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Staff Picks Newsletter ►October
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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 Call us or email us 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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Anxious People by Fredrik BackmanTaken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers—including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages and a plucky octogenarian—discover their unexpected common traits.
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The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. HarrowIn the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in a Hugo award-winning author's novel of magic amid the suffragette movement.
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When No One is Watching : A Thriller by Alyssa ColeFinding unexpected support from a new friend while collecting stories from her rapidly vanishing Brooklyn community, Sydney uncovers sinister truths about a regional gentrification project and why her neighbors are moving away.
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House Lessons : Renovating a Life by Erica BauermeisterIn this memoir-in-essays, New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister renovates a trash-filled house in the eccentric town of Port Townsend, WA, and in the process takes readers on a journey into the ways our spaces subliminally affect us, ultimately showing us how to make our houses (and lives) better.
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Hamnet : A Novel of the Plague by Maggie O'FarrellThe award-winning author of I Am I Am, I Am, presents the evocative story of a young Shakespeare’s marriage to a talented herbalist before the ravaging death of their 11-year-old son shapes the production of his greatest play.
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John MandelThe sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of King Lear marks the beginning of the world's dissolution, in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates. By the author of The Lola Quartet.
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The Blue Zones kitchen : 100 Recipes to Live to 100 by Dan BuettnerA debut cookbook by the best-selling author of The Blue Zones Solution draws on the culinary traditions of world regions associated with longevity to offer such recipes as Sardinian Herbed Lentil Minestrone, Cornmeal Waffles and Okinawan Sweet Potatoes. Illustrations.
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The Henna Artist by Alka JoshiA talented henna artist for wealthy confidantes finds her efforts to control her own destiny in 1950s Jaipur threatened by the abusive husband she fled as a teenage girl. A first novel.
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A Burning by Megha MajumdarAn opportunistic gym teacher and a starry-eyed misfit find the realization of their ambitions tied to the downfall of an innocent Muslim girl who has been wrongly implicated in a terrorist attack. A first novel.
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The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elsa HartVisiting a formidable science-book collector’s home in the hopes of identifying plant specimens, 18th-century herbalist Cecily Kay finds herself investigating her host’s untimely murder when she observes unsettling inconsistencies.
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Black Water Rising by Attica LockeWhen African-American lawyer Jay Porter jumps into the bayou to save a drowning white woman in Houston, Texas, in 1981, he finds his practice and life in danger when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation involving Houston's elite.
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News of the World : A Novel by Paulette JilesIn the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a widower and itinerant news reader, is offered fifty dollars to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, from Wichita Falls back to her family in San Antonio.
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Kingdom of Exiles by Maxym M. MartineauForced to sell her beloved magical beasts on the black market—an offense punishable by death, exiled beast charmer Leena Edenfrell, with a price on her head, makes a devil’s bargain with the realm’s most talented assassin in exchange for her life.
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The Last Trial by Scott TurowA brilliant octogenarian defense lawyer on the brink of retirement seeks to prove the innocence of a long-time friend, a former Nobel Prize winner who has been charged with murder. By the best-selling author of Presumed Innocent.
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. HarrowA woman navigating the out-of-place artifacts in her caretaker’s sprawling early 20th-century mansion discovers a mysterious book that reveals impossible truths about the world and her own past.
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Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope
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An American Marriage : A Novel by Tayari JonesWhen her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned. By the author of Silver Sparrow.
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Sadie by Courtney SummersTold from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.
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The Forgotten Kingdom : A Novel by Signe PikeLanguoreth endures imprisonment while one of the most violent battles of early medieval Scottish history scatters her loved ones, including her young daughter Angharad, who pursues her destiny in the mystical land of the Picts.
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Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy by Mary StewartA single-volume edition of the best-selling trilogy that chronicles the life story of the great wizard Merlin and includes the complete texts of The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, and The Last Enchantment, in an edition complemented by a contemporary cover and interior design.
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The Good Immigrant : 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh ShuklaA U.S. follow-up to the best-selling U.K. edition collects urgent essays by first- and second-generation immigrant writers on the realities of immigration, multiculturalism and marginalization in today's increasingly divided America.
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Always the Last to Know by Kristan HigginsAfter their father suffers a stroke, two sisters must return home and deal with the paths both their lives have taken as well as their parents’ relationship,in this new novel from the author of Good Luck with That.
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The Paris Orphan by Natasha LesterAn American soldier and an enterprising photographer brave occupied France during World War II to help a young orphan find a family. By the best-selling author of The Paris Seamstress. Original.
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How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse by K. EasonThis book is a feminist reimagining of familiar fairytale tropes and a story of resistance and self-determination—how small acts of rebellion can lead a princess to not just save herself, but change the course of history.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithA new edition of the classic novel, featuring a new foreword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen, follows young Francie Nolan, who is armed with her idealism and determination, as she struggles to escape from the poverty of life in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
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Edgedancer : From the Stormlight Archive by Brandon SandersonThree years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older - a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as Darkness, court life is suffocating the free-spirited Lift, who can't help heading to Yeddaw when she hears the relentless Darkness is there hunting people like her with budding powers. The downtrodden in Yeddaw have no champion, and Lift knows she must seize this awesome responsibility.
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The Ingredients of You and Me : A Novel by Nina BocciA successful bakery owner trades in her city life for a small town world after visiting her best friend and deciding to stay. This is the latest addition to the series following Meet Me on Love Lane. Original.
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On the Corner of Love and Hate by Nina Bocci A young woman is forced to help her old friend revamp his image for the upcoming mayoral elections...and discovers that she might not be as immune to his charms as she once thought.
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Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi RyanIn digging up the facts on the heartbreaking story of a middle-class family evicted from their suburban home—and on other foreclosures—reporter Jane Ryland soon learns the truth behind a big-bucks scheme and the surprising players who will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep their goal a secret. By the author of The Wrong Girl.
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