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• September Staff Picks Newsletter •
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Looking for your next favorite book? Our staff has some great suggestions for you in Adult Fiction, Young Adult and Children's! Scroll down for book picks for all ages - Just click the book cover to place a hold on that title.
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The Turn of the Key
by Ruth Ware
When a high-paying nanny job at a luxurious Scottish Highlands home culminates in her imprisonment for a child’s murder, a young woman struggles to untangle what really happened. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lying Game.
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Conviction
by Denise Mina
An 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 Floating Feldmans by Elyssa FriedlandOrganizing a family reunion cruise for her 70th birthday in the hopes of resolving long estrangements, Annette reveals difficult secrets that challenge long-held perceptions about the more troublesome members of her clan. Original.
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Careful What you Wish For
by Hallie Ephron
A professional organizer whose husband is a hoarder distracts herself from her growing relationship troubles by focusing on her new clients, one of which takes her tipsy fantasy about life being more pleasant without spouses a little too far.
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The Downstairs Girl - Young Adult
by Stacey Lee
When the advice column she secretly writes becomes wildly popular, a young lady’s maid uses her influence to question her society’s fixed ideas about race and gender. By the award-winning author of Outrun the Moon. Simultaneous eBook
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Curse of the Evil Librarian - Young Adult
by Michelle Knudsen
Anticipating a fun-filled, romantic senior year after dispatching evil librarian Mr. Gabriel to the demon world, Cynthia looks forward to participating in the fall musical before discovering that Mr. Gabriel has escaped and is orchestrating a vengeful plot.
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Life and Other Inconveniences
by Kristan Higgins
When the blue-blood grandmother who abandoned her long ago calls and asks for help, Emma London, the black sheep of the family who has built a wonderful life for herself and her teenage daughter, must make a difficult decision.
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A Keeper
by Graham Norton
Returning to Ireland after her mother’s death, Elizabeth Keane is focused only on saying goodbye to that part of her life until, while she is going through her mother’s belongings, she discovers a small stash of letters that reveal a startling truth.
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A Stranger in the House
by Shari Lapeña
Responding to a call she hoped she would never get, a woman braces herself for the worst in a bad part of town and wakes up with no memory of what happened at the same time the police and her husband accuse her of misconduct. By the author of the best-selling The Couple Next Door.
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The Flight Girls
by Noelle Salazar
A novel looks at the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program and the heroic role women played in training military pilots who were being deployed to fight during World War II. Debut novel.
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Under the Dome : a novel
by Stephen King
After an invisible force field seals off Chester Mills, Maine, from the rest of the world, it is up to Dale Barbara, an Iraq veteran, and a select group of citizens to save the town, if they can get past Big Jim Rennie, a murderous politician, and his son, who hides a horrible secret in his dark pantry.
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The Flatshare
by Beth O'Leary
Entering a flatshare arrangement with a man on an opposite work shift, a heartbroken woman begins exchanging notes with the roommate she has never met and becomes his best friend, and possibly soulmate, through their correspondence. A first novel.
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The Moon and More - Young Adult
by Sarah Dessen
During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie
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I Capture the Castle - Young Adult
by Dodie Smith
An eccentric and impoverished English family whose home is a ruined 14th century castle. The story is presented in the form of a diary by the family's teen daughter.
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Lock Every Door : a novel
by Riley Sager
Jules takes a job as an apartment sitter at a posh Manhattan building to escape heartbreak and earn some cash, but when a fellow apartment sitter disappears, Jules digs into the building's past and what she finds sends her racing to unmask a killer
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Wilder Girls - Young Adult
by Rory Power
Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island
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House of Salt and Sorrows - Young Adult
by Erin A. Craig
When her beautiful sisters are cursed to dance at glittering balls night after night before they start dying in tragic accidents, Annaleigh questions her involvement with a mysterious stranger and wonders if she will be next.
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New Kid
by Jerry Craft
Enrolled in a prestigious private school where he is one of only a few students of color, talented seventh-grade artist Jordan finds himself torn between the worlds of his Washington Heights apartment home and the upscale circles of Riverdale Academy.
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The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
by Dan Gemeinhart
Living on the road in an old school bus with her dad after losing her mother and sisters, 12-year-old Coyote devises an elaborate plan to convince her father to make a first trip home to Washington state in five years, a journey marked by an eclectic group of passengers they meet along the way.
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Spunky Little Monkey
by Bill Martin
Little monkey will not get out of bed, so the doctor prescribes some exercise, and monkey learns to dance
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Monster & Mouse Go Camping
by Deborah Underwood
When Mouse and Monster team up to go camping, they discover Monster's insatiable appetite is wreaking havoc on their campsite, but nothing can stop these two friends from having fun in the great outdoors
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Wonderland
by Barbara O'Connor
When her mother uproots them again to another home and takes a job as housekeeper, ten-year-old Mavis is determined to find a best friend in Landry, Alabama, where the summer also holds the promise of friendship and change for a sad man, a stray dog, anda timid girl
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Red House, Tree House, Little Bitty Brown Mouse
by Jane Godwin
Simple, skill-building rhymes and high-contrast artwork depict a little mouse who observes the colors of her diverse community, posing a search-and-find challenge on every spread. By the award-winning author of Baby Day.
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Squeak!
by Laura McGee Kvasnosky
Squeaking awake when a gentle breeze tickles his ear, a little mouse triggers a chain of sounds and movements that awaken his animal neighbors in turn, in a lavishly illustrated story by the award-winning creators of Little Wolf’s First Howling.
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Spot & Dot
by Henry Cole
In the stunning follow-up to Spot, the Cat, Dot the dog is off on her own adventure through the city in a wordless picture book that features beautifully detailed black-and-white illustrations that will carry readers along through Spot and Dot’s adventure and have them cheering for the sweet reunion at the end.
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Bunny's Book Club Goes to School
by Annie Silvestro
A follow-up to Bunny's Book Club finds Bunny and his forest friends meeting at the town library on summertime weekends for Book Club, where a fellow reader's nervousness about the first day of school prompt a plan to travel together for moral support
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Firefly Home
by Jane Clarke
A little lost firefly who does not know which of the innumerable lights in the sky is the right one to follow home is offered assistance by reader prompts filled with encouragement, direction changes and positive wishes. By the author of I Saw Anaconda
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The Boring Book
by Shinsuke Yoshitake
A child, bored by his toys, contemplates the emotion and concept of boredom, and whether or not it is boring to be an adult--or a child
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Fortunately, the Milk
by Neil Gaiman
When a father runs out to buy milk for his children's breakfast cereal, the last thing he expects is to be abducted by aliens, and he soon finds himself transported through time and space on an extraordinary adventure, where the fate of the universe depends on him and the milk--but will his children believe his wild story?
Try the Audio book! As read by the author, it's a fun way to immerse yourself in the story!
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