BostonPL_BPL Staff Picks: March 2020Like this list

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• Sweet Little Lies

  a Novel

  Frear, Caz,

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  Mystery. Cat Kinsella, a London policewoman from a troubled family, is forced to investigate dark secrets in her estranged father's past to solve the murder of a young housewife and the disappearance of a teenage girl years earlier.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mirror & the Light

  Mantel, Hilary

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  Fiction. The third volume in Hilary Mantel's trilogy on the life of Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to King Henry VIII of England is finally out. If you are a fan of the first two volumes (the Booker Award-winning Wolf Hall and Bring Up…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ask Me About My Uterus

  a Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

  Norman, Abby,

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  Memoir. After surviving a troubled childhood, promising student Abby Norman is forced to give up her hard-earned spot at Sarah Lawrence College when she suffers sudden debilitating pain whose origin baffles every doctor she can afford. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Long Call

  Cleeves, Ann,

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  Mystery. (Two Rivers #1) When a man with a bird tattoo is found murdered in North Devon, Detective Matthew Venn, now married to his husband, Jonathan, is forced to return to the strict evangelical community of his childhood to uncover…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dark Places

  A Novel

  Flynn, Gillian

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  Thriller. Libby Day's mother and sisters were brutally murdered when she was seven years old, and she testified that her older brother, Ben, was the killer. Years later, a secret society obsessed with famous crimes hunts her down, hoping…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Handmaid's Tale

  Nault, Renee,

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  Dystopian/Graphic novel. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was an independent woman who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Quantum Thief

  Rajaniemi, Hannu

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  Science Fiction. Noir prison break sci-fi with a heavy dose of theoretical technology. I read this a few years ago and I'm still thinking about the 'gevulot', a physical privacy practice described in the book that entails the exchange of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Near, Far

  Borando, Silvia,

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  Picture Book. A guessing game and lesson in perspective, clever and artistic enough to keep both children and adults on their toes. Borando first zooms in on a small portion of an animal, then zooms out until the whole animal is visible.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Own Devices

  True Stories From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love

  Dessa (Vocalist),

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  Non-Fiction. Dessa is a musician and poet and a rapper with the Doomtree collective in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "My Own Devices" isn't so much a memoir as it is a collection of essays that are connected to people and particular times in her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bear and the Nightingale

  a Novel

  Arden, Katherine,

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  Fantasy.  This is a beautiful and suspenseful book centering around Vasilisa, a young girl living in 14th century Russian wilderness who has hidden magic in her blood.  I was captivated by the strong female lead, action filled plot, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is How

  Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More-- for Young and Old Alike

  Burroughs, Augusten

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  Self-Help. This isn't your typical self-help book, Augusten (Running with Scissors) write as if he's talking to a friend, and shares his insights and advice for tackling all sorts of life's problems.  He's not a doctor or psychologist,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Dining Table

  Ori, Mita,

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  Manga. A pure shot of found family feels straight to the heart! This is ostensibly a romance but the plot is about 50/50 "lonely businessman falls for cute guy in the park who shows him the meaning of basic human decency" and "lonely…Read moreRead more of this annotation