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Elwood Staff Picks May 2019
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The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
The acclaimed best-selling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution—our libraries.
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Gone, Baby, Gone: A Novel
by Dennis Lehane
Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro delve into the disappearance of a 6-year-old girl, in a case involving a strangely cool mother, a pedophiliac couple and a shadowy police unit.
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
The narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provides a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity.
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Goody Hall
by Natalie Babbitt
While serving as Willet Goody's tutor at the magnificent Goody mansion, Hercules Feltwright unravels a mystery and discovers a fortune in jewels.
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Wonder
by R. J. Palacio
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
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