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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1. The quiet librarian

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Author:
Eskens, Allen, 1963-
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20 copies, 113 people are on the wait list.
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"Hana Babic is a quiet middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective arrives with the news that her best friend has been murdered, Hana knows that something evil has come for her--a dark remnant of the past she and her friend had shared. Thirty years before, Hana was someone else: Nura Divjak, a teenager growing up in the mountains of war-torn Bosniauntil Serbian soldiers arrived to slaughter...

2. A killing cold

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Author:
Marshall, Kate Alice
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25 copies, 97 people are on the wait list.
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"A woman invited to her wealthy fiancé's family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secret--and that she's been there before"--

3. The strange case of Jane O: a novel

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Author:
Walker, Karen Thompson
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4 stars
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20 copies, 38 people are on the wait list.
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"A woman born with perfect memory suddenly develops a series of eerie psychological symptoms--blackouts, hallucinations, premonitions, an inexplicable sense of dread. It is the first year after her child is born, and she and her untraditional psychiatrist struggle to solve the mystery of what is happening to Jane, to her mind. Then Jane suddenly goes missing and is found a day later lying unconscious in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, with no memory of...

4. Broken country: a novel

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Author:
Hall, Clare Leslie
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65 copies, 392 people are on the wait list.
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"Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. ... When Beth's brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn't realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives, for the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager--the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo,...

5. All the other mothers hate me: a novel

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Author:
Harman, Sarah, 1986-
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20 copies, 118 people are on the wait list.
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"Luckiest Girl Alive meets A Simple Favor in this voice driven, stylish, and darkly comedic debut thriller about a pop star turned bad mom who will do anything to save her son after he becomes the prime suspect in his classmate's disappearance, from the winner of the Lucy Cavendish Prize for Fiction."--

6. Wild dark shore

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Author:
McConaghy, Charlotte
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5 stars
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30 copies, 200 people are on the wait list.
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"A novel about a family living alone on a remote island, when a mysterious woman washes up on shore"--