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Most Requested BooksMay 2026 |
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most requested books in Marin. |
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Whistler by Ann Patchett Reunited by chance at the Met after decades apart, a woman and her former stepfather revisit the brief childhood bond that shaped them, sifting through remembered choices, shared losses and small, decisive moments to ask how long love lasts and what it means to be truly seen.
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The Midnight Train by Matt Haig Offered a seat on a mysterious train that allows passengers to revisit their own past, a man chooses the luminous early days of his marriage in Venice, weighing the chance to undo old mistakes against the cost of rewriting the life that followed.
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Life: A Love Story by Elizabeth Berg As ninety‑two‑year‑old Flo writes to the neighbor she has chosen as heir, the stories behind small bequests - a matchbox rubber band, a long‑kept secret about her marriage, a first pedicure and blue streak of hair - turn her inventory into a late‑life experiment in dare taking, connection and quiet reinvention.
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Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 by Ian Buruma Drawing upon diaries, letters, official reports and his father’s memories as a conscripted Dutch laborer, Buruma traces wartime Berlin from uneasy normalcy to bombing, starvation, persecution and invasion, following Jews, foreign workers and ordinary residents as they improvise, compromise and sometimes resist in order to stay alive.
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The News from Dublin: Stories by Colm Toibin Spanning Ireland, Spain and the United States, these nine stories follow parents, lovers and siblings confronting war losses, illness and private disappointments, and charting how grief, desire and old loyalties quietly redirect lives in moments that are often modest on the surface yet deeply consequential.
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The Director by Daniel Kehlmann Filming in France as the Nazis rise and later drifting in Hollywood obscurity, a celebrated director returns to annexed Austria to tend his ailing mother and finds himself drawn into Joseph Goebbels’ orbit, testing how far he can bend to a dictatorship while still claiming loyalty to art alone.
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Daughters of the Sun and Moon by Lisa See In post Civil War Los Angeles, three Chinese women - each shaped by different family expectations, losses and hopes - navigate marriage, labor and rising anti-Chinese violence as they search for dignity, freedom and one another in a city that offers little mercy.
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How to Read a Book by Monica Wood At a Portland bookstore, a young woman newly released from prison, a retired teacher who led her reading group and the store’s handyman cross paths in ways that reopen old grief, test loyalties and suggest that books can help people face guilt, loss and second chances.
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A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz When an actor playing a famed detective is stabbed on a chaotic film set, the real investigation leads back to a past conviction, a Yorkshire village and a tangle of blackmail, old suspicions and murder, while his sidekick Horowitz tries to piece together the truth alone.
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The Land and Its People: Essays by David Sedaris In these essays, the humorist moves from caregiving at home to travel abroad, using small mishaps, family memories and moments of discomfort to consider aging, friendship and the odd customs of the places and people that shape everyday life.
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