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Brooklyn Practical magic by Colm Tóibín by Alice Hoffman Leaving her home in post-World War II Sorcery is the legacy of Gillian and Sally Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Owens, a two-hundred-year-old family Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey discovers a new legacy they both try to escape--one romance in America with a charming through marriage, the other through blond Italian man before devastating running away--until they realize that their news threatens her happiness. magic is a gift, rather than an affliction. Reprint. The Martian by Andy Weir If Beale Street could talk Stranded on Mars by a dust storm that by James Baldwin compromised his space suit and forced When a pregnant Tish's boyfriend Fonny, his crew to leave him behind, astronaut a sculptor, is wrongfully jailed for the rape Mark Watney struggles to survive in spite of a Puerto Rican woman, their families of minimal supplies and environmental unite to prove the charge false. challenges that test his ingenuity

Waiting to by Terry McMillan A man called Ove Four thirty-something African-American by Fredrik Backman women console and support one another A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal in a complex friendship that helps each of loss beneath a cranky and short- them face the middle of her life as a tempered exterior while clashing with single woman. new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Artemis Fowl Describes the 12th expedition to “Area by Eoin Colfer X,” a region cut off from the continent for The first entry in the internationally best- decades, by a group of intrepid women selling series follows the exploits of a scientists who try to ignore the high teen criminal mastermind who mortality rates of those on the previous orchestrates a siege against dangerous, 11 missions. tech-savvy fairies.

Long Beach Public Library 111 West Park Ave Long Beach, New York 11561 | 516-432-7201 www.longbeachlibrary.org Books to Movies A dog's purpose A simple favor by W. Bruce Cameron by Darcey Bell Searching for his purpose over the course A single mother's life is turned upside of multiple canine lives, Bailey is reborn as down when her best friend vanishes, an a golden-haired puppy after a tragic death inexplicable event that prompts her to as a stray and shares a loving bond with reach out to her blog readers and the young Ethan before he again dies and missing woman's handsome husband starts over. before nightmarish realities come to light.

Gone girl The hate u give by Gillian Flynn by Angie Thomas When a woman goes missing on her The story of a teen whose uneasy anniversary, her diary reveals hidden balance between her elite prep school turmoil in her marriage, while her and her disadvantaged home life is husband, desperate to clear himself of shattered when she witnesses the fatal suspicion, realizes that something more shooting of her best friend by a police disturbing than murder may have officer. occurred. The rhythm section The Call of the Wild by Mark Burnell by Jack London When Stephanie Patrick learns that a The classic tale of a dog's heroic terrorist bomb was responsible for the adventures in the Yukon. Buck is stolen plane crash that killed her family, she from California and shipped north. He embarks on a plan for revenge that must recover his primitive instincts in includes training to become a terrorist order to survive the harsh conditions, his herself. reckless owners, and the ruthless other dogs. But when he forms a bond with a prospector, Buck is torn between the world of his human The children act companion and the beckoning wilderness. by Ian McEwan A highly respected London judge hides her decision to separate from a husband Crazy rich Asians who wants an open marriage, a loss that by Kevin Kwan challenges her beliefs throughout a case On a vacation in the Singapore home of a involving parents whose faith forbids a man she hopes to marry, Chinese- life-saving transfusion for their son. American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes its member's After relationship with an American girl. by Anna Todd Tessa didn't plan on meeting Hardin during her freshman year of college. But now that she has, her life will never be by Margot Lee Shetterly the same. Tessa already has the perfect Explores the pivotal contributions of boyfriend. So why is she trying so hard to NASA's African-American women overcome her own hurt pride and mathematicians to America's space Hardin's prejudice about nice girls like program, describing how Jim Crow laws her? Unless...could this be love?" segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking All titles are available through Nassau Digital successes. Doorway and the Overdrive and Libby apps.