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| Carry the one |
| Anshaw, Carol, 1946- |
| This cleverly titled book examines the impact of a fatal accident on a group of people. A character-driven novel full of humor and crisp dialogue. |
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| The long gray line |
| Atkinson, Rick |
| One of a handful of the best books about the Vietnam war and its effects. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 355.0092 A |
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| My Antonia |
| Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 |
| Adult Fiction CATHER |
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| Jim the boy |
| Earley, Tony, 1961- |
| A wonderful story about a boy growing up under the influence of his mother and his uncles. One of my all-time favorites. |
| Adult Fiction EARLEY |
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| Zeitoun |
| Eggers, Dave. |
| If someone had told me these events occurred in the U.S., I would not have believed it. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book |
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| The cellist of Sarajevo |
| Galloway, Steven, 1975- |
| Inspired by an actual event, a powerful story told though the lives of three disparate characters. Excellent storytelling. |
| Adult Fiction GALLOWA |
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| The love of my youth |
| Gordon, Mary, 1949- |
| A new twist on an old theme. Beautifully written. One of my three favorites for fiction in 2011. |
| Adult Fiction GORDON |
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| The best and the brightest |
| Halberstam, David |
| Arguably the best book written about the Vietnam war. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 973.922 H |
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| The teammates |
| Halberstam, David |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 796.35764 H |
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| Benediction |
| Haruf, Kent. |
| Another great novel set in Holt, Colorado from Kent Haruf. Very well written in a no-frills style. Great story, great characters. |
| Adult Fiction HARUF |
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| Plainsong |
| Haruf, Kent. |
| One of my all-time favorites. |
| Adult Fiction HARUF |
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| Birds in fall : a novel |
| Kessler, Brad |
| One mark of a great book is that it's just as good or better the second time. This was not only my favorite work of fiction in 2009, it may be the favorite again in 2010. |
| Adult Fiction KESSLER |
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| Mountains beyond mountains |
| Kidder, Tracy. |
| No one can read this book and still believe that one man can't make a difference. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 921 F2328 |
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| The big short : inside the doomsday machine |
| Lewis, Michael |
| By telling the story of a few unique individuals who saw the crash coming, Lewis tells the story of the great market crash of 2008. A great story and an education. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 330.973 L 2010 |
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| Family album |
| Lively, Penelope, 1933- |
| This book relates the memories of six children, their parents, and their au pair during the years the children were growing up. The differences as well as the similarities are remarkable as are the characters, the dialogue, and the humor. |
| Adult Fiction LIVELY |
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| How it all began |
| Lively, Penelope, 1933- |
| Another wonderful offering from Penelope Lively. An old woman is mugged, and several people's lives are affected. A thoroughly enjoyable read. |
| Adult Fiction LIVELY |
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| Making it up |
| Lively, Penelope, 1933- |
| The author takes an event from her own life and writes a story imagining a different direction for her life from that event. As always, Liuvely's prose is very engaging and her characters and dialogue are wonderful. One of my favorite authors. |
| Adult Fiction LIVELY |
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| Moon tiger |
| Lively, Penelope, 1933- |
| As she lays dying, an old woman remembers her life, her experiences as a war correspondent and as a writer of popular history. Her memories revolve around her complex and sometimes contentious relations with her brother and with the man who is the father of her daughter. Most significantly, she remembers the man she with whom she had a brief but intense affair in Egypt during World War II. Her description of that relationship is a thing of beauty. All-in-all, a remarkable character study and a wonderfully written novel. Small wonder this won the Booker Prize. One of my four favorites in 2012. |
| Adult Fiction LIVELY |
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| Spiderweb |
| Lively, Penelope, 1933- |
| Penelope Lively's books center on character development, and some of those characters are absolutely magic. |
| Adult Fiction LIVELY |
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| The photograph |
| Lively, Penelope, 1933- |
| A beautifully written character study with a twist. |
| Adult Fiction LIVELY |
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| The inhabited world |
| Long, David, 1948- |
| Narrated by a ghost stuck in place after committing suicide. |
| Adult Fiction LONG |
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| A river runs through it |
| Maclean, Norman, 1902-1990 |
| "Then in the arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul..." |
| Adult Fiction MACLEAN |
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| Let the great world spin : a novel |
| McCann, Colum, 1965- |
| A complex novel connecting a series of very well developed characters. Beautifully written and very powerful in parts. One of my three favorites for fiction in 2011. |
| Adult Fiction MCCANN |
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| All the pretty horses |
| McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- |
| Part One of the Border Trilogy. Like other works by McCarthy, the writing is so strong as to be irresistible. |
| Adult Fiction MCCARTHY |
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| Cities of the plain |
| McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- |
| Part Three of the Border Trilogy. Ties the protagonists of the first two books together. |
| Adult Fiction MCCARTHY |
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| The crossing |
| McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- |
| Part Two of he Border Trilogy. |
| Adult Fiction MCCARTHY |
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| Emily, alone |
| O'Nan, Stewart, 1961- |
| Sequel to "Wish You Were Here" |
| Adult Fiction O'NAN |
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| The yellow birds : a novel |
| Powers, Kevin |
| How wonderful to see a first novel as strong as this! No surprise it is a National Book Award Finalist or that the author is a Michener Poetry Fellow. |
| Adult Fiction POWERS |
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| Gilead |
| Robinson, Marilynne. |
| A simple story beautifully written. Along with its companion piece, Home, one of my all-time favorites. |
| Adult Fiction ROBINSON |
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| Home |
| Robinson, Marilynne. |
| The companion piece to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. My favorite of the works of fiction I read in 2008. |
| Adult Fiction ROBINSO |
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| Cost |
| Robinson, Roxana. |
| A beautifully written story of a mother trying to cope with her son's drug addiction. |
| Adult Fiction ROBINSO |
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| Nobody's fool |
| Russo, Richard, 1949- |
| Rick Russo writes dialogue better than most, and this is a terrific example. |
| Adult Fiction RUSSO |
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| The reader |
| Schlink, Bernhard |
| Written in a very clear and straightforward style. A very powerful story. |
| Adult Fiction SCHLINK |
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| Wish you were here |
| Swift, Graham, 1949- |
| A beautifully written story of family and loss told in flashbacks. Graham Swift does an incredible job of conveying the minds and hearts of his characters. one of the best new fiction works I've read this year and one of my four favorites for 2012. |
| Adult Fiction SWIFT |
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| The nightingale's song |
| Timberg, Robert |
| The other great book about the Vietnam war and its effects. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 327.73 T |
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| Brooklyn : a novel |
| Toibin, Colm, 1955- |
| The story of a young Irish woman who emigrates to New York circa 1950. What a writer! |
| Adult Fiction TOIBIN |
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| The blackwater lightship |
| Toibin, Colm, 1955- |
| The story of a young woman, her mother, and her grandmother, who, along with two of her brother's friends, are caring for her brother as he is dying of AIDS. A very emotional book about character and family dynamics. One of my top four in 2012. |
| Adult Fiction TOIBIN |
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| The testament of Mary |
| Toibin, Colm, 1955- |
| The life of Mary, the mother of Jesus, told from her perspective. A work of great imagination. Written in the first person, Mary comes to life in ways quite different from what you may have learned in catechism class. A short and very intense book. Colm Toibin is a master. One of my four favorites for 2012. |
| Adult Fiction TOIBIN |
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| Old school : a novel |
| Wolff, Tobias, 1945- |
| Tobias Wolff is best known for his short stories. The ending of this novel is out of this world. |
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