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Staff Favorites November 2019 With this month's Staff Favorites it gives us great pleasure to welcome our new administrative assistant Scout Mercer. Check out some of Scout's favorite reads! I love historical fiction, because it makes me feel like I'm learning something, even when it is still fictionalized scenarios and characters. I have loved historical fiction since I was in the children's department, and ended up majoring in history, so I guess it is just my genre. - Scout |
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Songs of Willow Frost : a novel
by Jamie Ford
Confined to Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage during the Great Depression, Chinese-American boy William Eng becomes convinced that a certain movie actress is actually the mother he has not seen since he was seven years old, a belief that compels a determined search for answers.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
Katie Nolan went to great lengths to shield her son and daughter from the harsher realities in life. Though living in almost abject poverty with an alcoholic husband Katie worked tirelessly to provide a good life for her children making feasts from water and bread crusts and teaching them to hold their heads high even in the face of tragedy.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
In 1946, as England emerges from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey and his eccentric friends, who tell her about their island, the books they love, German occupation, and the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.
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Code Name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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Church of Marvels
by Leslie Parry
Discovering an abandoned newborn while working behind the tenement houses of late-19th-century New York, Sylvan finds his life intertwined with that of a sideshow performer's daughter and a woman wrongly trapped in a lunatic asylum.
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
by Ocean Vuong
A debut collection of poems draws from personal traumas to offer observations on such themes as violence, poverty, depression, and queer sexuality.
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The Devil All the Time : a novel
by Donald Ray Pollock
In the backwoods of Ohio, Willard Russell’s wife is succumbing to cancer, no matter how much he drinks, prays, or sacrifices animals at his "prayer log." Meanwhile, his son Arvin is growing up, from a kid bullied at school into a man who knows when to take action. Around them swirl a nefarious cast of characters—a demented team of serial killers, a spider-eating preacher, and a corrupt local sheriff—all braided into a riveting narrative of the grittiest American grain.
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Tallgrass
by Sandra Dallas
Her life turned upside-down when a Japanese internment camp is opened in their small Colorado town, Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered, an event that prompts Rennie's own perspective change and the discovery of dangerous secrets.
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