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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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The German Bride
by Joanna Hershon
In 1865, a secret affair with the artist hired by her German Jewish father to paint his daughters' portraits forces Eva into a quick marriage and drives her to leave Berlin to seek a new life on the frontier of the American Southwest. Reprint.
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Bound
by Sally Gunning
Held by the terms of her indentured servitude all her life, Alice Cole finds herself torn between her new master and a life-long friend, a situation that forces her to run away to Boston, where she learns a new trade at the side of compassionate friends. By the author of The Widow's War. 25,000 first printing.
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The Sister : A Novel
by Poppy Adams
After living in the family's crumbling mansion alone for fifty years, Ginny finds her world disrupted by the return of her sister Vivien, who brings along unwanted memories of their shared past. Reprint.
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