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Staff Choices
FICTION

The Bishop’s Man – Linden MacIntyre

The Farmer's Daughter – Jim Harrison

Cool Water – Dianne Warren

The Mobile Library: The Bad Book Affair – Ian Sansom

Solitude of Prime Numbers – Paolo Giordano

The Spellman Series: The Spellman Files / Curse of the Spellmans / Revenge of the Spellmans – Lisa Lutz

Sum – David Eagleman

The Swan Thieves – Elizabeth Kostova

Toby: A Man– Todd Babiak

Waiting for Columbus– Thomas Trofimuk

MYSTERY

9 Dragons – Michael Connelly

Death by Design – Barbara Nadel

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest – Steig Larsson

Girl Who Played With Fire - Steig Larsson

The Given Day – Dennis Lehane

Godfather of Kathmandu – John Burdett

Kill All the Judges – William Deverell

Manual of Detection – Jedediah Berry

The Reapers– John Connolly

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie / The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag – Alan Bradley

SCIENCE FICTION and FANTASY

Black Man – Richard Morgan

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls – Jane Austen and Steve Hockensmith

Soon I will Be Invincible – Austin Grossman

The Steel Remains – Richard Morgan

The Strain - Guillermo del Toro

World War Z – Max Brooks

BIOGRAPHY

The Boy in the Moon – Ian Brown

Half Broke Horses – Jeannette Walls

Manhood for Amateurs – Michael Chabon

Strength in What Remains - Tracy Kidder (review to follow)

Too Close to the Falls – Catherine Gildiner

THE ARTS

Girls Like Us – Sheila Weller

Low Side of the Road: A Biography of Tom Waits – Barney Hoskyns

Ted Harrison: Painting Paradise – Katherine Gibson

Thelonius Monk - Robin D.G. Kelley

White Light White Heat – Richie Unterberger

OUR WORLD

Counterknowledge – Damian Thompson

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much – Allison Hoover Bartlett

On Cats – Doris Lessing

Payback - Margaret Atwood

What the Dog Saw – Malcolm Gladwell