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Kazimieras “Kaz” Zemeckis was bound for the stars. At least, that was the plan before a bird strike on a routine fighter training flight left him with a glass eye and a job shepherding…
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… and readers of more action-focused spy novels. … A new meaning for moonshot …
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I'll tell you what it was like: there were tons of phone calls. On a landline. Everything took forever. If you made plans with a friend to meet up and one of you went to the wrong location, there was…
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… He worked at the front desk and later as a bellman at a New York City hotel where he took naps during his shifts. … co-host of Fashion Police . … What was it like being a new adult before the internet? …
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This prize-winning first novel from George Saunders bends the mind and history in a way that still has me reeling. Lincoln in the Bardo is set in the days following eleven-year-old Willie Lincoln's…
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… was the sky like the night Willie Lincoln died? Was it a new moon, a full moon, was it cloudy? How did Willie Lincoln … in the Bardo is the Winner of the Man Booker Prize, A New York Times Notable Book, One of Time's Ten Best Novels …
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Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at our libraries. If you're not familiar with TGTM (as we call it here in library-world), it's a special collection of…
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… Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at … of popular books that are truly too good to miss. Some are new and popular titles, others are older titles that might … but are still great reads that deserve another look. New books are added to the collection monthly, and are …
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Claudia Lin is living a double life. Her mother and siblings think she's still working a low-level corporate job (found for her by her brother). In reality she's quit that job and taken an entry…
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… dates, cheating, lying, ghosting, etc). The work in her new job is extremely confidential, but that's not a problem … secrets. Not only has she not told her family about her new job, she's also not told her Chinese immigrant mother … drama aside, she's determined to be successful at her new job and eager to take on a larger investigative role with …
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There are some books that make me feel like I'm smiling from the first page to the last. I finish the book and immediately want to tell everyone about the delight I had in reading it (I think I've…
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… suddenly disappeared leaving the job vacant for him. But a jobs a job? Right? Well, not so much. This job requires him … inconventient attraction he's beginning to feel for his new colleague. A Marvellous Light combines magic and …
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Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at our libraries. If you're not familiar with TGTM (as we call it here in library-world), it's a special collection of…
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… Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at … of popular books that are truly too good to miss. Some are new and popular titles, others are older titles that might … but are still great reads that deserve another look. New books are added to the collection monthly, and are …
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It seems like a perfect meet cute: wide-eyed debutante Eve Ojukwu, fresh from the hinterlands of Kepler, bumps into wealthy bachelor Esteban Mendez-Yuki of megacorp MYCorps on a half-gravity…
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… on a half-gravity dancefloor on the ritzy satellite of New Monte. Except this is all part of a carefully … of one gravity field failure—it starts to look like the New Monte job really will be her last con. But might that mean she’ll never leave New Monte alive? Rebecca Fraimow’s debut is a fun heist novel …
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Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at our libraries. If you're not familiar with TGTM (as we call it here in library-world), it's a special collection of…
Last updated 3 months ago
… Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at … of popular books that are truly too good to miss. Some are new and popular titles, others are older titles that might … but are still great reads that deserve another look. New books are added to the collection monthly, and are …
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A week or so ago I saw a trailer for a new tv show and as it flashed across the screen in quick shots (as trailers do) it seemed so familiar and I thought, is it? Could it be? Yes it was. Starz …
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… A week or so ago I saw a trailer for a new tv show and as it flashed across the screen in quick … and I thought, is it? Could it be? Yes it was. Starz has a new show starting at the end of June about one of my favorite … and find out who did this to her or she can take on a new identity (set up for her by the erased Myfanwy) and move …
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This little guide starts out as the career story of a young black art history major from private liberal arts women's college Smith. Kimberly Drew navigates academic coursework with…
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… Kimberly Drew navigates academic coursework with part-time jobs, internships and gallery opportunities while also … black art blog on Tumblr. She was at work at a new job as an assistant at a privately owned art gallery for ten days when Eric Garner was killed in the New York City borough of Staten Island and when about three …
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"Everyone knows this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise."
