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Trends and More

What is Library Development Reading?

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Written via a series of letters, this book introduces us to writer Juliet Ashton. In 1946, Juliet receives a letter from a complete stranger, a member of a secret book club formed by residents of Guernsey during WWII. Read how Guernsey, its inhabitants, and their stories of life under Nazi occupation affect Juliet’s world.

Other titles now being read by Library Development staff include:

• Ash by Malinda Lo (a re-telling of Cinderella)
• Attack of the Theater People by Marc Acito
• Borderline by Nevada Barr
• Brain Rules by John Medina
• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
• Greedy Bones: a Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery by Carolyn Haines
• The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life by Laurie Notaro
• The Language of Bees: a Mary Russell Novel by Laurie R. King
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

 

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