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NEW MEMORIAL BOOKS
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The Sittaford Mystery by
Agatha Christie In memory of
Ruth Evelyn Goodwin Presented by Lee and
Tamara (Hardesty) Putnam
Agatha
Christie, the acknowledged mistress of
suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss
Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule
Poirot, and so many other unforgettable
characters—brings her entire oeuvre of
ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries,
and perplexing puzzles. |

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Dumb Witness by
Agatha Christie In memory of
Evelyn Goodwin Magill Presented by Lee
and Tamara (Hardesty) Putnam
In Dumb
Witness,
Hercule Poirot investigates the very
suspicious death of an elderly spinster who,
fearing the very worst, had written to the
great detective prior to her demise. |

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Cards on the Table by
Agatha Christie In memory of
Vina Hare Presented by Robert and Ila
Wakefield
In Cards
on the Table,
the wily Poirot is on the case when a bridge
night turns deadly.
The library is hoping to obtain the
complete Large Type collection of Agatha
Christie Mysteries. If you would like
to donate- please contact the library.
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AN
INVISIBLE THREAD BY LAURA SCHROFF AND
ALEX TRESNIOWSKI
In memory of
Angie and Madison Brock Presented by Bob and
Beulah Bowen
She was a successful ad sales rep in
Manhattan. He was a homeless,
eleven-year-old panhandler on the street. He
asked for spare change; she kept walking.
But then something stopped her in her
tracks, and she went back. And she continued
to go back, again and again. They met up
nearly every week for years and built an
unexpected, life-changing friendship that
has today spanned almost three decades.
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DANICA PATRICK: REMARKABLE PEOPLE
BY LAURA PRATT
In memory of Angie and Madison Brock
Presented by Bob and Beulah Bowen
Danica Patrick is the most popular driver in
the Indy Racing League (IRL). She has won
fans with her skill, toughness, and charm. You
don't get to be an IndyCar driver without
talent and determination. Danica is living
proof that if you work hard and aim high,
you can do whatever you set your mind to,
that you can rise to any challenge, and that
what makes you different is what makes you
great.
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Crazy
Love by Francis Chan
In memory of
Angie and Madison Brock Presented by Bob and
Beulah Bowen
God is love. Crazy, relentless, all-powerful
love. Have you ever wondered if we’re
missing it? It’s crazy, if you think about
it. The God of the universe--the Creator of
nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and
E-minor--loves us with a radical,
unconditional, self-sacrificing love.
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The Aviator's Wife by
Melanie Benjamin
For much of her life, Anne
Morrow, the shy daughter of the
U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has
stood in the shadows of those
around her, including her
millionaire father and vibrant
older sister, who often steals
the spotlight. Then Anne, a
college senior with hidden
literary aspirations, travels to
Mexico City to spend Christmas
with her family. There she meets
Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh
off his celebrated 1927 solo
flight across the Atlantic.
Enthralled by Charles’s
assurance and fame, Anne is
certain the aviator has
scarcely noticed her. But she is
wrong. Charles sees in
Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow
adventurer, and her world will
be changed forever. The two
marry in a headline-making
wedding. Hounded by adoring
crowds and hunted by an
insatiable press, Charles
shields himself and his new
bride from prying eyes, leaving
Anne to feel her life falling
back into the shadows. In the
years that follow, despite her
own major achievements—she
becomes the first licensed
female glider pilot in the
United States—Anne is viewed
merely as the aviator’s wife.
The fairy-tale life she once
longed for will bring heartbreak
and hardships, ultimately
pushing her to reconcile her
need for love and her desire for
independence, and to embrace, at
last, life’s infinite
possibilities for change and
happiness. Drawing on
the rich history of the
twentieth century—from the late
twenties to the mid-sixties—and
featuring cameos from such
notable characters as Joseph
Kennedy and Amelia Earhart, The
Aviator’s Wife is
a vividly imagined novel of a
complicated marriage—revealing
both its dizzying highs and its
devastating lows. With stunning
power and grace, Melanie
Benjamin provides new insight
into what made this remarkable
relationship endure.
Praise for The
Aviator’s Wife
“Anne Morrow Lindbergh narrates
the story of the Lindberghs’
troubled marriage in all its
triumph and tragedy.”—USA
Today “[This
novel] will fascinate history
buffs and surprise those who
know of her only as ‘the
aviator’s wife.’ ”—People
“It’s hard to quit
reading this intimate historical
fiction.”—The Dallas
Morning News
“Utterly unforgettable.”—Publishers
Weekly (starred
review) “An intimate
examination of the life and
emotional mettle of Anne
Morrow.”—The Washington
Post
“A story of
both triumph and pain that will
take your breath away.”—Kate
Alcott, author of The
Dressmaker
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The Mayo Clinic Diet
The book is based on a version of the
familiar food pyramid, and the diet can be
summarized as: Eat a lot -- in fact as much
as you want -- of fruits and vegetables. Eat
limited, though reasonable, amounts of
carbs, protein and dairy, and fats. Exercise
30 minutes a day.
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Happy, Happy, Happy:
My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
by Phil Robertson and
Mark Schlabach
Duck calls—though the source of his
livelihood—are not what makes Phil Robertson
the man he is today. When asked what matters
in his life, he’s quick to say, “Faith,
family, ducks—in that order.”
It isn’t often that a person can live a
dream, but Phil Robertson, aka The Duck
Commander, has proven that it is possible
with vision, hard work, helping hands, and
an unshakable faith in the Almighty.
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Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey
Archer
Jeffrey Archer's mesmerizing saga of the
Clifton and Barrington families continues in
book 3 of the Clifton Chronicles series
after Only Time Will Tell and
The Sins of the Father. |

