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• A Novel Idea - Deschutes Public Library

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  Click here for the book discussion guides to this year's picks, author tickets, A Reader's Guide, and access to all our A Novel Idea content going back to 2004.

• 2025 A Novel Idea Events - Deschutes Public Library

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• DPL ADULTS: 2025 A Novel Idea Nominated Books — a staff-created list from Deschutes Public Library | Deschutes Public Library | BiblioCommons

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  Deciding on the A Novel Idea selection is a two-step, nearly yearlong process. Starting in January—just one month after the current title is revealed at the annual Unveiled event—a team of community nominators begins reading. By the end…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Murder by Degrees

  Mukerji, Ritu

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  A Novel Idea 2025 Adult selection: A debut historical mystery set in 19th century Philadelphia follows a pioneering woman doctor as she investigates the disappearance of a young patient who is presumed dead.

• The Queen of Ocean Parkway

  Tash, Sarvenaz

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  A Novel Idea 2025 Youth selection: Eleven-year-old podcaster-turned-sleuth, Roya, teams up with the new kid in the building, Stefanie, to find their missing neighbor.

• Graveyard Shift

  a Novella

  Rio, M. L.

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  Suggested read (adult): Every night, in the college's ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Doctors Blackwell

  How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women--and Women to Medicine

  Nimura, Janice P.

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  Suggested read (adult): The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women.

• My Name Is Mary Sutter

  Oliveira, Robin

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  Suggested read (adult): Traveling to Civil War-era Washington, D.C., to tend wounded soldiers and pursue her dream of becoming a surgeon, headstrong midwife Mary receives guidance from two smitten doctors and resists her mother's pleas for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Protecting Her Heart

  Allen, Nancy Campbell, 1969-

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  Suggested read (adult): In 1887 London, newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall, after her father passes away, discovers there was more to her mother's death than she'd been told and teams up with her treasured friend and director…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Way of All Flesh

  Parry, Ambrose

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  Suggested read (adult): An apprentice to a mid-19th-century anesthesia pioneer unexpectedly partners with a quick-witted housemaid in order to survive an investigation in the Edinburgh underworld to solve a string of grisly deaths.

• Ophie's Ghosts

  Ireland, Justina

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  Suggested read (youth): Discovering her ability to see ghosts when a cruel act ends her father’s life and forces her to move in with relatives in 1920s Pittsburgh, young Ophelia forges a helpful bond with a spirit whose own life ended…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall

  Warga, Jasmine

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  Suggested read (youth): When he encounters a floating girl who resembles the girl in a painting stolen from the museum, Rami becomes determined to solve the mystery and teams up with a classmate and a turtle named Agatha to look for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Olivetti

  Millington, Allie

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  Suggested read (youth): A part of the Brindle family, Olivetti the typewriter, who has been recently replaced by a computer, breaks the only rule of his "kind" and types back to introverted 12-year-old Ernest when he believes he can help…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret Library

  Magoon, Kekla

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  Suggested read (youth): Since Grandpa died, Dally’s days are dull and restricted. She’s eleven and a half years old, and her exacting single mother is already preparing her to take over the family business. Starved for adventure and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Body Under the Piano

  Jocelyn, Marthe

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  Suggest read (youth): Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy, Aggie hasn't got much to do since the death of her beloved father . . . until the fateful day when she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Whole Song and Dance

  Tash, Sarvenaz

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  Also by Sarvenaz Tash: A freshman at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Nasrin is seemingly living her dream, except her parents think she is attending business school. It gets harder to keep lying to them, especially after they surprise her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Three Day Summer

  Tash, Sarvenaz,

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  Also by Sarvenaz Tash: During the three days of the music festival known as Woodstock, Michael and Cora share incredible experiences, the greatst of which is meeting each other.