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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21. The it girl

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Author:
Ware, Ruth
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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WARE
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WARE
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WARE
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"April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends--Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily--during their first term. By the end of the year, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing...

22. The Jane Austen Society

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Author:
Jenner, Natalie
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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""Fans of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." -Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people...

23. Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

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Author:
Grann, David
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4 stars
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40 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
976.6 GRANN
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976.6 GRANN
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976.6 GRANN
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17 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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14 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE
“A shocking whodunit…What...

24. The last ranger: a novel

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Author:
Heller, Peter, 1959-
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
HELLER
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HELLER
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HELLER
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"A lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone National Park where a skirmish between a local hunter and a wolf biologist turns violent, and a park ranger, facing his own personal demons, sets out to determine what really happened"--

25. The last thing he told me: a novel

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Author:
Dave, Laura
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3.9 stars
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146 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
DAVE
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DAVE
Duraleigh Road - Adult Fiction
DAVE
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"When her husband of a year disappears, Hannah quickly learns he is not who he said he was and is left to sort out the truth with just one ally- her husband's teenage daughter, who hates her"--

26. The library book

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Author:
Orlean, Susan
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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
East Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
020 ORLEA
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East Regional - Audio Books - Adult Nonfiction
020 ORLEA 10 CDs
Eva H. Perry Regional - Audio Books - Adult Nonfiction
020 ORLEA 10 CDs
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020 ORLEA 10 CDs
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Cary Regional - Large Print Non-Fiction
LP 027.479 ORLEA
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LP 027.479 ORLEA
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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...

27. The lies I tell: a novel

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Author:
Clark, Julie, 1971-
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4 stars
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42 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Cary Regional - Adult Fiction has 2
CLARK
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CLARK
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CLARK
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"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...

28. 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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East Regional - Mystery
HOROWITZ
Eva H. Perry Regional - Mystery has 2
HOROWITZ
Holly Springs Community - Mystery
HOROWITZ
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"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...

29. 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
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...

30. The lying game

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Author:
Ware, Ruth
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3.6 stars
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East Regional - Audio Books - Adult Fiction
WARE 11 CDs
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WARE 11 CDs
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WARE 11 CDs
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Online OverDrive Collection has 20
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The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her. At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen...

31. Magpie murders

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Author:
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
Series:
Magpie murders volume 1.
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3.5 stars
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East Regional - Audio Books - Adult Fiction
HOROWITZ 13 CDs
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HOROWITZ 13 CDs
Fuquay-Varina Community - Audio Books - Adult Fiction
HOROWITZ 13 CDs
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56 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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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...

32. The marriage portrait

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Author:
O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-
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4 stars
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63 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Duraleigh Road - Adult Fiction
OFARRELL
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OFARRELL
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OFARRELL
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"A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici"--

33. Midnight at the Bright Ideas bookstore: a novel

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Sullivan, Matthew, 1970-
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3.9 stars
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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...

34. The nickel boys: a novel

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Author:
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
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4.4 stars
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48 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
WHITEHEA
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WHITEHEA
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WHITEHEA
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East Regional - Audio Books - Adult Fiction
WHITEHEA 6 CDs
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WHITEHEA 6 CDs
North Regional - Audio Books - Adult Fiction
WHITEHEA 6 CDs
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10 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
East Regional - Large Print has 2
LP WHITEHEA
Eva H. Perry Regional - Large Print has 2
LP WHITEHEA
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LP WHITEHEA
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13 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

35. Nine perfect strangers

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Author:
Moriarty, Liane
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3.5 stars
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MORIARTY
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MORIARTY
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MORIARTY
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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,...

36. The nineties: a book

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Author:
Klosterman, Chuck, 1972-
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3.7 stars
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
306.097 KLOST
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306.097 KLOST
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306.097 KLOST
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"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"--

37. One by one

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Ware, Ruth
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Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
WARE
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WARE
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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"--

38. The plot

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Author:
Korelitz, Jean Hanff, 1961-
Series:
Book (Korelitz) volume 1.
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3.4 stars
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
KORELITZ
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KORELITZ
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KORELITZ
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LP KORELITZ
Duraleigh Road - Large Print
LP KORELITZ
East Regional - Large Print has 2
LP KORELITZ
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"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...

39. 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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"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"--

40. Prairie fires: the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Author:
Fraser, Caroline
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4.3 stars
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East Regional - Large Print Non-Fiction
LP B WILDER
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LP B WILDER
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LP B WILDER