Top 10 Circulating CD Fiction Titles in 2018

The Rooster Bar by John Grisham The Fallen by David Baldacci Camino Island by John Grisham Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci The Disappeared by C. J. Box Killing Season: a Thriller by Faye Kellerman The People vs. Alex Cross by James Patterson Tom Clancy: True Faith and Allegiance by Mark Greaney The Chemist…
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Guest Review: “Atom Land”

Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through The Strange (And Impossibly Small) World Of Particle Physics, by Jon Butterworth Review by Steve Richards Atom Land offers expeditions of discovery, challenging both imagination and physical sense of reality. Author Jon Butterworth is a professor of physics and astronomy. In the strange and counterintuitive territories of particle physics,…
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Top 10 Circulating Nonfiction Titles in 2018

Educated: a memoir by Tara Westover Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann How to Get Sh*t Done: Why Women Need to Stop Doing Everything so They Can Achieve Anything by Erin Falconer Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island…
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Top Ten Circulating Fiction Titles in 2018

The 17th Suspect by James Patterson The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson The Fallen by David Baldacci Origin: a Novel by Dan Brown The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng An American Marriage by Tayari Jones The Disappeared by C.J. Box The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah…
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National Science Fiction Day

“An Unkindness of Ghosts” by Rivers Solomon seems a good book to highlight on this day as the book won many awards and was on many a “Best of 2017” book list. The good news for Newton Public Library patrons is the book is available to check out from the library shelves, as an eBook…
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Guest Review: “Barracoon”

— Steve Richards reviews “Barracoon” (306.362 Hurston – also available in Large Print) by Zora Neale Hurston Kossola, AKA, Cudjo Lewis, arrived in Alabama in the last known shipload of slaves to make it through the blockade in the 1860s. This was after importation of slaves became illegal. Barracoon, The Story of the Last “Black…
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