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Join us the 2nd Wednesday of the month to share favorite books, authors, or series. Literary Salon is a no-rules book club where you bring whatever you're reading to a round of interested listeners. You are welcome to come and be a listener, too. Seven readers shared the following books in January. Please join us at the next Lit Salon on Wednesday, February 14th at 5pm. Check lopezlibrary.org or email Beth for current information. Read well!
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Everyone in my family has killed someone
by Benjamin Stevenson
A self-published author of crime novel writing guides attends a reunion with his family of expert killers and investigates when a body is found outside in the snow as another storm approaches.
READER NOTES: NOT a cozy mystery, but recommended! The narrator talks to the reader.
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The golden gate
by Amy Chua
While investigating the murder of a presidential candidate in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan discovers a link to the death of a 7-year-old girl 10 years earlier and is led to one of the wealthiest families in all of San Francisco whose powerful influence hinder his quest for the truth.
READER NOTES: Well-researched with many interesting facts.
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All the broken places
by John Boyne
An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents' fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age 12 and grim post-war ears in France with her mother.
READER NOTES: A companion novel to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
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Blackwater Falls
by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Recruited to solve the murder of a star student and Syrian refugee, Detective Inaya Rahman and Lieutenant Waqas Sief discover a link to other missing and murdered girls, but when Seif obstructs the investigation, Inaya turns to her female colleagues for help in exposing police corruption and violence.
READER NOTES: A new favorite author. This mystery reveals the culture class between locals in a small town and refugees.
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The unquiet dead
by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Detective Esa Khattack and his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, investigate the death of a local man who may have been a Bosnian war criminal with ties to the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, in a haunting debut novel of loss, redemption and the cost of justice.
READER NOTES: An older series by the same author as above. A well-researched mystery that uses quotes from war survivors.
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The birchbark house
by Louise Erdrich
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
READER NOTES: An alternative to the "Little House" series of books. This series by Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich is rooted in her own culture and history and is eminently readable for children and adults.
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Ghost Hawk
by Susan Cooper
In a story of adventure and friendship between a young Native American and a colonial New England settler, Little Hawk returns at the end of a winter-long journey to find his village decimated by a white man's plague, and soon, Little Hawk's friendship with white settler John Wakley puts both boys in grave danger.
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The mushroom man
by Ethel Pochocki
A lonely worker in a mushroom farm finds the friend he longs for when he meets a mole in the park and takes him home to share his dinner.
READER NOTES: A gentle picture book that is eminently enjoyable by adults for the unusual friendship and emotionally vivid illustrations.
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