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The Women by Call Number: AF HANNAHISBN: 9781250178633Publication Date: 2024-02-06
How to Sell a Haunted House by Call Number: HENDRIXISBN: 9780593201275Publication Date: 2024-01-02
Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Call Number: JF ABIKE-IYIMIDEISBN: 9781250800848Publication Date: 2024-03-19
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The Maid by Call Number: AF PROSEISBN: 9780593356159Publication Date: 2022-01-044/5 stars
A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different--and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart"-- Provided by publisher.
State of Terror by Call Number: AF CLINTONISBN: 9781982173678Publication Date: 2021-10-124/5 stars
"Hillary Rodham Clinton pairs up with powerhouse mystery novelist Louise Penny for State of Terror, a political thriller full of action and intrigue...Clinton and Penny create a heart-pounding mystery about terrorism, corruption and diplomacy, meticulously written with the promise of details only someone on the inside could contribute."– TIME Magazine
Pulitzer Prize Winners
His Name Is George Floyd (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Call Number: B FLOYISBN: 9780593490617Publication Date: 2022-05-17
Demon Copperhead by Call Number: AF KINGSOLVISBN: 9780063251922Publication Date: 2022-10-18
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Call Number: AF WHITEHEAISBN: 9780385537070Publication Date: 2019-07-16
The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club) by Call Number: AF WHITEHEAISBN: 9780385542364Publication Date: 2016-08-02
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Nancy Pearl's Rule of 50
“If you’re fifty years old or younger, give every book about fifty pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give up.” Over fifty? Subtract your age from 100 and use that as your guide.
Nancy Pearl’s Rule of 50 and the Books I Did Not Finish (2018, February 12). In Lawrence Public Library . Retrieved from https://lplks.org/blogs/post/nancy-pearls-rule-of-50-and-the-books-i-did-not- finish/
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