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Week of June 18, 2012

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Week of June 18, 2012

From Mia March’s THE MERYL STREEP MOVIE CLUB, two sisters and the cousin they grew up with after a tragedy are summoned home to their family matriarch's inn for a shocking announcement. Suddenly, Isabel, June and Kat are sharing the attic bedroom and barely speaking. But when they join the innkeeper and the other guests for weekly Movie Night --- its Meryl Streep month --- they find themselves sharing secrets and questioning everything they thought they knew about life, love and one another.

In Madeleine Wickham’s 40 LOVE, A weekend tennis party becomes a hilarious, wicked study of modern marriage for four very different couples of varying economic, social and interest levels as together they encounter two days of anger, shock, revelations, romance and more.

The Meryl Streep Movie Club by Mia March - Fiction

 

Two sisters and the cousin they grew up with after a tragedy are summoned home to their family matriarch's inn for a shocking announcement. Suddenly, Isabel, June and Kat are sharing the attic bedroom and barely speaking. But when they join the innkeeper and the other guests for weekly Movie Night --- it's Meryl Streep month --- they find themselves sharing secrets and questioning everything they thought they knew about life, love and one another.

40 Love by Madeleine Wickham - Fiction

 

At their country estate, Patrick Chance and his wife host a weekend tennis party. As four couples gather on the sunny terrace, it seems obvious who is succeeding and who is falling behind. But by the end of the party, nothing will be quite as certain. While the couples’ children amuse themselves, the adults suffer a series of personal revelations and crises. Reviewed by Jana Siciliano.

The Dog Who Knew Too Much: A Chet and Bernie Mystery by Spencer Quinn - Mystery

Bernie is invited to give the keynote speech at the Great Western Private Eye Convention, but it’s Chet that the bigshot P.I. in charge has secret plans for. Meanwhile, Chet and Bernie are hired to find a kid who has gone missing from a wilderness camp in the high country. As if that weren’t enough, matters get complicated at home when a stray puppy that looks suspiciously like Chet shows up.

The Girl Below by Bianca Zander - Women's Fiction

 

When a young English woman, recently returned to London after a ten-year absence, finds herself slipping back into her childhood, she must solve the mysteries of her dysfunctional family—and unearths disturbing secrets that could shatter everything she believes about who she is and her p

Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman - Fiction

 

Told in 11-year-old Harri's infectious voice and multicultural slang, PIGEON ENGLISH follows in the tradition of our great novels of friendship and adventure, as Harri finds wonder, mystery and danger in his new, ever-expanding world.

The Search: Lancaster County Secrets, Book 3 by Suzanne Woods Fisher -

 

As a child caught up in a crisis, Lainey O'Toole made a split-second decision with far-reaching effects. Fifteen years later, when her car breaks down in Stoney Ridge --- the very town in which that decision was made --- she is forced to face the past and discover how her decision has impacted so many.