LibraryAware October 2024

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Intermezzo
by Sally Rooney

In the wake of their father's death, two brothers—successful Dublin lawyer Peter and his younger brother Ivan, a competitive chess player—find different ways to deal with their grief, which affects not only their lives, but the lives of those they hold dear.

Tell Me Everything
by Elizabeth Strout

While defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother, town lawyer Bob Burgess falls into a deep and abiding friendship with acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, and together they meet the iconic Olive Kitteridge and spend afternoons in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories, which imbues their lives with meaning.

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.

Trust Her
by Flynn Berry

Building a new life in Dublin with their young children, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian are drawn back into the IRA conflict when Tess is told she must track down her old handler from MI5 and attempt to turn him into an IRA informant or lose everything.

Be Ready When The Luck Happens
by Ina Garten

In her first memoir, the bestselling cookbook author and host of the beloved Food Network show Barefoot Contessa offers a personal, engaging and motivating narrative of her extraordinary journey from a difficult childhood to becoming a cultural icon.

Here One Moment
by Liane Moriarty

An ordinary flight becomes extraordinary when passengers learn of their predicted deaths from a mysterious woman known as“The Death Lady,” leading to a race against time for some and a chance to redefine their time left for others.

What You Are Looking For Is In the Library
by Michiko Aoyama

This tribute to the magic of libraries, friendship and community follows Tokyo's most mysterious librarian, Sayuri Komachi, as she gives her visitors an unexpected book, which has life-altering consequences, giving the borrower the motivation they didn't realize they need to change their life.

All the Colors of the Dark
by Chris Whitaker

After a string of disappearances in 1975 Missouri, a one-eyed boy heroically thwarts a kidnapping, igniting a chain of events that blur the lines between triumph and tragedy as the townspeople of Monta Clare confront hidden truths.

The Grey Wolf
by Louise Penny

A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Chief Inspector Gamache reading “this might interest you,” a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list—and then a murder all propel Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization: something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching.

The December Market
by RaeAnne Thayne

The magic of Christmas—and a second shot at romance—is in the air in Shelter Springs this holiday season.

Murder in Highbury
by Vanessa Kelly

When the corpse of Mrs. Augusta Elton, the vicar's wife, is found discarded on the altar steps, a chilling murder mystery blooms and chaos descends upon the tranquil village of Highbury.

Lost Man's Lane
by Scott Carson

For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true--particularly since the PI is investigating the most shocking crime to hit Bloomington, Indiana, in decades. A local woman has vanished, and the last time anyone saw her, she was in the backseat of a police car driven by a man impersonating an officer. Marshall Miller's internship puts him at the center of the action, a position he relishes until a terrifying moment that turns public praise for his sharp observations and uncanny memory into accusations of lying and imperiling the case.

Slow Dance
by Rainbow Rowell

Fourteen years after they went their separate ways, 33-year-old Shiloh, a divorced, single mom living back in the same house she grew up in, attends a high school friend's wedding in hopes of seeing Cary, the boy she never realized she loved until he was lost.