What better way to beat the heat this summer than staying indoors with a good book or movie? Below is a list of the top three checkouts of newly published titles across all Library District locations, from May 1 through July 31, 2022. The competitions were close, with some titles winning by a margin of just one checkout!
- Adult Fiction
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Dream Town by David Baldacci
1953 LA. Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer intends to ring in the New Year with old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan. Screenwriter Eleanor Lamb interrupts to hire Archer.
After events escalate—mysterious calls, the same car outside her house, and a bloody knife in her sink—Eleanor fears for her life. First a dead body turns up inside of Eleanor’s home . . . and Eleanor herself disappears.
To find both the murderer and Eleanor, Archer enlists Callahan and his partner Willie Dash. The investigation takes him from mob-ridden Las Vegas to glamorous Hollywood to the darkest corners of Los Angeles—a city where beautiful faces belong to cutthroat schemers, cops can be more corrupt than criminals . . . and powerful people who took his client will kill Archer on their trail.
Runners-up:
- Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson
- Shadows Reel by C.J. Box
- Adult Non-Fiction
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Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scarred America he discovered when he resumed touring.
Runners-up:
- In Love: a Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
- Overdue: a Reckoning With the Public Library by Amanda Oliver
- Young Adult Fiction
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I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country.
Runners-up:
- Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
- Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds
- Young Adult Non-Fiction
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Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): the Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer
In sharp and witty prose--aided by humorous comics from artist Jules Zuckerberg -- Schrefer uses science, history, anthropology, and sociology to illustrate the diversity of sexual behavior in the animal world. Interviews with researchers in the field offer additional insights for readers and aspiring scientists.
Runners-up:
- The Greatest Stories Ever Played: Video Games and the Evolution of Storytelling by Dustin Hansen
- Tied: American Shoes: a Refugee's Story by Rosemarie Lengsfeld Turke and Inheritance: A Visual Poem by Elizabeth Acevedo
- DVDs
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For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero's identity is revealed, bringing his Super Hero responsibilities into conflict with his normal life and putting those he cares about most at risk. When he enlists Doctor Strange's help to restore his secret, the spell tears a hole in their world, releasing the most powerful villains who have ever fought a Spider-Man in any universe. Now, Peter will have to overcome his greatest challenge yet, which will not only forever alter his own future but the future of the Multiverse.
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Descriptions adapted from the publishers.
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