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by
Lisa Gardner
Series:
D. D. Warren Series - #8
(46,206)
Summary: "Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a...
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Call #: BK CLUB F GARDNER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Lisa Gardner
Series:
Detective D. D. Warren Novels - #8
Summary: Seven years ago, college student Flora Danes was kidnapped while on spring break. Miraculously alive after her 472-day ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F GARDNER LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Trevor Noah
(539,257)
Summary: "The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed." -- Amazon.com.
BOOK
Call #: B NOAH
Locations: Adult Biographies, Book Club Sets
copies in: 12 of 22
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by
Maria Semple
(530,743)
Summary: When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F SEMPLE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 16
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by
Marjorie Hart
(8,670)
Summary: New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson (a native of Story City, Iowa) and Marty Garrett arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shop girls....
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB 381.141 HAR LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 5 of 5
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by
Marjorie Hart
(8,695)
Summary: New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson (a native of Story City, Iowa) and Marty Garrett arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shop girls....
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Call #: BK CLUB 381.141 HAR
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 10 of 10
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by
Jostein Gaarder
(230,582)
Summary: One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, each with a question: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From this irresistible...
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Call #: BK CLUB F GAARDER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Tracie Peterson
(162)
Summary: Journey to Alaska with bestselling author Tracie Peterson. The bleak wilderness of America's 49th state challenges three women in different eras: Julie, a nurse, who must serve victims of a 1925...
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Call #: F PETERSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ann Hood
(14,878)
Summary: Ava's twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HOOD
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 14 of 20
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by
Gail Honeyman
(981,172)
Summary: "Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same...
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BOOK
Call #: F HONEYMAN
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 22
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by
Gail Honeyman
(956,125)
Summary: "Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F HONEYMAN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 3
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by
Gail Honeyman
(977,437)
Summary: "Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HONEYMAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 11
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by
Tana French
Series:
Dublin Murder Squad Novels - #1
(355,618)
Summary: As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When...
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Call #: BK CLUB F FRENCH
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Christina Baker Kline
(409,124)
Summary: "Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F KLINE
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 21 of 21
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by
Terese Marie Mailhot
(21,801)
Summary: Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 362.196 MAI
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 18
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by
Allen Eskens
Series:
Max Rupert Novels - #1
(96,497)
Summary: "College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F ESKENS
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 16
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by
Allen Eskens
Series:
Max Rupert Novels
(96,403)
Summary: "College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F ESKENS LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Alice Munro
(22,461)
Summary: "In Alice Munro's new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer." "The runaway of the...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F MUNRO
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 18
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by
Mark Helprin
(4,121)
Summary: Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour -- a maitre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust -- must find a balance between his strong obligations to...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F HELPRIN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Tommy Orange
(146,234)
Summary: Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxedrene is...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F ORANGE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Linda Holmes
(112,604)
Summary: In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F HOLMES LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Linda Holmes
(111,652)
Summary: In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HOLMES
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 18
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by
Mark Helprin
(4,105)
Summary: Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a maitre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust--must find a balance between his strong obligations to the...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HELPRIN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 4 of 18
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by
Michelle McNamara
(201,742)
Summary: A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who...
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Note: Silent Book Club selection for January. Please ask for a copy at the circulation desk.
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Call #: BK CLUB 364.1532 MCN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Celeste Ng
(440,722)
Summary: "Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of...
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Call #: BK CLUB F NG
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 18
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by
Jess Kidd
(11,022)
Summary: "Having been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant, lovable car thief and Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. But when he receives an...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KIDD
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 18
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by
Stephanie Land
(65,130)
Summary: At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a...
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Call #: BK CLUB 305.569 LAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 18
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by
Stephanie Land
(65,838)
Summary: At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB 305.569 LAN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Vicki Delany
Series:
Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Series - #1
(3,870)
Summary: When Gemma Doyle, owner of Cape Cod's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Homes story hidden in her shop, she and her...
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Call #: F DELANY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
John Sandford
Series:
Prey Series
(20,075)
Summary: Weather Karkinnen, surgeon, wife of an investigator named Lucas Davenport, unwittingly witnesses the robbery of the hospital pharmacy where she works. With the death of a pharmacy worker on their...
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Call #: F SANDFORD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
William M Kuhn
(7,042)
Summary: After decades of service and years of watching her family's troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain's Queen is beginning to feel her age. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an...
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Call #: F KUHN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Clive Cussler
Series:
Fargo Adventures
(8,188)
Summary: Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize...
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Call #: F CUSSLER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Stassi Schroeder
(9,760)
Summary: Fans of the Bravo TV show Vanderpump Rules and podcast listeners know Stassi Schroeder not only for her no-holds-barred comments but also as a major defender of Basic Bitch rights. She knows that...
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BOOK
Call #: B SCHROEDER
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ann B Ross
Series:
Miss Julia Series
(2,770)
Summary: Abbotsville finds itself the scene of a heist; and Miss Julia knows there's only one man who can solve the crime. It's J. D. Pickens, P.I., renowned investigator and Hazel Marie's wayward love. When...
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Call #: F ROSS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Frances Brody
Series:
Kate Shackleton Series - #6
(1,735)
Summary: "The search for a daughter. Lady Coulton gave up the baby that would have ruined her marriage, born when Lord Coulton was abroad. Now that her husband is dying, she asks Kate to find Sophia. A...
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Call #: F BRODY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(346)
Summary: With this collection, editor Anne Perry has enlisted some of today's best mystery writers to craft all-new stories about unlikely couples who join forces -- sometimes unwillingly -- to solve a...
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BOOK
Call #: F STORIES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lois McMaster Bujold
Series:
Penric And Desdemona - #6
(3,900)
Summary: Penric, a Temple sorcerer and learned divine, and the widow Nikys receive a letter from a friend warning them that Nikys' mother has been taken hostage by her brother's enemies, and confined in an...
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BOOK
Call #: F BUJOLD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mary Connealy
Series:
Brothers In Arms - #2
(407)
Summary: Falcon Hunt traveled west, compelled to start a new life by a surprise telegram that promised him an inheritance and a family in Wyoming. But shortly after arriving, he wakes in a river, completely...
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BOOK
Call #: F CONNEALY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Shelley Shepard Gray
Series:
Charmed Amish Life - #2
(656)
Summary: In Shelley Shepard Gray's second book in her Charmed Amish Life series, a young teacher and farmer discover they have much in common, especially when it comes to healing old wounds from the past.
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Call #: F GRAY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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