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Marigold Newsletter July 2020
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Making a Difference Awards
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Study on the Value of GLAMs
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OverDrive Big Library Read
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OverDrive Simultaneous Use Titles
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Personal Protective Equipment
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Government of Alberta Guidance Documents
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Stronger Together Virtual Conference
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Upcoming Training Opportunities
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Recent Webinars Now Available As Recordings
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You may or may not be able to get to a beach this summer, but we guarantee these books will be just as good read in your backyard or in the comfort of an air conditioned house!
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Big Summer
by Jennifer Weiner
A woman confronts the dynamics of friendship and forgiveness while visiting Cape Cod to attend an old friend's increasingly disastrous wedding.
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28 Summers
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Elin Hilderbrand
The best-selling author of Summer of ‘69 presents a tale inspired by the film, Same Time Next Year, that follows a man’s discovery of his mother’s long-term relationship with the husband of a Presidential frontrunner.
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All My Mother's Lovers
by Ilana Masad
Shattered by revelations about the recently deceased mother who never entirely accepted her sexuality, a gay woman tracks down the men in her mother's hidden second life while coming to terms with new understandings about monogamy.
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If I Had Your Face
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Frances Cha
In Seoul, South Korea, four young women make their way in a world defined by impossibly high standards of beauty, secret salons catering to wealthy men, strict social hierarchies, and K-pop fan mania.
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The Guest List
by Lucy Foley
An expertly planned celebrity wedding between a rising television star and an ambitious magazine publisher is thrown into turmoil by petty jealousies, a college drinking game, the bride's ruined dress, and an untimely murder.
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Beach Read
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Emily Henry
An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a best-selling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer-long writing project that challenges them to write well in each others’ styles.
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Sex and Vanity
by Kevin Kwan
When George, the man with whom she had brief fling several years earlier, unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, newly engaged Lucie Churchill is drawn to him again and spins a web of deceit in an attempt to block him from her life – and her heart.
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The Pull of the Stars
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Emma Donoghue
A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic. Three women working in the quarantined ward deal with horrific loss and new life in tandem, and help hold each other up through it all.
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The Heir Affair
by Heather Cocks
A follow-up to The Royal We finds Bex Porter and her husband, Prince Nicolas, in self-imposed exile in the wake of a scandal before a royal crisis exposes old family secrets and a brother’s ongoing disgrace.
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The Jane Austen Society
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Natalie Jenner
A group of disparate bibliophiles bands together in the small English village of Chawton in the hopes of restoring the final home of Jane Austen, revealing their respective losses along the way.
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The Half Sister
by Sandie Jones
Approached by a secret half-sister they never knew, two close sisters turn against the stranger before uncovering difficult truths about their beloved late father.
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The Girl from Widow Hills
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Megan Miranda
Rendered famous in childhood for her miraculous survival of a dangerous storm, a young woman changes her name and struggles to hide from the media before waking up one evening to find a corpse at her feet.
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