Melissa's Staff Picks

I'm a librarian at Southeast Regional Library, and these are some of my favorite reads! Feel free to email me at melissa.schultz@wakegov.com if you enjoyed one of these books!
 

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41. The left-handed booksellers of London

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Author:
Nix, Garth
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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YA NIX
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YA NIX
Eva H. Perry Regional - Young Adult
YA NIX
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"A girl's quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World of England when it intrudes on the modern world"--Publisher marketing.

42. The library book

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Author:
Orlean, Susan
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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21 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
020 ORLEA
Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction has 2
020 ORLEA
Express - Fayetteville St. - Adult Non-Fiction
020 ORLEA
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Cary Regional - Large Print Non-Fiction
LP 027.479 ORLEA
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LP 027.479 ORLEA
Fuquay-Varina Community - Large Print Non-Fiction
LP 027.479 ORLEA
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A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK

A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018

"A constant pleasure to read...Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book." —The Washington Post

"CAPTIVATING...DELIGHTFUL." —Christian Science Monitor...

43. The lies I tell: a novel

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Author:
Clark, Julie, 1971-
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Book, Large Print, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She's a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be. A college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. But nothing about her is real. She slides alongside you and tells you exactly what you want to hear, and by the time she's done, you've likely lost everything. Kat Roberts has been waiting ten...

44. A line to kill: a novel

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Author:
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
Series:
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 3.
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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Cary Regional - Mystery
HOROWITZ
East Regional - Mystery
HOROWITZ
Eva H. Perry Regional - Mystery has 2
HOROWITZ
Description:
"When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don't expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation--or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past. Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon meet the festival's other guests--an...

45. The love of my life

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Author:
Walsh, Rosie
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3.3 stars
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33 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Cary Regional - Adult Fiction has 2
WALSH
Duraleigh Road - Adult Fiction has 2
WALSH
East Regional - Adult Fiction
WALSH
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an up-all-night page-turner with a dark secret at its core I have held you at night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she'd do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie. And she might just have...

46. Magpie murders

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Author:
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
Series:
Magpie murders volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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10 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Cary Regional - Mystery
HOROWITZ
Green Road Community - Mystery
HOROWITZ
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48 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 48
Description:
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula has proved hugely successful. Conway's latest tale has Atticus Pund investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing...

47. Marple: twelve new stories

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Series:
Jane Marple murder mysteries
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3.7 stars
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Cary Regional - Mystery has 2
MARPLE
Eva H. Perry Regional - Mystery has 3
MARPLE
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MARPLE

48. Midnight at the Bright Ideas bookstore: a novel

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Author:
Sullivan, Matthew, 1970-
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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SULLIVAN
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SULLIVAN
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SULLIVAN
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"Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs--the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store's overwhelmed shelves. But when Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore's upper room, Lydia's life comes unglued. Always Joey's favorite bookseller, Lydia...

49. Nine perfect strangers

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Author:
Moriarty, Liane
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3.5 stars
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Cary Regional - Audio Books - Adult Fiction
MORIARTY 15 CDs
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MORIARTY 15 CDs
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MORIARTY 15 CDs
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Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next ten days are going to be. Frances Welty, the formerly best-selling romantic novelist,...

50. One by one

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Author:
Ware, Ruth
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3.7 stars
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Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
WARE
East Regional - Adult Fiction has 3
WARE
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction
WARE
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"The ... author of The Turn of the Key and In a Dark Dark Wood returns with another suspenseful thriller set on a snow-covered mountain"--

51. The orphan master's son: a novel

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Author:
Johnson, Adam, 1967-
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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Book, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
This novel follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. The son of an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother, a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang, and a father...

52. Permanent record

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Author:
Snowden, Edward J., 1983-
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Cary Regional - Biography
B SNOWDEN
Middlecreek Community - Biography
B SNOWDEN
North Regional - Biography
B SNOWDEN

53. The plot

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Author:
Korelitz, Jean Hanff, 1961-
Series:
Book (Korelitz) volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
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LP KORELITZ
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LP KORELITZ
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LP KORELITZ
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Description:
"Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written-let alone published-anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as...

54. The postscript murders

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Author:
Griffiths, Elly
Series:
Harbinder Kaur novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Book, OverDrive eBook
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"Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this ... novel by ... Elly Griffiths, a literary mystery ... for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Agatha Christie"--

55. Prayer in the night: for those who work or watch or weep

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Author:
Warren, Lutitia Harrison, 1979-
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5 stars
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248.8 WARRE
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction has 4
248.8 WARRE
Northeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
248.8 WARRE
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"How can we trust God in the dark? Framed around the nighttime prayer of Compline, Tish Harrison Warren explores human vulnerability, suffering, and God's seeming absence as she recalls her own experience navigating a time of doubt and loss. This book offers a prayerful and frank approach to the difficulties in our ordinary lives at work, at home, and in a world filled with uncertainty"--

56. Recursion: a novel

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Author:
Crouch, Blake
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4 stars
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22 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Cary Regional - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror has 2
CROUCH
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CROUCH
Middlecreek Community - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
CROUCH
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Cary Regional - Large Print
LP CROUCH
East Regional - Large Print has 3
LP CROUCH
Holly Springs Community - Large Print
LP CROUCH
Description:
"Memory makes reality. That's what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome--a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. Neuroscientist Helena Smith already understands the power of memory. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious moments of our pasts....

57. The river: a novel

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Author:
Heller, Peter, 1959-
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4.1 stars
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24 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
HELLER
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HELLER
Green Road Community - Adult Fiction
HELLER
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"A novel about two college friends on a summer wilderness canoe trip"--

58. Save me the plums: my Gourmet memoir

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Author:
Reichl, Ruth
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3.5 stars
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LP B REICHL
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LP B REICHL
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LP B REICHL
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection
Description:
"When Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America's oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyone's boss. Yet Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career. How could she say no? This is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment restaurants became...

59. Sea of Tranquility

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Author:
Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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112 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
MANDEL
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MANDEL
East Regional - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
MANDEL
Description:
The "author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets"--

60. Searching for Sylvie Lee: a novel

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Author:
Kwok, Jean
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
KWOK
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KWOK
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KWOK
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Online OverDrive Collection has 15
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Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, vanishes. Terrified yet determined, Amy, the sheltered baby of the family, retraces her movements, but instead of simple answers, she discovers something much more valuable: the truth.