F-V Adult Patron Picks 2022

This list is compiled from patron recommendations at our monthly Suggestions on the Spot meeting.
 

Showing 1 - 10 of 10  There are a total of 99 valid entries on the list.

1. The Alice Network

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Author:
Quinn, Kate
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Description:
"Two women--a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947--are brought together in a ... story of courage and redemption"--Amazon.com.

2. Beautiful ruins: a novel

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Author:
Walter, Jess, 1965-
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
Follows a young Italian innkeeper and his almost-love affair with a beautiful American starlet, which draws him into a glittering world filled with unforgettable characters. A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.

3. Cilka's journey

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Author:
Morris, Heather (Screenwriter)
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
"Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: she is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian...

4. Circe: a novel

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Author:
Miller, Madeline
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.

5. Fly girls: how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history

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Author:
O'Brien, Keith, 1973-
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Description:
"High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot"--

6. Make your bed: little things that can change your life...and maybe the world

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Author:
McRaven, William H. (William Harry), 1955-
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
A simple act with powerful consequences. To rise in the morning and complete the first task of the day will give one motivation to do more; to accomplish more. The bed also represents the person. Few things in the home are more personal. Making the bed is a reflection of one's discipline, one's pride and one's personal habits.

7. A man called Ove: a novel

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Author:
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship. "A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door"--Amazon.com.

8. Varina: a novel

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Author:
Frazier, Charles, 1950-
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
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Description:
"Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history"--

9. A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

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Author:
Bryson, Bill
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
Traces the author's adventurous trek along the Appalachian Trail past its natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts.

10. Where the crawdads sing

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Author:
Owens, Delia
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...