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Adult Summer Reading 2023: Mystery / Thrillers
Adult Summer Reading 2023: Visiting Author Series
Author Visits in 2023
Note to Shelf: August 2023
Adult Summer Reading 2023: Visiting Author Series
Author Visits in 2023
Note to Shelf: August 2023
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"After a tragic chain of events led to the deaths of their spouses two years ago, D.C. philanthropist Sloane Chase and Senator Whit Montgomery are finally starting to move on. The horrifying ordeal drew them together, and now they're ready to settle down again-with each other. As Sloane returns to the world of White House dinners and political small talk, this time with her new husband, she's also preparing for an upcoming hip replacement-the most...
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"The small town of Harrod's Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre, especially inside the decrepit old train tunnel around which the town was built. After a young boy, Sully Dupree, is injured in the abandoned tunnel and left in a coma, the townspeople are determined to wall it up. Deputy sheriff Beth Gardner is reluctant to buy into the superstitions until she finds two corpses at the tunnel's entrance, each left with strange calling cards...
3) Losing music
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"A devastating account of the author's experience with the debilitating condition known as Ménière's Disease that sheds urgent, bracingly honest light on both the taboos surrounding disability and the limits of medical science"--
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Adult Winter Reading Challenge
Adult Winter Reading: Books Set During Winter
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Adult Winter Reading: Books Set During Winter
Note to Shelf: June 2023
Shelf-Worthy: June 2023
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"From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway....
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"Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the "walking wounded," facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother's battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas weaves history, philosophy, and personal accounts to interrogate...
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How do you keep going when you have received the worst possible diagnosis? This is what happened to Jessica Morris when, in her early fifties, she was told she had glioblastoma (GBM), a particularly aggressive and difficult-to-treat form of brain cancer. This book is her brave and inspiring riposte. Jessica began a determined search for effective treatment as she continued to live her life, love her family and campaign for better research into GBM,...
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Discovering she had stage four breast cancer while pregnant with her second baby, a clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma, after receiving good news, was unable to celebrate due to being frozen in a dissociated state and used the "narrative therapy" she used with her patients to navigate her own trauma.
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"When Steph Catudal met her husband Rivs, she thought that the love, stability, and warmth she shared with her husband had finally dispelled her pent-up anger and grief over the loss of her father and her faith. But when Rivs became ill and was put into coma at the height of the pandemic, the painful memories of her childhood--watching her father die of cancer--came flooding back. Written with lush lyricism, Steph's account of how this crisis forced...
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"Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close, but when Diane developed a sudden illness, their relationship...
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When 84-year-old Edie Havercroft sees Lucy Theddle, who disappeared back in 1951, standing outside the post office one Tuesday afternoon, she wonders if a secret she’s held onto all these years could be the key to unlocking what happened to her friend before the girl is forgotten forever.
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"Coco's life was anything but easy or normal. With a family broken for generations, an absent father, a teenage mother, four younger brothers and an aggressive stepfather, Coco soon finds herself alone in a world characterized by abuse, mental illness and financial problems. From a very young age, she learned to fend for herself to walk her path, often desolate and so full of darkness, that it was about to swallow her completely. But Coco did not...
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After waking up from a coma with only memories of movies she's known and loved, Mia Sinclair, when her college friends assemble for a weekend party to help her remember, discovers her accident might not have been an accident at all as old tensions and new suspicions rise.
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"A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and a historical leprosarium in Louisiana, following one young man's quest to not only survive, but live a full and vibrant life Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson's Red at The Bone, Netflix's Atypical, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Victor Chin's life is turned upside down at the tender age of 15. Diagnosed with...
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[2024]
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In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.
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"Two sisters-in-law find themselves at painful odds when the man who connects them-the brother of one, the husband of the other-is accused of a brutal crime in this twisty thriller from the author of the "exceedingly entertaining" (The New York Times) The Family Plot. Julia and Sienna Larkin are sisters-in-law, connected by Julia's husband and Sienna's brother, Jason. More than that, the two have been devoted best friends since Jason introduced them....
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