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Ian McEwan
(453,815)
Summary: Three children lost their innocence --as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935-- and their lives are changed forever.
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Call #: F MCEWAN
Location: Adult Fiction
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Kristin Hannah
(31,695)
Summary: A poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love.
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Call #: F HANNAH
Location: Adult Fiction
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
(3,966,478)
Summary: Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually...
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Call #: F FITZGERALD
Location: Adult Fiction
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Jodi Picoult
(122,054)
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father, Daniel's life -- a straight-A student; a pretty, popular freshman in high school; a girl who's...
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Call #: F PICOULT
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James Patterson
Series:
Alex Cross Series - #12.
(60,748)
Summary: Alex Cross has left the FBI, once again pursuing a job as a psychologist. He sets out to avenge his wife's murder when one of his new cases has a connection to her death years ago.
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Call #: F PATTERSON
Location: Adult Fiction
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![One Tuesday morning [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34671@2x.jpg)
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Karen Kingsbury
(18,191)
Summary: A devoted fireman and a driven businessman, strangers with the same face. Only one will leave the Twin Towers alive, but will he ever find his way home? On the morning of September 11, 2001, two men...
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![Mindless eating [downloadable audiobook] / [why we eat more than we think]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34692@2x.jpg)
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Brian Wansink
(10,897)
Summary: We all overeat sometimes--when we're feeling emotional, are out to dinner, are celebrating a holiday, or are simply bored. But in addition to these common diet traps, there are others so...
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![Open house [downloadable audiobook] / [a novel]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34698@2x.jpg)
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Elizabeth Berg
(56,892)
Summary: Deeply felt, beautifully observed, and written with perfect emotional pitch, Open house is the unforgettable story of how a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening her house to strangers and her heart to the simple miracle of possibility.
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![Creating affluence [downloadable audiobook] / the A-to-Z steps to a richer life](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34747@2x.jpg)
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Deepak Chopra
(999)
Summary: Deepak Chopra presents a clear and simple message, explaining the full meaning of wealth consciousness and offering a step-by-step plan for creating affluence and fulfillment in all areas of our lives.
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![Musicophilia [downloadable audiobook] / and other tales of music and the brain](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34853@2x.jpg)
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Oliver W Sacks
(59,236)
Summary: Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and in Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks tells us why. Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or...
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![The fountainhead [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34884@2x.jpg)
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Ayn Rand
(302,398)
Summary: The Fountainhead is an unprecedented phenomenon in modern literature. Arguably the century's most challenging novel of ideas, The Fountainhead is the story of a gifted young architect, his violent...
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![Life class [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34951@2x.jpg)
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Pat Barker
Summary: In the spring of 1914, a group of young students gather in an art studio for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two components of a love triangle, and at the outset of the war,...
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![The inner game of tennis [downloadable audiobook] / the classic guide to the mental side of peak performance](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34979@2x.jpg)
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W. Timothy Gallwey
(11,317)
Summary: The inner game of tennis is a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and lapses of concentration that can keep a player from winning. This classic bestseller can change the way the game of tennis is played.
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![Predictably irrational [downloadable audiobook] / the hidden forces that shape our decisions](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34995@2x.jpg)
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Dan Ariely
(106,398)
Summary: Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent aspirin? Why does recalling the Ten Commandments reduce our tendency to lie, even when we couldn't...
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![Learn to relax [downloadable audiobook] / proven techniques for reducing stress, tensions and anxiety and promoting peak performance](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35117@2x.jpg)
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C. Eugene Walker
(64)
Summary: In this updated edition of his bestselling Learn to Relax, Walker explains how creative problem-solving and decision-making can keep you from feeling overwhelmed and improve your ability to cope with everyday worries.
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![The deepest water [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35147@2x.jpg)
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Kate Wilhelm
Summary: When Jud Connors, a successful writer, is found murdered in his isolated cabin in the woods of Oregon, his daughter Abby's world starts to fall apart. Who wanted her father dead and why? More...
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![Freakonomics [downloadable audiobook] / a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35196@2x.jpg)
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Steven D Levitt
(739,820)
Summary: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What...
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![Secrets of the millionaire mind [downloadable audiobook] / mastering the inner game of wealth](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35198@2x.jpg)
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T. Harv Eker
(47,042)
Summary: In his groundbreaking "Secrets of the millionaire mind", T. Harv Eker states: "Give me five minutes, and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life!" Eker does this by identifying...
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![French women don't get fat [downloadable audiobook] / the secret of eating for pleasure](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35346@2x.jpg)
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Mireille Guiliano
(16,380)
Summary: Stylish, convincing, wise, funny and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live. French women don't get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry,...
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![Ain't she sweet? [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35357@2x.jpg)
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
(21,926)
Summary: A pregnant, penniless woman returns to her hometown and discovers that several of her old enemies are living out the life she left behind, from the jealous half-sister who married her high-school...
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![Four souls [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35364@2x.jpg)
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Louise Erdrich
(3,719)
Summary: Four souls begins with Fleur Pillager's journey from North Dakota to Minneapolis, where she plans to avenge the loss of her family's land to a white man. After a dream vision that gives her a...
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![The blind side [downloadable audiobook] / evolution of a game](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35385@2x.jpg)
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Michael Lewis
(87,499)
Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "Moneyball" and "Liar's poker" comes the story of a young man's rise to football stardom. The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving...
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![Heart of darkness [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35464@2x.jpg)
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Joseph Conrad
(287,766)
Summary: Horror awaits Marlow, a seaman assigned by an ivory company to retrieve a cargo boat and one of its employees, Mr. Kurtz who is stranded in the heart of the Africa, deep in the Belgian Congo....
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![The invisible man [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35465@2x.jpg)
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H. G. Wells
Summary: "The stranger came early in February ... He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose." After being evicted by his...
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![The scarlet letter [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35469@2x.jpg)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Summary: Set in New England during the 1600s, The Scarlet Letter is the story of a woman named Hester Prynne who is ostracized by her husband and colonial New England society because she has borne an...
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![The lake of dead languages [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35473@2x.jpg)
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Carol Goodman
(11,419)
Summary: Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. The week before graduation, three lives were taken, all victims of suicide. Only Jane...
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![Cumbres borrascosas [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35482@2x.jpg)
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Emily Brontë
(928,486)
Summary: Against a background of English moors in the 18th century, the lives of two families become intertwined through marriage, passion, and the dominating force of a man called Heathcliff.
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![Elsewhere [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35677@2x.jpg)
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Gabrielle Zevin (read by Cassandra Morris)
(52,816)
Summary: Elsewhere is where 15-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a...
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![Off season [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/39008@2x.jpg)
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Anne Rivers Siddons
(5,991)
Summary: For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly -- happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it...
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![Bones [downloadable audiobook] / an Alex Delaware novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/39018@2x.jpg)
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Jonathan Kellerman
(10,522)
Summary: The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something "real dead ... buried in your marsh." The eco-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it's a prank, but when a...
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