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MCPL Staff Picks March 2018
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The historian : a novel
by Elizabeth Kostova
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigates the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler, a quest that takes her across Europe and into the pasts of her father and his mentor.
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The wait is over : the New York Rangers and the 1994 Stanley Cup by John KreiserFollows the 1994 Rangers through their record breaking season and the Stanley Cup victory that ended a 54 year drought. Excellent book that relies on interviews with players, coaches, and team management. You feel like you're right there with them during the tense playoff series against New Jersey and Vancouver. Any Ranger fan will enjoy this book!
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Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire by Julia BairdA fascinating, engaging, and detailed narrative of Queen Victoria. Baird uses previously unseen diaries and letters to truly bring Queen Victoria to life, and dispel long-held myths and rumors about one of the longest reigning queens in history. A very well-written and surprisingly intimate biography. Highly recommended!
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City of endless night : a Pendergast novel by Douglas J PrestonA new Special Agent Pendergast novel by this popular author duo has Pendergast fighting for his life when he meets his match in an unexpected game of cat and mouse. The case begins in New York City, with one murder more frightening than the last, since each victim is prominent, well-guarded and seemingly impossible to harm. Special Agent Pendergast has appeared in 17 novels, beginning with the classic thriller, "Relic," in which a mysterious shipment from the Amazon creates havoc at NYC's American Museum of Natural History.
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The Letter by Kathryn HughesThe Letter is about the lives of two women, born decades apart but whose lives share a number of parallels. The novel explores two historical strands, bringing together an abused housewife from the 1970s and a young girl from the early 1940s in a story of love, loss and unexpected consequences.
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The woman in the window
by A. J. Finn
An agoraphobic recluse languishes in her New York City home, drinking wine and spying on her neighbors, before witnessing a terrible crime through her window that exposes her secrets and raises questions about her perceptions of reality. A first novel.
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