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Kristina's Pick:
It happened one summer : a novel
by Tessa Bailey
ROM BAI
After being cut off by her wealthy step-father, a partying Hollywood “It Girl” experiences culture shock when she moves to Washington to learn some responsibility and help her sister run their late father’s dive bar.
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Katie's Pick:
Slewfoot : a tale of bewitchery
by Brom
FAN BRO
A recently widowed outcast, Abitha turns to Slewfoot, an ancient spirit who has awakened in a dark wood, for help, and together they ignite a battle between pagan and Puritan, leaving ashes and bloodshed in their wake.
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Katie's Pick:
House of salt and sorrows
by Erin A. Craig
YA F CRA
When her beautiful sisters are cursed to dance at glittering balls night after night before they start dying in tragic accidents, Annaleigh questions her involvement with a mysterious stranger and wonders if she will be next. Simultaneous eBook.
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Michaela's Pick:
Cloud cuckoo land : a novel
by Anthony Doerr
F DOE
Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space, from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover resourcefulness and hope amidst peril in the new novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See.
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Lisa's Pick:
The midnight library
by Matt Haig
Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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Soon Har's Pick:
Heaven
by Mieko Kawakami translated from Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd
F KAW
A 14-year old student who is bullied mercilessly for having a lazy eye develops a friendship with a female classmate who suffers similar treatment from tormentors, in the new novel from the internationally best-selling author of Breasts and Eggs. Check out a review from a Bloomingdale staff member on our GoodReads page, linked on our website.
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Jessica's Pick:
The man who died twice
by Richard Osman
M OSM
When an old friend, who has been accused of stealing millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds, desperately needs her help leaving a dead body in his wake, Elizabeth and her friends go up against a ruthless murderer who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians.
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Michaela's Pick:
The book of form and emptiness
by Ruth Ozeki
F OZE
"One year after the death of his beloved musician father, 13-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house -- a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understandwhat these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There, Benny discovers a strange new world. He falls in love with a mesmerizing street artist with a smug pet ferret, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many. And he meets his very own Book -- a talking thing -- who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter.
With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, "The Book of Form and Emptiness" is classic Ruth Ozeki -- bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking.
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Kristina's Pick:
The perfume thief
by Timothy Schaffert
F SCH
In 1941 Paris, 80-something Clementine, a reformed con artist who bottles her favorite extracts for the ladies of cabarets, is recruited to steal the recipe book of a now-missing famous Parisian perfumer that has fallen into the hands of a Francophile Nazi bureaucrat.
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Abby's Pick:
Great circle
by Maggie Shipstead
F SHI
After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There -- after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna -- Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At 15, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe and piloting her plane over the Arctic Circle.
A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance over the South Pacific. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to re-define herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two womens' fates -- and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times-- collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, "Great Circle" is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.
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Lisa's Pick:
The Lincoln highway
by Amor Towles
F TOW
The bestselling author of "A Gentleman in Moscow" and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June 1954, 18-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served 15 months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew.
But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction -- to the City of New York. Spanning just 10 days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.
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Abby's Pick:
The night watch
by Sarah Waters
F WAT
A tale set in World War II London finds a rescue worker struggling for composure after a bombing, a young woman longing for her soldier lover, and a convict who watches a battle through the bars of his window. By the author of "The Little Stranger" and "The Paying Guests."
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Julie's Pick:
These precious days : essays
by Ann Patchett
814.54 PAT
Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, the brilliant author transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be.
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Soon Har's Pick:
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
by Michelle Zauner
782.42166 ZAU
Zauner's unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's high expectations of her; and of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond over heaping plates of food. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.
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Jessica's Pick:
Dune
SCI-Fi DUN
Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) was expected to someday steer his noble family's appointed duties mining precious spice from the desert world of Arrakis. He'll have to deal with the treachery of the Harkonnen clan, who abused their prior stewardship-and who will foment war with the native Fremen to get it back. Denis Villeneuve's expectedly grand-scale take on the Frank Herbert sci-fi saga co-stars Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Stellan Skarsgard, Josh Brolin, Zendaya, Javier Bardem.
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