Staff Picks
Stay in touch with the personal favorites of the KDL Staff. Each title is handpicked.
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The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry Boston psychotherapist Zee Finch faces emotional chaos after the suicide of one of her patients and travels home to Salem for a visit, where she unexpectedly finds herself assisting her father, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease. Catalog Link |
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Claiming Ground by Laura Bell Documents the author’s late-1970s experiences in various eclectic jobs in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin, a personal journey of self-exploration during which she met numerous local eccentrics, struggled to forge a home and realized her love for someone from her past. Catalog Link |
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Murder in the Palais Royal (Aimee Leduc Investigations, No. 10) by Cara Black Accused of shooting her partner, Aimée Leduc must also contend with the fact that someone is impersonating her, a taxman is investigating her firm, and two murders may have a connection to the youth Aimée sent to prison. Catalog Link |
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Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier Marked for greatness after being struck by lightning in infancy, Mary Anning discovers a fossilized skeleton near her 19th century home that triggers attacks on her character and upheavals throughout the religious, scientific, and academic communities. Catalog Link |
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Whiter Than Snow by Sandra Dallas From the best-selling author of Prayers for Sale comes the story of devastating avalanche that traps nine children walking home from school in 1920, and the life-changing effects the disaster has on the people who live in the small Colorado town where it occurs. Catalog Link |
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What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award traces the story of two child Sudanese civil war refugees and their witness to the devastation that has torn their homeland, a time during which one struggles to understand what is happening and the other joins the rebel army. Catalog Link |
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Life Without Summer: A Novel by Lynne Griffin A tale told in alternating voices follows the experiences of bereaved mother Tessa who is swept up by an increasingly bleak search for answers after her beloved four-year-old daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident, and her grief counselor, Celia, whose efforts to help Tessa are marked by painful family memories. Catalog Link |
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Same Kind Of Different As Me by Ron Hall,Denver Moore Recounts how one co-author suffered through plantation-style slavery until the 1960s and homelessness before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened. Catalog Link |
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe Forced to set aside her Ph.D. research in order to help the settling of her late grandmother’s abandoned home, Connie Goodwin discovers a hidden key among her grandmother’s possessions that is linked to a darker chapter in Salem witch trial history. Catalog Link |
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The Heart Is Not a Size by Beth Kephart Fifteen-year-old Georgia learns a great deal about herself and her troubled best friend Riley when they become part of a group of suburban Pennsylvania teenagers that go to Anapra, a squatters village in the border town of Juarez, Mexico, to undertake a community construction project. Catalog Link |
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The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga A fifteen-year-old “geek” who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself. Catalog Link |
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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick Analyzes the characters and contributions of the Plains Indians leader and forefront Union cavalry officer while explaining how the conflict forged a Native American alliance and set the stage for the reservation confinement of major tribal leaders. By the National Book Award-winning author of Mayflower Catalog Link |
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These Granite Islands: A Novel by Sarah Stonich A woman on her deathbed recalls the summer of 1936, when her new friend, Cathryn, transformed the way she thought forever, in an intimate story of friendship, marriage, and relationships. Catalog Link |