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Tara Westover
(1,064,332)
Summary: Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and...
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Call #: 370 WES
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Hot Picks
copies in: 2 of 5
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Graham Swift
(12,350)
Summary: "From the Booker Award winner: a luminous, profoundly moving work of fiction that begins with an afternoon tryst in 1924 between a servant girl and the young man of the neighboring house, but then...
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Call #: BK CLUB F SWIFT
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 21 of 21
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Summary: An ancient rivalry is rekindled when a Hollow Earth scholar receives private funding and wants to use Kong to discover the origin of the Titans. Protected inside a biodome since his discovery in the...
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Call #: DVD ACT/ADV GODZILLA
Locations: DVDs Action/Adventure, Adult Displays - Near Adult DVDs, Hot Picks
copies in: 4 of 4
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Summary: Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place...
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Call #: DVD FAMILY SOUL
Locations: DVDs Family, Hot Picks
copies in: 3 of 3
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Summary: Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is...
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Call #: DVD WESTERN NEWS
Locations: DVDs Western, Adult Displays - Near Adult DVDs, Hot Picks
copies in: 2 of 5
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Scott Abbott
Summary: Patrick Guthrie, a widowed public school drama teacher, will do whatever he can to make the money for a life-saving operation his ten-year-old son needs--including begging on the streets of New York.
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Call #: F ABBOTT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Cathy Ace
Series:
Cait Morgan Series - #4
(130)
Summary: With birthday celebrations in the cards, Cait Morgan and her significant other, retired cop Bud Anderson, travel to Las Vegas. As they are about to finish dinner in the casino owners' exclusive...
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Call #: F ACE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Cathy Ace
Series:
Cait Morgan Series
(158)
Summary: A dream vacation at a Mexican beach resort swiftly dissolves into a nightmare for criminologist and foodie Cait Morgan when her significant other, Bud Anderson, is wrongly arrested for the murder of...
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Call #: F ACE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Elliot Ackerman
(7,300)
Summary: March 12, 2034. US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China...
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Call #: F ACKERMAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Isabel Allende
(18,465)
Summary: "A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world"-- Provided by publisher.
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Call #: F ALLENDE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(2,069)
Summary: Follow the lives of three Amish families through the Christmas season.
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Call #: F AMI
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(784)
Summary: Presents four stories about Amish girls and their gardens, including Beth Wiseman's "Rooted in Love," in which Rosemary, who is trying to support her family but cannot garden, accepts help from Saul, who has loved her for years.
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Call #: F AMISH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Series:
Amish Miracle
(717)
Summary: In "Always In My Heart," Hope must confront the son she gave away fifteen years ago; in "Always His Providence," Rosa needs a miracle to pay the lien on her farm; and in "Always Beautiful," Becky...
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Call #: F AMISH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(210)
Summary: Their second chance: Amish nanny Hannah Eicher never thought she'd ever see Rob Prince again. There was no way a relationship between her and the handsome English fireman could overcome her family's...
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Call #: F AMISH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Brian Andrews
Series:
Tier One Shared-world
(845)
Summary: Navy SEAL Keith ''Chunk'' Redman is tasked to lead a new, covert team of Tier One SEALs. Ex-CIA analyst Whitney Watts sees evidence of a troubling link between illicit Chinese arms sales and an...
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Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Mary Kay Andrews
Series:
Callahan Garrity Series
(2,593)
Summary: A crime novel featuring cleaning lady-cum-sleuth, Callahan Garrity, who embarks on a quest to find the person behind the murder of her employer.
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Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Mary Kay Andrews
Series:
Callahan Garrity Series
(2,838)
Summary: In the midst of the Christmas rush, Callahan Garrity's long-lost brother Brian appears with his two-year-old daughter Maura, then as abruptly disappears without the child when his ex-wife, from whom...
