maxi pads in bathrooms and soon find themselves closer to change and deeper in trouble than ever before, forcing them to make a difficult decision.
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Good marriage
by Stephen King
"Darcy Anderson learns more about her husband of over twenty years than she would have liked to know when she stumbles literally upon a box under a work table in their garage." A novella published in the collection "Full Dark, No Stars".
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The Hunter
by Tana French
Moving to rural Ireland, Cal Hooper, who took early retirement from Chicago PD, has built a relationship with Lena and is gradually turning teenager Trey Reddy into a good kid, but when Trey's long-absent father reappears with an English millionaire and a get-rich-quick scheme, Trey wants revenge.
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James : A Novel
by Percival Everett
Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
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The Lion of Mars
by Jennifer L Holm
Eleven-year-old Bell is just a regular kid living on Mars, curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping, so when a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, it is up to Bell to uncover the truth and save his family
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The Lottery and Other Stories
by Shirley Jackson
"One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane. The Lottery and Other Stories, the only collection of stories to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual short stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range--from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous--and her power as a storyteller"
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Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil : a Savannah Story
by John Berendt
In charming, beautiful, and wealthy old-South Savannah, Georgia, a local bad boy is found shot to death inside of the opulent mansion of a gay antiques dealer, and a gripping trial follows, in a gripping account of a landmark murder case. Written by local author John Berendt, who is also the author of The City of Falling Angels.
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Misery : A Novel
by Stephen King
Paul Sheldon, author of a series of historical romances, wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs and Annie Wilkes, a disappointed fan, hovering over him with drugs, ax, and blowtorch and demanding he bring his heroine back to life.
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The Women
by Kristin Hannah
In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words“Women can be heroes, too,” impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
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