Lexington Staff Picks

Katie: 
wish
 Nature Girl/ Carl Hiaasen
Summary: When a rude telemarketer calls while Honey Santana and her son are having dinner she decides to teach him a lesson in good behavior. She lures him and his mistress with a pitch for Florida real estate and includes her ex-husband and 12-year-old son in her plot.
Jacqui:
prudence wants
Saving June/ Hannah Harrington
Summary: After her sister's suicide, Harper Scott takes off for California with her best friend Laney to scatter her sister's ashes in the Pacific Ocean.
Erica:
divergent

Clockwork Princess/ Cassandra Clare
Summary: When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.

Annie:
grave
 Calculated in Death / J.D. Robb
Summary: When Marta Dickenson, a well-off accountant and a beloved wife and mother, is murdered, Lieutenant Eve Dallas immerses herself in her billionaire husband Roarke's world of big business to discover who arranged a hit on an innocent woman.
Paula:
the book of
The Road / Cormac McCarthy
Summary: America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction , a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast , but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.  
Alex:
the
Tenth of December: Stories / George Saunders
Summary: A collection of stories which includes "Home," a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; "Victory lap," a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit.
Stephanie:
julie
You Don't Know Me / Susan May Warren
Summary: To everyone who knows her, Annalise Decker is a model wife and mother. No one knows that she was once Deidre O'Reilly, a troubled young woman whose testimony put a dangerous criminal behind bars. Relocated through the Witness Security Program to the sleepy town of Deep Haven, Deidre got a new identity and a fresh start. When Agent Frank Harrison arrives with news that the man she testified against is out on bail and out for revenge, Annalise is forced to face the consequences of her secrets.
Kelly:
The Dharma Bums / Jack Kerouac
Summary: Two ebullient young men are engaged in a passionate search for dharma , or truth. Their major adventure is the  pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high Sierras to seek the  lesson of solitude, a lesson that has a hard time surviving their forays into the  pagan groves of San Francisco's Bohemia with its marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, experiments in "yabyum," and similar nonascetic pastimes.
Odelia:
Kabul Beauty School / Deborah Rodriguez
Summary: Beneath the veil of Afghan Women . Most Westerners now working in Afghanistan spend their time tucked inside the  wall of  a military compound or embassy. Deborah  Rodriguez is one of the  very few who lives life smack in the  middle of Kabul . Now, Rodriguez tells the  story of the beauty school  she founded and the  vibrant women  who were her students there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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