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Reader's Advisory Tools Utilizing Novelist through the Prescott Public Library database system I answered the following prompt questions as I would, were I providing Reader’s Advisory services to patrons when I worked at Prescott Public Library in Prescott, AZ.   The second tab under each question is how I searched to find the answer!   1.      I am looking for a book by Laurell K. Hamilton. I just read the third book in the Anita Blake series and I can’t figure out which one comes next! o    The third book in the series is Circus of the Damned.   If that is the last book you read, the next one would be The Lunatic Café.     This is a great series.   There are 26 books in the series- and I can do a series print out if you’d like so that you have the full order.   §   I searched “Anita Blake” under the series tab and the titles appeared in numbered order.   To ensure that the patron was ...

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips Published May 14th 2019 by Knopf ISBN-13: 9780525520412 Hardcover, 264 pages Synopsis In the small seaside city of Kamchatka on the Siberian Peninsula two young sisters are wasting an afternoon on the rocky outcropping of beach near the city center.   Their abduction spins into many versions of the tale, from numerous perspectives as everyone in the area has their own pieces of the puzzle to add.   Each new bit of information leads to the suspense of what really happened in the community and more generally abroad throughout the Peninsula.   Tensions of race and culture abound as other cases of missing women are brought into question.   Who is this heartless kidnapper?   Is he a serial murderer?   Were they kidnapped at all, or just swept into the ocean at high tide?   This smartly written novel will keep you turning pages until the last moment.   Key Elements o...