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BostonPL_Staff Picks: Winter 17/18

Every week, staff in our Reader Services Department highlight recommendations. #BPLStaffPicks

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  • After Tash Zelenka's web series, a modern adaptation of her favorite novel, "Anna Karenina", blows up online, she tries to cope with the fame, pressure, and haters that go along with online stardom. Top that off with some family drama as…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2017]
  • In this latest installment in a bestselling series by McDermid, psychologist Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan are called in to investigate when a string of disappearances of single women from weddings in the north of England seems to…
    BookNew York : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, [2017]. — MYSTERY MCDERMID V
  • "Count your blessings; they can be snatched away in an instant." It is a sentiment Milla Edge knows too well in Linda Howard’s “Cry No More.” With an astonishing blend of savvy, instinct, and passion, Milla displays an uncanny gift for…
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, 2003. — PS3558.O88217 C79 2003b
  • This asexual/demisexual M/M romance novella about two socially awkward men that work for a secret government security agency was, by far, my favorite book of 2017. It’s a beautiful and gentle love story, yet heart wrenching at times, deep…
    Book[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2017. — FICTION SOTO A
  • Part biography and part film criticism, this is a revealing look at the great movie director, warts and all. It examines his more noteworthy films in great detail with interesting behind the scenes stories. The less important films are…
    BookNew York : Nan A. Talese Doubleday, [2016]. — PN1998.3.H58 A675 2016
  • Life after kids can be hard on a relationship; so can life before kids! Desperate and outraged author Jancee Dunn and her mild-mannered (but suddenly long distance cycling obsessed) husband seek advice from a wide variety of relationship…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — HQ734 .D88 2017x