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Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Mary Kay Andrews
Series:
Callahan Garrity Series
(6,382)
Summary: "After ten years of cleaning up the dirt on Atlanta's streets, Callahan Garrity is trading in her badge for a broom and a staff of house cleaners. But, though the uniform is a little different,...
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Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Mary Kay Andrews
Series:
Callahan Garrity Series
(3,385)
Summary: Inquisitive cleaning lady and amateur sleuth Callahan Garrity faces the opposition of her own family when she investigates the carjacking death of her cousin, Patti McNair, and uncovers a host of dark family secrets.
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Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Mary Kay Andrews
Series:
Callahan Garrity Series
(2,937)
Summary: Lady PI Callahan Garrity of Atlanta is hired to find a singer for a group planning a comeback after their manager dropped them. Garrity finds the singer, gun in hand, next to the body of the manager....
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Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Mary Kay Andrews
Series:
Callahan Garrity Series
(4,127)
Summary: When hired to find the controversial and valuable diary of a Civil War madame, Callahan Garrity--a former Atlantic cop, now cleaning lady-cum-sleuth--runs afoul of radicals of every kind as well as a murderous antique collector.
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Call #: F ANDREWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Maria Angels Anglada
(4,391)
Summary: In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a special violin meets a fellow musician who is instantly captivated by it. When he asks her how she obtained it, she reveals its...
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Call #: F ANGLADA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Arnaldur Indridason
Series:
Erlendur Sveinsson Mysteries
(7,527)
Summary: When Detective Erlendur places her in charge during his leave of absence, Elinborg tackles a disturbing serial rapist case that has the local police racing against time to prevent another attack.
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Call #: F ARNALDUR INDRIOASON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Donald Bain
Series:
Capital Crimes Series
(361)
Summary: When a Washington psychiatrist is found dead in his office, Mackenzie Smith is called in to defend one of his patients who has become a suspect. Then information emerges that links the slain shrink...
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Call #: F BAIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: "Connected to nature and carefree of heart, seven historical women would prefer to travel through life without shoes, especially if giving away their only pair would comfort someone else in need....
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Call #: F BAREFOOT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Dave Barry
(3,389)
Summary: An uproarious tale told in alternating voices follows the stories of a pet shop owner and a curmudgeon who find themselves on the run from police, terrorists, and a pizza chain mascot. One...
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Call #: F BARRY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Stephen Baxter
(1,606)
Summary: "A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen Baxter It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The...
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Call #: F BAXTER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![A few of the girls : [stories]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/146281@2x.jpg)
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Maeve Binchy
(4,483)
Summary: Friendship, love, and misplaced hope drive the characters who populate a new collection of Maeve Binchy stories.
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Call #: F BINCHY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Albert Camus
(819,767)
Summary: A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned...
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Call #: F CAMUS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jim Carrey
(3,493)
Summary: Meet Jim Carrey. He's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege -- but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even getting fat? Nothing seems to lift the...
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Call #: F CARREY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Summary: Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza,...
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Call #: F CERVANTES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(637)
Summary: ""[A] vivid portrait of a world gone insane,"* S. M. Stirling's New York Times bestselling Novels of the Change have depicted a vivid, utterly persuasive, and absorbingly unpredictable...
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Call #: F CHANGE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Elżbieta Cherezińska
Series:
Bold Novels - #1
(1,546)
Summary: This is the epic story of a Polish queen whose life and name were all but forgotten until now. The bold one they call her -- too bold for most. To her father, the great duke of Poland, Swietoslawa...
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Call #: F CHEREZINSKA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(1,376)
Summary: Four charming romances are connected by an heirloom brooch passed down for over 200 years. The stories range from 1820s Regency England to present day Washington state, as the multigenerational saga...
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Call #: F CHRISTMAS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Tom Clancy
Series:
Max Moore Series
(11,765)
Summary: For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and...
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Call #: F CLANCY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Walter Van Tilburg Clark
(5,486)
Summary: Set in 1885, this is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy...
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Call #: F CLARK
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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