Staff Picks
Stay in touch with the personal favorites of the KDL Staff. Each title is handpicked.
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Fairy Bad Day by Amanda Ashby High schooler Emma is devastated to learn that she may not follow in her mother’s footsteps as a dragon slayer, but with an unlikely band of allies she discovers that she may, indeed, be more adept at slaying giant killer fairies. Catalog Link |
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The Jefferson Key: A Novel by Steve Berry Cotton Malone battles a group of families whose influence dates back to the American Revolution and who seek to crack a code devised by Thomas Jefferson himself in their quest for power. Catalog Link |
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White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1) by Holly Black Rendered an outsider because of his dubious family of magical con artists, Cassel struggles with lingering guilt over his role in a friend’s death years earlier and begins experiencing bizarre dreams about a white cat that make him question his dead friend’s actual fate. Catalog Link |
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Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family) by Melissa De La Cruz Engaged to Bran, the heir to Fair Haven and Gardiners Island, Freya, a bartender and witch who has a potion to cure every kind of heartache, finds her life spiraling out of control when a young girl goes missing after taking one of her irresistible cocktails. Catalog Link |
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West of Here by Jonathan Evison A narrative set in a fictional town on Washington State’s Pacific coast contrasts the goals of the pioneers who settled there in 1890 with the trivial pursuits of the town’s present-day inhabitants. Catalog Link |
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Lowcountry Summer: A Plantation Novel by Dorothea Benton Frank When Caroline Wimbley Levine returned to Tall Pines Plantation, she never expected to make peace with long-buried truths about herself and her family. Catalog Link |
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel by Tom Franklin African-American Constable Silas Jones must confront his white former friend Larry Ott, who has lived under suspicion for 20 years since a girl disappeared while on a date with him, after another girl disappears and Larry is blamed once again. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Hell at the Breech. Catalog Link |
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The Kitchen House: A Novel by Kathleen Grissom Working as an indentured servant alongside slaves on a tobacco plantation, Lavinia, a 7-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, finds her light skin and situation placing her between two very different worlds that test her loyalties. Catalog Link |
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Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake by Michael Kaplan From her first bite, young Betty Bunny likes chocolate cake so much that she claims she will marry it one day, and she has trouble learning to wait patiently until she can have her next taste. Catalog Link |
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The Hypnotist: A Novel by Lars Kepler A U.S. release of an internationally best-selling title finds Swedish Detective Inspector Joona Linna investigating the murders of three family members, whose killing was witnessed by a fourth intended victim, a traumatized child whose shock Linna hopes to penetrate through a controversial hypnotism session. Catalog Link |
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography by Rob Lowe The 1980s Brat Pack founder presents an account of his life in show business and politics, tracing his counter-culture youth in Malibu, his work on such productions as “The Outsiders” and “The West Wing” and his pursuits of family and sobriety. Catalog Link |
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Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich Draws on court records, FBI transcripts, NASA documents and first-person interviews to reconstruct NASA fellow Thad Roberts’s theft of invaluable moon rocks, offering insight into Roberts’s personality, the nature of his accomplices and their sophisticated break-in plan. Catalog Link |
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Gideon's Sword by Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child After his relentless quest to avenge his father’s death leads him to become a rogue operative with only one year to live, Gideon Crew must search the globe for plans to a menacing weapon of mass destruction, in a new series by the best-selling authors of Cemetery Dance. Catalog Link |
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there. Catalog Link |
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson “In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and journalists who study them”— Catalog Link |
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Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan Descending on a family beach house won in a bet years earlier, three generations of women gradually impart difficult respective secrets including a pregnancy, a terrible crush, and a deeply-held resentment for past misdeeds. Catalog Link |
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My Mom is a Fob: Earnest Advice in Broken English from Your Asian-American Mom by Teresa Wu,Serena Wu Collects texts, emails and photos submitted to the web site mymomisafob.com, lovingly poking fun at mothers who are “fresh off the boat” from Asia. Catalog Link |