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May 14, 2021

Spilled Milk by K.L. Randis – FIC RAN

The true story of a young girl who realizes the abuse she is enduring is not the norm and fights within a broken system to escape the cruelty of her home.

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers – ROM ROG

Type A, recent Ph.D. graduate Grace Porter takes a trip to Vegas where she drunkenly marries a girl whose name she does not know and has to navigate life with her new wife.

This is also available as an audiobook on Hoopla and an eBook on Overdrive.

I’ll Scream Later by Marlee Matlin

I‘ll Scream Later by Marlee Matlin – 791.092 MAT

The memoir of the Academy Award-winning actress and role model for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people serves as an inspiration and a lesson in overcoming adversity.

Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown – 158.2 BRO

This book challenges everything we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture.

This is also available as an audiobook and an eBook on Overdrive.

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen – 616.89 KAY

This is the true story of a woman and her two-year experience living in a psychiatric hospital.

Unexpected Partners by Michelle Larkin

Unexpected Partners by Michelle Larkin – ROM LAR

A detective is assigned to protect Dr. Chloe Maddox from a serial killer, but can they deny their attraction to each other?

Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs – MYS REI

This is the first novel in a series that follows forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan, as she solves murders using anthropology and her instinct.

This is also available as on audiobook on Hoopla and an eBook on Overdrive.

Not Since You by Fiona Riley – ROM RIL

Boarding a cruise ship to celebrate her honeymoon alone and decidedly not married, Charlotte runs into her high school love.

Media Darling by Fiona Reily

Media Darling by Fiona Riley – ROM RIL

A woman working temporarily at a celebrity gossip magazine starts to fall for an actress with a bad rap in Hollywood. Met with the biggest scoop of her career she is stuck between following the story or protecting the woman to which she has an irresistible attraction.

Anti-diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison – 613.2 HAR

Christy Harrison, Registered Dietitian, takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness. It will turn what you think you know about health and wellness upside-down.

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