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"July is that cousin who arrives with no warning,
drenched in the sun and dripping in nostalgia."
This month we're featuring some of the hottest non-fiction books, and fiction that is trending on social media and with our library readers.
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A Pair of Aces
By Marie Benedict
A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law -- a prosecutor and a madam -- who team up to bring down notorious gangster Lucky Luciano. Together, Eunice and Polly fashion a case utilizing a network of women. Bridging the enormous divide between them and risking their own lives, they assemble evidence bit by bit, under the nose of the man they're trying to convict. It is this very alliance -- of two women from vastly different worlds -- that launches the most sensational trial New York City has ever seen.
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Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep
By Paul Tremblay
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer who is offered a temp job she can’t refuse: chaperoning a man in a vegetative state across the country. He has AI implanted in his brain, and it has plunged him into a nightmare. He has no memory of who he is, and he endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he was—and who he must track down. As their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality.
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Songs of the Dead
By Brandon Sanderson and Peter Orullian
When struggling rocker Jack Soloman is murdered and then mysteriously reborn, he awakens to a new reality in which light and music are used to create magic and where living eras of the past sprawl beneath modern London, layer upon layer, all the way back to recorded history. He becomes embroiled in a brewing revolution amid the hidden realms of London, a past where the dead are sowing revolution against the living, and all of history is at stake. Welcome to the Strata Wars.
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Yesteryear
By Caro Claire Burke
A social media celebrity, a wife and mother who sells her fantasy pioneer lifestyle of sourdough and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of followers, suddenly wakes up cold, dirty, and hungry in the year 1855 and must uncover the nature -- hoax, reality show, test from God -- of her terrifying new existence. When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible. As darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear has been picked up for a film adaptation starring Anne Hathaway.
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Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It
By Brooke Averick
Phoebe Berman has thirty days until she turns thirty. And she's still a virgin. Determined to lose it before that day, she makes a guide for herself to get there. Her hiccup? She has horrible intimacy anxiety.
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Heather
By Caitlin Mullen
1990. In the myth-riddled woods of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, sixteen-year-old Annabelle Riley's twin sister, Sabrina, has been having an affair with a mysterious older man, and Annabelle is determined to uncover what's going on. Then, inexplicably, both sisters disappear. In this same town years later, newly instated police chief Callie Hauser makes an arrest that unexpectedly resurrects details from a heartbreaking cold case. As she digs deeper, the past and the present collide, challenging everything Callie believes about right and wrong, who she is, and the town she's always called home.
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The Complex
By Karan Mahajan
Follow the Chopra family as their fortunes shift across continents and generations, moving between America and modern India, following the illicit liaisons, real estate dramas, political ambitions, and mortal betrayals of one prominent Delhi family.
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Crown of War and Shadow
By J.R. Ward
An outcast burdened with a curse. A mercenary out for himself. A kingdom that must be saved. In the deep, dark, dead of night, passions rise, and empires fall… The Fulcrum is failing, and demons are slipping into the mortal world. No one is safe. Especially not Sorrel. An orphan and an outcast within the walls of her small village because of her mystical abilities, she wants to survive…and find somewhere she can call her true home. But Fate has other plans. Crown of War and Shadow is the first book in the Kingdoms of the Compass series
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Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper By Alex Wright
Between the Revolutionary War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the number of American newspapers increased five hundredfold, producing the greatest outpouring of printed matter the world had ever seen. In Empire of Ink, Alex Wright tells the story of how an unruly young democracy found its voice, fueled by a mix of new technologies, bold public policies, and a distinctly American zeal for free expression that unleashed a torrent of newsprint, knitting together a fractious republic.
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An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln By Lois Romano
Mary Lincoln was at the center of politics at a time when society's expectations for women were rigid and circumscribed. She was an unconventional, larger-than-life character who dressed too ostentatiously, grieved too publicly, suffered a shopping addiction, and seemed unable or unwilling to corral her emotions, her temper, and her opinions. She made enemies--influential men who wrote her story for her, often unfairly. After Lincoln was assassinated, she was all but abandoned by the nation he had given his life to defend and preserve. Book, eAudioBook, New Place Hold
North of Ordinary: How one woman left it all behind for wilderness and wonder in Alaska's frozen frontier
By Sue Aikens
The star of National Geographic’s Life Below Zero documents her harsh, secluded world as the sole resident of a remote outpost in northern Alaska. She endures frigid winters, dangerous wildlife, and near-constant isolation in this riveting memoir.
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Regime Change: Inside the imperial presidency of Donald Trump By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration's most closely guarded rooms, Regime Change takes the reader behind the scenes of a presidency that has transformed the culture, turned the Justice Department into an agent of retribution against the President's enemies and the office itself into a brazen vehicle for profit. This is the story of how Trump has used that power, who has tried to stop him, and why nearly all of them have failed. It is also the story of something American journalists are more accustomed to chronicling in distant capitals than in their own: a President who has fundamentally altered the nature of the office he holds--and, with it, how the rest of the world understands American power.
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