2019 Few of Our Favorite Things

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

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1. Daisy Jones & the Six: a novel

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Author:
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....

2. Dark sacred night

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Author:
Connelly, Michael, 1956-
Series:
Renee Ballard novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Detective Renee Ballard is working the graveyard shift again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck in and is rifling through old file cabinets.The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but eventually Bosch persuades her to help and she relents. Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old...

3. The golden hour: a novel

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Author:
Williams, Beatriz
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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"The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora "Lulu" Randolph arrives in the Bahamas to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarch to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial...

4. The nickel boys: a novel

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Author:
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

5. Us against you: a novel

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Author:
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
Series:
Beartown volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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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...