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"1022 Evergreen
Place (Cedar Cove)" by Debbie Macomber
General Fiction. Mary Jo Wyse and her
baby daughter, Noelle, live next door to Mack. Worried about the
threat of Noelle's father threatening for custody of Noelle, Mary Jo is
thankful for the distraction of WWII letters that she found and is
sharing with Mack.
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"Atlantis
Complex, Book 7 (Artemis Fowl)" by Eoin Colfe
Junior Fiction. Artemis has committed his entire fortune to a
project that he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both
human and fairy. Has goodness taken hold of the world's greatest
teenage criminal mastermind?
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“Bearers of the Black
Staff, No. 1 (Legends of Shannara)" by Terry Brooks
Fantasy.
Co-existing peacefully for 500 years after creating their magically
protected valley, the surviving members of four non-demon races from the
Genesis of Shannara trilogy band together against frightening creatures
that are penetrating the shield around their home.
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“Burn: An Anna
Pigeon Novel, No. 16 (Anna Pigeon)" by Nevada Barr
Mystery & Detective.
Recovering from the emotional scars of recent traumas, National Park
Service ranger Anna Pigeon goes to stay with her friend, Geneva, in New
Orleans, only to become the target of a dark curse, prompting her to
investigate what has to do with Geneva's creepy tenant and a fugitive
mother accused of killing her family. |
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“The Capitol Game" by
Brian Haig
Suspense. After
Jack Wiley rallies corporate giant Capitol Group in an attempt to
takeover a small company that has developed an armor-reinforcing polymer
that could change the course of modern warfare, he and the Capitol Group
find themselves embroiled in the greatest scandal ever seen.
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"The Cobra" by
Frederick Forsyth
Suspense. Having once been forcibly retired from the CIA for being
too ruthless, former director of Special Operations Paul Devereaux is
called back into action, with the agency giving him free reign and
unlimited resources to take down the top drug cartels.
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“Crossfire" by Dick Francis and
Felix Francis
Suspense.
After he discovers that his mother, an esteemed horse trainer, is being
blackmailed and forced to make her horses lose, disabled Afghanistan
veteran Captain Tom Forsyth, must use his finely honed military skills
to root out the shadowy figure that is responsible for his mother's
predicament. |
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"Cure" by Robin
Cook
Suspense.
Returning to work when her son's neuroblastoma goes into remission, New
York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery faces the case of her
career involving the suspected poisoning murder of a CIA agent and
possible links to a powerful pharmaceutical company and start-up
stem-cell research labs. |
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"Death
on the D-List" by Nancy Grace
Suspense. After she moves to New York
City and becomes a TV crime fighter, former felony prosecutor Hailey
Dean learns that the television industry not only isn't as glamorous as
it seems, it is filled with treachery, deception and murder. |
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“Death's Excellent Vacation" by Charlaine Harris
Fantasy. Twelve
original tales by several best-selling authors, including Charlaine
Harris, featuring supernatural beings going on vacation, including an
all-new Sookie Stackhouse story. |
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"Dog Tags" by
David Rosenfelt
Mystery and Detective. Dog-loving
lawyer Andy Carpenter plunges into a high profile murder case in which a
rogue German Shepherd police dog may be the only hope for its owner, an
Iraq war vet and former-cop-turned-thief accused of murder. |
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"Fragile" by
Lisa Unger
Suspense. When her rebellious teenage
son's girlfriend goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Maggie
becomes increasingly fearful about unsettling ties between the
investigation and an unsolved missing-person case from 20 years earlier
that involved her police officer husband. |
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"The Garden of
Betrayal" by Lee Vance
Suspense. A tale set against a
backdrop of the 2008 economic crisis follows the experiences of a family
that was shattered seven years earlier by the abduction of their
12-year-old child and who receives an important lead on the same day a
natural gas pipeline in Russia is blown up by terrorists. |
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"Hangman:
A Decker/Lazarus Novel" by Faye Kellerman
Mystery & Detective. LAPD Lieutenant,
Peter Decker reluctantly agrees to do a big favor for old friend, Teresa
McLaughlin, but when she and her husband disappear, Decker's search is
interrupted by the gruesome murder of a young health care worker. |
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"Healer" by Carol
Cassella
General Fiction. Losing her privileged
world when the abrupt failure of her husband's business catapults them
into heavy debt, Claire withdraws with her daughter to the family ranch,
where she resurrects her medical skills and struggles to keep the family
together. |
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"I'd Know You
Anywhere" by Laura Lippman
Mystery & Detective. Eliza Benedict's
peaceful suburban life is shattered after being contacted by Walter
Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985,
and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row. |
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"In Harm's Way (Sun
Valley)" by Ridley Pearson
Suspense.
