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Most Requested BooksAugust 2026 |
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the most requested books in Marin. |
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Under the Falls by Richard Russo After eighteen years as the famous frontman of a band, Tyler returns for a single benefit concert to help a childhood friend injured long ago, but old tensions quickly surface as he faces his former best friend - now the local police chief - his officer and his wife, once Tyler’s lover, and over the course of one charged night, their intertwined histories, long-festering grievances and questionable choices build toward a violent reckoning that forces everyone to confront what it really means to leave a place, and what it costs to stay.
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Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult Shaped by the loss of her mother in the September 11 attacks, Molly grows up wary of catastrophe and, as an adult, leads Rhode Island’s emergency preparedness office, planning for storms, outbreaks and accidents - until a sudden upheaval shakes her marriage to a police polygraph specialist with his own history of crisis, forcing her to revisit the stories she has told herself about safety, family and the bond she still feels with the mother she never knew.
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John of John by Douglas Stuart Back from art school with no money and a head full of questions he cannot voice, John‑Calum Macleod takes the ferry to the Isle of Harris and the croft where his devout father John tends sheep and weaves tweed while his sharp‑tongued grandmother Ella anchors the household, and over the course of lambing and shearing seasons, unspoken desires, religious tensions and long‑kept family secrets push their tight community toward painful reckonings that may finally force father and son to see each other clearly.
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The Amateur by Chris Bohjalian On a sweltering August afternoon in 1978, eighteen‑year‑old golf standout Mira strikes a practice shot that rips through a worn net, fatally hitting a teenage caddy, and, as shock gives way to scrutiny - from a suspicious golf pro, a watchful detective, the dead boy’s grieving family and neighbors who glimpse Mira’s entanglement with a much older married man - the accident is pulled apart in the courtroom and at home, exposing hidden affairs, class tensions and the uneasy line between carelessness and criminal blame.
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Trash!: A Garbageman's Story by Simon Pare-Poupart After two decades on a garbage truck in Montreal, a worker who first took the job to fund his studies - and stayed for the rush, camaraderie and rough honesty - recounts the daily grind of lifting bags, dodging hazards and scavenging discarded belongings, weaving in reflections on freeganism, wasteful habits and the place of this demanding, well‑paid work for people who struggle to fit elsewhere, asking readers to look more closely at what they throw away and who carries it.
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Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel After civil conflict and curfews ease in 2031 L.A., Ari walks to a party, where, amid music, relief and a crowd buzzing with new freedoms, a disoriented double appears and the host abruptly disappears, sending her into a search that reaches from fractured postwar America to a seaside Greek resort, a sealed Paris and a lunar colony, as shifting timelines and identities raise uneasy questions about safety, surveillance and what remains when worlds come apart.
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The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris by Andrea Wulf From his childhood travels with a difficult father to his role on Captain Cook’s second voyage, George Forster grows from precocious botanist and translator into an observer of Pacific societies and European power, as Wulf follows him from the decks of the Resolution to lecture halls and revolutionary Paris, tracing how his reporting on distant landscapes and cultures led him to argue against empire, slavery and rigid social hierarchies.
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The Plunge by Lila Raicek Reeling from her fiancé’s sudden death, Liv escapes to New York and takes shelter in a mentor’s apartment, only to fall back into orbit with a former neighbor and his intriguing older companion; as an investigative journalist circles a buried secret, Liv is drawn into a charged triangle that stretches from Manhattan to the North Fork and Lake Como, testing her judgment, blurring desire and grief and forcing her to confront the lies she has told others and herself.
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Valley of the Moms by Hannah Selinger In an affluent Massachusetts suburb, where school politics and quiet money shape everyday life, Anna's frustration over a “premium” fee that keeps her second grader from a school dance spirals into a conflict with the powerful PTO president; when Anna is found dead in the frozen Ipswich River a year later, her husband Denny reviews events leading up to her death while trying to clear his name as the town’s polished surface gives way to buried resentments, class tensions and the secrets parents keep from one another.
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Moving from a 1970s New England campus to 1990s Manhattan and a quiet Pacific Northwest island in the early pandemic, these eleven stories follow people at turning points - a student shaping desire into language, a husband watching his wife’s old ambitions stir, a publishing assistant haunted by a Beat poet, a grandmother whose online spying slips beyond her control - as typewriters, letters and manuscripts quietly record the lives almost lived and the selves in progress. |
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