• Holiday Book List - Read Before You Buy! •
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The Life We Bury: a novel
by Allen Eskens
2022 One Book, One Community Pick!
After Joe Talbert interviews a dying Vietnam veteran for a college writing assignment, he discovers that the veteran is a convicted murderer recently released from prison and, suspecting that the veteran was framed, he begins a dangerous investigation into the thirty-year-old murder.
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Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide
by Cecily Wong
The team behind Atlas Obscura, a friendly tour-guide to the world’s most amazing places, presents incredible ingredients, food adventures and edible wonders from around the world, including Chilean beer made from fog and 2,000-year-old egg ovens.
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Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City
by Andrew Lawler
Bringing to life the unforgettable characters who have investigated this subterranean landscape, an acclaimed journalist takes readers into the tombs, tunnels and trenches of the Holy City, in this saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers and political upheaval.
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How to Suffer Outside: A Beginner's Guide to Hiking and Backpacking
by Diana Helmuth
Part critique of modern hiking culture and part how-to guide, this book is for anyone who wants to hit the trail without breaking the bank. Diana Helmuth offers real advice, opinionated but accessible and based on in-the-field experiences. Self-deprecating humor and good-natured heckling of both seasoned backpackers and urbanites who romanticize being outdoorsy, plus a helpful dose of the actual advice a novice needs to get started.
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Duke, Actually: A Novel
by Jenny Holiday
Under pressure by his family to marry, a playboy baron becomes determined to befriend a no-nonsense, but single professor he met at a wedding, for friendship and distraction in the new novel from the author of A Princess for Christmas. An entertaining romance that offers a dash of holiday cheer!
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Noor
by Nnedi Okorafor
Sci-Fi
When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.
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Once Upon a Wardrobe
by Patti Callahan Henry
Historical Fiction
When her younger brother, who doesn’t have long to live, asks her to find out where Narnia came from, brilliant Oxford scholar Megs Devonshire, as her gift to him, sets out to find the truth, and, when the answer Is revealed, discovers her brother’s gift to her: hope. A marvelous blend of little-known true stories from the life of C. S. Lewis that Narnia fans will treasure.
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The Stolen Lady: A Novel of World War II and the Mona Lisa
by Laura Morelli
Historical Fiction
Separated by 500 years, two women—Anne Guichard, who at the dawn of WWII must keep treasures safe from the Nazis; and house servant, Bellina Sardi, who is tasked with keeping an impossible secret—each hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa with unintended consequences.
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Eternal
by Lisa Scottoline
Historical Fiction
An aspiring writer, an athlete from a professional cyclist family and a mathematics prodigy find their bond tested by a love triangle and the spread of anti-Semitism and fascism in 1937 Italy.
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100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
by Pamela Paul
The editor of The New York Times Book Review takes a look at life before the internet and how many of the fundamental human experiences we need have disappeared and how nearly every aspect of modern life has been changed.
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Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
by Rax King
A James Beard Award-nominated writer and host of the podcast Low Culture Boil offers this debut essay collection about the power of pop culture to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one’s commitment to “good” taste.
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Vanishing Edge: A Novel
by Claire Kells
Brought in as chief investigator when a party of campers go missing, 32-year-old Felicity Harland must place her trust in a Navy SEAL turned park ranger when the investigation takes them from the wilderness to the streets of Los Angeles where the grisly truth comes to light.
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Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal About Earth and the Worlds Beyond
by Robin George Andrews
A science journalist and volcanologist explores how volcanic eruptions reveal secrets about the worlds to which they belong, describing the stunning ways in which volcanoes can sculpt the sea, land, and sky, and even influence the machinery that makes or breaks the existence of life.
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Carla and the Christmas Cornbread
by Carla Hall
The superstar chef shares a heartwarming tale inspired by her childhood in which a young Carla thinks she ruined Christmas when she takes a bite out of Santa’s sugar cookie and tries to make things right.
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Northwind
by Gary Paulsen
When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline. Drawing on his own experiences sailing, Gary Paulsen creates a sea world With hints of Nordic mythology and an irresistible narrative pull. His final novel will be available January 11, 2022.
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