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Plumb Library Staff Top Ten 2019
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Storm of locusts
by Rebecca Roanhorse
Monster hunter Maggie Hoskie learns that her best friend Kai has fallen in with a cult led by a mysterious Navajo man known as White Locust, but her trust in herself and her friend are tested to the breaking point when she learns of White Locust's plans for the Big Water world
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The winter of the witch : a novel
by Katherine Arden
Also liked by Jen.
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Bear and the Nightingale finds the heroine, Vasya, and the winter king, Morozko, battling mortal and magical enemies to save both the seen and unseen Russias
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The secrets we kept
by Lara Prescott
A tale of spycraft, love and sacrifice inspired by the true story of Doctor Zhivago follows the efforts of two CIA agents to help publish Boris Pasternak’s censored masterpiece against a backdrop of Cold War politics in Moscow.
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Wanderers : a novel
by Chuck Wendig
When her little sister is afflicted by a bizarre sleepwalking disorder that begins to affect people all across the country, Shana is embroiled in an apocalyptic epidemic involving a decadent rock star, a religious radio host and a disgraced scientist.
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Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
The executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn't commit. .
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The priory of the orange tree
by Samantha Shannon
A queen who would survive assassination attempts to continue her ruling line is protected with forbidden magic by a court outsider, while a secret society works to prevent a dragon war. By the best-selling author of The Bone Season
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The iron dragon's mother
by Michael Swanwick
After returning from her first soul-stealing raid, Caitlin of House Sans Merci, a half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon is framed for her brother's murder and must search Industrialized Faerie for the one person who can clear her name.
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Ribbons of scarlet : a novel of the French Revolution's women
by Kate Quinn
Six best-selling and award-winning authors trace the events of the French Revolution through the experiences of six remarkable women from different walks of life, including an equal-rights education advocate whose student leads a women’s march to Versailles.
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The hate u give
by Angie Thomas
Also like by Samantha
Caught between her poor neighborhood and her fancy prep school, sixteen-year-old Starr Carter becomes the focus of intimidation and more after witnessing the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, by a police officer
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They called us enemy
by George Takei
The iconic actor and activist presents a graphic memoir detailing his experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the hard choices his family made in the face of legalized racism.
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Pumpkinheads
by Rainbow Rowell
Working at a pumpkin patch every autumn, two seasonal best friends organize ultimate Halloween plans to celebrate their last working year together. .
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White bird : A Wonder Story
by R. J Palacio
Inspired by the author’s best-selling Wonder, a graphic novel debut traces the heartrending story of a grandmother who as a Jewish girl was hidden by a brave, compassionate family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II.
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The starless sea
by Erin Morgenstern
Discovering a mysterious book of prisoner tales, a Vermont graduate student recognizes a story from his own life before following clues to a magical underground library that is being targeted for destruction. By the best-selling author of The Night Circus.
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Marley : a novel
by Jon Clinch
From the acclaimed author of Finn comes a reimagining of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, with a moving exploration of the twisted relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley. .
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Once upon a river : a novel
by Diane Setterfield
When the seemingly dead body of a child reanimates hours after arriving at an ancient inn on the Thames, three families try to claim her in the new novel from the best-selling author of The Thirteenth Tale.
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The binding
by Bridget Collins
"In the tradition of Sarah Waters, Helene Wecker, and Jessie Burton, an atmospheric and mystery-laden historical novel set within a magical world where books are not stories but the repository of individual lives"
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The poison thread
by Laura Purcell
While doing charitable work at Oakgate Prison, Dorothea meets Ruth, a teenage inmate who claims that her crimes are the result of a supernatural power in her needle and thread and the dresses she sews.
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The bird king
by G. Willow Wilson
Fatima, a concubine in the royal court of Granada at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, and her friend Hassan, the palace mapmaker, risk their lives to escape when the latter is accused of sorcery
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Disappearing Earth
by Julia Phillips
The shattering disappearance of two young girls from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula compounds the isolation and fears of a tight-woven community, connecting the lives of neighbors, witnesses, family members, and a detective throughout an ensuing year of tension
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The lost history of dreams : a novel
by Kris Waldherr
Before he can bury his poet cousin, a historian turned post-mortem photographer agrees to record the details of the poet's ill-fated marriage as described by his cousin's late wife's niece, after which, he begins seeing things from beyond the grave
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A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts
by Therese Fowler
Marrying into the newly rich but socially scorned Vanderbilt clan, Alva navigates society snubs and dark undercurrents in the lives of her in-laws and friends while testing the limits of her ambitious rule-breaking.
