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3.9 stars
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SEPTEMBER 18 IS NATIONAL FIRST LOVE DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO ROMANCE FICTION
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"[A] unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance....
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Emergency Dessert Squad mysteries volume 1.
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SEPTEMBER 4 IS EAT AN EXTRA DESSERT DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO DESSERT-THEMED MYSTERY FICTION
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SEPTEMBER 8 IS STAR TREK DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO WRITTEN BY A STAR TREK CAST MEMBER
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"Brent Spiner's explosive and hilarious novel is a personal look at the slightly askew relationship between a celebrity and his fans. If the Coen Brothers were to make a Star Trek movie, involving the complexity of fan obsession and sci-fi, this noir comedy might just be the one. Set in 1991, just as Star Trek: The Next Generation has rocketed the cast to global fame, the young and impressionable actor Brent Spiner receives a mysterious package and...
4. Ghost wall
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3 stars
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SEPTEMBER 24 IS NATIONAL GHOST HUNTING DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO GHOST-RELATED FICTION
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"In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age. For two weeks, the length of her father's vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan; they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbit. The students are...
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4.5 stars
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SEPTEMBER 22 IS HOBBIT DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO HOBBIT-RELATED FICTION
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Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
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4.3 stars
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SEPTEMBER 21 IS STEPHEN KING'S BIRTHDAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO WRITTEN BY STEPHEN KING
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"In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same...
7. Labor Day
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2.3 stars
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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023 IS LABOR DAY
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Relates a story of love, sexual passion, painful adolescence, and devastating betrayal as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy--and the man he later becomes--looking back on the events of a single long, hot, and life-altering weekend.
8. Matilda
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5 stars
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SEPTEMBER 13 IS ROALD DAHL DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO AUTHORED BY ROALD DAHL
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Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
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4 stars
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SEPTEMBER 12 IS NATIONAL VIDEO GAMES DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO VIDEO-GAME-RELATED FICTION
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"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
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3.3 stars
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SEPTEMBER 9 IS WONDERFUL WEIRDOS DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO FEATURE "WEIRD" CHARACTERS
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Unwillingly brought together to care for their ailing mother, three sisters who were named after famous Shakespearean characters discover that everything they have been avoiding may prove more worthwhile than expected.