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Find the Good : Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-town Obituary Writer
by Heather Lende
Non-Fiction: An obituary writer in a small town in Alaska describes how to live a fuller and more exhilarating life by simply finding the positive aspects of our own lives and experiences and encourages readers to make the most of life every day.
Recommended by Sarah, Ewing Branch
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Machines Like Me : And People Like You
by Ian McEwan
Fiction: The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Atonement presents the story of two lovers in an alternative 1980s London who construct a perfect synthetic human before finding themselves in a morally complex love triangle
Recommended by David, Hickory Corner Branch
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The Thank You Book
by Mo Willems
Picture Book: The best friendship between careful Gerald and carefree Piggie is challenged when Piggie embarks on an effort to thank everyone, but inadvertently leaves someone out. By the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Recommended by Diana, Hightstown Memorial Branch
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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
by Laura Ruby
Young Adult Fiction: Abandoned in a Depression-era Chicago orphanage with her sister, a young woman endures injustice, poverty and violence while struggling to survive in the years leading up to World War II. By the award-winning author of Bone Gap.
Recommended by Christine, Hollowbrook Branch
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Kitty And the Midnight Hour
by Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction: When Kitty Norville, a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station and a secret werewolf, accidentally launches "The Midnight Hour," a late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged, desperate vampires, witches, and werewolves begin to call in from a across the country, and Kitty becomes the target of a sexy werewolf-hunter and several homicidal undead.
Recommended by Donna, Lawrence Headquarters Branch
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The Palace Job
by Patrick Weekes
Audiobook: Loch is seeking revenge. It would help if she wasn't in jail. The plan: to steal a priceless elven manuscript that once belonged to her family, but now is in the hands of the most powerful man in the Republic. To do so Loch-- former soldier, former prisoner, current fugitive-- must assemble a crack team of magical misfits that includes a cynical illusionist, a shapeshifting unicorn, a repentant death priestess, a talking magical warhammer, and a lad with seemingly no skills to help her break into the floating fortress of Heaven's Spire and the vault that holds her family's treasure all while eluding the unrelenting pursuit of Justicar Pyvic, whose only mission is to see the law upheld. What could possibly go wrong?
Recommended by Melanie, Robbinsville Branch
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Bite
by K. S. Merbeth
Science Fiction: Desperately trying to survive in a lawless, post-nuclear America, Kid, accidentally joining a bloodthirsty raider crew, travels across a desolate and deadly land, dodging debts, leaving a trail of carnage in her wake and discovering that humans are far worse than the monsters.
Recommended by Megan, Twin Rivers Branch
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Growing Things and Other Stories
by Paul Tremblay
Short Stories: An anthology of psychological suspense tales by the award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts includes such entries as "The Teacher," "The Getaway" and "Swim Wants to Know If It's as Bad as Swim Thinks."
Recommended by Michael, West Windsor Branch
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Sixteen Brides
by Stephanie Grace Whitson
Fiction: Sixteen Civil War widows draw on all the courage and faith they can muster, after they are wooed by a land speculator to settle in Nebraska, only to discover that they were lured there in hopes that they would accept marriage proposals shortly after their arrival.
Recommended by Amelia, Information Technology Department
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