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That churchill woman : a novel
by Stephanie Barron
A tale inspired by the life of Winston Churchill's scandal-marked American mother follows the experiences of a wealthy and fiercely independent New Yorker whose whirlwind romance with a duke's son sweeps her disruptively into British royalty and politics.
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The book of dreams : a novel
by Nina George
"Rendered comatose after an act of heroism, a man revisits memories of his British youth, while his ex forges an unexpected, profound friendship with the teenage son he has never known. By the author of ""The Little Paris Bookshop""."
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The wild robot
by Peter Brown
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants
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The wild robot escapes
by Peter Brown
A sequel to The Wild Robot finds a shipwrecked Robot Roz struggling to survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island.
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Beyond the bright sea
by Lauren Wolk
Set adrift on the ocean in a small skiff as a newborn, 12-year-old Crow embarks on a quest to find the missing pieces of her history. By the award-winning author of Wolf Hollow. .
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Stargazing
by Jen Wang
Also liked by Gail.
Chinese-American student Christine is devastated when her artistic best friend, Moon, falls dangerously ill amid revelations that she has been having visions about celestial beings telling her she does not really belong on Earth.
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Momentous events in the life of a cactus
by Dusti Bowling
After navigating middle school, ninth-grader Aven, born without arms, struggles with the challenges of high school, which test her confidence, strength, and sense of self
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Turtles all the way down
by John Green
In his long-awaited return, the author of #1 best-selling The Fault in Our Stars shares the story of Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. .
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Calypso
by David Sedaris
A latest collection of personal essays by the best-selling author of Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls and Me Talk Pretty One Day shares even more revealing and intimate memories from his upbringing and family life. .
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A Map of Days
by Ransom Riggs
Discovering evidence of Jacob's grandfather's double life as an unusual operative, Jacob, Miss Peregrine, Emma and their unconventional friends find themselves in an untamed landscape filled with rules and dangers that none of them understand.
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The Rosie result
by Graeme C Simsion
Don and Rosie help their eleven-year-old son who is struggling at school and having trouble fitting in while trying to open a cocktail bar in the third and final installment of the series, following The Rosie Effect
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How not to die alone
by Richard Roper
Telling a white lie that makes his coworkers believe he has a loving family at home, a lonely man stuck in a thankless public-health job falls in love with a new coworker who challenges his secrets
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Genuine fraud
by E Lockhart
A novel of psychological suspense by the best-selling author of We Were Liars follows the experiences of a diabolically intelligent girl who repeatedly reinvents herself in an effort to secure a charmed existence..
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Sadie
by Courtney Summers
Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance
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Everything That Makes You
by Moriah McStay
Feeling too self-conscious about a disfiguring facial scar to pursue her crush or sing the songs she has written, Fiona considers the life she may have led if she had not had her fateful accident.
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The cheerleaders
by Kara Thomas
The surviving sister of a cheerleader who was one of five girls who died violently years earlier realizes during a memory-laden memorial that the tragedies may have been more sinister. By the author of Little Monsters.
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American Royals
by Katharine McGee
An alternate-history tale reimagines America as a monarchy and follows the experiences of a princess who struggles with her feelings for an off-limits boy, while her handsome twin brother is pursued by two very different girls. By the best-selling author of the Thousandth Floor trilogy.
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Every last word
by Tamara Ireland Stone
Hiding the severity of her OCD while second guessing her every move, Samantha pretends to agree with the choices of her clique of popular girls while befriending a less stylish classmate who introduces her to a group of misfits in the poetry club with whom she feels more "normal" than she ever has ... until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.
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Queen of air and darkness
by Cassandra Clare
While the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and focus on saving the world of Shadowhunters before the parabatai curse destroys everyone
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The Raven King
by Maggie Stiefvater
A conclusion to the series that began with The Raven Boys finds Blue confronting her skepticism about true love when her entanglements with the Raven Boys are complicated by a prophecy that she will cause her beloved's death.
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