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Our staff have been busy reading all summer and are eager to share our recommendations with you! Just click on the book cover to find it in the catalog and place a hold! Look for a separate Children's Staff Picks to follow!
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The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
by Kelly Harms
After her ex-husband offers to take care of their children for the summer, single mom Amy Byler takes a break from rural Pennsylvania and heads to New York City where she lets her hair down and starts dating again.
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The spies of Shilling Lane : a novel
by Jennifer Ryan
A follow-up to The Chilbury Ladies' Choir finds scandalous divorcee Mrs. Braithwaite traveling to World War II London in search of her missing daughter, an effort that is complicated by a difficult secret
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Fatal Inheritance : a novel by Rachel RhysWhen she inherits a charming villa overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, Eve Forrester uses this opportunity to start over, and, as she rubs shoulders with the rich and famous, challengers to her unexplained fortune emerge.
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Someone We Know
by Shari Lapeña
In a quiet suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses—and into the owners’ computers—and causing a stir by learning and sharing the residents secrets.
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Lost You : a novel
by Haylen Beck
After a closing elevator door separates them, a single mother on vacation with her son discovers he has been abducted by another woman who claims she is his mother in the new novel from the author of Here and Gone
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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 Five : the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie RubenholdResearched portraits of the five women murdered by Jack the Ripper in 1888 challenge popular beliefs to reveal each victim's historically relevant and diverse background while discussing the cultural and gender disadvantages that rendered them vulnerable.
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A Family of Strangers by Emilie RichardsIn the wake of a shocking murder accusation, a misfit crime podcaster struggles to clear the name of the perfect older sibling who has overshadowed her life. By the best-selling author of The Swallow's Nest.
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The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season. By the best-selling author of The Nightingale.
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The Inn at Ocean's Edge by Colleen CobleClaire Dellamore's stay at the Grand Inn at Ocean's Edge begins with a menacing start as she suffers a panic attack set off by the vibes from the place, and when she sees what she believes to be a murder while out for a stroll, only Luke Elwell believes her.
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The Island of Sea Women : a novel by Lisa SeeThe ostracized daughter of a Japanese collaborator and the daughter of their Korean village's head female diver share nearly a century of friendship that is tested by their island's torn position between two warring empires.
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The cactus
by Sarah Haywood
Avoiding messy emotions in a perfectly ordered life, Susan tackles the unexpected double challenge of losing her mother and becoming pregnant and is challenged to ask for help while discovering herself in unlikely ways.
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The daughters of Temperance Hobbs : a novel
by Katherine Howe
Connie Goodwin, a New England history professor specializing in the history of magic in colonial America and the descendant of a woman tried as a witch in Salem, races against time to free her fiancé from a curse.
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Pan's Labyrinth : the Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del ToroAn Oscar-winning writer-director and a New York Times best-selling author have come together to transform Guillermo del Toro’s hit movie, Pan’s Labyrinth, into an epic and dark fantasy novel, complete with haunting illustrations and enchanting short stories that flesh out the folklore of this fascinating world.
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by Ann Aguirre When Araceli Flores Harper is sent to stay with her great-aunt Ottilie in her ramshackle Victorian home, the plan is simple. She'll buckle down and get ready for college. Life won't be exciting, but she'll cope, right? Wrong. From the start, things are very, very wrong. Her great-aunt still leaves food for the husband who went missing twenty years ago, and local businesses are plastered with MISSING posters. There are unexplained lights in the woods and a mysterious lab just beyond the city limits that the locals don't talk about. Ever. When she starts receiving mysterious letters that seem to be coming from the past, she suspects someone of pranking her or trying to drive her out of her mind.
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The Odd Sisters : a Tale of the Three Witches by Serena ValentinoAn origin tale focusing on the diabolical Odd Sisters reveals the dark truth about who they really are and where they came from. By the best-selling author of Fairest of All.
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They Called Us Enemy by George TakeiThe iconic actor and activist presents a graphic memoir detailing his experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the hard choices his family made in the face of legalized racism.
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Voices : the Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David ElliottTold through medieval poetic forms and the voices of the people and objects in her life, a lyrical reimagining of the life of Joan of Arc shares insights into how she changed the course of history in spite of the misogyny and censure behind her execution.
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When I Was Summer by J. B HowardStruggling with a hopeless crush and a family that does not understand her reckless passion for music, a teen identifies three women whom she believes might be her biological mother and decides to track each down in hopes of finding answers and a sense of belonging.
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American Royals
by Katharine McGee
In an alternate America, princesses Beatrice and Samantha Washington and the two girls wooing their brother, Prince Jefferson, become embroiled in high drama in the most glorious court in the world
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