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Waiting to Be Heard: a Memoir
by Amanda Knox
In
the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college
coed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy,
but her life was shattered when her roommate
was murdered in their apartment.
After a controversial trial, Amanda was
convicted and imprisoned. But in 2011, an
appeals court overturned the decision and
vacated the murder charge. Free at last, she
returned home to the U.S., where she has
remained silent, until now.
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A Step of Faith by Richard
Paul Evans
“Life is not lived in the long, downhill
stretches of expressways, but in the
obscure, perilous trails and back roads
where we stumble and feel our way through
the fog of our unknowing. Life is not a run.
It is just one step of faith after another.”
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Fly Away by Kristin Hannah
Tully Hart has always been larger than life,
a woman fueled by big dreams and driven by
memories of a painful past. She thinks she
can overcome anything until her best friend,
Kate Ryan, dies. Tully tries to fulfill her
deathbed promise to Kate---to be there for
Kate’s children---but Tully knows nothing
about family or motherhood or taking care of
people. |

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Dead Ever After by
Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse finds it easy to turn
down the request of former barmaid Arlene
when she wants her job back at Merlotte’s.
After all, Arlene tried to have Sookie
killed. But her relationship with Eric
Northman is not so clearcut. He and his
vampires are keeping their distance…and a
cold silence. And when Sookie learns the
reason why, she is devastated. |

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Daddy's Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark
A
dark secret from a family’s past that
threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and
Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned
furniture firm in Long Island City, founded
by their grandfather and famous for its fine
reproductions of antiques, explodes into
flames in the middle of the night, leveling
the buildings to the ground, including the
museum where priceless antiques have been on
permanent display for years.
The ashes reveal a startling and grisly
discovery, and provoke a host of suspicions
and questions. Was the explosion
deliberately set?
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Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz
The truck driver is decked out like a
rhinestone cowboy, only instead of a guitar
he’s slinging a gun—and Odd Thomas is on the
wrong end of the barrel. Though he narrowly
dodges a bullet, Odd can’t outrun the
shocking vision burned into his mind . . .
or the destiny that will drive him into a
harrowing showdown with absolute evil. |

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Inferno by Dan Brown
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of
symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a
harrowing world centered on one of history’s
most enduring and mysterious literary
masterpieces . . . Dante’s Inferno.
Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a
chilling adversary and grapples with an
ingenious riddle that pulls him into a
landscape of classic art, secret
passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing
from Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races
to find answers and decide whom to trust . .
. before the world is irrevocably altered. |

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Silken Prey by John Sandford
“If you haven’t read Sandford yet, you have
been missing one of the great summer-read
novelists of all time.”—Stephen King, Entertainment
Weekly
Very early one morning, a Minnesota
political fixer answers his doorbell. The
next thing he knows, he’s waking up on the
floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic
sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car
stops, a voice says, “Hey, I think he’s
breathing,” and another voice says, “Yeah?
Give me the bat.” And that’s the last thing
he knows. |

