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Most Requested Books
April 2008
Below is a list of the most requested books by library users in Marin County.  Titles may be requested and held for you for $0.50 using the "REQUEST" button on catalog pages.

The Appeal

The Appeal
by John Grisham
Published 2008 by Doubleday Books
Hardcover, English.

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In Grisham's first legal thriller since "The Broker," justice is for sale -- and only the rich can afford it. more...

Lush Life

Lush Life
by Richard Price
Published 2008 by Farrar Straus Giroux
Hardcover, English.

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In "Lush Life," Price tears the shiny veneer off the "new" New York to show the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour, in this novel that "reads like a movie in prose" (New York Times). more...

People of the Book

People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
Published 2008 by Viking Books
Hardcover, English.

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "March" comes a novel -- inspired by a true story -- that traces the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. more...

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
by Eckhart Tolle
Published 2005 by Dutton Books
Hardcover, English.

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Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one. In very practical terms, Tolle leads readers into this new consciousness to learn to live and breathe freely. more...

Unaccustomed Earth

Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover, English.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lahiri delivers eight dazzling stories that take readers from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. more...

Betrayal

Betrayal
by John Lescroart
Published 2008 by Dutton Books
Hardcover, English.

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"New York Times" bestseller Lescroart returns with an ambitious, torn-from-today's headlines thriller featuring his trademark blend of real people and real suspense. more...

Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Published 2007 by Bantam Books
Hardcover, English.

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The story of a time, a place, and a way of life, this is a slice of Americana -- set during the Great Depression -- that shows readers, through the portrait of one high-spirited young girl, how the right stuff can make even a time of adversity seem like a good time. more...

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
by David Sheff
Published 2008 by Houghton Mifflin Company
Hardcover, English.

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Sheff's story tells of his teenage son's addiction to meth in this real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the familys gradual emergence into hope. more...

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
Published 2008 by Penguin Press
Hardcover, English.

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From the author of the bestselling "The Omnivore's Dilemma" comes this bracing and eloquent manifesto that shows readers how they might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich their lives and enlarge their sense of what it means to be healthy. more...

The Senator's Wife

The Senator's Wife
by Sue Miller
Published 2008 by Knopf Publishing Group
Hardcover, English.

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The author of the iconic "The Good Mother" and the bestselling "While I Was Gone" takes readers deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages, exposed in all their shame and imperfection and in their obdurate, unyielding love. more...

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