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• Staff Picks Newsletter/July •
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Looking for your next favorite book? It's no secret that librarians read. A lot. And when we finish a great book we can't wait to recommend it! See what we've been reading below. You might just find your next favorite book!
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At the library Come visit us in person and we'd be happy to help choose something perfect just for you.
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On our websiteGo to our website to access our catalog and more online resources, available 24/7!
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to keep up with all the great things we've got happening this spring.
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Books we just couldn't put down ...
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Under Currents
by Nora Roberts
Discovering unexpected allies when his successful father's rages spiral out of control, Zane draws strength and insights from the darkness of the past to create a healthier family in adulthood. By the best-selling author of the In Death series.
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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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Commonwealth : A Novel
by Ann Patchett
A five-decade saga tracing the impact of an act of infidelity on the parents and children of two Southern California families. The novel traces their shared summers in Virginia and the disillusionment that shapes their lasting bond.
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Untraceable
by Laura Griffin
When one of her clients vanishes for real, PI Alexandra Lovell, who specializes in making people disappear and begin new lives in safety, turns to the Tracers, an elite team of forensic scientists, and a sexy detective for help.
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The Lemon Sisters
by Jill Shalvis
Free-spirited Brooke and her high-achieving sister, Mindy, reconnect in the face of devastating personal setbacks before deciding to trade places to confront long-kept secrets.
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Summoned to Thirteenth Grave
by Darynda Jones
In the final installment in the best-selling paranormal series, Charley Davidson returns to the earthly plane after a century in exile and prepares for an ultimate battle to solve a loved one's death.
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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman Meet Nina Hill: A young woman supremely confident in her own...shell. The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book. When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're all--or mostly all--excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It's a disaster! And as if that wasn't enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her.
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The Rosie Result
by Graeme C. Simsion
Don and Rosie help their eleven-year-old son who is struggling at school and having trouble fitting in while trying to open a cocktail bar in the third and final installment of the series, following The Rosie Effect.
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The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
This epic retelling of the legend of Achilles follows Patroclus and Achilles, the golden son of King Peleus, as they, skilled in the arts of war and medicine, lay siege to Troy after Helen of Sparta is kidnapped--a cause that tests their friendship and forces them to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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Ball Four: The Final Pitch
by Jim Bouton
The beloved baseball classic, with a new prologue by Jim Bouton. When Ball Four was first published in 1970, it hit the sports world like a lightning bolt. Commissioners, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and social leper. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And serious critics called it an important social document. Today, Jim Bouton is still not invited to Oldtimer's Days at Yankee Stadium. But his landmark book is still being read by people who don't ordinarily follow baseball.
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Boy, Snow, Bird
by Helen Oyeyemi
A modern reimagining of the Snow White fairy tale follows the experiences of a woman who marries a mid-20th-century Massachusetts single father and succumbs to vanity when the birth of her baby reveals her husband to be a light-skinned African American. By the award-winning author of White Is for Witching.
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The Night Window: A Jane Hawk Novel
by Dean R. Koontz
When people under Arcadian control begin showing signs of violent instability, Jane Hawk and her growing band of supporters prepare for an ultimate battle to determine America's future. By the best-selling author of The Forbidden Door
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Throne of Glass
by Sarah J. Maas
Appearing before the Crown Prince after a year of hard labor in the salt mines, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is offered her freedom in exchange for representing the throne during a competition to find a new royal assassin, a challenge that is marked by grueling training and the murders of fellow contestants.
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Rebel of the Sands
by Alwyn Hamilton
Desperate to leave the dead-end town of Dustwalk, Amani meets Jin, the mysterious rebel running from the Sultan's army and she unlocks a powerful truth about the desert nation of Miraji...and herself
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What Alice Forgot by Liane MoriartySuffering an accident that causes her to forget the last ten years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is thirty-nine years old, a mother of three children, and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves.
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The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasThis award-winning novel traces the story of a teen whose uneasy balance between her elite prep school and her disadvantaged home life is shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her best friend by a police officer.
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The Sun Is Also a Star
by Nicola Yoon
Natasha, whose family is hours away from being deported, and Daniel, a first generation Korean American who strives to live up to his parents' expectations, fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together.
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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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The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussThe New York Times best-selling fantasy novel describes how the magically gifted orphan, Kvothe, brazenly attends a legendary school of magic and must live as a fugitive after the murder of a king.
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In the Afterlight by Alexandra BrackenWhen the Children's League disbands, Ruby becomes a leader and forms an unlikely alliance with Liam's brother, Cole, but competing ideals threaten the mission to uncover the cause of IANN and free psi children from the camps.
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Waking Gods
by Sylvain Neuvel
A sequel to Sleeping Giants finds an elite physicist investigating the nature of what appears to be a giant metal hand found decades earlier deep underground, a mystery that leads to the greatest discovery of the millennium and the appearance of a world-changing technology.
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The Sea of Monsters by Rick RiordanWhen Camp Half-Blood, the only safe haven for demigods, comes close to being overrun by mythological monsters, Percy must find his best friend Grover, who is prisoner on an island in the Bermuda Triangle, and then set out to save the Camp.
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'BrienHaving no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
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1984 by George OrwellPortrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
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The Lost Queen: A Novel
by Signe Pike
The twin sister of the sixth-century druid warrior who would inspire the Merlin legend navigates the violent forces of Christianity and Anglo-Saxon colonization to preserve the Old Ways and fight for her kingdom's survival.
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The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz ZafónOffered a career-making writing deal from an enigmatic publisher in turbulent 1960s Barcelona, David Martin wonders about his capacity for writing a book for which the publisher claims others will live and die, an assignment throughout which David struggles with a forbidden love. Reprint. A best-selling novel.
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The Overstory: A Novel
by Richard Powers
The National Book Award-winning author of The Overstory presents an impassioned novel of activism and natural-world power that is comprised of interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
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The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra PatrickA shy librarian whose kind heart is often exploited receives a mysterious book of fairy tales from the beloved grandmother she believed dead and embarks on a perspective-changing journey of astonishing family secrets.
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The River: A Novel by Peter HellerTwo college students on a wilderness canoe trip find their survival skills and longtime best friendship tested by a wildfire, white-water hazards and two mysterious strangers. By the best-selling author of The Dog Stars.
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Normal People: A Novel
by Sally Rooney
The unconventional secret childhood bond between a popular boy and a lonely, intensely private girl is tested by character reversals in their first year at a Dublin college that render one introspective and the other social, but self-destructive.
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Daisy Jones & the Six: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins ReidTwo rising 70's rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame.
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas JonassonConfined to a nursing home and about to turn 100, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant and a very friendly hot dog stand operator.
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99 Percent Mine by Sally ThorneA twin sister and brother struggle over an inheritance—with a sexy best friend coming between them.
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Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story by Michael CollinsFrom speeding comets and asteroids to orbiting bodies and beyond, readers will explore the formation of different parts of space, reasons why we study space and so much more, in a series that is out of this world!
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Beach Trip: A Novel
by Cathy Holton
Mel, Sara, Annie, and Lola have traveled distinct and diverse paths since their years together at a small Southern liberal arts college during the early 1980s. Now the friends, all in their forties, converge on Lola's lavish North Carolina beach house in an attempt to relive the carefree days of their college years. But as the week wears on and each woman's hidden story is gradually revealed, these four friends learn that they must inevitably confront their shared past and a secret that threatens to change their bond, and their lives, forever
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