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eBooks for April April 2020
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Dear Diary... All titles are available for download to a variety of devices at nh.overdrive.com Questions? Call Cary at the library, 603-757-1838.
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The Authenticity Project by Clare PooleyWhen Julian Jessup, an eccentric, lonely artist who believes that most people aren’t really honest with each other, writes the truth about his own life in a green journal and leaves it behind, others start writing in their own truth, which leads to unexpected friendship and love.
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Blackman's Coffin : A Sam Blackman Mystery by Mark De CastriqueA Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the U.S. military who has lost a leg in Iraq, Sam Blackman is given the opportunity to put his sleuthing skills to work when he is asked to investigate the murder of ex-Marine and fellow amputee Tikima Robertson. Tikima's sister, Nakayla, brings Sam a journal she finds in Tikima's apartment. A note stuck to the in-side cover reads "For Sam Blackman." The volume dates to 1919 and contains the entries of a twelve-year-old boy who accompanies his father, a white funeral director, as they help a black man, Elijah Robertson, transport his deceased relative from Asheville to a small family plot in Georgia.
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Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen FieldingChronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single, thirtysomething woman on a perpetual quest for self-improvement, as she struggles to cope with relationships, weight control, and the other baffling complexities of modern life.
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The Confusion of Languages by Siobhan FallonDutifully following their soldier husbands to the U.S. Embassy in Jordan, Cassie and Margaret forge an unlikely friendship before an accident leaves Margaret's toddler son in Cassie's care, a situation complicated by the discovery of unsettling secrets in Margaret's journal.
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Dear Nobody : The True Diary of Mary Rose by Mary RoseTold through the raw and unflinching diary entries of a real teen, Mary Rose struggles with addiction, bullying, and a deadly secret. Her compelling story will inspire you—and remind you that you're not alone.
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Diary of a Dead Man on Leave by David DowningStumbling across the hidden diary of a boarder who had been a father figure to him half a century earlier, Walter discovers the man's life-risking undercover work as an anti-Nazi Moscow spy.
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The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition by Anne FrankAn uncut edition of Anne Frank's diary includes the entries that were originally omitted by her father--approximately one-third of the diary--and provides insight into Anne's budding sexuality and her stormy relationship with her mother.
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The Hired Girl by Laura Amy SchlitzFourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs chronicles her life in a journal when she leaves her family's farm in Pennsylvania to work as a hired girl in Baltimore in the summer of 1911.
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Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace : The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate SummerscaleThe author of the best-selling The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher traces the story of an intimate diary and a scandalous trial that rocked Victorian England, describing how a lonely Isabella Walker recorded sexual fantasies and was petitioned for divorce against period laws by her unloving husband.
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The Princess Diarist by Carrie FisherThe best-selling author of Postcards From the Edge and Hollywood icon best known for her Star Wars role shares interconnected essays exploring her life as the child of Tinseltown royalty, adventures on the sets of Star Wars and struggles with bipolar disorder.
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Provence, 1970 : M. F. K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste by Luke BarrPresents a dramatic account of the 1970 gathering in Provence where such culinary luminaries as James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones debated and inadvertently launched the modern food movement in America. The conversations among this group were chronicled by M.F.K. Fisher in journals and letters--some of which were later discovered by Luke Barr, her great-nephew.
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen by Hendrik GroenThe journal of an octogenarian who is far from reaching the end of his life traces a year in his care home in Amsterdam, revealing the ups and downs of his misadventures with the anarchic "Old-But-Not-Dead Club" and a longtime crush whom he courted to devastating effect.
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The Stranger Diaries by Elly GriffithsA first stand-alone mystery by the author of the Ruth Galloway series finds a high school English teacher chronicling her suspicions about the murder of a colleague before discovering a sinister message in her own diary.
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Theft by Finding : Diaries (1977-2002) by David SedarisAn anthology of personal favorite diary entries by the best-selling author of Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls features excerpts that have inspired his famed autobiographical essays and shares insights into the intimate arenas of his life.
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The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D by Nichole BernierInheriting her best friend's diaries after a tragic accident, Kate learns unknown aspects of her late friend's life, from her deeply troubled childhood and complicated relationship with her mother to her struggles as an artist and feelings of powerlessness as a wife and parent, which culminated in a belief-challenging affair.
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A heartbroken woman stumbles upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author... Researching her next book, Emily discovers a red velvet diary, dated 1943, whose contents reveal startling connections to her own life.
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