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\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n“A book I read last year that stays with me is the novel Secrets of Eden<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, by Chris Bohjalian — a New England murder plot with psychological and spiritual themes.”\u00c2\u00a0 – Emily Rogers (Reference)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Ginger Williams (Reference) “wants to recommend The Psychopath Test<\/strong><\/em><\/a>! If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever thought of telling a judge that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a psychopath to try to get out of a hefty jail sentence (and\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 who hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t?), think again. The cautionary tale of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tony\u00e2\u20ac\u009d illustrates how hard it is to convince people that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not a psychopath<\/strong> once you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve tricked them into thinking that you are. You see, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just the sort of tricky, manipulative behavior they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d expect from a psychopath! There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s much more to The Psychopath Test<\/em><\/a> than Tony\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story. From the war between psychology and Scientology to the actual psychopath test itself (yes, it does exist!)<\/strong>, Ronson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tale draws you in and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let you go until the story ends. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make light of the psychopath\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plight, but gives outsiders insight to what makes a psychopath tick.”<\/td>\n\"\" <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nIn The Demi-Monde: Winter<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, two young women are trapped in a terrifying virtual world, designed to train soldiers for anti-terrorist missions and governed by some of the worst dictators in history. Recommended by Maureen Puffer-Rothenberg (Cataloging)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Holly Peagler (the HUB) recommends thrillers by Vince Flynn, Stuart Woods <\/strong>and Clive Cussler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nDenise Montgomery recommends The Retribution<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>by Val McDermid (a great thriller for lovers of British police procedurals in which the cops are chasing serial killers),<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
and Joan Didion’s memoir Blue Nights<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, about the death of her adult daughter, which ideally should be read following The Year of Magical Thinking<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, her earlier memoir about the year following the death of her husband, novelist John Gregory Dunne, a book which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Slightly older but also good is the novel The Paris Wife<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, which is the story about Hemingway and his first wife Hadley,<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nand the third entry in the Flavia de Luce series, A Red Herring Without Mustard<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, by Alan Bradley, in which the precocious young amateur chemist in 50s Britain solves another mystery close to home.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Josh Wallace (Circulation) says 1Q84<\/a> <\/strong>by Haruki Murakami is “a good one.” It’s a dystopian crime drama\/love story set in Tokyo.<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nLinda Most (MLIS) recommends Ken Auletta’s Googled: the End of the World as We Know It<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, “a comprehensive history of Google’s meteoric rise, profiling its creators, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the initial team members, previous commentators on the organization, and Google’s various competitors over the years.” (Publishers Weekly<\/em>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Ramona Ice (Circulation) recommends Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, featuring photos of the personal libraries of Alison Bechdel, Stephen Carter, Junot D\u00c3\u00adaz, Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker, Lev Grossman and Sophie Gee, Jonathan Lethem, Claire Messud and James Wood, Philip Pullman, Gary Shteyngart,<\/strong> and Edmund White<\/strong>, along with comments and a “top ten” list from each author.<\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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