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Bookish Celebrations September
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The mysterious affair at Styles : the first Hercule Poirot mystery
by Agatha Christie
A refugee of the Great War, Poirot is settling in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactress, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work. Suspects are plentiful, including the victim's much younger husband, her resentful stepsons, her longtime hired companion, a young family friend working as a nurse, and a London specialist on poisons who just happens to be visiting the nearby village. All of them have secrets they are desperate to keep, but none can outwit Poirot as he navigates the ingenious red herrings and plot twists.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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And then there were none
by Agatha Christie
A killer stalks a group of ten total strangers on an isolated island off the Devon coast, in a suspenseful story of murder and retribution, set to a sinister nursery rhyme.
Available in print, on Overdrive, and on eReadIllinois
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Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
by Laura Thompson
The award-winning author of The Six offers a portrait of the iconic mystery writer that shares insights into her Edwardian youth, her marriages, her relationship with her daughter and her mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926.
Available in print
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Carrie
by Stephen King
An introverted girl with remarkable powers of telekinesis faces the horrors of teenage life and unleashes a few horrors of her own when she attends the high school prom.
Available in print, on audiobook CD, on Overdrive, & on eReadIllinois
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The Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King
In The Shawshank Redemption, a man convicted of a bloody murder lives in a prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by a con who knows all the ropes and pulls all the strings. He has more brains than anyone else in the sinister slammer, and has a diabolically cunning plan of revenge that no one can guess until it's far too late.
Available on Overdrive and eReadIllinois. Movie available on DVD.
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11/22/63 : a novel
by Stephen King
Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must reacclimate to 1960s culture and befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald.
Available in print (English and Spanish), audiobook CD, Overdrive, and eReadIllilnois
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The gunslinger
by Stephen King
Roland, the world's last gunslinger, tracks an enigmatic man in black toward a forbidding dark tower, fighting forces both mortal and other-worldly on his quest.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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Bridget Jones's diary : a novel
by Helen Fielding
Chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single, thirtysomething woman on a perpetual quest for self-improvement, as she struggles to cope with relationships, weight control, and the other baffling complexities of modern life.
Available in print, on Overdrive, and on eReadIllinois
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Go ask Alice
by Anonymous
A teenager whose life is dominated by her drug problems recounts in her diary her experiences from her indoctrination into the world of drugs to three weeks before her death. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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The diary of a young girl
by Anne Frank
The autobiographical reminiscences of a young Jewish girl coming of age during World War II describes her life in hiding from the Nazis and offers a poignant study of the tragedy of the Holocaust.
Available in print (English, Spanish, and a graphic novel adaptation)
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The angel's game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Offered a career-making writing deal from an enigmatic publisher in turbulent 1960s Barcelona, David Martin wonders about his capacity for writing a book for which the publisher claims others will live and die, an assignment throughout which David struggles with a forbidden love. Reprint. A best-selling novel.
Available on Overdrive (English), in print (Spanish), and on eReadIllinois (Spanish).
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The shadow of the wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.
Available in print, on Overdrive, and on eReadIllinois (all in English and Spanish)
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The prisoner of heaven : a novel
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Semper and his close friend Fermin Romero de Torres find their lives violently disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past.
Available in print (English), on Overdrive (English and Spanish), and on eReadIllinois (English and Spanish)
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The labyrinth of the spirits : a novel
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A conclusion to the best-selling series finds enigmatic Alicia Gris, supported by the Sempere family, uncovering one of the most shocking conspiracies in Spanish history. By the award-winning author of The Angel's Game.
Available in print (English) and on Overdrive (English and Spanish)
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The color purple : a novel
by Alice Walker
Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence.
Available in print, on Overdrive, and on eReadIllinois
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
Narrates the experiences of two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression.
Available in print, on audiobook CD, on Overdrive, and on eReadIllinois
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
This first of her seven autobiographical works recounts the author's traumatic and unsettled childhood through the age of 16.
Available in print (English and Spanish), on Overdrive, and on eReadIllinois
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