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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times By Michelle Obama Cover Image
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Graphic Library) By Marjane Satrapi Cover Image
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The Complete Persepolis: Volumes 1 and 2 (Pantheon Graphic Library) By Marjane Satrapi, Anjali Singh (Translated by) Cover Image
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My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds By Hannah Pick-Goslar, Dina Kraft (With) Cover Image
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights By Dorothy Wickenden Cover Image
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Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World By Linda Hirshman Cover Image
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Eye to Eye: Sports Journalist Christine Brennan (Biographies for Young Readers) By Julie K. Rubini Cover Image
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  • Franklin Smoke: Wood. Fire. Food. [A Cookbook] By Aaron Franklin, Jordan Mackay Cover Image
  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike By Phil Knight Cover Image
  • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder By David Grann Cover Image
  • Grandpa Loves Me! (Marianne Richmond) By Marianne Richmond Cover Image
  • My Dad Is a Tree By Jon Agee Cover Image
  • Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties By Beth Kobliner Cover Image
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    Drawn Together By Minh Lê, Dan Santat (Illustrator), Dan Santat (Cover design or artwork by) Cover Image
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    For Every One By Jason Reynolds Cover Image
  • Whoops . . . I'm Awesome: A Workbook with Activities, Art, and Stories for Embracing Your Wonderfully Awesome Self By Melissa Villaseñor Cover Image
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    The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse By Charlie Mackesy Cover Image
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    The Force: A Novel By Don Winslow Cover Image
  • What My Daddy Loves By Raissa Figueroa, Raissa Figueroa (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Because I'm Your Dad By Ahmet Zappa, Dan Santat (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Daditude: The Joys & Absurdities of Modern Fatherhood By Chris Erskine Cover Image
  • Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Classic Seuss) By Dr. Seuss Cover Image
  • A First Time for Everything By Dan Santat Cover Image
  • How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn before You're Grown Up By Catherine Newman Cover Image
  • What Can I Say?: A Kid's Guide to Super-Useful Social Skills to Help You Get Along and Express Yourself; Speak Up, Speak Out, Talk about Hard Things, and Be a Good Friend By Catherine Newman Cover Image
  • Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonny Sun (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Weird Crescenta Valley: Historical and Natural Oddities By Mike Lawler Cover Image

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The Searcher: A Novel (Paperback)

By Tana French
$18.00

The Searcher by Tana French is one of the three best adult books I've read this year, and I think, the best she's written. Like her other psychological thrillers, this book shows her deep understandign of people and fine quality of her writing. But it also includes more humor than her other books, and unforgettable characters. Cal Hooper is a Chicago cop who takes early retirement and moves to a small village in Ireland to heal from the stresses of his job and his divore. But he gradually becomes involved in a mystery there through helping a local kid who seems to need a steadying adult influence. I read this book as slowly as possible because I didn't want it to end! And it's one of those books that stays with you for days afterwards - an atmospheric trip to Ireland. 

Adult Mystery -  reviewed by Nikki


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