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Adult Services Staff Picks April 2021
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Early Morning Riser
by Katherine Heiny
Recommended by: Laura
A wise, bighearted, boundlessly joyful novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family.
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
by Deesha Philyaw
Recommended by: Sarah R.
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions.
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Gideon the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
Recommended by: Brandee
When the Emperor invites all eight necromancer heirs, from all eight loyal Houses, to compete in unknown trials to possibly ascend into something that will make them immortal, no necromancer can compete without a skilled cavalier by their side, and Harrowhark has no choice but to get Gideon to help her and save the future of the Ninth House.
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All Things Left Wild
by James Wade
Recommended by: Sarah V.
Caleb Bentley finds his moral compass and inner courage are tested as he and his older brother flee across the American Southwest after an attempted horse theft goes wrong.
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Hidden Chicago Landmarks
by John R. Schmidt
Recommended by: Lori
Take in the sights of Chicago's forgotten byways, including a cow trail through a downtown hotel. Pause reflectively at the cemetery in a working scrapyard and the church built without a nail. Stop by the one-time homes of Walt Disney, Joe Louis, Hillary Clinton and Al Capone. Along the way, greet forgotten Chicago notables like the vice president who won a Nobel Prize and wrote a number-one pop hit. From the shortest street to the oldest house, John R. Schmidt visits the sites of Chicago's neglected history.
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Miss Benson's Beetle
by Rachel Joyce
Recommended by: Rachel
Leaving London behind, Margery Benson, a schoolmarm and spinster in 1950, embarks on a quest to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession – the golden beetle of New Caledonia – with the help of a fun-loving assistant who changes her life forever.
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The Hangman's Daughter
by Oliver Pötzsch
Recommended by: Zena
Germany, 1659: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town.
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