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Week of June 10, 2013

Janet Groth recalls the two decades she spent as a receptionist for The New Yorker in THE RECEPTIONIST: An Education at The New Yorker, a memoir that details the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous affairs, failures, triumphs and tragedies of the eccentric inhabitants of the 18th floor. During those single-in-the-city years, Groth tried on many identities, but eventually she would have to leave The New Yorker to find her true self .

Week of June 3, 2013

Only a few years before becoming a famous actress and an icon for her generation, a 15-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita to make it big in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a 36-year-old chaperone who is neither mother nor friend. Young Louise is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will change their lives forever in Laura Moriarty's THE CHAPERONE.

May 2013

May's roundup of New in Paperback includes Gary Paulsen's CRUSH: The Theory, Practice, and Destructive Properties of Love in which 14-year-old Kevin Spencer has a huge crush on Tina Zabinski, but every time he’s around her, he makes a fool of himself; John Claude Bemis' THE PRINCE WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, which follows Casseomae, who never has had the chance to be the mother bear she'd

May 2013

May's roundup of New in Paperback includes Cornelia Funke's GHOST NIGHT in which 11-year old Jon Whitcroft and his quirky new friend, Ella, must work together to uncover the secrets of a centuries-old murder; Gary Paulsen's CRUSH: The Theory, Practice, and Destructive Properties of Love, where, to Kevin, Tina is “the most beautiful girl in the world,” and he’s working up the courage to ask her ou

Week of May 27, 2013

Drew Silver is 44, divorced, and living alone at the Versailles, an apartment complex off the interstate and home mainly to divorced men. His ex-wife is about to marry a respected surgeon. His 18-year-old daughter, headed to Princeton in the fall, is pregnant. And now, in Jonathan Tropper's ONE LAST THING BEFORE I GO, a heart ailment forces Silver to begin to take life seriously before it prematurely ends.

Week of May 20, 2013

TRUE SISTERS by Sandra Dallas tells the story of four women, brought together on the harrowing journey of the Martin Handcart Company, and united by the promises of prosperity and salvation in a new land. Through the ties of female friendships and the strength born from suffering, each one tests the boundaries of her faith and learns the real meaning of survival along the way.

Week of May 13, 2013

In LIVE BY NIGHT by Dennis Lehane --- set against a dazzling backdrop of Prohibition-era American cities ranging from Jazz Age Boston to Tampa's Latin Quarter --- Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a Boston Police captain, defies his orthodox upbringing to journey up the dizzying ladder of organized crime.

Week of May 6, 2013

BRING UP THE BODIES, winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize, is the sequel to Hilary Mantel's WOLF HALL. Anne Boleyn has failed to give Henry a son, and her sharp intelligence and audacity will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down.

April 2013

April's roundup of New in Paperback includes Kate Messner's CAPTURE THE FLAG in which Anna, José and Henry are snowed in a chaotic Washington, D.C.

Week of April 29, 2013

Mick “Scorcher” Kennedy plays by the book and plays hard, which is what puts the biggest case of the year into his hands. On one of the half-built, half-abandoned “luxury” developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children are dead. But Broken Harbor holds memories for Scorcher, and working this case could resurrect something he thought he had tightly under control. BROKEN HARBOR is the fourth novel of the Dublin murder squad by Tana French.

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