Library Reads

Featuring books from the two newest monthly lists of the top books that librarians across the country love - from www.libraryreads.org

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Book cover for "Automatic noodle"
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"You don't have to eat food to know the way to a city's heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know : making food--the tastiest hand-pulled noodles around--for the humans of San Francisco, who are recovering from a devastating war. But when their robot-run business starts causing a stir, a targeted wave of one-star reviews...
Book cover for "The blonde who came in from the cold"
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Blonde identity volume 2.
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3 stars
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"Ten years ago, they joined the CIA. Six years ago, he left the game. Five years ago, they fell in love. One year ago, she ran out into the cold with absolutely no intention of ever coming back. And two minutes ago, they woke up, bloody and bruised and handcuffed together in the dark. They don't know where they are. They don't know how they got there. And they have absolutely no idea who is after them or what this nameless, faceless villain wants"--...
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"Was it... Bitter, all-consuming jealousy? Pathological sibling rivalry? Pure insanity? Whatever the cause-and everyone has a theory-it's the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family. Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers when...
Book cover for "The magician of tiger castle"
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"The beloved author of Holes presents his first adult novel, a modern fantasy classic of forbidden love, a crumbling kingdom, and the unexpected magic all around us. Long ago and faraway (and somewhere south of France), lies the kingdom of Esquaveta. There, Princess Tullia is in nearly as much peril as her struggling kingdom. Esquaveta desperately needs to forge an alliance with Oxatania, and to that end, Tullia's father has arranged a marriage between...
Book cover for "How to be a saint"
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"The ideal book for anyone who likes their comedy with a side of history and a dash of sacrilege, HOW TO BE A SAINT dives into the wild stories of saints and the bizarrely bureaucratic process of canonization in order to help readers get their halos"--
Book cover for "Lucky day"
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"Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, 8 million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways : strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it's not always good. Vera, a former...
Book cover for "The dead husband cookbook"
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"One Husband, Well Done... In 1987, Maria and Damien Capello co-opened Polpette Della Nonna, a much beloved Italian restaurant in upstate New York. Despite its immense popularity, Polpette closed suddenly in 1995, shortly after Damien's untimely death. The media circus was intense, gossip swirling around the mysterious matriarch, claiming Maria murdered her husband to build her culinary empire on his bones--but the entire Capello family maintained...
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Book cover for "A Land So Wide"
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Book cover for "The Wilderness"
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Book cover for "The Phoebe Variations"
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Book cover for "Breathe In, Bleed Out"
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Book cover for "Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature"
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Book cover for "The Librarians"
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Book cover for "You Weren't Meant to Be Human"
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