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Journey to Another Place May 2019
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This month Carrie and Melissa chatted about books with a strong sense of place, books that can transport you to another location. Check out the titles below to find your next read!
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Our homesick songs : a novel
by Emma Hooper
The members of a family in a once-idyllic fishing community decimated by mysteriously dwindling fish populations pursue respective goals in work and love in their determination to survive. By the author of Etta and Oto and Russell and James.
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News of the world : a novel
by Paulette Jiles
A live news reader traveling the antebellum south is offered $50 to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, back to her family in San Antonio in this new novel from the author of Enemy Women.
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Hot milk
by Deborah Levy
Driven to cure her mother's inexplicable illness, a young anthropologist seeks the advice of a famous but controversial consultant on the arid coast of southern Spain, where the transient desert environment shapes her own desires. By the award-winning author of Swimming Home.
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With the fire on high
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Navigating the challenges of finishing high school while caring for a daughter, talented cook Emoni Santiago struggles with a lack of time and money that complicate her dream of working in a professional kitchen. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X.
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A darker shade of magic
by Victoria Schwab
Serving as an ambassador of his own world while carrying messages to parallel-universe Londons with respective magical abilities and conflicts, Kell hides his secret smuggling activities only to be set up with a forbidden object from a dark dimension. By the author of The Near Witch.
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The map of salt and stars
by Zeyn Joukhadar
Living eight hundred years apart, two girls, a modern day Syrian refugee and a medieval apprentice to a legendary mapmaker, experience the pain of exile and triumph of courage.
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Join us in person or on the air!
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Wednesday, July 10, 3:00pm Davis Conference Room Enjoy some refreshments and good conversation with other book lovers in this no-pressure book club! JCPL librarians will provide lists of recommended books. We'll also discuss your recent favorites. Please register.
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Jessamine County Public Library 600 South Main Street Nicholasville, Kentucky 40356 859-885-3523www.jesspublib.org |
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