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11.22.63

11/22/63

Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald.
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The Keeper of Lost Causes

A U.S. release of a first installment in a top award-winning Danish series introduces chief detective Carl Morck, who after recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.
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 The Time In Between

An English-language release of an internationally best-selling novel finds poor seamstress Sira Quiroga forging a new identity during the Spanish Civil War and rising to the most sought-after couture designer in North Africa, where she is enlisted to pass coded information to the British Secret Service.
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 Snow Child

A childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own.
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1Q84

An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.
 
Title Swap with Librarians

On January 12, 2012, the Library held its quarterly Title Swap, an informal get-together with library staff and the public. Passionate readers shared favorite titles and recommendations while enjoying good company and good eats.

Afterwards, we compiled an annotated list of the books discussed and you can find it here.
 
Staff Picks

Our staff has compiled lists of sugggested titles for you...

Historical Fiction

Never Too Old...great teen reads that transcend age

Mostly For Men...interestng alternatives to thrillers
 
In a New York State of Mind

...books set in NY

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year’s Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of NY society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne’er-do-well and a single-minded widow.

Vaclav and Lena by Haley Tanner

Bonded by their shared status as children of Russian émigrés living in Brighton Beach, Vaclav and Lena team up as aspiring magicians when Lena’s abusive domestic situation prompts her rescue by Vaclav’s mother.

The Submission by Amy Waldman

Selected for a jury that must choose an appropriate memorial for September 11 victims, Claire Harwell struggles to navigate a media firestorm when the winning designer is revealed as an enigmatic Muslim-American.

Tabloid City by Pete Hamill

When a wealthy socialite and her secretary are found murdered in a stately West Village townhouse, a flurry of seemingly unrelated people spring into action.

In the Shadow of Gotham by Stephanie Pintoff

A detective and several criminologists track a madman from the Palisades to the Bowery in this thriller set in 1905 NY.

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

Leaving her home in post WW II Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacy discovers a new romance in America with a charming blonde Italian man before devastating news threatens her happiness.

Lethal Legacy by Linda Fairstein

ADA Alex Cooper and her crew are drawn into the strange and privileged world of rich collectors, eccentric library trustees, and the treasures of the great New York Public Library after a librarian disappears and a woman's corpse turns up in the missing librarian's abandoned apartment.