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Adult Services Staff Picks July 2023 |
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Everything's Fine
by Cecilia Rabess
Recommended by: Laura and Sarah R.
Overlooked and underestimated as the sole Black woman on the trading floor at Goldman Sachs, Jess finds an unlikely ally in a preppy, white conservative man she knows from college as the 2016 cultural and political landscape shifts.
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Good Night, Irene
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Recommended by: Joanna
After D-Day, two heroic Red Cross women, Irene Woodward and Dorothy Dunford join the Allied soldiers streaming into France where they are embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, and where Irene learns to trust again through their friendship.
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Musical Chairs
by Amy Poeppel
Recommended by: Cathy
Now that her adult children are safely ensconced in their lives, a Manhattan cello player has a summer of romance planned at her Connecticut weekend home with her boyfriend. It does not work out as planned. Delightful summer read.
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The Puzzle Master
by Danielle Trussoni
Recommended by: Brandee
Celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor Mike Brink finds his world upended by Jess Price, a woman serving 30 years in prison for murder who draws a perplexing puzzle believed to explain the crime she committed. Obsessed with solving it, he discovers there are powerful forces at work he cannot escape.
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The Quiet Tenant
by Clemence Michallon
Recommended by: Sarah L.
A psychological thriller about a serial killer narrated by those closest to him: his 13-year-old daughter, his girlfriend, and the one victim he has spared.
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Shoeless Joe
by W. P. Kinsella
Recommended by: Lori
“If you build it, he will come.”
These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfield baseball diamond in honor of his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson. What follows is a rich, nostalgic look at one of our most cherished national pastimes and a remarkable story about fathers and sons, love and family, and the inimitable joy of finding your way home.
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The Whalebone Theatre
by Joanna Quinn
Recommended by: Sarah V.
In 1928, 12-year-old orphan Cristabel Seagrave and the rest of the household build a theatre from a whale's skeletal rib cage, where imagination comes to life. Her acting comes into play years later as she becomes a British secret agent on a dangerous mission in Nazi-occupied France.
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Yellowface
by R. F. Kuang
Recommended by: Claire
After the death of her literary rival in a freak accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work. As emerging evidence threatens her success, she discovers just how far she’ll go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
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