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Books to Screen: May - June 2024
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Dead boy Detectives 1: Schoolboy Terrors
by Toby Litt
Boy detectives Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland use the fact that they are dead to help with their investigations, but when they save a girl named Crystal Palace, they open a case that leads to the same school where they died decades earlier
4/25/24
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Dissolution
by C. J. Sansom
Having worked to establish laws that protect the interests of the crown in 1537, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's feared vicar-general, enlists fellow reformer and lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his young protégé to investigate a commissioner's murder, which may be tied to an impending rebellion.
Title: Shardlake
5/1/24
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The Idea of You
by Robinne Lee
A middle-aged art gallery owner begins a passionate fling with a member of her daughter's favorite boy band, who is 19 years her junior, and must fend off rabid fans and insatiable media after their affair becomes a viral sensation.
5/2/24
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A Man in Full
by Tom Wolfe
Charles Croker, a middle-aged, egotistical former college football star turned tycoon, finds his life turned upside down and the delicate racial balance of Atlanta threatened, when star running back Fareek Fanon, a product of the city's slums, is accused of raping an Atlanta aristocrat's daughter.
5/2/24
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris
An international best-seller based on the true story of an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor traces the experiences of a Jewish Slovakian who uses his position as a concentration-camp tattooist to secure food for his fellow prisoners.
5/2/24
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Turtles All the Way Down
by John Green
Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett's son Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
5/2/24
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Dragon Keeper
by Carole Wilkinson
When a nameless orphan saves the life of an old dragon, she fulfills her destiny as a Dragon Keeper, which forever changes the direction of her life as she, along with the dragon, journey across China to keep the dragon's legacy safe, while battling against dragon hunters and evil villains.
5/3/24
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The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius
by Scott C. Johnson
Blending years of deep reporting with distinctive, powerful prose, this unique true crime narrative recounts the exploits of a psychopathic con artist and gender-bending criminal mastermind who swept through the entertainment industry, stealing dozens of identities and millions of dollars while exploiting the dreams of artist around the world.
Title: Hollywood Con Queen
5/8/24
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Dark Matter
by Blake Crouch
Kidnapped and drugged at gunpoint for inexplicable reasons, physics professor Jason Dessen awakens in a lab and is informed that his entire life has been an illusion and that he is being hunted by a deadly adversary.
5/8/24
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Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
A reporter conducts an interview with a 200 year old vampire and is treated to a discourse on the philosophy of vampirism among other topics.
5/12/24
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Romancing Mister Bridgerton
by Julia Quinn
Colin Bridgerton, returning to London from a trip abroad, discovers that nothing in his life is quite the same—especially Penelope Featherington, who has now become the woman of his dreams until he discovers that she has secrets of her own.
Title: Bridgerton
5/16/24
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Garfield at Large
by Jim Davis
A first collection of Garfield comic strips introduces the gluttonous feline and all his friends including the harassed Jon, the hapless Odie, and the beautiful vet Liz.
Title: Garfield
5/24/24
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Robot Dreams
by Sara Varon
Tired of being alone, Dog orders a mail-order robot kit and makes himself a special friend who happily partakes in all of his new friend's adventures, in a wordless graphic novel.
5/31/24
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Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams
Constantly compared to her white middle-class peers, a young Jamaican-British woman in London makes a series of questionable decisions in the aftermath of a messy breakup before challenging herself to figure out who she wants to be.
6/7/24
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The Boys
by Garth Ennis
The Boys are a CIA squad that deal with the superhero community's corrupt and reckless behavior.
6/13/24 |
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Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
Rusty Sabich, a prosecuting attorney investigating the murder of Carolyn Polhemus, his former lover and a prominent member of his boss's staff, finds himself accused of the crime
6/14/24
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Queen's Gambit
by Elizabeth Fremantle
A tale inspired by the life of Henry VIII's sixth wife follows her reluctant marriage to the egotistical and powerful king in spite of her love for Thomas Seymour, a situation that compels her to make careful choices in a treacherous court.
Title: Firebrand
6/21/24
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La Tierra de las Mujeres
by Sandra Barneda
Gala Marlborough travels with her two daughters, Kate and Adele, to the small town of Ampurdán with the sole intention of receiving an inheritance from an unknown family member and then getting back to her life in New York as quickly as possible. She is unaware that this decision will set into action a perfect, subtle, and precise series of events that will unearth buried lies and family secrets, and heal souls that were lost in pain and bitterness. What was supposed to be a casual tourist trip takes a sharp turn towards self-discovery when they receive a strange invitation: the opportunity to participate in the Women’s Circle.
Title: Land of Women
6/26/24
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