Kiss your dentist goodbye : a do-it-yourself mouth care system for healthy, clean gums and teeth
  Phillips, Ellie.
  Want nicer teeth? Ellie Phillips describes how to have a healthier mouth. Recommended by Stacy of the Newport Library.

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Dead end gene pool : a memoir
  Burden, Wendy.
  As the great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Burden experienced a childhood populated by a cast of wacky WASPs, whose personal and professional ambitions had progressively declined over the course of several overindulged and dangerously inbred generations. Recommended by Mary of the Newport Library.

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Zeus : king of the gods  1st ed.
  O'Connor, George.
  Terrified of being killed by one of his children, Kronos devours each of his offspring in turn. Only Zeus, the youngest, is saved. Though raised to enjoy a life of leisure, Zeus must fulfill his destiny and lead a new race of gods--and he must begin by destroying his own father. Recommended by Karel of the Newport Library.

1 copy available at Newport Public Library in
Juvenile Fiction Collection

Lean on Pete : a novel  1st U.S. ed.
  Vlautin, Willy.
  15-year-old Charley Thompson and his father move to Portland, Oregon, to give starting over yet another try. When Charley's dad takes up with a married secretary and stops coming home, Charley takes a job with Del Montgomery, a crank based out of the nearby racetrack who, among other things, shoots up a horse with vodka. Recommended by Rebecca of the Newport Library.

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The nobodies album : a novel  1st ed.
  Parkhurst, Carolyn, 1971-
  On her way to deliver the manuscript to her editor, bestselling novelist Octavia Frost reads a news crawl in Times Square and learns that her rock-star son, Milo, has been arrested for murder. Though she and Milo haven't spoken in years--an estrangement stemming from their tragic past--she drops everything to go to him. Recommended by Sheryl of the Newport Library.

1 copy available at Tillamook Main Branch - TCL in
New Fiction Collection

Twelve by twelve : a one-room cabin off the grid & beyond the American dream
  Powers, William, 1971-
  Jackie Benton lives a sustainable life off the grid by raising honeybees, growing her own vegetables and preserving them, and harvesting what she might need from the woods around her. Powers meets with and decides to emulate her. Benton's sobering and often hilarious narrative of his life in the 12'*12' offers insights into the ways that all individuals living in a fast-paced consumer culture might incorporate different ways of thinking about the natural world into their lives. Recommended by Stacy of the Newport Library.

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A thousand sisters : my journey into the worst place on earth to be a woman
  Shannon, Lisa, 1975-
  The founder of the organization Run for Congo Women describes her visit to Congo and recounts the extreme hardships and tragic events in the lives of the women she meets there. Recommended by Rebecca of the Newport Library.

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One day  1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
  Nicholls, David, 1966-
  Over twenty years, snapshots of an unlikely relationship are revealed on the same day--July 15th--of each year. Dex Mayhew and Em Morley face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. Soon to be a major motion picture from Focus Features/ Random House Films. Recommended by Kay of the Newport Library.

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What's a disorganized person to do?
  Platt, Stacey.
  Professional organizer Stacey Platt comes to the rescue with empowering ideas on putting and keeping things in order. Recommended by Kay of the Newport Library.

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Kook : what surfing taught me about love, life, and catching the perfect wave  1st Free Press trade pbk. ed.
  Heller, Peter, 1959-
  Journalist Heller's memoir of finding the value of life while shooting the curl off Baja starts off when, just back from an exhausting assignment in Tibet, he gets a phone call from an old friend in California who wants Heller to come out and take surfing lessons with him. Reluctant at first to leave Denver and his girlfriend, Heller follows the call to this new adventure. Recommended by Jeff of the Newport Library.

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Oh no!, or, How my science project destroyed the world  1st ed.
  Barnett, Mac.
  After winning the science fair with the giant robot she has built, a little girl realizes that there is a major problem. Recommended by Jennifer K. of the Newport Library.

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The school of essential ingredients
  Bauermeister, Erica.
  Eight students gather in Lillian's Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that each one seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen as Chef Lillian, a woman whose connection with food is both soulful and exacting, helps them to create dishes whose flavor and techniques expand beyond the restaurant and into the secret corners of her students' lives. Recommended by Mary of the Newport Library.

3 copies available at Manzanita Branch - TCL, Bookmobile - TCL, and Waldport Public Library

The devil's paintbox  1st ed.
  McKernan, Victoria.
  In 1865, fifteen-year-old Aiden and his thirteen-year-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans, leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there are still many hardships to be faced. Recommended by Rebecca of the Newport Library.

2 copies available at Newport Public Library and Toledo Public Library

Brooklyn : a novel  1st Scribner hardcover ed.
  Tóibín, Colm, 1955-
  Committed to a quiet life in little Enniscorthy, Ireland, the industrious young Eilis Lacey reluctantly finds herself swept up in an unplanned adventure to America, engineered by the family priest and her glamorous, "ready for life" sister, Rose. Recommended by Sheryl of the Newport Library.

3 copies available at Rockaway Branch - TCL, Pacific City Branch - TCL, and Newport Public Library

Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus [sound recording (CD)]
  Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

1 copy available at Newport Public Library in
AV Collection

Memory book
  Engel, Howard, 1931-
  This is the Canadian author's first novel since 2000, when a small stroke left him with a rare disorder that rendered him able to write but unable to read. In this book his PI hero, Benny Cooperman, suffers from the same ailment as he wakes from a recurring dream about a train wreck to find himself in a Toronto hospital. Recommended by Mary of the Newport Library.

2 copies available at Driftwood Public Library (Lincoln City) and Newport Public Library

The other side of the bridge
  Lawson, Mary, 1946-
  Arthur Dunn is a stolid, salt-of-the-earth farmer, and his brother, Jake, a handsome, smooth-talking snake in the grass. Their lifelong mutual resentments and betrayals culminate in a battle over the beautiful Laura. Recommended by Mary of the Newport Library.

2 copies available at Tillamook Main Branch - TCL and Driftwood Public Library (Lincoln City)

Pushing ice  1st American ed.
  Reynolds, Alastair, 1966-
  Janus, a moon of Saturn, has suddenly left orbit and headed for interstellar space. The Rockhopper, a comet miner commanded by Capt. Bella Lind, is the only spacecraft in the solar system positioned to catch the moon -- or is it a huge alien machine? Recommended by Jeff of the Newport Library.

1 copy available at Newport Public Library in
Science Fiction Collection

My life in orange  1st Harvest ed.
  Guest, Tim, 1975-
  Guest shares the bittersweet story of his nomadic childhood as a member of the sannyasin, a group of people who swathed themselves in orange and lived in the various communes of the infamous Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. In 1979, when Guest was six, he was brought into the group by his mother, a lapsed Catholic who "surrendered herself to the world without a second thought," moving to England, Germany, India and Oregon to work for the cause of Bhagwan's Eastern mysticism. Recommended by Mary of the Newport Library.

2 copies available at Tillamook Main Branch - TCL and Driftwood Public Library (Lincoln City)

Ultramarathon man : confessions of an all-night runner
  Karnazes, Dean, 1962-
  Thrill-seeker Karnazes didn't just run a marathon, he ran the first marathon held at the South Pole. The conditions were extreme?"breathing the superchilled air directly [without a mask] could freeze your trachea"?yet he craved more. Recommended by Stacy of the Newport Library.

1 copy available at Toledo Public Library in
Nonfiction Collection