2019 Few of Our Favorite Things

Titles included in the WCPL 2019 booklet A Few of Our Favorite Things
 

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1. An anonymous girl

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Author:
Hendricks, Greer
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3.8 stars
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Duraleigh Road - Large Print
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East Regional - Large Print
LP HENDRICK
Eva H. Perry Regional - Large Print
LP HENDRICK
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"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking...and what she's hiding"--

2. The nickel boys: a novel

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Author:
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
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4.4 stars
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49 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
East Regional - Adult Fiction
WHITEHEA
Express - Fayetteville St. - Adult Fiction
WHITEHEA
Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Fiction
WHITEHEA
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Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

3. The price you pay

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Author:
Truhen, Aidan
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3.7 stars
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
TRUHEN
Cary Regional - Adult Fiction has 2
TRUHEN
East Regional - Adult Fiction has 2
TRUHEN
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"... All is good in the life of Jack Price. His drug operation is the Amazon of cocaine trafficking, and no one can breach his complex security system. But then: His downstairs neighbor is professionally executed. That the murder is a sign for Jack becomes perfectly clear a few days later when he arrives home and is beaten to a bloody pulp by a squad of enforcers. Now revenge is on his mind, and he reaches out to his ex-Soviet associate. Unfortunately,...

4. Save me the plums: my Gourmet memoir

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Author:
Reichl, Ruth
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Biography has 2
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Fuquay-Varina Community - Biography
B REICHL
Middlecreek Community - Biography
B REICHL
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"When Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America's oldest epicurean magazine, she declined. She was a writer, not a manager, and had no inclination to be anyone's boss. Yet Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career. How could she say no? This is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment restaurants became...

5. Sounds like Titanic: a memoir

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Author:
Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto
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3.5 stars
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Cary Regional - Biography
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East Regional - Biography
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Biography has 2
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6. The toll

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Author:
Priest, Cherie
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2.8 stars
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Cary Regional - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror has 2
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Fuquay-Varina Community - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
PRIEST
Morrisville Community - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
PRIEST
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State Road 177 runs along the Suwannee River, between Fargo, Georgia, and the Okefenokee Swamp. Drive that route from east to west, and you'll cross six bridges. Take it from west to east, and you might find seven. But you'd better hope not. Titus and Davina Bell leave their hotel in Fargo for a second honeymoon canoeing the Okefenokee Swamp. But shortly before they reach their destination, they draw up to a halt at the edge of a rickety bridge with...

7. Trail of lightning

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Author:
Roanhorse, Rebecca
Series:
Sixth world volume 1.
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3.9 stars
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"While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much more terrifying than...

8. Us against you: a novel

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Author:
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
Series:
Beartown volume 2.
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4.1 stars
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Duraleigh Road - Adult Fiction
BACKMAN
Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Fiction
BACKMAN
Green Road Community - Adult Fiction
BACKMAN
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"Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair ... It's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in the neighboring town of Hed, take in that fact. As the tension mounts between the two adversaries, a newcomer arrives who gives Beartown hockey a surprising...

9. With the fire on high

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Acevedo, Elizabeth
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Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef.

10. The woman in the window

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Author:
Finn, A. J.
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3.7 stars
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8 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Morrisville Community - Adult Fiction
FINN
North Regional - Adult Fiction
FINN
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Leesville Community - Large Print
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Morrisville Community - Large Print
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Oberlin Regional - Large Print
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"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening ... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies ... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble -- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is...