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Staff Recommended Summer 2024
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The lost year by Katherine Marsh; Recommended by Sandy"Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation. But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother's belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret"
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Watchmen by Alan Moore; Recommended by Nick C."In an alternate world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history, the US won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the cold war is in full effect! Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, WATCHMENbegins as a murder mystery but soon unfolds into a planet-altering conspiracy. A group of reunited heroes - Rorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias - must test the limits of their convictions and ask themselves where the true lineis between good and evil"
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The nanny by Lana Ferguson; Recommended by JoAnnAccepting a live-in nanny position for executive chef Aiden Reid, Cassie Evans soon discovers that he is not a stranger at all, but her biggest OnlyFans client, and faced with an impossible situation, struggles with telling him the truth before things get even hotter between them.
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Robert Gu begins to recover from Alzheimer's thanks to advances in medicine. But, he returns to a world full of augmented reality and a family deeply suspicious of his motives. As he learns to adapt, he finds himself tangled up in a vast conspiracy, involving a university library, bio-labs, and an enigmatic, virtual being known as "Mr. Rabbit."
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All my rage by Sabaa Tahir; Recommended by Kelly and MadiWhen his attempts to save his family's motel spiral out of control, Salahudin and his best friend Noor, two outcasts in their town, must decide what their friendship is worth and how they can defeat the monsters of their past and in their midst.
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The other mothers : a novel by Katherine Faulkner; Recommended by Lisa"Searching for a story to launch her career and new friends to help her navigate motherhood, Tash, welcomed into a circle of sleek, sophisticated mothers, discovers the kind of life she's always dreamed of until two recent murders make her wonder why she's been so quickly accepted into their exclusive world"
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