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Adult Services Staff Picks January 2022 |
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As the Wicked Watch
by Tamron Hall
Recommended by: Laura S.
After moving from Texas to Chicago, a crime reporter becomes frustrated with the lack of coverage of a series of murders of black women in the first novel of a new series from the Emmy Award-winning journalist.
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Certain Dark Things
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Recommended by: Brandee C.
In Mexico City, where the vampires who live among humans are heavily policed, street kid Domingo helps an Aztec blood drinkers' descendant flee before the city is upended when the two vampires pursuing her begin to raise its body count.
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess
by Sue Lynn Tan
Recommended by: Rachel D.
Forced to flee her home on the moon after her magic flares up, Xingyin embarks on a perilous quest to save her mother, in a new fantasy novel inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess.
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The Fifth Season
by N. K Jemisin
Recommended by: Tim B.
If you've waited as long as I have to pick this one up, I implore you: read this book ASAP! Jemisin's writing is sublime and this story is compelling from page one. Readers follow multiple storylines about Orogenes, people with powers to control earth energy, through a land deeply affected by climate change and caste. So so good and one of the best uses of second person I've ever read.
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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone: A Novel
by Diana Gabaldon
Recommended by: Kelly M.
Jamie and Claire reunite after the Jacobite Rising but worry that their grown family, finally together, will be torn apart by the American Revolution in the latest addition of the popular series following Written in My Own Heart’s Blood.
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Hamnet
by Maggie O'Farrell
Recommended by: Sarah V.
The award-winning author of I Am, I Am, I Am presents the evocative story of a young Shakespeare’s marriage to a talented herbalist before the ravaging death of their 11-year-old son shapes the production of his greatest play.
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Horrorstör
by Grady Hendrix
Recommended by: Larry Z.
After strange things start happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, three employees volunteer to work an overnight shift to investigate, but what they discover is more horrifying than they could have imagined.
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Rock Paper Scissors
by Alice Feeney
Recommended by: Claire G.
Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget. Think you know the person you married? Think again.
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Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life
by Sutton Foster
Recommended by Claire G.
The Broadway and television actress discusses how cross-stitching, crocheting, painting and other craft projects kept her sane while dealing with an agoraphobic mother, a painful public divorce and struggles with fertility.
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