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HELLO FEBRUARY!It's the perfect time to snuggle up with a new book,
and we have a few suggestions for you...
Happy Reading!
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The HeiressBy Rachel Hawkins
Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore was an infamous heiress with a vast fortune and plenty of secrets. After her death 10 years ago, she left her entire estate to her adopted son, Cam — but Cam wanted nothing to do with the McTavish fortune or the rest of the family. Now his uncle has died and Cam, along with his wife, Jules, have come back to Ashby House… and this time, Jules intends for her husband to claim his rightful inheritance. Booklist says, “This is a page-turner that readers will find hard to put down and is perfect for fans of stories with ambiguous morals and dysfunctional families.”
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*****
Wellness
By Nathan Hill
This New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club Pick is a tale of love, dreams, and rediscovery. In the vibrant ’90s Chicago art scene, college students Jack and Elizabeth bond over shared dreams. Two decades later, amid the chaos of their suburban married life, they face unmet ambitions and haunting pasts. As their connection wavers, they must rediscover themselves or risk losing each other.
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*****
Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame
By Olivia Ford
A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Fifty-nine years into her marriage, Jenny surprises everyone, including herself, by joining the TV show Britain Bakes. In the whirl of cameras and pastry, she finds independence but also stirs up old memories with every bake. From chocolate teacakes to sugared doughnuts, each creation unravels a past secret, putting her marriage at risk. Will her baking triumph lead to personal disaster, or a sweet revelation?
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*****
Hard By A Great Forest
By Leo Vardiashvili
A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008. Fleeing formerly Soviet Georgia for England, brothers Saba and Sandro and their father, Irakli, seek healing from the war’s scars. When Irakli vanishes after returning to Georgia, a cryptic message propels Saba into the heart of their past.
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Silver Nitrate
By Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Tris̀tn, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Tris̀tn discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives--even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, and now the director wants Montserrat and Tris̀tn to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse...but as they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tris̀tn may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies.
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*****
What Wild Women Do
By Karma Brown
Rowan’s quest to reignite her screenwriting passion leads her and her fiancé, Seth, to a secluded Adirondacks cabin. There, she uncovers the haunting tale of Eddie Callaway, a feminist crusader who vanished in 1975. Through a discovered handbook, Rowan delves into Eddie’s mission for women’s liberation, unraveling the mystery of her unsolved disappearance.
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The Star and the Strange Moon
By Constance Sayers
In 1968, 22-year-old Gemma Turner is already practically a has-been in Hollywood, so she takes a desperate leap of faith and agrees to star in an avant-garde French horror movie, L’Étrange Lune — then vanishes during filming. Decades later, film student Christopher Kent digs into the mystery — and receives an invitation to a screening of the movie. And back in her timeline, Gemma wakes up, seemingly inside the 1878 setting of the film…
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*****
Wandering Stars
By Tommy Orange
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There There. Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There.
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THRILLERS and MYSTERIES
The Fury By Alex Michaelides
Every year, reclusive former movie star Lana Farrar invites her celebrity friends to vacation on her private Greek island. But even paradise can’t keep old resentments from bubbling to the surface… and soon, they result in murder. David Baldacci says, “For fans of erudite, locked-room mysteries told with style and theatrical panache, The Fury delivers, on all counts.”
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*****
First Lie Wins
By Ashley Elston
Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. But Evie can't make any mistakes--especially after what happened last time. Because the one thing she's worked her entire life to keep clean, the one identity she could always go back to--her real identity--just walked right into this town. Evie must stay one step ahead of her past while making sure there's still a future in front of her. The stakes couldn't be higher--but then, Evie has always liked a challenge.
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*****
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
By Janice Hallett
A whip-smart and "fast-paced mystery" ( The Daily Telegraph, London) from the internationally bestselling author of The Twyford Code and The Appeal about a true crime journalist who revives a long-buried case about a cult—and finds herself too close to the story. Told in Janice Hallett's signature original and innovative style of emails, messages, news clips, and screenplay excerpts.
