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by
Matthew Quick
(3,743)
Summary: Sixty-eight-year-old David has a brain tumor that he attributes to Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating the name of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to...
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Call #: F QUICK
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Richard Wright
(513)
Summary: Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system.
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Call #: F WRIGHT
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kim Harrison
(297)
Summary: "Meg wants a normal life. Her new artistic style, born in the depression of her mother's death, is poised to take the art world by storm, if she could just overcome the debilitating anxiety caused by...
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Call #: F HARRISON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jesse Kellerman
(3,788)
Summary: When a retired cop recognizes the faces of murdered children in an art gallery exhibit, he and his assistant DA daughter Susan begin a search to find the artist of the portraits--and possibly crack open a forty-year murder case.
BOOK
Call #: F KELLERMAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Amanda Hodgkinson
(11,247)
Summary: In this tale of a Polish family desperately trying to put itself back together after WWII, Silvana and Janusz travel to England where they attempt to put the past behind them. But the secrets they carry pull at the threads of their fragile peace.
BOOK
Call #: F HODGKINSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Elizabeth Haynes
(69,699)
Summary: "When young, pretty Catherine Bailey meets Lee Brightman, she can't believe her luck. Gorgeous, charismatic, and a bit mysterious, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. But what begins as...
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Call #: F HAYNES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Anne Tyler
(11,614)
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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Call #: F TYLER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Anne Berry
(262)
Summary: Presents the stories of four individuals whose lives are irrevocably shaped by the pull and spirits of the water, from Owen, who believes his younger sister was stolen by merfolk in childhood; to...
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Call #: F BERRY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Phil Klay
Summary: Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KLAY
copies in: 20 of 20
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by
Lucy Dawson
(6,276)
Summary: "Alexandra Inglis is a respected family doctor, trusted by her patients to keep their most intimate secrets. And if sometimes the boundaries between duty and desire blur... well, she's only human....
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BOOK
Call #: F DAWSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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by
Ruth Ware
(250,741)
Summary: "What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Leonora, known...
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Call #: F WARE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jonathan Kellerman
Series:
Alex Delaware Series - #31
(10,598)
Summary: "Psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware is surprised to get the call when well-known TV actress Zelda Chase turns up half-naked, half-mad in the LA's rural Westside. He has little connection to the...
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Call #: F KELLERMAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lisa Gardner
Series:
D. D. Warren Series - #8
(42,636)
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 #: F GARDNER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Carolyn Parkhurst
(5,963)
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel, a taut, emotionally wrenching story of how a seemingly "normal" family could become desperate enough to leave everything behind and...
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Call #: F PARKHURST
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ruth Ware
(419,797)
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author of the "twisty-mystery" (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware--this time,...
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Call #: F WARE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
John T. Lescroart
(4,487)
Summary: A "novel about the unexpected, shattering, and lethal consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couple." -- Provided by publisher
BOOK
Call #: F LESCROART
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jonathan Kellerman
Series:
Alex Delaware Series - #32
(12,555)
Summary: "Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis investigate the murder of woman who led a long life full of dark secrets." -- Provided by publisher
BOOK
Call #: F KELLERMAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lisa Gardner
Series:
D. D. Warren Series - #8
(42,920)
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
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Dennis Lehane
(30,660)
Summary: After Rachel Childs, a former journalist, suffers an on-air mental breakdown, she lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a...
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Call #: F LEHANE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ruth Ware
(123,933)
Summary: The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant...
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Call #: F WARE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ellen Marie Wiseman
(19,998)
Summary: "On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from the grimy window of her attic bedroom. Lilly isn't allowed to explore the meadows around Blackwood Manor. She's never even...
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Call #: F WISEMAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Fredrik Backman
(641,872)
Summary: Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse....
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Call #: F BACKMAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Gregory Maguire
Series:
Wicked Years Series - #4
(18,325)
Summary: Gregory Maguire returns readers to the Land of Oz as he presents the fourth and final installment in the Wicked years series. Once peaceful and prosperous, the spectacular Land of Oz is knotted with...
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Call #: F MAGUIRE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Douglas J Preston
Series:
Pendergast Series - #10
(33,204)
Summary: With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. As he probes more deeply into the riddle--the answer to which is revealed in...
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Call #: F PRESTON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Douglas J Preston
Series:
Pendergast Series - #9
(26,772)
Summary: After New York Times reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side,...
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Call #: F PRESTON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Alice Sebold
(2,095,051)
Summary: This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her...
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Call #: F SEBOLD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
John Hart
(5,603)
Summary: It's been ten years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon's life and rocked his hometown to the core. Since then, Johnny has fought to maintain his privacy, but books have been written of his...
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Call #: F HART
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Paul Tremblay
(39,168)
Summary: "Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet lake in northern New Hampshire. A handful of miles from the Canadian border, far removed from the...
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Call #: F TREMBLAY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Walter Mosley
(1,212)
Summary: At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's...
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Call #: F MOSLEY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kamel Daoud
(6,303)
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed...
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Call #: F DAOUD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Renee Knight
(26,894)
Summary: Reading a mysterious novel that recounts in haunting detail the day she became the victim of a dark secret, documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft is forced to confront the past to prevent her world from falling apart.
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Call #: F KNIGHT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Thomas Tryon
(20,268)
Summary: Niles Perry becomes increasingly suspicious of his twin brother Holland's actions.
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Call #: F TRYON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mary Kubica
(49,549)
Summary: She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head......
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Call #: F KUBICA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Joe Hill
(19,381)
Summary: "Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap.
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Call #: F HILL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Susan Mallery
Series:
Blackberry Island Series - #4
(7,449)
Summary: "Divorce left Harper Szymanski with a name no one can spell, a house she can't afford and a teenage daughter who's pulling away. With her fledgling virtual-assistant business, she's scrambling to...
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Call #: F MALLERY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Matt Bell
(476)
Summary: Kelly scavenges for scrap metal from the hundred thousand abandoned buildings in a part of Detroit known as "the zone," an increasingly wild landscape where one day he finds something far more...
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Call #: F BELL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Patrick Modiano
(4,773)
Summary: "[A] single, unexpected phone call to a man living quietly in Paris launches a chain of menacing encounters and events, unlocking a dark secret he had erased from memory" -- provided by publisher.
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Call #: F MODIANO
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jonathan Kellerman
(11,444)
Summary: "Grace Blades is a master psychologist, respected by her peers and adored by her patients. She is hardworking and highly competent, a model of self-control. But in private, Grace indulges a secret...
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Call #: F KELLERMAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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