Twice a year the library staff display their current book favorites for you to read and enjoy. Rate the books you read from the display by submitting a ballot at your branch in order to enter a drawing for a $15 gift card. Check out what the library staff considers current "good reads" and give us your feedback on our choices by voting at a branch and posting a comment.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY GLUE GUN by Lois Winston

Anastasia Pollack thinks she has hit bottom when she is left with a dead husband, his $50,000 gambling debt, two teenage sons and a nasty Communist mother-in law. When a coworker is found dead in her office chair, she realizes it can get worse.

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BEFORE EVER AFTER by Samantha Sotto

Three years after her husband Max’s death, a young man shows up at Shelly’s door and says that he is Max’s grandson. He also claims that Max is alive and well and they need to go find him.

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BLIND YOUR PONIES by Stanley Gordon West

Sam Pickett’s Willow Creek, Montana high school basketball team hasn’t won a game in 5 seasons. Can a very tall and clumsy Norwegian exchange student and a homesick transplant from Minnesota turn the team around?

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CLOUD ROADS by Martha Wells

Thinking he was the last of his kind, Moon has spent his life living among other species and hiding what he is, a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. When he is once again cast out by an adopted tribe, he discovers a shape-shifter like himself who pulls him into a world of intrigue and a fight for his species survival.

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THE DANGEROUS EDGE OF THINGS by Tina Whittle

While trying to run her newly inherited Confederate-themed gun shop, Tia Randolph's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body in her brother's driveway.

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DOC by Mary Doria Russell

Fact and mythmaking converge as John Henry Holliday (Doc) comes alive in Dodge City. Readers can almost smell the sawdust and hear the tinkling of saloon pianos. A historical novel filled with action, humor and philosophy.

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DRAGON BOUND by Thea Harrison

Pia Giovanni, half human and half wyr, is blackmailed into stealing a coin from the hoard of a dragon, Dragos Cuelebre. After being caught in the act, Dragos spares her life but claims her as his own.

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THE DRY GRASS OF AUGUST by Anna Jean Mayhew

In 1954, 13-year-old Jubie travels in the South with her family and their black maid Mary Luther. Mary has always been there for her, making up for her father's rages and her mother's neglect. Jubie is unprepared for the racial tension and tragedy they encounter.

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A FIERCE RADIANCE by Lauren Belfer

In the anxious days after Pearl Harbor, talented "Life" magazine reporter Clara Shipley finds herself on top of one of the nation's most important stories--the race to discover penicillin at the Rockefeller Institute. When a researcher at the institute dies under suspicious circumstances, the stakes become starkly clear: a murder has been committed to obtain these lucrative new drugs. With lives and a new love hanging in the balance, Claire will put herself at the center of danger to find a killer--no matter what price she may have to pay.

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FRIENDSHIP BREAD by Darien Gee

This is a heartwarming story about the power of giving. An anonymous gift of Amish Friendship Bread given to a grieving mother leads to new friendships and hope.

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THE INFORMATIONIST by Taylor Stevens

Vanessa Munroe, the daughter of American missionaries in Cameroon, has forged a new life as an “informationist,” a person who gathers information for corporations. She is intrigued when offered a large check by an American oilman to find his daughter, who went missing in Africa.

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INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS by Imogen Robertson

Discovering a dead neighbor from a menacing local estate, the unconventional Mrs. Westerman of 1780 Sussex enlists a reclusive local anatomist to uncover the family's secrets, which include ties to the American Revolution and links to the murder of a music shop owner.

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THE KITCHEN DAUGHTER by Jael McHenry

After the unexpected death of her parents, shy and sheltered Ginny Selvaggio, a young woman with Asperger’s Syndrome, seeks comfort in family recipes. But as she cooks the recipes, a ghost appears with a cryptic warning—before vanishing like steam from a cooling dish.

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THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

A former foster child ends up homeless when she turns eighteen but finds redemption and solace in her love of flowers and their meanings.

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LEARNING TO SWIM by Sara J. Henry

Witnessing a small boy being thrown from a passing ferry into the middle of Lake Champlain, Troy Chance rescues the child only to discover that he had been kidnapped and is at the center of a bizarre and violent plot.

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LOST IN SHANGRI-LA by Mitchell Zuckoff

Near the end of WWII, a plane carrying members of the US military, including Women’s Army Corps members, crashed in a part of the New Guinea jungle known for its cannibalistic tribes. There were only three survivors. This is the story of their survival and the stunning efforts undertaken to save them.

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MY YEAR WITH ELEANOR by Noelle Hancock

“Do one new thing every day that scares you.”
This Eleanor Roosevelt quote written on a coffeehouse chalkboard propels newly unemployed Noelle Hancock into a year-long adventure, challenging her self-doubts and fears. Poignant, lighthearted, and very funny.

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NO BIKING IN THE HOUSE WITHOUT A HELMET by Melissa Fay Greene

Melissa Fay Greene and her husband have 4 children when they decide to adopt one more. One more becomes 9 kids total. This is the story of their adventure told with humor, honesty and heart. A celebration of parenthood.

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PIONEER WOMAN: BLACK HEELS TO TRACTOR WHEELS—A LOVE STORY by Ree Drummond

The true account of how Ree Drummond, a city girl, met and married her “Marlboro Man.”

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THE SILENT LAND by Graham Joyce

Buried under a flash avalanche while skiing, young married Jake and Zoe miraculously dig their way out only to discover themselves alone in an eerily silent, evacuated region, and are unable to contact the outside world.

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SOUTH OF SUPERIOR by Ellen Airgood

Moving to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to care for an aging family friend, Madeline Stone becomes involved in the lives of the small community and two octogenarian sisters who teach her valuable lessons about love and goodwill.

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THE TRINITY SIX by Charles Cumming

Dr. Sam Gaddis’s life and career has not been going so well. When an old friend shares with him staggering new information about an unknown sixth member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring – a man who has evaded detection for his entire life – Sam’s life takes a turn, maybe for the worst.

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TURN OF MIND by Alice LaPlante

UNDER FISHBONE CLOUDS by Sam Meekings

A universal love story, within a panorama of Chinese myth, culture and history.
When the Jade Emperor challenges the Kitchen God to fathom the workings of the human heart, the Kitchen God follows the lives of Jinyi and his wife, Yuying, from the days of their early love into their old age.

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UNDER WRAPS by Hannah Jayne

Immune to magic, Sophie Lawson, an agent with the Underworld Detection Agency, thinks she knows everything there is to know about the undead and paranormal; but a series of grisly murders forces her to rely on an unknown partner, Parker Hayes.

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VACLAV & LENA by Haley Tanner