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Adult Services Staff Picks November 2023 |
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Bright Young Women
by Jessica Knoll
Recommended by: Brandee
From the best-selling author of Luckiest Girl Alive comes another shocking thriller inspired by the real-life sorority and target of America's first celebrity serial killer.
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Day
by Michael Cunningham
Recommended by: Sarah V.
An already-troubled married couple, Isabel and Dan, both become obsessed within Isabel's younger brother and must deal with the challenges and changes wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, in a new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours.
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The English Experience
by Julie Schumacher
Recommended by: Cathy
A perpetually put-upon English professor is drafted to chaperone a student trip to England, with predictably disastrous if comical results.
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Half a Soul
by Olivia Atwater
Recommended by: Sarah R.
After a faerie's curse leaves her with no sense of fear, embarrassment, or happiness, Theodora Ettings tries to not disrupt her cousin's chances of finding a husband during the London Season and unwittingly attracts the attention of Elias Wilder, the strange, handsome, and ill-mannered Lord Sorcier.
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The September House
by Carissa Orlando
Recommended by: Rachel
A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare.
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
by Sangu Mandanna
Recommended by: Claire
A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family—and a new love—changes the course of her life.
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At Home in Chicago : A Living History of Domestic Architecture
by Patrick F. Cannon
Recommended by: Lori
Imagine a book that takes you into more than fifty of Chicago's most striking homes. No need to knock or ring. Here's your chance to take a slow ramble through lavish dining rooms, working kitchens, private bedrooms, and cozy patios of homes that reveal the city's 184-year history. You'll be accompanied by an experienced docent. And you'll join Chicago's preeminent architectural photographer, who will show you things you might never notice. Open your eyes and take in At Home in Chicago, the first comprehensive look at the city's most private residences.
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While You Were Out : An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
by Meg Kissinger
Recommended by: Laura
Exploring the consequences of shame, the havoc of botched public policy and the hope offered by new treatment strategies, this searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness and violence shows how childhood tragedy catalyzed the author's journalism career focused on exposing our country's flawed mental health care.
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