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Many of the visitors to the Crest Hill Branch will regularly stop at the Circulation Desk to talk with Rose about books. Rose is a passionate advocate for library resources, and the books she recommends are quick to fly off the shelves! This monthly newsletter will showcase the books that Rose has read and thinks you should read, too. Each description starts with an annotation from NoveList*. You can click on any title to be taken directly to the Pinnacle Catalog where you can place a hold. * NoveList is an amazing resource your library provides for you free of charge. NoveList provides recommended reads, book discussion guides, and author read-a-likes for fiction and nonfiction titles for adults and teens.
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Rose has described each of this month's recommendations as "excellent reads"!
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Island Beneath the Sea
by Isabel Allende
In a novel where the setting moves from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, an African slave and concubine is determined to claim her own destiny against impossible odds. (historical fiction). By the author of The Sum of Our Days.
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My Name is Mary Sutter
by Robin Oliveira
Traveling to Civil War-era Washington, D.C. to tend wounded soldiers and pursue her dream of becoming a surgeon, headstrong midwife Mary receives guidance from two smitten doctors and resists her mother's pleas for her to return home. (Historical fiction). A first novel.
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31 Bond Street : A Novel
by Ellen Horan
In a story based on an actual killing, Dr. Harvey Burdell, a prominent New York City dentist, is found stabbed and decapitated in his townhouse, and police promptly arrest the widow who managed his house and servants, but attorney Henry Clinton swiftly comes to her defense, and is pitted against an ambitious district attorney. A first novel. 60,000 first printing.
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Bloodroot : A Novel
by Amy Greene
A tale told from myriad viewpoints follows a family from the Great Depression to the present, describing the experiences of a wild young mountain girl, her protective grandmother, the men who love her and the children who struggle to manage her untamed legacy. Reprint. A best-selling book.
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The Wolves of Andover : A Novel
by Kathleen Kent
In colonial Massachusetts, servant girl Martha Allen and laborer Thomas Carrier kindle a promising courtship and must lean on each other to get through a host of dangers that lurk in the unforgiving wilderness. By the best-selling author of The Heretic's Daughter.
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