2019 Few of Our Favorite Things

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

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1. Before we were yours: a novel

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Author:
Wingate, Lisa
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...

2. 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.

3. The night tiger

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Author:
Choo, Yangsze
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"Choo narrates this richly complex novel herself, her gorgeous writing delivered in a voice that is deep and precise and lovely, both British and not quite. Her tone and words transport us..." — San Francisco Chronicle
This program is read by the author.
A sweeping historical audiobook about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.
Quick-witted,

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4. Once upon a river: a novel

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Author:
Setterfield, Diane
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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"Setterfield's prose feels lifted from another era, a gothic lyricism resembling old classics like Jane Eyre." —Entertainment Weekly

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteenth Tale comes a "swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful" (Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe) novel about how we explain the world to ourselves, ourselves to others, and the meaning...