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2016 Staff Recommendations (PDF) 2016 Staff Recommendations From new books to classics and those in-between – these are the titles that the Brown Deer Library staff loved reading this year. Harry Potter (series) YA LAYBOURNE Nutshell: A Novel By J.K. Rowling The luxurious celebrity cruise launching the By Ian McEwan MS ROWLING trendy new diet sweetener Solu should be the F McEWAM Ian Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his vacation of a lifetime. It takes a horrifyingly Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great wrong turn when the gig becomes an expose still in the marital home--a dilapidated, destiny proves his worth while attending on the shocking side effects of Solu. priceless London Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. townhouse--but John's not Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children here. Instead, she's with his The Selection By Ransom Riggs brother, the profoundly By Kiera Cass YA RIGGS banal Claude, and the two of YA CASS After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled them have a plan. But there America Singer is chosen to to explore an abandoned orphanage on an is a witness to their plot: the compete in the Selection--a island off the coast of Wales, discovering inquisitive, nine-month-old contest to see which girl can disturbing facts about the children who were resident of Trudy's womb. win the heart of Illea's prince- kept there. -but all she really wants is a A Darker Shade of Magic chance for a future with her secret love, Shades of Grey: the road to High Saffron By V. E. Schwab Aspen, who is a caste below her. By Jasper Fforde F SCHWAB Victoria F FFORDE Kell is one of the last Travelers--magicians The Hunger Games Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal with a rare, coveted ability to travel between By Suzanne Collins hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited parallel universes--as such, he can choose YA COLLINS color perception. And Eddie Russet wants to where he lands. Officially, Kell is the Red In a future North America, where the rulers of move up. But his plans to leverage his better- Traveler, personal ambassador and adopted Panem maintain control through an annual than-average red perception and marry into a Prince of Red London, carrying the monthly televised survival competition pitting young powerful family are quickly upended. Juggling correspondences between the royals of each people from each of the twelve districts inviolable rules, sneaky Yellows, and a risky London. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, against one another, sixteen-year-old friendship with an intriguing Grey named Jane servicing people willing to pay for even the Katniss's skills are put to the test when she who shows Eddie that the apparent peace of smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see- voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. his world is as much an illusion as color itself, -a dangerous hobby, and one that has set him Eddie finds he must reckon with the cruel up for accidental treason. Sweet regime behind this gaily painted façade. By Emmy Laybourne American Vampire. [1] Slaughterhouse-five UnSlut: A Diary and a Memoir By Scott Snyder By Kurt Vonnegut By Emily Lindin A GRAPHIC SNYDER F VONNEGUT YA 305 LIN A new vampire for a new century. Cunning, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is The author revisits her middle school diary, ruthless, and rattlesnake mean, Skinner oe of the orld’s great commenting on her experiences with bullying, Sweet has a reputation for cussedness as long antiwar books. Centering on crushes, popular culture, and what it means as he is ornery. As the first vampire conceived the infamous firebombing to be labeled a "slut." on American soil, however, he's not your of Dresde, Billy Pilgri’s usual creature of the night. odyssey through time And Still I Rise: Black America since MLK reflects the mythic journey By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Help of our own fractured lives 305.896 GAT By Kathryn Stockett as we search for meaning in Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm F STOCKETT what we fear most. X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: In Jackson, Mississippi, in From Black Power to the White House 1962, there are lines that Beyond Belief : my secret life inside explores the last half-century of the African are not crossed. Scientology and my harrowing escape American experience. More than fifty years With the civil rights By Jenna Miscavige Hill with Lisa Pulitzer after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and movement exploding all 299.936 HIL the birth of Black Power, the United States around them, three women The niece of controversial Scientology leader has both a Black president and Black CEOs start a movement of their David Miscavige presents a tell-all memoir running Fortune 500 own, forever changing a about her life in the Church of Scientology. companies-- and a town and the way women-- large Black underclass black and white, mothers and daughters-- Outliers : the story of success beset by persistent view one another. By Malcolm Gladwell poverty, inadequate 302 GLA education, and an Cutting for Stone The best-selling author of Blink identifies the epidemic of By Abraham Verghese qualities of successful people, posing theories incarceration. Harvard F VERGHESE about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic professor and scholar Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers factors that shape high achievers, in a Henry Louis Gates, Jr. raises disturbing and born of a secret union between a beautiful resource that covers such topics as the vital questions about this dichotomy. How did Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. secrets of software billionaires, why certain the African American community end up Orphaed y their other’s death ad their cultures are associated with better academic encompassing such profound contradictions? father’s disappearae, oud together y a performance, and why the Beatles earned And what will "the Black community" mean preternatural connection and a shared their fame. tomorrow? fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Grunt: the curious science of humans at war businesses within the movement, but it also father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time By Mary Roach ties in the movement with larger American such a union was punishable by five years in 355.02 ROA culinary developments. It also charts the prison. As he struggles to find himself in a Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a explosion of the mass-market craft beer world where he was never supposed to exist, soldier's most challenging adversaries -- culture, including magazines, festivals, home his mother is determined to save her son panic, exhaustion, heat, brewing, and more. This entertaining and from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse noise -- and introduces informative history brims with charming, that would ultimately threaten her own life. us to the scientists who remarkable stories, which together weave a With an incisive wit and unflinching honesty, seek to conquer them. very American business tale of formidable Noah weaves together a moving yet searingly And why is DARPA odds and refreshing success. funny portrait of a boy making his way interested in ducks? through a damaged world in a dangerous How is a wedding gown The Checklist Manifesto: how to get things time. like a bomb suit? 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