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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81. The lies I tell: a novel

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Author:
Clark, Julie, 1971-
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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...

82. The light between oceans: a novel

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Stedman, M. L.
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"A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore"--

83. Little women

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Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Series:
Little Women series volume 1.
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

84. The lost man

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Harper, Jane (Jane Elizabeth)
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries." —Stephen King
Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from Jane Harper
Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback.
Their third brother,

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85. The love of my life

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Walsh, Rosie
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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...

86. The lying game

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Ware, Ruth
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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...

87. Magpie murders

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Author:
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
Series:
Magpie murders volume 1.
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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...

88. The making of biblical womanhood: how the subjugation of women became gospel truth

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Barr, Beth Allison, 1975-
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"A trusted historian shows that "biblical womanhood" isn't biblical, but was born in a clearly definable historical moment, and presents a better way forward for the contemporary church"--

89. The marriage portrait

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O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-
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"A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici"--

90. The murder of Roger Ackroyd: a Hercule Poirot mystery

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Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
Series:
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 3.
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4.2 stars
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"This is Agatha Christie's masterpiece, and if she never wrote another word, she'd have still gone down as the Queen." –LOUISE PENNY, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Ingenious and unexpected." –NEW YORK TIMES

The official edition of the beloved classic voted by the British Crime Writers' Association as the "Best Crime Novel of all Time," now featuring a new introduction by

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91. My sister, the serial killer: a novel

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Braithwaite, Oyinkan
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"Slasher meets satire in this darkly comic novel set in Nigeria about a woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends"--

92. The Name of the Wind : Day One

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Rothfuss, Patrick, 1973-
Series:
Kingkiller chronicles volume 1.
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"The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages, you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But this book is so much more, for the story it tells reveals the truth behind...

93. News of the world: a novel

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Jiles, Paulette, 1943-
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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...

94. The nickel boys: a novel

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Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
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Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

95. Nine perfect strangers

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Moriarty, Liane
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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,...

96. The nineties: a book

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Klosterman, Chuck, 1972-
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"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"--

97. North and South

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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
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Mrs. Gaskell portrays industrial conditions in various regions of England in this nineteenth-century psychological novel.

98. One by one

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Ware, Ruth
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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"--

99. One of us is lying

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McManus, Karen M.
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Bayview High series volume 1.
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When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case.

100. The orphan master's son: a novel

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Johnson, Adam, 1967-
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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...