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The Prairie Boys Go to War: The
Fifth Illinois Cavalry, 1861-1865 by
Rhonda M. Kohl
This
book was presented to the library by David
Foote, who is sighted in the preface of the
book.
Cavalry units from Midwestern states remain
largely absent from Civil War literature,
and what little has been written largely
overlooks the individual men who served. The
Fifth Illinois Cavalry has thus remained
obscure despite participating in some of the
most important campaigns in Arkansas and
Mississippi. In this pioneering examination
of that understudied regiment, Rhonda M.
Kohl offers the only modern, comprehensive
analysis of a southern Illinois regiment
during the Civil War and combines
well-documented military history with a
cultural analysis of the men who served in
the Fifth Illinois.
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AMERICAN STORY BY BOB DOTSON
Dotson has been crisscrossing the country
for more than forty years—logging more than
four million miles—in search of people who
have quietly but profoundly changed our
lives and our country for the better. Now,
in American
Story,
he presents a road map to the unsung heroes
with thoughtful solutions to problems we all
face, incredible ideas that work, and
blueprints to living our dreams. |

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LIFE CODE
BY
DR. PHIL MCGRAW
In Life
Code: The New Rules for Winning in the Real
World,
six-time New
York Times #1
best-selling author Dr. Phil McGraw abandons
traditional thinking and tells you the ugly
truth about the users, abusers, and overall
“bad guys” we all have in our lives. He also
reveals the secrets of how they think and
how they get to and exploit you and those
you love. You’ll gain incredible insight
into these negative people, which he refers
to as BAITERs (Backstabbers, Abusers,
Imposters, Takers, Exploiters, Reckless),
and you’ll gain the tools to protect
yourself from their assaults. |

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tAPESTRY OF FORTUNES
BY ELIZABETH BERG
In
this superb new novel by the beloved New
York Times bestselling
author of Open
House, Home Safe, and The
Last Time I Saw You, four
women venture into their pasts in order to
shape their futures, fates, and fortunes.
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THE HIT BY DAVID BALDACCI
Will Robie is a master of killing.
A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the
man the U.S. government calls on to
eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies
of the state, monsters committed to
harming untold numbers of innocent
victims.
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WHISKEY BEACH BY NORA ROBERTS
For more than three hundred years, Bluff
House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding
its shore—and its secrets. But to Eli
Landon, it’s home…
A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an
intense year of public scrutiny and police
investigations after being accused of—but
never arrested for—the murder of his
soon-to-be-ex wife.
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DANGEROUS REFUGE
BY ELIZABETH LOWELL
On the surface Shaye Townsend has little
in common with Tanner. He's a hard-edged big
city cop come home to the historic Davis
family ranch to settle his uncle's estate.
She's working for an environmental
conservancy that acquires and protects old
ranches—and she wants to preserve the Davis
homestead.
When the suspicious death of Tanner's uncle
at his ranch throws the two opposites
together, tempers flare and sparks fly.
While they have trouble seeing eye to eye,
Shaye and Tanner agree on one thing: They
need to uncover the truth.
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UNINTENDED
CONSEQUENCES BY STUART WOODS
Stone Barrington is no stranger to schemes
and deceptions of all stripes—as an attorney
for the premier white-shoe law firm Woodman
& Weld, he’s seen more than his share. But
when he travels to Europe under highly
unusual circumstances, Stone finds himself
at the center of a mystery...
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BREAKING
POINT BY C.J. BOX
It was always good to see Butch Roberson,
Joe thought—a hardworking, upright local
business owner whose daughter was friends
with his own. Little did he know that when
he talked to Butch that day in the forest,
the man was about to disappear.
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THE EVERYTHING GLUTEN-FREE SLOW COOKER
COOKBOOK BY CARRIE S. FORBES
Slow cookers are lifesavers for busy cooks.
But if you follow a gluten-free diet - due
to celiac disease, gluten intolerance, wheat
allergies, or simply for health reasons -
slow cooking can be a challenge. That's
because many recipes don't thicken properly
without flour, noodles, or some other
wheat-containing derivative. Enter: The
Everything Gluten-Free Slow Cooker Cookbook.
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GLUTEN-FREE ON A SHOESTRING
BY NICOLE HUNN
Inside this comprehensive cookbook, you’ll
find 125 delicious and inexpensive
gluten-free recipes for savory dinners,
favorite desserts, comfort foods, and more,
plus Nicole’s top money-saving secrets.
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12TH
OF NEVER BY
JAMES PATTERSON AND MAXINE PAETRO
Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But
after only a week at home with her new
daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to
work to face two of the biggest cases of her
career.
A rising star football player for the San
Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a
grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is
confronted with the strangest story she's
ever heard: An eccentric English professor
has been having vivid nightmares about a
violent murder and he's convinced is real.
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