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

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2666: A Novel
Roberto Bolano

An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.


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My Name Is Memory
Ann Brashares

Sharing multiple lifetimes with the reincarnations of Sophia, Daniel, a soul with a rare ability to remember his past lives, arrives in the present frustrated that their time together has always been cut short and hopeful that Sophia’s burgeoning memories can help them overcome past-life challenges. By the best-selling author of The Last Summer


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Hip and Hop, Dont Stop!
Jef Czekaj

A rabbit named Hop and a turtle named Hip defy convention when they team up to win a rap music contest against big artists such as LudaFish and Notorious P.I.G., despite their differences.


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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
John Green,David Levithan

Two award-winning authors present the tale of a pair of teens who meet by chance on a Chicago street corner and discover that they share a name and intertwining destinies involving an epic production of a high school musical.


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The Crossing Places (A Ruth Galloway Mystery)
Elly Griffiths

Assisting with the investigation of bones found near England’s Saltmarsh region, archaeologist Ruth Galloway discovers that the remains are bizarrely linked to a case involving a disturbed anonymous letter-writer and a missing child.


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Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 1)
Charlaine Harris

Roe Teagarden joins forces with detective Arthur Smith and mystery writer Robin Crusoe to investigate a series of killings resembling famous historical murders.


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Mudbound
Hillary Jordan

In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.


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The Swan Thieves: A Novel
Elizabeth Kostova

His ordered life thrown into disarray when he begins treating an unstable genius artist who has recently attacked a canvas at the National Gallery of Art, psychiatrist and art hobbyist Andrew Marlow struggles to understand the secret that torments the artist.


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I Got Two Dogs: (Book and CD)
John Lithgow

Despite being different in size, shape, and personality, lovable pooches Fanny and Blue are equally adored by their doting owner who has always accepted them for being just as they are!


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This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
Laura Munson

Recounts how the author told her husband she didn’t believe him when he said he no longer loved her, how their relationship unfolded thereafter, and how the author stopped basing her happiness on things outside her control.


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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie

Vowing to return to his father—the city storyteller—his lost gift of speech, Haroun begins a quest that introduces him to a mad bus driver, the Shadow Warriors, and the land of darkness.


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The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
Kelly Tyler-Lewis

An account of the support group that was dispatched to an opposing side of the continent to assist Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 historical crossing of the Antarctic describes how the Ross Sea ship was lost in a gale, stranding ten men marooned without supplies or a hope of rescue.


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