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Daughter of Smoke & Bone
by Laini Taylor
Young Adult Fiction: Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known, in a unique fantasy by an award-winning author about forbidden love, an epic battle and hope for a world remade.
Recommended by Amanda, Hopewell Branch
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The Widow
by Fiona Barton
Fiction: After Jean's husband dies, the community wants to know the real truth about the crime he was suspected of—but Jean has secrets of her own.
Recommended by Lisa, Ewing Branch
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Bossypants
by Tina Fey
Biography: The breakout star of Saturday Night Live and Thirty Rock gives a humorous account of her life, as well as behind-the-scenes stories from her hit shows.
Recommended by Julia, Lawrence Headquarters Branch
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Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
by Gretchen Rubin
Non-fiction: The best-selling author of The Happiness Project outlines a scientific framework for understanding and developing positive habits, offering dozens of proven, customizable strategies based in self awareness.
Recommended by Mary Elizabeth, Hickory Corner Branch
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
Fiction: Richard Papen, a relatively impoverished student at a New England college, falls in with an exclusive clique of rich, worldly Greek scholars and soon learns the dreadful secret that keeps them together. Reader's Guide included.
Recommended by Anna, Hopewell Branch
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
Fiction: Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.
Recommended by Christine, Hollowbrook Branch
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One Summer : America, 1927
by Bill Bryson
Non-fiction: The award-winning author of A Short History of Nearly Everything recounts the story of a pivotal cultural year in the United States when mainstream pursuits and historical events were marked by contributions by such figures as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth and Al Capone.
Recommended by Isabel, Ewing Branch
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Necessary Lies
by Diane Chamberlain
Fiction: Caring for her family on their mid-20th-century tobacco farm after the loss of her parents, 15-year-old Ivy connects with Grace County social worker Jane, who strains her personal and professional relationships with her advocacy of Ivy's family, whose dark secrets test Jane's resolve against racial tensions and state-mandated sterilizations.
Recommended by Ann, Lawrence Headquarters Branch
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The Secret Life of Violet Grant
by Beatriz Williams
Fiction: Defying the privilege of her 1960s Fifth Avenue family to pursue a job with a style magazine, recent college graduate Vivian Schuyler discovers a secret about an aunt she never knew who at the dawn of World War I fled her oppressive marriage to pursue an audacious goal.
Recommended by Amy, Hickory Corner Branch
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Burn Baby Burn
by Meg Medina
Young Adult Fiction: Enduring the infamous New York summer of 1977 in the wake of arson fires, a massive blackout and the Son of Sam serial killings, 17-year-old Nora Lopez navigates the additional stresses of her family's limited finances, her father's absence and her brother's growing violence.
Recommended by Melissa, West Windsor Branch
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Neuromancer
by William Gibson
Science Fiction: Case, a burned-out computer whiz, is asked to steal a security code that is locked in the most heavily guarded databank in the solar system, in a special twentieth anniversary edition of the influential Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel.
Recommended by Christopher, Twin Rivers Branch
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