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

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The Winner
David Baldacci

Ten years after being forced to participate in an illegal lottery scheme, wealthy single mother LuAnn Tyler must elude the unwanted attentions of the FBI and stop a dangerous killer from her past who wants to destroy her.


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Beat the Reaper: A Novel
Josh Bazell

The carefully orchestrated life of Manhattan emergency room doctor and witness-protection program participant Peter Brown unravels in the course of a day that begins with a mugging and a new patient who knows him from his previous existence.


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The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe (Scientists in the Field Series)
Loree Griffin Burns

Bees don’t just produce honey. Your food supply depends on them. Apiarist Dave Hackenberg’s bees have a busy travel schedule, pollinating around the United States from February to July. So when Dave inspected four hundred of his hives and found that the bees had simply vanished, a dream team of bee scientists got to work.


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The Unfinished Angel
Sharon Creech

Take an extraordinary angel, a spunky girl named Zola, a whole lot of orphans, and one funny pigeon—mix them all up and you’ve got a magical, hilarious, endearing tale by a Newbery Medal-winning author imbued with wonder and an appreciation for all the little things that make life big.


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Out of My Mind
Sharon M. Draper

Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.


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A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

Working side-by-side for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha hide illicit secrets from one another while interacting with a motley assortment of equally troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war future. By the National Book Award-nominated author of Look at Me.


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Loving Frank: A Novel
Nancy Horan

Fact and fiction blend in a historical novel that chronicles the relationship between seminal architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney, from their meeting in Oak Park, Illinois, when they were each married to another, to the clandestine affair that shocked Chicago society.


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The God of the Hive: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
Laurie R. King

A conclusion to the best-selling The Language of Bees finds Mary Russell picking up a mysterious friend while making her way back to London, Sherlock Holmes investigating questions about a ruthless villain while hiding a wounded son, and murderous adversaries setting a deadly trap.


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The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World.
Jennifer Baggett,Holly C. Corbett,Amanda Pressner

Three friends at a crossroads in their 20ies quit their high pressure New York media jobs; leave their friends, boyfriends and everything familiar behind; and embark on a year-long backpacking adventure around the world.


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The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye: An Enola Holmes Mystery
Nancy Springer

A conclusion to the popular series finds Enola searching for the missing Lady Blanchefleur del Campo and receiving a message from her long-lost mother that prompts a search through the eerie underground tunnels of London.


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Borderline
Allan Stratton

Despite the strained relationship between them, 15-year-old Sami Sabiri risks his life to uncover the truth when his father is implicated in a terrorist plot. By the author of Chanda’s Wars.


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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant

Documents the efforts of a tiger conservation leader who was forced to hunt a man-eating tiger through the brutal Siberian winter, an effort that familiarized him with the creature’s history, motives and unique method of attack.


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A Vintage Affair: A Novel
Isabel Wolff

Opening a vintage clothing shop in London where she restores classic gowns, Phoebe Swift works to keep up with her unexpected immediate success while struggling with her best friend’s death, a rivalry between two suitors and her mother’s cosmetic surgery fixation.


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