MCPL Staff Picks
 
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    Below are some books that MCPL staff members recently read and enjoyed.  We hope you like them too!
 
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Recommended By: 
Elizabeth M.
Chase darkness with me : how one true-crime writer started solving murders
by Billy Jensen

The journalist and co-author of the best-selling I’ll Be Gone in the Dark reveals how he has used social media and other less-monitored online sources to help detectives solve cold cases as a digital consultant.
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Debbie A.
If the creek don't rise : a novel
by Leah Weiss

One of innumerable women in a North Carolina mountain town facing a bleak future with a dangerous alcoholic husband, Sadie considers a different life when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for the entire community. 
Recommended By: 
Jeanette L.
Landline
by Rainbow Rowell

Recognizing that her marriage is in deep trouble in spite of her abiding love for her husband, television writer Georgie excludes herself from a Christmas family visit before discovering a way to reconnect with the man her husband used to be.
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Rhiannon A.
A rip in Heaven : a memoir of murder and its aftermath
by Jeanine Cummins

Offers a candid, intimate memoir of the horrific repercussions of a shocking crime on one family, beginning with a nightmarish assault on the author's two cousins and brother, who managed to escape to flag down help, and following the family's odyssey through a world of betrayal, heartbreak, disillusionment, and suffering.
Recommended By: 
Carol G. 
The stationery shop
by Marjan Kamali

The award-winning author of Together Tea presents a debut novel in which a young couple, separated in 1953 Tehran by a violent coup d'état, reunite by chance after more than half a century. 
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James Ward 
The first conspiracy : the secret plot to kill George Washington  
by Brad Meltzer

Documents the true story of how a secret assassination attempt on the life of the first American president led to the creation of the CIA and FBI, in a young reader adaptation of the adult best-seller by the author of The Inner Circle. 
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Theresa A. 
The Chill
by Scott Carson

A century after an early 20th-century New York community is intentionally flooded to redistribute water downstate, an inspector overseeing a dangerously neglected dam uncovers a prophecy that warns of additional sacrifices. 
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Laura P. 
Just kids
by Patti Smith

A richly illustrated edition of Patti Smith's classic memoir incorporates new material and previously unpublished photographs into the story of her artistic collaboration with Robert Mapplethorpe in the heyday of early 1970s New York City.
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Kristin S. 
Things you save in a fire  
by Katherine Center

When a family emergency compels her move from Texas to Boston, a skilled firefighter becomes the only woman in her new firehouse and navigates discrimination, low funding and her private edicts about falling in love with another firefighter. By the New York Times best-selling author of How to Walk Away.
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Sal D. 
Pirate latitudes : a novel
by Michael Crichton

English Captain Charles Hunter and his crew of ruffians commandeer the Spanish galleon El Trinidad and its fortune in gold after a bloody battle, but Hunter and his crew have plenty of danger and adventure ahead of them, in this 17th-century swashbuckling tale found among the late author's files after his passing.
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James M. 
The way of kings
by Brandon Sanderson

Introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery, and a woman who is desperate to save her impoverished house.
 
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