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*****
Small Game
By Blair Braverman
A gripping debut novel about a survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers stranded in the northern wilds. When the cast wakes one morning to find something has gone horribly wrong, fear ripples through the group. Are the producers giving them an extra challenge? Or are they wrapped up in something more dangerous? Soon Mara and the others face terrifying decisions as "survival" becomes more than a game. A provocative exploration of the comforts, rituals, and connections we depend upon, Small Game is a gripping page-turner and a poignant story about finding the courage to build a new life from the ground up.
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NON-FICTION
How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi:
Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite By Chris Balakrishnan, Matt Wasaowski
For twenty years Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences around the world the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the arts, pop culture, you name it. There hasn’t been a rabbit hole that their army of presenters hasn’t been afraid to explore. Finally, after countless requests to bring Nerd Nite to more fans across the globe, co-founders and college pals Matt Wasowski and Chris Balakrishnan offer readers the quirky and accessible science content they crave in book form. Focused on STEM and paired with detailed illustrations, the topics are quirky and vast, from kinky, spring-loaded spiders to the Webb telescope’s influence on movie special effects.
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Normal Women By Philippa Gregory
The #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus—a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history. Most histories have been written by men, about men, relegating women—with the exception of a few queens—to the shadows of time. Now, bestselling author Philippa Gregory reveals the importance of ordinary women, providing a more balanced and truer chronicle that expands and adds rich detail to the story of Great Britain.
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Northland: A 4,000-mile journey along America's forgotten border By Peter Fox
America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America's primary border for centuries--much of the early history of the United States took place there--and to the tens of millions who live and work near the line, the region even has its own name: the northland. Travel writer Porter Fox spent three years exploring 4,000 miles of the border between Maine and Washington, traveling by canoe, freighter, car, and foot. He weaves in his encounters with residents, border guards, Indian activists, and militia leaders to give a dynamic portrait of the northland today, wracked by climate change, water wars, oil booms, and concerns over border security.
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*****
Empire of Ice and Stone: The disastrous and heroic voyage of the Karluk
By Buddy Levy
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leaership: one selfless, one self-serving, and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of The Heroic Age of Discovery.
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YOUNG READERS
Cress Watercress By Gregory Maguire
When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying neighbors, and no Papa, ever be home?
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Powerless By Lauren Roberts
In a kingdom divided by extraordinary powers and a strict caste system, Paedyn Gray, a young girl with no abilities, must hide her ordinary nature as she navigates a forbidden romance with a powerful prince and must participate in the perilous Purging Trials that could reveal her true identity.
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*****
Clues to the Universe
By Christina Li
The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. Benjamin Burns doesn't like science, but he can't get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created the comics, he's thrilled. As the two face bullying, grief, and their own differences, Benji and Ro must try to piece together clues to some of the biggest questions in the universe.
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When It All Syncs Up By Maya Ameyaw
A Black teen dancer with dreams of landing a spot in a prestigious ballet company must learn to dance on her own terms in this explosive debut about the healing power of art and friendship, perfect for fans of Heartbreaker and Tiny Pretty Things.
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*****
Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!
By Mo Willems
Needing to brush his teeth, a bus driver asks the reader to make sure that the pigeon goes to bed on time--but the bird has many excuses about why it should stay awake.
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*****
A Loud Winter’s Nap By Katy Hudson
Unmoved by his friends' attempts draw him out with singing classes and snowball fights, Tortoise tries to settle down for his annual winter nap and instead stumbles into a wonderfully icy experience.
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle By Beverly Cleary
Ralph is not like the other mice at the Mountain View Inn. He is always looking for adventure. So when a young guest named Keith arrives with a shiny miniature motorcycle, it's Ralph's lucky day. Right away, Ralph knows that the motorcycle is special--made to be ridden by an adventurous mouse. And once a mouse can ride a motorcycle...almost anything can happen!
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