Staff Picks
Stay in touch with the personal favorites of the KDL Staff. Each title is handpicked.

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The Child Thief: A Novel
Brom

Reveals the world of Peter Pan through the eyes of Nick, a fatherless teen whose dreams of wonderland are replaced by the gritty reality of life and death, as Peter’s recruits are forced into a lethal battle where the line between good and evil is blurred.


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Graceling
Kristin Cashore

Having the ability to kill a man with her bare hands since she was a young girl, Katsa, a Graceling, has been forced to do the king’s dirty work for years in order to live in his kingdom, but things change dramatically when she falls in love with Prince Po and secrets about her powers are suddenly revealed.


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Al Capone Shines My Shoes
Gennifer Choldenko

Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that gangster Al Capone wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.


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Trouble: A Novel
Kate Christensen

Fleeing to Mexico City for a holiday retreat in the wake of a crumbled marriage and a scandalous affair, former college friends Josie and Raquel experience opportunities to discover their sexual selves while grappling with realizations about how sex has compromised their pasts.


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Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
Suzanne Collins

By winning the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.


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Everything Matters!: A Novel
Jr., Ron Currie

Encoded at birth with a prophecy about the world ending in thirty-six years, Junior Thibodeaux grapples with the question of whether or not anything he does matters, in this novel from the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award-winner.


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Vanished
Joseph Finder

After an assault leaves his estranged brother nowhere to be found and his sister-in-law in a coma, security investigator and ex-intelligence agent Nick Heller is forced to contend with one of the most powerful and secretive corporations in the world.


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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel
Jamie Ford

When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.


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Mr. Darcy, Vampyre
Amanda Grange

Presents a paranormal sequel to Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”


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The Magicians: A Novel
Lev Grossman

After graduating from a secret, exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, Quentin Coldwater finds that a fictional land from a series of childhood fantasy novels is real, but is more darker and dangerous than he could have imagined.


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The Weight of Silence
Heather Gudenkauf

When their seven-year-old daughter goes missing, Antonia evaluates her decision to stay in a loveless marriage that caused her child to withdraw into silence, while Martin confronts an uncomfortable aspect of his own personality.


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Gods in Alabama
Joshilyn Jackson

Ten years after leaving, Arlene Fleet finds she still has not escaped Possett, Alabama, when an old classmate turns up asking questions about a crime Arlene committed in her youth, forcing her into a confrontation with her past.


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The Far Pavilions
M. M. Kaye

A monumental, internationally best-selling novel set in nineteenth-century India weaves a vast tapestry of love, war, and adventure in the foothills of the towering Himalayas.


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Eyes Like Stars: Theatre Illuminata, Act I
Lisa Mantchev

Thirteen-year-old Bertie strives to save Theater Illuminata, the only home she has ever known, but is hindered by the Players who magically live on there, especially Ariel, who is desperate to escape into the outside world.


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Rosemary and Rue: An October Daye Novel
Seanan McGuire

Half-fae Toby retreats to the human world after being rejected by her Faerie family, but finds her anonymity compromised by the murder of an important countess who binds her to investigate, forcing Toby to resume her fae position.


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Dog on It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery (Chet and Bernie Mysteries)
Spencer Quinn

Intrepid canine detective Chet accompanies his human police officer partner, Bernie, on a first assignment involving the disappearance of a teenage girl who ran with the wrong crowd, a case that is complicated by Bernie’s dysfunctional personal life.


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Ladies of the Lake
Haywood Smith

Spending a summer together in the hopes of inheriting their grandmother’s lake estate, four sisters share old rivalries and new understandings while struggling with respective challenges in the areas of finance, marriage, and boundaries. By the best-selling author of The Red Hat Club.


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The Blacker the Berry (Ala Notable Children's Books. Middle Readers)
Joyce Carol Thomas

Many shades of black are celebrated in this wonderful collection of poems and portraits as diverse skin colors are compared to beautiful things in and of the world, including rich black coffee and a bronze autumn leaf.


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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel
David Wroblewski

A Hamlet-style tale that also celebrates the ancient alliance between humans and dogs follow the coming-of-age of speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father’s death.


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