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Literary Salon meets the 2nd Wednesday of the month to share recent favorite books, authors, or series. Seven readers shared the following books in June. Please join us at the next Lit Salon on Wednesday, July 13th at 5pm. Check lopezlibrary.org or email Beth for current information. Happy Summer Reading!
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The cat who saved books : a novel
by Sōsuke Natsukawa
When a talking cat named Tiger demands that he help save books with him, high school student Rintaro Natsuki and Tiger embark on an amazing journey, liberating books from their neglectful owners and meeting a colorful cast of character along the way.
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Take my hand
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Townsend, a young black nurse working for the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, grapples with her role when she takes two young girls into her heart and the unthinkable happens, and nothing will ever be the same for any of them.
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Bless your heart, Rae Sutton
by Susannah B. Lewis
"Known for her humor and genuine Southern voice, Susannah B. Lewis brings readers the heartwarming story of a thirty-five-year-old woman mourning the recent losses of her marriage and her mother, who finds comfort in her mother's outspoken, charming, blue-haired group of friends"
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Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
When her neighbor turns up dead, and then other bodies turn up under strange circumstances, Janine, a recluse in a remote Polish village who prefers the company of animals over humans, inserts herself into the investigation.
Quite humorous!
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When we cease to understand the world
by Benjamín Labatut
"A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger: these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Labatut's book thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life to the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Benjamin Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible"
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The cactus league : A Novel
by Emily Nemens
Beginning spring training in the unforgiving Arizona desert, a star outfielder navigates the secrets of the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, criminals and fans who watch his every move, in a story told in the style of a sportscaster’s narrative.
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The chancellor : the remarkable odyssey of Angela Merkel
by Kati Marton
Part riveting political biography, part intimate human story of a complete outsider, this great morality tale paints a fascinating portrait of a woman who, surviving extraordinary challenges, transformed her own country and returned it to the global stage.
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Something to hide
by Elizabeth George
When a police detective is murdered, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley becomes embroiled in a case that has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he knows it as he pursues a killer determined to remain hidden.
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Portuguese Irregular Verbs
by Alexander Mccall Smith
Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld investigates the world of archaic Irishisms, takes part in a duel with his friend Professor Dr. Dr. Florianus Prinzel, and falls for a dentist fatale, in a comic novel by the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
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The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
by Alexander Mccall Smith
When Professor Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld of The Institute of Romance Philology is mistaken for a veterinarian, he ends up practicing veterinary medicine without a license, operating on a friend's dachshund with unfortunate results; transports relics for a Coptic prelate; and is pursued by lovesick widows on a Mediterranean cruise ship.
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My real children
by Jo Walton
Remembering two different pasts that reflect contrasting historical events and relationships with different people, an elderly Patricia Cowan wonders about her identity while gazing at a moon that might house benign or malicious technologies. By the Hugo Award-winning author of Among Others.
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The church cracked open : disruption, decline, and new hope for beloved community
by Stephanie Spellers
""This book will make a profound difference for the church in this moment in history." - The Most Reverend Michael B. Curry Sometimes it takes disruption and loss to break us open and call us home to God. It's not surprising that a global pandemic and once-in-a-generation reckoning with white supremacy-on top of decades of systemic decline-have spurred Christians everywhere to ask who we are, why God placed us here and what difference that makes to the world. In this critical yet loving book, the author explores the American story and the Episcopal story in order to find out how communities steeped in racism, establishment, and privilege can at last fall in love with Jesus, walk humbly with the most vulnerable and embody beloved community in our own broken but beautiful way. The Church Cracked Open invites us to surrender privilege and redefine church, not just for the sake of others, but for our own salvation and liberation"
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Annabel
by Kathleen Winter
Raised as a boy but secretly nurtured as a girl by various family members, a hermaphrodite youth in 1970s Canada escapes his hometown and struggles to confront his dual identity as well as his allegiances to those he most loves. A first novel by the award-winning author of the story collection, boYs.
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