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Staff Picks for Summer Reading July 2017
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Coming Home by Priscilla GlennLeah Marino hasn’t been on a date in years. After discovering the man she loved had deceived her, she refuses to entertain the idea of a relationship. When a trip to her childhood home results in a chance encounter with Danny DeLuca, a smart-mouthed mechanic who’s as attractive as he is mysterious, Leah's carefully cultivated walls begin to crumble. But Danny has a secret...one that could shake Leah's already precarious foundation. Suddenly, she's faced with a decision--risk everything for the chance at love, or are some obstacles just too big? Recommended by Cecelia
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The Passenger by Lisa LutzChanging her name and appearance to flee town after leaving her husband dead, a fugitive woman forges an uneasy alliance off the grid at the side of a female bartender with whom she races from city to city to escape her past. By the best-selling author of the Spellman Files series.
Recommended by Dan
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The Couple Next Door
by Shari Lapeña
When a terrible crime committed on the night of a dinner party casts suspicion on a young couple who seemed to have it all, Detective Rasbach discovers that the panicked duo had been hiding dangerous secrets from each other for years. A debut suspense novel by the award-winning author of Things Go Flying.
Recommended by Kathleen
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Dark Matter
by Blake Crouch
Kidnapped and drugged at gunpoint for inexplicable reasons, physics professor Jason Dessen awakens in a lab and is informed that his entire life has been an illusion and that he is being hunted by a deadly adversary. By the best-selling author of the Wayward Pines trilogy.
Recommended by Kyle
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When We Collided by Emery LordResigning himself to another summer of just getting by, a young man overwhelmed by family responsibilities meets a vibrant, beauty-loving girl whose zest for life turns dangerous when she pursues increasingly high-risk adventures. [eBook link.]
Recommended by Dakota
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The Best Awful There Is: Based on a Truant's Story
by Carrie Fisher
In a revealing, darkly humorous sequel to Postcards from the Edge, a woman struggles to cope with a descent into psychosis and to make her way through a challenging stay in a psychiatric institution to build a new life for herself. [eAudiobook link]
Recommended by Alison
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
by Yōko Ogawa
A strange relationship blossoms between a brilliant math professor suffering from short-term memory problems following a traumatic head injury and the young housekeeper, the mother of a ten-year-old son, hired to care for him, in an enchanting novel that explores what it means to live in the present and to be part of a family, albeit an unusual one. [eBook link]
Recommended by Kristie
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http://www.hauppaugelibrary.org/
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