Staff Faves 2022: Fiction
Every year we ask our staff across the system for their favorite books published in a given year. Enjoy these fiction staff favorites, some with comments from staff, together with blurbs from the publishers. (Created November 2022)
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Nona the Ninth
"The third book of the Locked Tomb quartet, dealing with memory, grief, identity, and the nature of love. Big themes all wrapped in "rule of cool" action scenes staring Sapphic necromancers in space." - Billie
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Our Missing Hearts
From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear.
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True Biz
This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.
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Just by Looking at Him
"Eliot is a gay man with cerebral palsy with a "perfect" boyfriend that he resents, leading to a series of bad decisions that threaten his relationship and his job as a writer for a terrible sitcom. Very funny and authentic." - Frank
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Blitz
A new recruit to the most powerful supernatural intelligence agency on Earth is accused of going rogue and must go on the run to clear her name.
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The Bullet That Missed
"Osman does it again, with another whip-smart, funny mystery featuring the septuagenarian members of the Thursday Murder Club and their assorted friends at Coopers Chase retirement village. " - Andrea
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The Swimmers
When a crack appears in the pool, a fellowship of swimmers who take comfort in their laps are cast out, including Alice, who, slowly losing her memory, is reunited too late with her estranged daughter, in this intimate story of mothers and daughters, and the sorrows of implacable loss.
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The Verifiers
"Claudia, an avid mystery reader, lands a detective job at a super secretive company that vets online dating matches. When a client dies, Claudia is on the case, but all is not as it seems. A great, fun, contemporary mystery, I hope to see more of Claudia in the future!" - Andrea
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Killers of A Certain Age
Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. "A fun, action packed story with 4 women "of a certain age" in center stage." - Bridgette
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Drunk on All your Strange New Words
A locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia, who works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth, finds herself at the center of an intergalactic incident, but soon discovers that help can appear from the most unexpected source.
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