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What's New @ the Library Week of May 17 through May 22, 2021
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All the children are home : a novel
by Patry Francis
Two long-term foster parents in a mid-20th-century Massachusetts community reluctantly take in an abused young girl who strengthens their family’s bonds in unexpected ways. By the author of The Orphans of Race Point. 20,000 first printing.
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The book of Otto and Liam
by Paul Griner
"May and Otto Barnes have a perfect life: she an engineer, he a freelance artist, new friends in a new town, and a bright, 8 year-old boy. But their world is shattered when their son is wounded in a school shooting and his best friend killed, and, while Liam fights for life, hoaxers begin to harass Otto, trying to force him to admit the shooting never happened. Desperate to stop them, Otto tries to track down the lead hoaxer, a mysterious, hard to find woman named Kate. Intercut with Otto's drawings, texts and letters from hoaxers and benevolent nuns, and interactions with doctors, nurses, and Detective Sawyer, Liam's fight for life and Otto's quest wind to a stunning conclusion"
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The dictionary of lost words : a novel
by Pip Williams
Deciding to create her own dictionary — the Dictionary of Lost Words — Esme, who has collected “objectionable” words a team of male scholars omit from the first Oxford English Dictionary, leaves her sheltered world behind to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Maps.
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The glitter in the green : in search of hummingbirds
by Jon Dunn
An acclaimed nature writer, photographer and wildlife tour leader travels the full length of the range of the hummingbird on a quest to find them, from near the Artic Circle to near-Antarctic islands. 20,000 first printing.
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Broken (in the best possible way) : (In the Best Possible Way)
by Jenny Lawson
The award-winning humorist and author of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened shares candid reflections on such topics as her experimental treatment for depression, her escape from three bears and her business ideas for Shark Tank. 350,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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