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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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Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
Growing up as a foster child among a family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder hopes to pay back that kindness by playing a key role in a swindle scheme devised by their leader, Gentleman, who is planning to con a fortune out of the naive Maud Lily, but Sue's growing pity for their helpless victim could destroy the plot. By the author of Tipping the Velvet. 35,000 first printing.
What Rose has to say: Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. Everything went wrong!
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Sin Killer
by Larry McMurtry
Journeying up the Missouri River in 1830, the wealthy Berrybenders encounter the challenges of the untamed American West and a variety of people, including Native Americans, pioneers, and explorers, before Tasmin Berrybender falls in love with frontiersman and part-time preacher Jim Snow. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.
What Rose has to say: Crazy eccentric English family on the western plains.
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The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project against a backdrop of the budding civil rights era. A #1 best-selling novel reissued with a satin ribbon marker and cloth case.
What Rose has to say: I don't know who didn't read this book, but if you didn't, please do. It's great!
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Mudbound : a novel
by Hillary Jordan
In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.
What Rose has to say: Prejudice! That's when you come from the bottom of your humanness.
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Shanghai Girls : A Novel
by Lisa See
Through arranged marriages, two sisters leave Shanghai in 1937 to find a new life in Los Angeles. By the best-selling author of Peony in Love and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Reprint.
What Rose has to say: You are being sold by your father to potential husbands to help pay his debts. Betrayal by your father!
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