His budding relationship
with Fiona strained by her avoidance of media attention for her part in
a river rescue, Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming begins a race against
time when he learns of a possible link between his community and a
recent Seattle murder.
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"The Last Lie (Alan
Gregory)" by Stephen White
Suspense. After one of their dinner
party guests who indulges in too much wine, elects to sleep over and
wakes up the next morning with no memory beyond getting ready for bed,
Alan Gregory and his deputy district attorney wife, Lauren, join forces
with detective Sam Purdy in an investigation that turns grim once one of
the witnesses is murdered.
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"The Postcard
Killers" by James Patterson and Liza Marklund
Suspense. NYPD detective Jack Kanon
and Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson traverse Europe in hot pursuit of a
serial killer, one who sends a postcard before each murder and was
responsible for the slayings of Jack's daughter and her boyfriend.
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"The Red Queen:
A Novel, No. 2 (The Cousins' War)" by Phillipa Gregory
Historical Fiction. Determined to see
her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges
politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for
his safety and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York
and Lancaster.
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"Scarlet Nights,
No. 3 (Edilean)"
by Jude Deveraux
Romance. When a handsome undercover
cop informs her that her fiance is actually a con man using her for a
potentially lucrative heist, a terrified Sara is forced to pretend she
is still committed to the relationship in order to survive and help the
investigation. |
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"The Search" by Nora
Roberts, available large type and audio CD
Suspense. Fiona Barstow, a
professional canine search-and-rescue trainer, moved to Orcas Island
after barely escaping a serial killer eight years earlier. When
she meets Simon Doyle through his puppy that he brings to her for
training, a romance gets off to a shaky start. But then a copycat
killer emerges from the shadows and Fiona's hard earned peace is
shattered. |
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"Spider Bones
(Temperance Brennan)" by Kathy Reichs
Suspense. Temperance Brennan, an
intrepid forensic anthropologist, investigates the death of a man who
appears to have died while engaged in a bizarre sexual act and who was
originally declared dead four decades earlier. |
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"Tempted by Trouble"
by Eric Jerome Dickey
General Fiction. When his promising
future is upended by the recession, former Detroit auto industry
employee Dmytryk and his wife, Cora, make a morally ambiguous and
ultimately violent deal with a ruthless crime boss that ends their
marriage and forces Dmytryk to reassess his beliefs. |
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"Tough Customer" by
Sandra Brown
Suspense. Entreated by his former
lover, Dodge, to help protect her daughter from a depraved man who has
been stalking her, staff investigator Derek Mitchell teams up with a
small-town sheriff and enlists methods from his own shady past to find
answers. |
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"Veil of Night" by
Linda Howard
Romance. Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding
planner who enjoys her job--usually. But when she is asked to help
Carrie Edwards, a bridezilla of nasty proportions, with her big day,
Jaclyn's job becomes a nightmare. When Carrie turns up murdered,
everyone involved in the ceremony comes under suspicion. |
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"Women, Food and God:
An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything" by Geneen Roth.
NonFiction. Roth examines how the way
we eat is inseparable from our beliefs, going beyond food and feelings
into the realm of spirit and soul.
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