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• Staff Picks Newsletter March•
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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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Red Hood by Elana K. ArnoldLiving a quiet life with her grandmother in Seattle, Bisou Martel is attacked by a mysterious wolf on the night of her school’s homecoming before confronting difficult questions about her past and her growing sense of empowerment.
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Eight Perfect Murders by Peter SwansonYears after establishing a literary career through his compilation of the mystery genre’s most unsolvable classics, an unsuspecting bookseller is tapped by the FBI for help solving murders that eerily mimic the books on his list.
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This Is Happiness by Niall WilliamsA young man’s first experiences of falling in and out of love are shaped by the arrival of electricity in his small western seaboard village, an enigmatic woman and a mysterious drought. By the author of Four Letters of Love.
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How To Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting To Kill You by Matthew InmanA hilarious, brilliant offering of cat comics, facts and instructional guides from the creative wonderland at TheOatmeal.com also includes a pullout poster. By the creator of 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides).
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Conviction by Denise MinaAn upper-class Edinburgh housewife who enjoys listening to the sordid details of true-crime podcasts has her world turned upside down when a new podcast turns out to have connections to her own dark past.
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The Starless Sea by Erin MorgensternDiscovering a mysterious book of prisoner tales, a Vermont graduate student recognizes a story from his own life before following clues to a magical underground library that is being targeted for destruction. By the best-selling author of The Night Circus.
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Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzFifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents and his family that he has never asked before.
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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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Circe: A Novel by Madeline MillerFollow Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
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Rules Of Civility by Amor TowlesA chance encounter with a handsome banker in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults witty Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well and a single-minded widow.
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Almost Just Friends: A Novel by Jill ShalvisAnticipating well-earned freedom after raising her siblings, a tough woman forges an unexpected bond with an enigmatic stranger before a massive storm and demons from the past throw everything she believes into question.
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The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi CoatesA Virginia slave narrowly escapes a drowning death through the intervention of a mysterious force that compels his escape and personal underground war against slavery. By the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me.
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American Dirt: A Novel by Jeanine CumminsSelling two favorite books to an unexpectedly erudite drug-cartel boss, a bookstore manager is forced to flee Mexico in the wake of her journalist husband’s tell-all profile and finds her family among thousands of migrants seeking hope in America.
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The Country Guesthouse by Robyn CarrA woman unexpectedly raising her sister’s son and a man mourning his own child discover healing and community support through their mutual love of the orphaned boy. By the award-winning author of the Virgin River series.
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The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson A new epic series by the best-selling writer of Robert Jordan's final Wheel of Time novels introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery and a woman who would save her impoverished house.
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