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Adult Services Staff Picks August 2023 |
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Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros
Recommended by: Sarah R.
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
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The House of Lincoln
by Nancy Horan
Recommended by: Joanna
An outsider in her community for as long as she can remember, Ana, in 1860s Springfield, Illinois, finds employment as a Saturday girl and household help for Abraham and Mary Lincoln where she gets a front-row seat to historic societal changes that reshape Springfield and the entire country.
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I Have Some Questions for You
by Rebecca Makkai
Recommended by: Anna Jayne
A successful film professor returns to teach at her alma mater and becomes determined to investigate a closed murder case, in the new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers.
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The Librarianist
by Patrick deWitt
Recommended by: Sarah V.
While volunteering at a senior center, retired librarian Bob Comet, who has lived his life through and for literature, revisits his past—one of war, true love, purpose and pride—amidst a community of strange peers who gather around him.
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The Light Pirate
by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Recommended by: Claire
Born during a powerful hurricane, Wanda, an unusual woman in a rapidly changing world, loses family, gains community and ultimately seeks adventure, love and purpose in a place abandoned by civilization and remade by nature. Told in four parts—power, water, light, and time—The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it.
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Once There Were Wolves
by Charlotte McConaghy
Recommended by: Sarah L.
When a farmer is mauled to death after she reintroduces fourteen gray wolves into the remote Scottish Highlands, Inti Flynn knows where the town will lay blame, and makes a reckless decision to protect them no matter what the cost.
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Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life
by Helen Scales
Recommended by: Brandee
This is an inspiring tour of the world's oceans and 80 of its most notable inhabitants. Beautifully illustrated, the book includes fascinating stories of the fish, shellfish, and other sea life that have somehow impacted human life--in often surprising and unexpected ways.
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Number One is Walking
by Steve Martin
Recommended by: Lori
In this illustrated memoir of his forty years in the movie biz, the Academy Award-winning actor shares anecdotes from the sets of his beloved films, bringing readers directly into his world and capturing the everyday moments that make up a movie star's life.
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