Librarian's Choice: Emma's Picks | Roseville Public Library

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When Nibbles the guinea pig and his friend Posie find caterpillars munching on their prize-winning dandelion plants, they decide to make the caterpillars their pets.

2) Lilac girls

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Kelly, Martha Hall

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Caroline Ferriday volume 1

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"On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal...

3) The rest of the story

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Dessen, Sarah

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Unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her late mother's estranged relatives at scenic North Lake, a teen finds herself torn between her mother's working-class relatives and her father's wealthier associates.

4) The bookshop on the corner: a novel

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Colgan, Jenny

Series

Kirrinfief volume 1

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Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. But can she write her own happy-ever-after? In this valentine to readers, librarians, and book-lovers the world over, the New York Times-bestselling author of Little Beach Street Bakery returns with a funny, moving new novel for fans of Nina George's The Little Paris Bookshop.

Nina is a literary matchmaker. Pairing

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5) Pride and prejudice

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Austen, Jane

Series

Jane Austen Children's Stories

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In late eighteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of three of her four sisters.

6) The Venice sketchbook: a novel

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Bowen, Rhys

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Inheriting her beloved great-aunt's sketchbook, a recently divorced woman uncovers mysteries about her great-aunt's star-crossed romance with a nobleman in World War II Venice.

7) Outlander

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Gabaldon, Diana

Series

Outlander novels volume 1

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES

Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire...

8) A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

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Bryson, Bill

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body

“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times

Back in America after...

9) Love, Ruby Lavender

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Wiles, Deborah

Series

Aurora County trilogy volume 1

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When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death.

10) Toot & Puddle: how does your garden grow?

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Hobbie, Holly

Series

Toot & Puddle (Holly Hobbie)

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"Toot and Puddle are determined to figure out who keeps eating all the vegetables in their garden every night"--

11) Little Witch Hazel: a year in the forest

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Wahl, Phoebe

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"Little Witch Hazel is a tiny witch who lives in the forest, helping creatures big and small. She's a midwife, an intrepid explorer, a hard worker and a kind friend. In this four-season volume, Little Witch Hazel rescues an orphaned egg, goes sailing on a raft, solves the mystery of a haunted stump and makes house calls to fellow forest dwellers. But when Little Witch Hazel needs help herself, will she get it in time?"--

12) The beekeeper's ball

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Wiggs, Susan

Series

Bella Vista volume 2

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns to sun-drenched Bella Vista, where the land's bounty yields a rich harvest...and family secrets that have long been buried.

Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the sleepy Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school--a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Bella Vista's rambling mission-style

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13) American cookie: the snaps, drops, jumbles, tea cakes, bars & brownies that we have loved for generations

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Byrn, Anne

14) The last of the seven: a novel of World War II

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Hartov, Steven

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In a novel based on the little-known story of the British Army's X Troop, a German Jew and soldier seeking revenge for the deaths of his family in Berlin is recruited by a British major to join the newly formed X Troop, all "lost boys" driven not by patriotism but by vengeance.

15) The hat

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Brett, Jan

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When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head.

16) The blue house

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Wahl, Phoebe

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Both Leo and his father are angry and sad when their landlord says their old house will be torn down, but soon they find a way to make their new house feel like home.

17) Back to the garden: a novel

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King, Laurie R

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"A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life-with potentially fatal consequences-in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. The Gardener Estate is one of the most storied and beloved places on the West Coast: a magnificent house in vast formal grounds, home to a family that shaped California-and fought hard to conceal the turmoil and eccentricities...

18) Hotel California: the true-life adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and their many friends

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Hoskyns, Barney

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In the late sixties and early seventies, Los Angeles was a hotbed of musical creativity--the home base of Joni Mitchell, the Eagles, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, among many others. Now, drawing on exclusive interviews with many of the leading players, music journalist Hoskyns recreates the excitement, ferment, and energy of those years. We see the genesis of Crosby, Stills, and Nash at Joni Mitchell's...

19) A good girl's guide to murder

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Jackson, Holly

Series

Good girl's guide to murder volume 1

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As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.

20) Daisy Jones & the Six: a novel

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Reid, Taylor Jenkins

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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....