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Miss Trish at the Sunset Library has rounded up some of her favorite picture books! Oh No, George! George wants to be a good dog, but when faced with temptation, what will he do? This is an all-too-human dilemma. Odd Duck What if you really like someone but they're different? Even a little odd? Theodora and Chad have to figure it out. Mr. Tiger Goes Wild Being prim and proper is so boring. Be who you are! This Is Not My Hat A little fish steals a big fish's hat. Consequences, anyone? Read more

Two teens find themselves in the hospital, on opposite sides of the same wall, communicating with knocks and taps. In the real world, they would never be friends - Zac is from a large farming family in rural Australia, and Mia is a popular city girl - but here they're the only people who understand what the other is going through. Both are in the hospital being treated for cancer. Zac & Mia tells the… Read more

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past..." -The Great GatsbyIn Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Anne Fowler gives us the engrossing story of the historically misunderstood Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, written in Zelda's own style and voice. The novel pulls you into a "beautiful and damned" past of Jazz-age parties, glamour, fame, wealth, debt, bootlegged booze,… Read more

The latest batch of librarian favorites are here! We've included descriptions* below and you can head to the LibraryReads website to see brief reviews submitted by librarians from across the country. We'd love to hear what you think about the titles, let us know on Facebook, Twitter, or in the comments below! A Sudden Light: A Novel by Garth SteinPublished: September 30, 2014 In the summer of 1990,… Read more

Queen of the Tearling opens with Kelsea Raleigh Glynn saying goodbye to her foster parents on her 19th birthday. She is being whisked away (in secret) to New London by the Queen's Guard to take her spot on the throne. Her husband has been hanging out there for about twenty years and he's really a terrible Regent. Of course, Kelsea doesn't know much about the current situation in the Tearling and she… Read more

Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl has been on our shelves for over two years, but it's never sat on any of our shelves for very long. It's been checked out nearly 900 times from Chandler libraries since its publication and it's still checked out regularly. Now a film starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike is set to release in early October and the book's popularity will continue only to grow. So while you… Read more

Reeling from the sudden death of her mother and the crumbling of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed embarks on what she intends to be a journey of self-discovery: a three-month, 1100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. Wild is her account of this trek and the many unexpected things she discovers. At first, she doesn't even have the energy to come to terms with her mother's loss, instead finding… Read more

In Amy Waldman’s The Submission, a Muslim architect is chosen to design a memorial commemorating a tragic terrorist attack. The decision divides not only the country, but families, friends and neighbors. Should a Muslim be allowed to design the memorial to deaths that were caused by other Muslims? Told from the viewpoint of several different characters with a stake in the process – a juror, the wife… Read more

Every month, staff at our Downtown branch read books in a specific fiction genre or nonfiction subject, to familiarize themselves with titles they might not have discovered otherwise. For August, they read nonfiction in the area of nature, environmentalism, and discovery. Here's what staff members read and what they had to say about it:A Wolf Called Romeo, by Nick JansNick Jans has been photographing… Read more

    Do you have a student doing a pro/con issues report? Are you interested in the big issues around the world and looking for more thorough news coverage? Global Issues in Context brings together articles from news sources and academic resources on topics such as the environment, women’s rights, and world conflicts. Most articles are available in full text, just as they appeared in their original… Read more