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Staff PicksMay 2016 Shobana from services is providing the picks this month.
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After you
by Jojo Moyes
In the wake of an accident that leaves her back at home and in a support group, Louisa meets paramedic Sam Fielding, a man who might finally understand her, but she is forced to change her plans when someone from her past reappears.
Call Number: CD F MOYES, JOJO
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The lake house
by Kate Morton
Decades after Alice's little brother goes missing during a Midsummer's Eve party, a young London policewoman sets off a series of events that reveal shocking truths.
Call Number: CD F MORTON, KATE
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Where'd you go, Bernadette [sound recording] : a novel
by Maria Semple
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.
Call Number: CD F SEMPLE, MARIA
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Cross justice
by James Patterson
When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown, where he discovers evidence of widespread corruption and a shattering family secret.
Call Number: F PATTERSON, JAMES
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Fool me once
by Harlan Coben
Horrified when she spots the husband who was reported dead weeks earlier playing with their toddler on her nanny cam, former special ops pilot Maya confronts deep secrets and deceit in her own past in order to discern the truth.
Call Number: M COBEN, HARLAN
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The guilty
by David Baldacci
Will Robie is the government’s most professional, disciplined, and lethal assassin. But now, his skills have left him. Sent overseas on a critical assignment, he fails, unable to pull the trigger. Absent his talents, Robie is a man without a mission, and without a purpose. To recover what he has lost, Robie must confront what he has tried to forget for over twenty years: his own past.
Call Number: F BALDACCI, DAVID
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The promise : An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel
by Robert Crais
Hired to find a missing woman, who was being blackmailed, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike find their case is somehow connected with LAPD officer Scott James and his K-9 partner, Maggie's pursuit of an armed and dangerous thief.
Call Number: F CRAIS, ROBERT
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When breath becomes air
by Paul Kalanithi
A Ivy League-trained, award-winning young neurosurgeon describes his how after receiving a terminal diagnosis with lung cancer he explored the dynamics of his roles as a patient and care provider, the philosophical conundrums about a meaningful life and how he wanted to spend his final days.
Call Number: B KALANITHI, PAUL
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Chicago
by Brian Doyle
An ode to Chicago is presented through the coming-of-age experiences of a young college graduate, who after renting an apartment on the lakeside north of the city befriends a motley assortment of locals and is swept up by a momentous period in Red Sox history.
Call Number: F DOYLE, BRIAN
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The Bronte plot
by Katherine Reay
When Lucy Alling's secret is unearthed, her world begins to crumble, but it may be the best thing that has ever happened to her after discovering that she is not the only one with ghosts and that she can prevail even in the midst of change.
Call Number: F REAY, KATHERINE
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The golem of Paris
by Jonathan Kellerman
Haunted by family revelations and the memory of a woman named Mai, LAPD detective Jacob Lev stumbles across an unsolved murder case that takes him to Paris and brings the disparate halves of his life into startling collision.
Call Number: M KELLERMAN, JONATHAN
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The secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
by Kim Newman
A week after Mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Drearcliff girls are special: the daughters of criminal masterminds, outlaw scientists and master magicians. Several of the pupils also have special gifts like Amy’s, and when one of the girls in her dormitory is abducted by a mysterious group in black hoods, Amy forms a secret, superpowered society called the Moth Club to rescue their friend.
Call Number: F NEWMAN, KIM
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