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John’s Pick: Juliet, Naked

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Juliet, Naked book coverJohn of Fiction/AV/Teen Services recommends Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby:

Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby’s latest novel, is a return to the elements that made his debut novel High Fidelity a hit: music, romance and arrested development.  It tells the tale of a reclusive singer-songwriter who hasn’t recorded in years, the unexpected release of an acoustic version of his most popular album, and a trans-Atlantic correspondence with the increasingly disgruntled girlfriend of his biggest fan…which leads to something more.  As always, Hornby’s witty characterization runs side-by-side with his sharp observations of how the way we consume popular culture shapes our lives.

Cathleen’s Pick: Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup

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Six Suspects DVD coverCathleen of Fiction/AV/Teen Services recommends Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup:

When playboy Vicky Rai shot doctoral student Ruby Gill in the face and neck in front of fifty witnesses, all because she refused to serve him a drink, the nation gasped.  Later, when Rai was acquitted, riots broke out.  So it is no surprise that he himself is murdered at the very party he throws to celebrate his release.  When the guests are searched, six separate individuals are found to have guns in their possession: a dim-witted American tourist, an ambitious politician, a Bollywood star, a primitive tribesman, a cell phone thief, and a corrupt bureaucrat who claims to have become Mahatma Ghandi.  Each has a secret, and each had just as good a reason to want Rai dead.  In his follow-up to Slumdog Millionaire, author Vikas Swarup casts a fascinating story of mystery and vengeance.  One by one the characters are revealed, but the pieces won’t fully come together until the shocking end.