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STAFF PICKS JUST FOR YOU! Library staff suggestions. Happy Reading - Watching - Listening!
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Here are your suggestions; click on a title to place a hold:
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The Guest List
by Lucy Foley
An expertly planned celebrity wedding between a rising television star and an ambitious magazine publisher is thrown into turmoil by petty jealousies, a college drinking game, the bride's ruined dress, and an untimely murder.
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Gallant
by Victoria Schwab
Invited to return to Gallant, Olivia Prior finds herself in a crumbling manor riddled with secrets about her family, forcing her to decide whether to protect our world against the Master of the House or take her place beside him.
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Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood
by Minna Dubin
This groundbreaking work of reportage about the hidden crisis of rage facing American mothers draws on insights from moms across the spectrum of race, sexual orientation and class and offers practical tools for helping readers disarm their rage in the moment.
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Greenland
As cities around the world are being destroyed by a comet, a family races against time to reach a possible safe haven.
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The Lantern Men: A Ruth Galloway Mystery
by Elly Griffiths
When a convicted murderer offers to lead her to the bodies of four additional cold-case victims, Ruth Galloway embarks on a search in a fens-bordering village reputed to be haunted by mysterious lantern-carrying beings.
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The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
by Sam Knight
Interweaving madness, wonder, science and the supernatural, this incredible true story of a psychiatrist who, in 1966, investigated the power of premonition and established the “premonitions bureau,” explains how it plunged him deeper into the occult and convinced him he was destined for an early death.
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Kaikeyi
by Vaishnavi Patel
"I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions - much good it did me." So begins Kaikeyi's tale. The only daughter of the kingdom of Kekaya, she is raised on grand stories about the might and benevolence of the gods: how they churned vast oceans to obtain the nectar of immortality, how they offer the devoted and the wise magnificent boons, how they vanquish evil and ensure the land prospers. Yet she watches as her father unceremoniously banishes her mother, her own worth measured by how great a marriage alliance she can secure. And when she calls upon the gods for help, they never seem to hear. Desperate for some measure of independence, she turns to the ancient texts she once read with her mother and discovers a magic that is hers alone.
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Whispers Underground
by Ben Aaronovitch
It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student James Gallagher - and the victim’s wealthy, politically powerful family is understandably eager to get to the bottom of the gruesome murder. The trouble is, the bottom - if it exists at all - is deeper and more unnatural than anyone suspects . . . except, that is, for London constable and sorcerer’s apprentice Peter Grant. With Inspector Nightingale, the last registered wizard in England, tied up in the hunt for the rogue magician known as “the Faceless Man,” it’s up to Peter to plumb the haunted depths of the oldest, largest, and - as of now - deadliest subway system in the world.
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Summer Reading
by Jenn McKinlay
While chaperoning her half-brother, who is in a robotics competition at the local library, chef Samantha Gale meets Bennett Reynolds, who has come to Martha's Vineyard to find his father, and as their summer fling heats up, they both realize they may have stumbled upon happily-ever-after.
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Gwen & Art Are Not In Love
by Lex Croucher
Forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run up to their nuptials, Arthur and Gwendoline, betrothed since birth, discover they make better allies than enemies as they cover for each other so they can pursue their real romantic interests.
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Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance with, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
by Stephanie Foo
By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as a radio producer at This American Life and had won an Emmy. But behind her office door she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk. After years of questioning what was wrong with her, she was diagnosed with Complex PTSD-a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. Both of Stephanie's parents had abandoned her as a teenager after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she'd overcome her trauma, but her diagnosis illuminated the ways in which her past continued to threaten her health, her relationships, and her career. Finding few resources to help her heal, Stephanie set out to map her experience onto the scarce scientific research on C-PTSD.
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Buddy Does Seattle
by Peter Bagge
A satirical take on the Seattle grunge scene follows the adventures of slacker hero Buddy and his crew of disgruntled, drug-addled friends and lovers as they wade through early adulthood wearing their emotions on their sleeves.
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Cleat Cute
by Meryl Wilsner
Sidelined with an injury, 26-year-old Grace Henderson, a star of the US Women's National Team, falls for Phoebe Matthews, whom she considers her rival, and as the World Cup approaches and Grace gets back in the game, they must decide what's more important - being together or making the roster.
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The Davenports
by Krystal Marquis
Inspired by the real-life story of C.R. Patterson and his family, this sweeping novel is centered around the Davenports, one of the few Black families of immense wealth, and follows four determined and passionate young Black women who discover the courage to take charge of their lives - and love.
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The Five-Star Weekend
by Elin Hilderbrand
Inviting her best friend from each phase of her life, widow Hollis Shaw hosts an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket, during which things don't go as planned as each woman deals with heartbreak, infidelity, scandal and secrets, but things turnaround due to new friendships, unexpected romance and self-discovery.
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Hell Followed with Us
by Andrew Joseph White
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him...Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot...Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens...Benji accepts Nick's terms...until he discovers the ALC's mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.
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Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
by Tommie Smith
A groundbreaking and timely graphic memoir from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil rights. On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. Both men were forced to leave the Olympics, received death threats, and faced ostracism and continuing economic hardships. In his first-ever memoir for young readers, Tommie Smith looks back on his childhood growing up in rural Texas through to his stellar athletic career, culminating in his historic victory and Olympic podium protest.
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The Girl from Summer Hill
by Jude Deveraux
Clashing with a gorgeous Hollywood star who is playing Darcy in a local production of Pride & Prejudice, Casey, a chef who puts her career first and who believes the actor's brother-in-law's damning claims, finds herself becoming attracted to him in spite of herself.
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Watership Down
by Richard Adams
Richard Adams's Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in the Hampshire Downs in Southern England, an idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale follows a band of rabbits in flight from the incursion of man and the destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they travel forth from their native Sandleford warren through harrowing trials to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.
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