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Most Requested BooksMay 2025 |
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most requested books in Marin. |
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Heartwood: A Novel by Amity GaigeRoving between compelling narratives by a Maine State Game Warden and a 76-year-old Connecticut birdwatcher-turned armchair detective of a search for an experienced hiker missing on the Appalachian Trail, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search - as it becomes clear that the hiker's disappearance may not be accidental.
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The Paris Expressby Emma DonoghueSet on a fateful 1895 train journey to Paris, a diverse group of passengers - including politicians, a medical student, an inventor and an anarchist - navigate personal ambitions and hidden motives, culminating in a disaster that forever changes their lives.
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Sons and Daughters by Chaim GradeIn 1930s Poland and Lithuania, Rabbi Sholem Shachne Katzenellenbogen grapples with his children's embrace of modern, secular ideals over traditional Jewish life, amid rising anti-Semitism and the cultural shifts threatening their shtetl's way of life.
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How We Learn To Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith by Mariann Edgar BuddeKnown for offering the right words at the right time, creating moments of healing amid turmoil, Bishop Budde teaches readers to respond with clarity and grace even in the toughest times because being brave is a journey that we can choose to undertake every day, as she draws upon examples ranging from Harry Potter to the Gospel According to Luke. weaving together personal experiences with stories from scripture, history and pop culture.
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Audition by Katie M. KitamuraAn elegant actress meets a troubled young man at a Manhattan lunch, sparking a complex relationship that challenges their identities in their personal and professional lives - in the new novel from the author of A Separation of Intimacies.
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The Antidote by Karen RussellIn a Dust Bowl-era Nebraska town burdened by the Great Depression and its dark past, a witch guarding memories, a grieving athlete, a cursed farmer and a photographer with a time-bending camera grapple with buried secrets and the consequences of a nation's forgotten history.
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Six Days in Bombay by Alka JoshiThis sweeping novel follows young Anglo-Indian nurse Sona as she embarks on a journey from her home in Bombay, through Prague, Florence, Paris and London, to uncover a mystery and prove her innocence after famous painter Mira Novak dies in her care.
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Rabbit Moon: A Novel by Jennifer HaighAs divorced parents Claire and Aaron Litvak wait by the bedside of their critically injured, estranged daughter in Shanghai and struggle to get their bearings in the bustling, cosmopolitan city, they confront the deep fissure in their family and face troubling questions about their daughter's life, in which nothing is quite as it seems.
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When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John ScalziWhen the Moon inexplicably turns to cheese, humanity grapples with the absurd transformation through the perspectives of astronauts, billionaires, professors and everyday people, confronting faith, science and survival over a single surreal lunar cycle.
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Silent as the Grave by Rhys BowenJuggling motherhood in 1900s New York, Molly Murphy Sullivan investigates deadly sabotage on a film set after her adopted daughter lands a starring role, uncovering tensions between rival studios amidst the fledgling movie industry's dangerous experiments.
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