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Adult Services Staff Picks June 2024 |
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The Celebrants
by Steven Rowley
Recommended by: Lori
Reuniting in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living “funerals,” celebrations to remind themselves life is worth living—and living well— five friends find their pact upended when one of them reveals a shocking secret.
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I Hope This Finds You Well
by Natalie Sue
Recommended by: Sarah R.
When a mistake allows misanthropic office worker Jolene access to all of her coworkers' emails and messages, she decides to use what she sees to save her job. The more she learns about her coworkers' private lives, however, the more she realizes that she is not the only one hiding secrets and pain. A heartwarming debut that's both a hilarious send up of office culture and an earnest look at loneliness and the importance of connection. Recommended for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead.
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Incidents Around the House
by Josh Malerman
Recommended by: Sarah L.
An 8-year-old girl in the Bronx fights to keep her troubled family together as they offer the only protection against a malevolent spirit she calls “Other Mommy” and who grows stronger and asks her daily for entrance into her heart.
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Within Arm's Reach
by Ann Napolitano
Recommended by: Sarah V.
A lyrical novel narrated from six different points of view chronicles the effects of an unexpected pregnancy on three generations of an Irish-American Catholic family.
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Ambition Monster
by Jennifer Romolini
Recommended by: Laura
The author and host of the podcast Everything is Fine tells the story of her own workaholism and the addictive nature of achievement and the toll it took on her while facing the effects of her childhood trauma.
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Bite by Bite : Nourishments & Jamborees
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Recommended by: Brandee
A collection of short essays from the author of World of Wonders that investigate the relationship between humans and food, discussing how different dishes and traditions impact our identities and evoke associations and remembrances of joy, grief and desire.
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The Demon of Unrest
by Erik Larson
Recommended by: Joanna
Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers and plantation ledgers, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Splendid and the Vile offers a gripping account of the months between Lincoln's election and the start of the Civil War, which tore a deeply divided nation in two.
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