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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadettes intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughters role in an absurd world.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by Victoria Schwab
In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a bargain to live forever--and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. This begins her extraordinary adventure that will play out across centuries and continents. Everything changes when, after 300 years, Addie stumbles across a man in a bookstore a man who remembers her name.
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They Went Left
by Monica Hesse
The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal, her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else--her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja--they went left. The deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? In the rubble of a broken continent, Zofia must delve into a mystery whose answers could break her--or help her rebuild her world.
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Never Look at the Empty Seats
by Charlie Daniels
Readers will experience a soft, personal side of Charlie Daniels that has never before been documented. In his own words, he presents the path from his post-depression childhood to performing for millions as one of the most successful country acts of all time and what he has learned along the way. The book also includes insights into the many musicians that orbited Charlie's world, personal reflections and rare photos from different times in his life and career.
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A Thousand Heartbeats
by Kiera Cass
Princess Annika has lived a life of comfort—but no amount of luxuries can change the fact that her life isn't her own to control. Annika will soon be forced into a loveless marriage for political gain. Miles away, small comforts are few and far between for Lennox. He has devoted his life to the Dahrainian army, hoping to reclaim the throne that was stolen from them. For Lennox, the idea of love is merely a distraction—nothing will stand in the way of fighting for his people. But when love, against all odds, finds them both, they are bound by its call. They can't possibly be together—but the irresistible thrum of a thousand heartbeats won't let them stay apart.
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On the Line
by Fern Michaels
The cause of rising star chef Mateo's sudden illness is as mysterious as it is worrying. As Mateo undergoes a battery of genetic tests, the answers that start to emerge only raise more questions. Mateo's parents fled their home in Colombia many years ago, seeking refuge from the infamous cartels. Now the test results threaten to uncover a dark secret that exposes his family to dangers in the past while clouding the investigation into who is trying to hurt Mateo in the present.
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American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins
Lydia lives in Acapulco with her son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the cartels, Lydia's life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. But after her husband's tell-all profile of the newest drug lord is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and Luca find themselves joining the countless people trying to reach the United States. Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to?
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Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley has never known a real home. Since her parents' deaths, she's been bounced around to a series of foster homes and orphanages. When she is sent by mistake to live with siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert at the farmhouse called Green Gables, she wants to stay forever. Anne is not the sturdy boy Matthew and Marilla were expecting. She's a mischievous, talkative redheaded girl with a fierce temper, who tumbles into one scrape after another. Anne is not like anybody else, the Cuthbert's agree; she is special, a girl with an enormous imagination. All she's ever wanted is to belong somewhere. And the longer she stays at Green Gables, the harder it is for anyone to imagine life without her.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Leng
by Douglas J. Preston
Astoundingly, Constance has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s, leaping at the chance, although it means leaving the present forever. Constance sets off on a quest to prevent the events that lead to the deaths of her sister and brother. But along the road to redemption, Manhattan's most infamous serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng, lies in wait, ready to strike at the slightest provocation. Meanwhile, in contemporary New York, FBI Special Agent Pendergast feverishly searches for a way to reunite with Constance--but will he discover a way back to her before it's too late?
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May 22, 2023 6:30pm at the Library Book Discussion: Wonder by R.J. Palacio June 26, 2023 6:30pm at the Library Book Discussion: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Multiple copies are made available at the library for upcoming selections. Contact the library for more information.
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Independence Public Library 805 1st St East Independence, Iowa 50644 319-334-2470
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