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… you otherwise." Thus we enter the world of Jane Smiley's new historical novel. And let me say; for a novel featuring a … to know Eliza Ripple and how she was navigating her new life and her explorations into the murders. Eliza had … decades older than her, she looked forward to starting a new life with him. She soon realizes that her supposedly …
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Alyssa Cole has become an auto-read for me since I discovered her Reluctant Royals series and this start to a new, tangential series, Runaway Royals, keeps the streak going. Though How to Catch a…
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… discovered her Reluctant Royals series and this start to a new, tangential series, Runaway Royals, keeps the streak … her goal. And the second is that this is the start of a new series of fairy-tale royal romances - which I'm pretty … arrived. The tradition in the country of Njaza is that a new King must be married before his coronation and Musoke is …
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I often read a fair amount of reading (understatement) over holidays and vacations but for this most recent bout of holiday days off I topped myself. Mostly because it's just been so darn cold! What…
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… and is thrilled when Alexa agrees to pose as his fake new girlfriend. And that's how it all starts. It sounds a bit … one sparkles. My other title in this vein is Jojo Moyes' new book about that indomintable Louisa clark, Still Me . … question is YES, yes, I did. Here Lou has taken a job in New York city working as a companion to Agnes Gopnik. Agnes …
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Joy comes in many forms in The Yellow Bus by Loren Long. We see the new yellow school bus carrying children from home to school. “And they filled her with joy.” Then, the bus has a new life driving…
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… in many forms in The Yellow Bus by Loren Long. We see the new yellow school bus carrying children from home to school. … “And they filled her with joy.” Then, the bus has a new life driving older riders to the library and to country … the yellow bus always pop off the page. The bus takes on new roles as a place for unhoused people to sleep overnight …
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Portia Hobbs was introduced in Alyssa Cole's A Princess in Theory (the first in her Reluctant Royals series) as a friend of that heroine. Portia was a bit of a mess; partying too much, drinking too…
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… taken the job. But that doesn't seem to be enough for her new boss, Tavish McKenzie. Tavish didn't want an apprentice …
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Raven Leilani's Luster wins The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize for best debut novel.
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… works in an administrative capacity at a New York publishing house while dreaming of a career in art. … in with a digital archivist and autopsist couple from New Jersey. The couple claims their marriage is an open one …
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If you thought Amy from Gone Girl, was devious, wait until you meet Jane. On the outside, Jane appears to be a mild mannered office assistant beginning a new job in Minneapolis.
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… appears to be a mild mannered office assistant beginning a new job in Minneapolis. In reality, Jane is a calculating sociopath using her new position to enact a revenge plot on Steven, a seemingly "nice guy" who doesn't realize that his new girlfriend is cleverly manipulating his life in order to …
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I’m a person who likes to read books that reflect what’s happening in my own life at the time. For example, having just changed careers and started a new job here at the library, I became interested…
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… For example, having just changed careers and started a new job here at the library, I became interested in other … the events of 9/11, she decides to make the leap into a new career as a war reporter. Ward writes vividly and … emotionally about getting her feet under her as a brand-new journalist in Moscow, Syria, and Iraq, giving the reader …
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Dominican-American Alba Duarte is trying to do it all and is in danger of completely losing it as On the Hustle by Adriana Herrera opens. Alba is putting in the work towards her dream of being an…
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… and moving to Dallas? Well that sets in motion a whole new set of complications in this fast-paced, sexy, and …
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I've been waiting to tell you about John Scalzi's forthcoming title for a while now as it was just the antidote I needed for a reading slump. At the time most things I'd been reading were eliciting a…
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… was born. The book opens as Covid-19 is sweeping through New York, but fear not, this is not a Covid story. Jamie Gray …
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Lillian Breaker is at loose ends. She's just turned 28 years old, works at the local Save-a-Lot and is still living in her mother's house (in the attic no less). To say that she's going nowhere would…
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… wouldn't want to jeopardize the Senator's chances for the new job. Sound like a weird book? Okay, I'll admit it, it …
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At some point, I had a sticker that said “I love big books and I cannot lie” - it was a point of pride. But these days, with a toddler, a full time job, and a pandemic level attention span, this…
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… and a pandemic level attention span, this librarian has a new found appreciation for the novella. Rich characters, well … to you too - check out these fantastic and escapist new books in bite size lengths - completely readable in 2-3 …
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Gunslinger Lizbeth Rose lives in what used to be the United States, but after the assassination of FDR in the 1930s Texas and Oklahoma have become a small land of their own known as Texoma.…
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… and Lizbeth makes a living as a hired gun who takes on jobs for those who need protection. Oh and there are Russian … book in the series and Lizbeth has been hired onto a new crew for a job that seems to be relatively … one and all. If you haven't yet read book one of this new series, start with An Easy Death first. … Into the …
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It’s a grisly scene that police photographer Rita Todacheene is called to late one night outside of Albuquerque. Bits of the woman’s body are strewn over the interstate, the victim of an apparent…
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… salvation, growing up on the reservation in the rugged New Mexico countryside. Raised by strong-willed women, Rita’s … wits. Like her protagonist, Ramona Emerson grew up Diné in New Mexico, and now makes her living as a writer and … as Emerson captures the beauty and challenges of the New Mexico countryside and its people defined—perhaps even …
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