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In-House Favorites July 2025 |
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Check out what our staff and patrons are recommending this month!
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If you enjoy this newsletter and would like to subscribe to our monthly issue, you may do so by visiting the Avon Lake Public Library home page (alpl.org). Hover over the Collection tab, and select Recommendations. Click on Next Reads, which is located in the middle of the page under "Databases". Simply place a check next to In-House Favorites or any other newsletter you might be interested in receiving and complete the short form at the bottom of the page. |
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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeerArea X has been cut off from the rest of the world for years. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. Expeditions into Area X have ended in disaster or death. We join the latest expedition. The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and the narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers--they discover lifeforms that surpass understanding. But it's the secrets they carried across the border with them that change everything. Picked by: Carolyn, Support Specialist |
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The Summer Guests / : The Martini Club by Tess GerritsenIn Purity, Maine, former spy Maggie Bird and her Martini Club of ex-CIA operatives are drawn into the search for a missing teen with ties to their past, as they confront an innocent friend's wrongful suspicion, a buried corpse, and dark secrets that threaten to unravel everything they've worked to protect. Picked by: Amy, Adult Services |
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Daisy Jones & the Six : a novel by Taylor Jenkins ReidWhen singer Daisy Jones meets Billy Dunne of the band The Six, the two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame. Picked by: Amanda, Patron |
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Our Little Secret by Lisa JacksonBreaking off her brief affair with Gideon Ross, who threatens he'll never let her go, Brooke Harmon, after a year goes by, wants to believe it's all behind her but the fear hasn't disappeared -and she's right to be worried because Gideon is a man who keeps his word. Picked by: Karen, Patron |
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. SutantoWhen she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police but not before swiping the flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated by unexpected friendships with her customers. Picked by: Jess: Adult Services |
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The False Prince by Jennifer A. NielsenIn the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war. Picked by: Eliza, Patron |
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Waves in an Impossible Sea : how everyday life emerges from the cosmic ocean by Matt StrasslerBlending together daily experience and fundamental physics, a theoretical physicist tells an astonishing story of elementary particles, human experience and empty space, which he considers a strange, empty sea, showing us how all things, familiar and unfamiliar, emerge from what seems like nothing at all. Picked by: Dan, Patron |
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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline HarpmanDeep underground, women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl--the 40th prisoner--sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. Picked by: Haley, Support Specialist |
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Picked by: Marilyn, Patron |
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The Dry Season : a memoir of pleasure in a year without sex by Melissa FebosThe Dry Season is a memoir of celibacy, but it is ultimately a profound exploration of independence, sexuality, and deep self-knowledge. By abstaining from all forms of romantic entanglement, Febos began to see her life and her self-worth in a radical new way. Her year of divestment transformed her relationships with friends and peers, her spirituality, her creative practice, and most of all, her relationship to herself. Picked by: Laura, Adult Services |
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Gone for Good : a novel by Harlan CobenA counselor of runaways with his own history of broken hearts and death finds himself caught in a web of lost identities, forgotten nemeses, and smoldering grudges. Picked by: Susan, Patron |
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Careless People : a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism by Sarah Wynn-WilliamsAn insider account charting one woman's career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them. Picked by: McKenna, Technical Services |
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The Museum of Failures : a novel by Thrity N. UmrigarReturning to Bombay to adopt a baby and see his elderly mother, Remy Wadia, stumbling upon a photograph that reveals shocking family secrets, reevaluates his entire childhood, his relationship to his parents, and his harsh judgment on the decisions and events long hidden from him. Picked by: Rita, Patron |
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