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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Lavender House
"This well done noir-style mystery combines engaging characters with a well-drawn historical frame focused on the LGBT community in 1950s San Francisco. I am hoping this will be the first in a series!" - Andrea
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The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle
"Set in wartime Britain, depicts daily life in the city and country, having to frequently head to bomb shelters, and rationing of clothes, fabric and other home goods. Reworked wedding dresses take on a new purpose and a group of women bond and support each other through garment sewing." - Marion
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The House Across the Lake
Recently widowed actress Casey Fletcher retreats to her family's lake house in Vermont where she passes the time watching the glamorous couple across the lake until the wife disappears and she discovers that the most shocking of secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces.
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls "an animal rights organization" protecting massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju from another dimension.
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The Cartographers
When her estranged father is found dead with a seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, cartographer Nell Young soon discovers the map is extremely valuable. "I absolutely ADORED The Cartographers. It had such a wonderful combination of mystery/fantasy/maps/libraries and it made me so happy." - Meadow.
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Funny You Should Ask
"A reporter revisits the interview that gave her her big break, an intimate profile of a hot actor, as she decides whether to grant his request for a second interview years later. Sussman weaves together Chani's actual memories of her weekend with Gabe Parker with the article she wrote, blogs and social media about her and Gabe, and how she's dealing with the fallout of all this attention in the present day. Structurally really fun and also swoony!" - Brianne
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess
"I had picked this up right when it came out because I love Chinese inspired fantasy and it's based on one of my favorite folk stories. It's a very interesting re-imagining of the story of Chang'e, but a lot sadder than some other versions. The sequel is also out this year so it's not a long wait for the conclusion :+) " - Eliza
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The Angel of Rome
A stunning collection about those moments when everything changes—for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous—as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places.
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Joan Is Okay
An ICU physician at a busy NYC hospital, 30-something Joan, a workaholic with little interest in having friends, let alone lovers, is required to take mandatory leave until the day she must return to the city to face a crisis larger than anything she’s encountered before.
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Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Twenty years after secretly causing panic in her hometown through the written word and artwork, along with a fellow loner named Zeke, famous author, mom and wife Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that brings her past rushing back, threatening to upend everything.
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