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Adult/YA Staff Digital Favorites
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Sara recommends the audiobook
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Daisy Jones & the Six : a novel
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame. By the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
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Rosario recommends the audiobook
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Knit the season : A Friday Night Knitting Club Book
by Kate Jacobs
Dakota Walker--along with her father, her grandparents and her mother's best friend, Catherine--visits her Gran for the Christmas holidays in Scotland, where the family members reminisce about Dakota's mother, Georgia, from Georgia's childhood to her blissful time as a doting new mom, in a story that takes place a year after the best-selling Knit Two.
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Jessica recommends the YA book
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A study in Charlotte : a Charlotte Holmes novel
by Brittany Cavallaro
Rival teens Charlotte and Jamie, descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, investigate the mystery of why they are being framed for murder at their American boarding school.
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Odd Thomas
by Dean R. Koontz
Over the course of two shattering days, Odd Thomas, his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, and an oddball assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying, and labyrinthine world in which past and present, fate and destiny, and life and death collide as they risk everything to avert a threatening cataclysm.
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Available on eReadIllinois
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The book thief
by Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Available on eReadIllinois and Overdrive
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
The luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years. This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in Black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage. And in a powerful, mesmerizing narrative, it pays quiet tribute to a Black woman who, though constricted by the times, still demanded to be heard.
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Available on eReadIllinois and Overdrive
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The Dutch house : a novel
by Ann Patchett
A tale set over the course of five decades traces a young man’s rise from poverty to wealth and back again as his prospects center around his family’s lavish Philadelphia estate. By the award-winning author of Commonwealth.
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Available on eReadIllinois and Overdrive
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The art of crash landing : a novel
by Melissa DeCarlo
Chasing a possible inheritance from her grandmother, Mattie Wallace, homeless and pregnant, travels to her mother's hometown in Oklahoma, where she tries to reconcile the town's memory of her mother with the broken alcoholic she became and stop her own downward spiral. Original. 75,000 first printing.
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Available on eReadIllinois and Overdrive
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