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Brockton
Public Library
staff Reading picks
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The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell
Recommended by Laurie, Fiction
Readers Advisor
The first novel by London journalist and nonfiction author Dan Waddell,
The Blood Detective has all the hallmarks of a classic English police procedural—a sardonic, hard-boiled Detective Chief Inspector (Grant Foster), his
younger,
understanding sidekick Detective Superintendent Heather Jenkins, and a murderer who likes to taunt the police in his method of killing...More
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The Finder by Colin Harrison
Recommended by Laurie, Fiction
Readers Advisor
When New Yorker Ray Grant’s ex-girlfriend, Jin Li Chen, goes
into hiding after a horrifyingly close attempt on her life, Ray is recruited to
find her, fast...More
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Friday Nights by
Joanna Trollope
Recommended by Laurie, Fiction
Readers Advisor
If you like books by Maeve Binchy, it’s time for you to discover Joanna
Trollope, a descendant of the great novelist, Anthony Trollope. Her latest, Friday
Nights, takes a circle of women of disparate ages and backgrounds...More
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Them by Nathan McCall
Recommended by Laurie, Fiction
Readers Advisor
In his first novel, the author of the bestselling 1995
memoir, Makes Me Wanna Holler, tells
the story of a neighborhood, managing to touch on several hot spots in American
race relations...More
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The uncommon reader by Alan Bennett
Recommended by Laurie, Fiction
Readers Advisor
The
Queen of England, never realized that a bookmobile stopped in a side yard of the
palace once a week until she follows her yapping, incorrigible corgis around a
corner to the library van’s door. ...More
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Free for all:
Oddballs, geeks, and gangstas
in the public library by Don Borchert
Recommended by
Lucia, Head of Adult Services
Don Borchert, assistant librarian in the L.A. County system,
blows the cover on the real world of public librarianship. This
should be a “must read” for every candidate seeking a master’s
in library science degree...More
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The ghost by Robert Harris
Recommended by
Laurie, Fiction Readers Advisor
Closely
paralleling real life, the fictional former British prime
minister
Adam Lang in Harris' new novel fell out of favor in his home country
for his stubborn support of the unnamed American president's "war on
terror." A moderately successful ghostwriter of autobiographies of
former rock stars and other faded celebrities is handpicked to help Lang finish his memoirs after the first
"ghost" dies accidentally...More
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The double bind by Chris Bohjalian
Recommended by
Laurie, Fiction Readers Advisor
Laurel Estabrook survived a vicious attack by two masked men while she was on a bike ride, and, though still fragile, goes back to her Vermont
college the following year, graduating with a degree in social work. She’s working at a local homeless shelter when a treasured collection of photographs and undeveloped negatives left behind
by one of the shelter’s former occupants...More
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Porch Talk: Stories
of decency, common sense and other endangered species. by Phillip
Gulley.
Recommended by
Keith, Assistant Director
Porch Talk is filled with common sense stories of family
and friends in a small town
. Evening visits on the front porch
were a sharp contrast to big screen television...More
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