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Adult Services Staff Picks April 2024 |
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Foe
by Iain Reid
Recommended by: Sarah L.
In a novel set in the near future, farm dwellers Junior and Henrietta have their lives disrupted when Junior is called for a distant mission and Henrietta receives an unconventional replacement so he won't be missed.
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Listen for the Lie
by Amy Tintera
Recommended by: Sarah R. and Rachel
Five years after her best friend is murdered, a podcast brings renewed scrutiny to the case and to Lucy as the prime suspect. A twisty and well-plotted thriller made unique by Lucy's voice and sense of humor.
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The Rachel Incident
by Caroline O'Donoghue
Recommended by: Claire
Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred’s glamorous bourgeois wife.
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Strange Sally Diamond
by Liz Nugent
Recommended by: Brandee
Garnering media attention when she tries to incinerate her dead father, reclusive Sally Diamond, beginning to discover the horrors of her early childhood, steps into the world for the first time and soon finds her trust issues severely challenged by a sinister voice from her past she doesn't remember.
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What Happened to Nina?
by Dervla McTiernan
Recommended by: Laura
Two families are pitted against each other—one seeking justice in the disappearance of their daughter, the other desperate to clear their son's name.
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