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Scorpio RacesMaggie Stiefvater2011, 409 pagesFictionAre you a book-loving high school student, are you close to one, or do you sometimes feel like one? Do you know about The Flume: New Hampshire Teen Reader’s Choice Award? Every winter, teen readers nominate their favorite fiction and nonfiction titles, published within the last two years.One of the finalists for the 2013 Flume is Maggie Stiefvater’s Scorpio Races, the tale of two...
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The Cutting SeasonAttica Locke2012, 374 pagesFictionCaren Gray, who grew up at Belle Vie when her mother was the cook in the plantation’s kitchen, has returned with her 9-year-old daughter to manage the tourist attraction overlooking the Mississippi. When a body turns up in a shallow grave on the grounds, the question is, who is the victim and who killed her? Was it someone from the migrant community working in the neighboring cane...
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My Berlin Kitchen: A Love StoryLuisa Weiss2012, 320 pagesNonfictionLuisa Weiss is the daughter of a mathematician from Boston and an interpreter from Rome. She has always been fascinated with cooking. Her parents porce when she is a child, and she is bounced back and forth from her father’s apartment in Boston to her mother’s home in Berlin. As an adult she settles in New York, but she doesn’t feel at home and wonders if she is...
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How Music WorksDavid Byrne2012, 345 pagesNonfictionAlternative-rock legend David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) has written a philosophical – historical – sociological – biographical treatise on music, which I found quite thought-provoking. Most interesting to me were the chapters exploring various influences on the creation of music, such as technological constraints or advances, available performance venues, and skill level of...
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For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net. Under the Isles of Shoals J. Dennis Robinson 2012, 156 pages Nonfiction With numerous current and historical photos and illustrations, this book recounts the lengthy history of the Isles of Shoals as revealed from the written records and the archaeological digs on the Isles, particularly at Smuttynose during the last four years. Robinson was a...
