Britt's Staff Picks

 

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1. The Martian: a novel

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Author:
Weir, Andy
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4.5 stars
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"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...

2. The goldfinch

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Author:
Tartt, Donna
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3.9 stars
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East Regional - Large Print
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Oberlin Regional - Large Print
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"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills...

3. Being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end

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Author:
Gawande, Atul
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4.2 stars
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Large Print Non-Fiction
LP 362.17 GAWAN
Middlecreek Community - Large Print Non-Fiction
LP 362.17 GAWAN
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Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill.

4. Circe: a novel

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Author:
Miller, Madeline
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4.4 stars
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Large Print
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Holly Springs Community - Large Print
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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. Educated: a memoir

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Westover, Tara
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"An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University"--Amazon.com.

6. Good omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch

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Author:
Gaiman, Neil
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Wake Forest Community - Large Print
LP GAIMAN
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The world is going to end next Saturday, but there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race.

7. Poverty, by America

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Author:
Desmond, Matthew
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4.1 stars
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Large Print Non-Fiction
LP 362.509 DESMO
Morrisville Community - Large Print Non-Fiction
LP 362.509 DESMO
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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and...

8. Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

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Author:
Shetterly, Margot Lee
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3.5 stars
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Morrisville Community - Large Print Non-Fiction
LP 510.92 LEESH
Southeast Regional - Large Print Non-Fiction
LP 510.92 LEESH
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Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives,...