![I'd know you anywhere [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52694@2x.jpg)
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Laura Lippman
(19,858)
Summary: Eliza Benedict's peaceful suburban life is shattered after she is 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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![Every last one [eBook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52715@2x.jpg)
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Anna Quindlen
(34,766)
Summary: Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family...
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![Superfreakonomics [downloadable ebook] / global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52772@2x.jpg)
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Steven D Levitt
(123,785)
Summary: Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.
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![Noah's compass [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52788@2x.jpg)
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Anne Tyler
(11,555)
Summary: From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.
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![Saturday morning [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52797@2x.jpg)
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Lauraine Snelling
(378)
Summary: "Broken by life's disappointments, four women forge a friendship that leads in unexpected directions. Hope Benson is determined to do all she can for the broken souls who come to Casa de Jesus, a...
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![Picture perfect [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52827@2x.jpg)
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Jodi Picoult
(54,972)
Summary: Cassie Barrett and Alex Rivers had a fairy-tale wedding, but once they returned to Hollywood, a troubling pattern began to emerge. Should Cassie stay or leave?
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![Keeping faith [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52828@2x.jpg)
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Jodi Picoult
(78,874)
Summary: When the marriage of Mariah White and her cheating husband, Colin, turns ugly and disintegrates, their seven-year-old daughter, Faith, is there to witness it all. In the aftermath of a rapid divorce,...
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![The Lake Shore Limited [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52845@2x.jpg)
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Sue Miller
(4,002)
Summary: Four unforgettable characters beckon you into this spellbinding new novel from Sue Miller, the author of 2008's heralded best seller The Senator's Wife. First among them is Wilhelmina-Billy-Gertz,...
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![Beatrice and Virgil [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52877@2x.jpg)
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Yann Martel
(19,918)
Summary: When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes...
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![Let the great world spin [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52881@2x.jpg)
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Colum McCann
(99,652)
Summary: A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of...
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![Driving on the rim [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52883@2x.jpg)
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Thomas McGuane
(780)
Summary: Struggling to find meaning in a sordid and humiliating youth from which he emerged a doctor through the help of a surrogate father figure, Berl Pickett is charged with negligent homicide in the death...
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![Displaced persons [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52913@2x.jpg)
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Ghita Schwarz
(387)
Summary: Forging a family together after surviving World War II concentration camp brutality, Pavel, Fela, and Chaim relocate to America, where throughout subsequent decades they raise families while...
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![Charlie St. Cloud [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52914@2x.jpg)
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Ben Sherwood
(54,449)
Summary: The powerful bond between two brothers--one alive and the other killed in a terrible accident--unexpectedly transcends the barriers of life and death, and it is up to one enchanting woman to make their world right.
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![So much for that [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52917@2x.jpg)
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Lionel Shriver
(8,096)
Summary: Shep Knacker has long saved for "The Afterlife": an idyllic retreat to the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Traffic jams on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will be replaced with...
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![Home safe [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52978@2x.jpg)
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Elizabeth Berg
(11,346)
Summary: Helen Ames--recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her--is beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is...
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![The perfection point [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52998@2x.jpg)
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John Brenkus
(167)
Summary: What's the fastest a human can run the 100-meter sprint? What's the longest a human can hold his breath? What are the limits of human performance? Until 1954, common wisdom and scientific knowledge...
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![At home [downloadable ebook] / a short history of private life](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53005@2x.jpg)
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Bill Bryson
(83,525)
Summary: Bryson takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in the evolution of private life.
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![Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53082@2x.jpg)
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Jamie Ford
(270,940)
Summary: Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
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![Linchpin [downloadable ebook] / are you indispensable?](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53109@2x.jpg)
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Seth Godin
(40,874)
Summary: The bestselling author of "Tribes" and "The Dip" returns with his most powerful book yet, in which he explores why some people make a difference in their fields--and others don't.
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![Switch [downloadable ebook] / how to change things when change is hard](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53168@2x.jpg)
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Chip Heath
(44,954)
Summary: In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect...
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![The castaways [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53179@2x.jpg)
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Elin Hilderbrand
(33,915)
Summary: Greg and Tess MacAvoy are one of four prominent Nantucket couples who count each other as best friends. As pillars of their close-knit community, the MacAvoys, Kapenashes, Drakes, and Wheelers are...
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![Horns [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53180@2x.jpg)
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Joe Hill
(104,063)
Summary: After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.
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![Evidence [downloadable ebook] / an Alex Delaware novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53216@2x.jpg)
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Jonathan Kellerman
(10,108)
Summary: Veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles as they investigate the gruesome death of a young couple-murdered in flagrante--the...
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![Imperfect birds [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53239@2x.jpg)
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Anne Lamott
(6,734)
Summary: Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the life Rosie claims to be...
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![Sweethearts [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53709@2x.jpg)
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Sara Zarr
(18,010)
Summary: After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed herself from the unpopular fat girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but Cameron's unexpected...
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![Hold still [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53740@2x.jpg)
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Nina LaCour
(22,112)
Summary: Ingrid didn't leave a note. Three months after her best friend's suicide, Caitlin finds what she left instead: a journal, hidden under Caitlin's bed.
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![Being wrong [downloadable ebook] / adventures in the margin of error](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53770@2x.jpg)
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Kathryn Schulz
(6,138)
Summary: Journalist "explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken, and how this attitude toward error corrodes relationships." She claims that "error is both a given and...
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![Dearly devoted Dexter [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53783@2x.jpg)
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Jeffry P Lindsay
(47,690)
Summary: Life's tough for Dexter Morgan. It's not easy being the world's only serial killer with a conscience, especially when you work for the Miami police. To avoid suspicion, Dexter's had to slip deep into...
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![The pact [downloadable ebook] / a love story](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53796@2x.jpg)
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Jodi Picoult
(278,739)
Summary: Until the phone calls came at three o'clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and...
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![The false friend [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53852@2x.jpg)
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Myla Goldberg
(2,925)
Summary: Celia and Djuna ruled their clique of friends with dual iron fists. But when Djuna disappeared while the duo was walking home together, Celia buried the terrible truth of that day deep down inside....
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![The invisible man [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53903@2x.jpg)
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H. G. Wells
(155,531)
Summary: A scientist creates a serum to make himself invisible and then descends into madness.
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![Bleachers [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53990@2x.jpg)
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John Grisham
(36,877)
Summary: Presents a novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion.
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![Chicken soup for the cancer survivor's soul [downloadable ebook] / 101 healing stories about those who have survived cancer](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/54000@2x.jpg)
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![The geometry of sisters [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/54037@2x.jpg)
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Luanne Rice
(4,411)
Summary: After years away, Maura Shaw has returned to Newport, Rhode Island, to teach English at the academy. Behind her lies her life as the perfect Midwestern wife and mother, a life that seemed on the...
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![Crooked letter, crooked letter [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53088@2x.jpg)
![Cheerful money [downloadable ebook] / me, my family, and the last days of Wasp splendor](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53705@2x.jpg)
![The last secret [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53873@2x.jpg)
![Crime and punishment [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53925@2x.jpg)
![A hole in the universe [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53932@2x.jpg)
![The beautiful and damned [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53983@2x.jpg)