Staff Picks: Sean's Favorite Books | Avalon Free Public Library

1) 1619 project

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2) 1924: The Year That Made Hitler

Author

Range, Peter Ross

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The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924 — the year that made a monster.
Before Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would interpret and distort Germany's historical traditions to support his vision for the Third Reich.
Everything that would come — the rallies and riots, the single-minded deployment...

3) absolute book

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4) Afterparties: stories

Author

So, Anthony

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"A debut story collection about Cambodian-American life-immersive and comic, yet unsparing-that marks the arrival of an indisputable new talent in American fiction"--

5) All the light we cannot see: a novel

Author

Doerr, Anthony

Series

Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice

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From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...

6) An American marriage

Author

Jones, Tayari

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"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--

7) And the mountains echoed

Author

Hosseini, Khaled

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Brothers and sisters mold us into who we are to become, but love and sacrifice also come with betrayal and bitterness as a multigenerational-family tale unfolds. 384pp., 2M, Auth res: San Jose, CA, Tour

8) annihilation

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9) The arrivals: a novel

Author

Moore, Meg Mitchell

10) The Association of Small Bombs

Author

Mahajan, Karan

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The Association of Small Bombs is an expansive and deeply humane novel that is at once groundbreaking in empathy, dazzling in acuity, and ambitious in scope.When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up their family's television at a repair shop with their friend Mansoor Ahmed one day in 1996, disaster strikes without warning. A bomb-one of the many "small" bombs that go off seemingly unheralded across the world-detonates in...

11) The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Author

Collins, Suzanne

Series

Hunger Games trilogy volume prequel

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Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price.

It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and

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12) Bath haus: a thriller

Author

Vernon, P. J

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"A young gay man in a perfect marriage strives to keep a dangerous indiscretion from his loving husband"--

13) The bees

Author

Paull, Laline

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Fugitive sanitation worker Flora 717 holds the life of her hive in her hands when a forbidden question upends a world in which all are meant to blindly serve and worship the Queen, whose fertility Flora 717 just called into question. Debut Novel, 352pp., 100K, Auth res: UK

14) Before the fall

Author

Hawley, Noah

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When Scott Burroughs, a blue-collar painter, leaves Martha?s Vineyard with ten wealthy and elite passengers heading to New York, he never expects the tragedy that follows. But now he?s alone, the only survivor other than a young boy from a famous family. Now that boy is depending on Scott. But what really happened out there on the water? 400pp., 100K

15) beggar king

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16) Behind her eyes

Author

Pinborough, Sarah

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"Only two can keep a secret if one of them is dead. David and Adele seem like the ideal pair. He's a successful psychiatrist, she is his picture-perfect wife who adores him. But why is he so controlling? And why is she keeping things hidden? As Louise, David's new secretary, is drawn into their orbit, she uncovers more puzzling questions than answers. The only thing that is crystal clear is that something in this marriage is very, very wrong. But...

17) Bel Canto

Author

Patchett, Ann

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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

"Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." —Washington Post Book World

New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis

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18) Billy Summers

Author

King, Stephen

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"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...

19) Bird box

Author

Malerman, Josh

Series

Bird Box novels volume 1

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Five years after the nightmare first descended, Malorie and her young children join a band of strangers on a river trip in utter darkness to brave the terrifying creature who leads those who see it to unspeakable violence. Debut Novel, 272pp., 50K, Auth res: Royal Oak, MI

20) Bossypants

Author

Fey, Tina

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Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL" (Sunday Telegraph).
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had...