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Books to Screen: September - October 2024
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Spook Street
by Mick Herron
In addition to worrying about his grandfather’s seemingly growing senility, River Cartwright and the agents of Slough House must figure out who set off a bomb in a busy shopping area.
Title: Slow Horses
9/4/24
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Tell Me Lies
by Carola Lovering
Hoping for a fresh start when college takes her far from the mother she will never forgive, Lucy is seduced by the devastatingly complicated Stephen and embarks on a destructively addictive relationship of unimaginable consequences.
9/4/24
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The Perfect Couple
by Elin Hilderbrand
Featuring popular characters from such novels as A Summer Affair, a tale set during a Nantucket wedding season finds Chief of Police Ed Kapenash searching for a bride's killer among her own wedding party.
9/5/24
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If It Bleeds
by Stephen King
A collection of four novellas. In the title story "If It Bleeds," reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears, and possibly another outsider—this time on her own. In "Mr. Harrigan’s Phone" an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. "The Life of Chuck" explores how each of us contains multitudes. And in "Rat," a struggling writer must contend with the darker side of ambition.
Title: The Life of Chuck
9/6/24
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The Thicket
by Joe R. Lansdale
Recently orphaned, Jack Parker witnesses his grandfather's murder and his sister's kidnapping by bank robbers while traveling to his uncle's farm in East Texas and vows revenge.
9/6/24
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The Chicken Sisters
by K. J. Dell'Antonia
A more than three-decade feud between two Kansas families implodes when a daughter who left one of the families to marry into the other brings the story of their fried-chicken competition to the attention of a popular reality show.
9/10/24
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The Old Man
by Thomas Perry
The toppling of a Middle Eastern government renders a decades-old case urgent for covert army intelligence retiree Dan Chase, who must fight for his life to escape a past he had hoped to leave behind.
9/12/24
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Uglies
by Scott Westerfeld
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
9/13/24
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Dante embarks on a spiritual journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, with the learned Virgil and the angelic Beatrice as his guides toward moral and social enlightenment.
9/21/24
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The Lives of Lee Miller
by Anthony Penrose
Collected in this compelling volume are the many lives of Lee Miller, intimately recorded by her son, Antony Penrose, whose years of work on her photographic archives have unearthed a rich selection of her finest work. It brings to life the story of a fascinating woman--from the beauty that led to a career as a model as her extraordinary vision as a photographer and war correspondent
Title: Lee
9/27/24
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The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.
9/27/24
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Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation
by Michael Powell
A tribute to the role of sports in struggling Navajo communities chronicles a season with the Chinle High School basketball team, sharing insights into their exhilarating wins, crushing losses and culture-shaped dreams.
Title: Rez Ball
9/27/24
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The Wild Robot
by Peter Brown
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her.
9/27/24
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Heartstopper. Volume 3
by Alice Oseman
Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Nick has even found the courage to come out to his mom. But coming out isn't something that happens just once, and Nick and Charlie try to figure out when to tell their friends that they're dating. Not being out to their classmates gets even harder during a school trip to Paris. As Nick and Charlie's feelings get more serious, they'll need each other more than ever.
Title: Heartstopper
10/3/24
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The Outrun
by Amy Liptrot
After a life of heavy drinking in London, the author returns home to Orkney at the age of 30, and finds that the unbridled nature of the Outrun has the natural healing she needs to put her on the path to recovery.
10/4/24
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White Bird: A Wonder Story
by R. J. Palacio
Tells the story of Julian's Grandmère's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Date: 10/4/24
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Disclaimer
by Renee Knight
Reading a mysterious novel that recounts in haunting detail the day she became the victim of a dark secret, documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft is forced to confront the past to prevent her world from falling apart.
10/11/24
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The Gods of Guilt
by Michael Connelly
Defense attorney Mickey Haller investigates after a former client, a prostitute who had left the life for the straight and narrow, turns up dead.
Title: Lincoln Lawyer
10/17/24
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Kensuke's Kingdom
by Michael Morpurgo
When Michael is swept off his family's yacht, he washes up on a desert island, where he struggles to survive--until he finds he is not alone.
10/18/24
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High in the Clouds
by Paul McCartney
When machines belonging to the evil Gretsch destroy the woods that are their home, Wirral the squirrel and his friends journey to legendary Animalia and begin a campaign to free the enslaved animals of Megatropolis.
10/26/24
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'Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
When two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Mears begins to realize that something sinister is at work. In fact, his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is growing within the borders of this small New England town.
October 2024
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