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Northbrook Public Library's Most Wanted List: July 31

Check out one of these great reads from the library.

Looking for a great new read? Here's a list of some of the most popular titles at the  last week, courtesy of the Readers Services desk:

A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats. The long-awaited latest installment in the Song of Ice and Fire series, recently made into a TV series by HBO. Science Fiction.

Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner
The birth of a child leads to complications for four women -- the egg donor, the surrogate mother, the trophy wife of a wealthy man, and the man's daughter from his first marriage. Fiction.

A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
The autobiography of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped at the age of 11 and spent 18 years imprisoned by a convicted rapist and his wife. Nonfiction.

A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black
On a sweltering summer afternoon in Dublin, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? For help with the investigation, Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his pathologist friend Quirke. Thriller.

David McCullough, The Greater Journey
The story of the American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris in the nineteenth century, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned there. Nonfiction.

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Call 847-272-2958 to be put on the waiting list or use the library's online catalog at www.northbrook.info. And check back next Sunday for a list of this week's most wanted!


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