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Fiction A to Z August 2020 These eBooks and eAudios may be downloaded in the Libby by OverDrive app or viewed online on our OverDrive page.
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Camino Winds
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John Grisham
Summary: The best-selling author presents a follow-up to Camino Island that finds novelist Mercer Mann’s continued efforts to find literary inspiration in the idyllic region complicated by mysterious intrigues.
Perfect: for anyone not able to go to the beach this summer.
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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Featuring: twin sisters Stella and Desiree, who last saw each other as teenagers when they fled the Louisiana hometown where their father had been lynched.
Over the years: Stella has built a life for herself in which everyone, including her husband, believes her to be white; Desiree is the mother of a daughter so dark-skinned the hometown gossips stare.
Why you should read it: Spanning decades (from the 1940s to the 1990s), this is a compassionately drawn tale of family, colorism, and identity. | |
The Wedding Dress
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Danielle Steel
Summary: A treasured wedding gown made in 1928 Paris is handed down through four generations of women in a family shaped by the San Francisco social scene, two world wars, the Civil Rights era and the rise of Silicon Valley.
Author: If you haven't yet read a Danielle Steel romance, why not give this one a try?
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Ghosts of Harvard
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Francesca Scottoline Serritella
Plot: Defying her family to investigate the suspicious suicide of her schizophrenic genius brother, a Harvard freshman begins to hear the voices of three paranoia-inducing ghosts from different eras in American history.
Debut: A first novel for Serritella.
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What Alice Forgot
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Liane Moriarty
Summary: Suffering an accident that causes her to forget the last ten years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is thirty-nine years old, a mother of three children, and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves.
Author: From the bestselling author of Big Little Lies.
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What We Find
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Robyn Carr
What happens: Abandoned by her boyfriend in the aftermath of wrongful malpractice suit, a Denver neurosurgeon relocates to a small rural town named after her ancestor, where she slowly recovers and reconnects with her estranged father while bonding with a mysterious loner.
Series: This is the first in the Sullivan's Crossing series.
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What Happens in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand What happens: In this engaging novel (a follow-up to Winter in Paradise), Irene Steel faces up to her late husband's double life, and finds herself returning to St. John -- perhaps for good.
Why you might like it: As in the best escapist fiction featuring wealthy families, the beach (and accompanying Steel villa) is beautiful, secrets are around every corner, and there are romantic entanglements aplenty.
What you need to know: the 3rd in the series, Troubles in Paradise, is coming this October. | | What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi What it is: a "beguiling" (Booklist) collection of stories that read like modern fairy tales or folklore: there are echoes of Pinocchio in "Is Your Blood as Red as This?"; "Dornicka and the St. Martin's Day Goose" is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
Why you might like it: Along with striking imagery and surreal occurrences, a theme of locks and keys winds throughout the loosely connected stories, which offer a diverse array of characters, each seeking something they may never be able to find. | |
What Rose Forgot
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Nevada Barr
Summary: Waking up in a nursing-home Alzheimer’s Unit with no memory of how she got there, Rose Dennis orchestrates an escape but does not know who to trust.
Author: By the New York Times best-selling author of the Anna Pigeon series.
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