BostonPL_Staff Picks for Spring 2017Like this list

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• The Perfect Girl

  Macmillan, Gilly,

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  Zoe is a teenage musical prodigy with a criminal past that haunts her. This thriller, told through the alternating perspectives of several key players, will have you rooting for her in the aftermath of her mother's death. Unputdownable!

• The Dirty Streets of Heaven

  a Bobby Dollar Novel

  Williams, Tad

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  Heaven and Hell have been opposed to one another through eternity and Angel Doloriel, aka Bobby Dollar, finds himself betwixt and between, forced to unravel a mystery that my shake his belief in Heaven even as it leaves him Hell’s number one target.

• A Wizard of Earthsea

  Le Guin, Ursula K.

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  I loved this book for its exquisite storytelling, world-building, and timelessness. A great fantasy read for all ages!

• A Court of Thorns and Roses

  Maas, Sarah J.

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  Considering this book series has been consuming me for the past couple of weeks and it's all I can talk about, I can't not recommend it to you enough. The first in the series, "A Court of Thorns and Roses", starts off as a retelling of Beauty and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Court of Mist and Fury

  Maas, Sarah J.

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  Considering this book series has been consuming me for the past couple of weeks and it's all I can talk about, I can't not recommend it to you enough. The first in the series, "A Court of Thorns and Roses", starts off as a retelling of Beauty and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Court of Wings and Ruin

  Maas, Sarah J.,

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  Considering this book series has been consuming me for the past couple of weeks and it's all I can talk about, I can't not recommend it to you enough. The first in the series, "A Court of Thorns and Roses", starts off as a retelling of Beauty and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• News of the World

  a Novel

  Jiles, Paulette, 1943-

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  A war-weary Civil War veteran, and a young girl kidnapped by the Kiowa and recently rescued by the U.S. army, form a bond when he undertakes the difficult and dangerous task of returning her to distant relatives in San Antonio, Texas.

• Smooth Talking Stranger

  Kleypas, Lisa

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  Living a life of pleasure and zero commitments, millionaire Texas playboy Jack Travis confronts responsibility for the first time in his life when an enraged aunt and the abandoned infant of one of Jack's former lovers appears on his doorstep. This…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shattered Gates

  Book One of The Rifter

  Hale, Ginn

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  One of my favorite authors, Ginn Hale is a master fantasy world builder and storyteller, and the Rifter trilogy is a favorite I’ve reread many times and highly recommend. Make sure you have The Holy Road (Rifter #2) and His Sacred Bones (Rifter #3)…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My (part-time) Paris Life

  How Running Away Brought Me Home

  Anselmo, Lisa,

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  Many of us have dreamed of owning a home in a foreign country; Ms. Anselmo has made her dream a reality. A regular visitor to Paris she lived and worked in New York City close to her elderly mother. After layoffs occurred in her workplace and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stitches

  a Memoir

  Small, David, 1945-

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  When David was a child in 1950s Detroit, he lived with his cold, domineering radiologist father and his distant, passive aggressive mother. At 14, David's parents take him in for what he thinks is a routine surgery; David wakes up to learn he had…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Until You're Mine

  a Novel

  Hayes, Samantha

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  What a story! This psychological thriller about a pregnant woman with a creepy nanny is an edge-of-your-seat kind of book. Perfect for staying up late to see how it ends!

• Academ's Fury

  Butcher, Jim, 1971-

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  Jim Butcher, well known author of the Dresden Files series, has once again created a world were magic, intrigue, and action intertwine. Magic, in the form of elementals called “Furies”, are controlled by the few with talent that gives them…Read moreRead more of this annotation