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Staff Picks October 2016 Debbie H. from Collection is providing our picks for this month.
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Career of evil
by Robert Galbraith
When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg, and Cormoran Strike must look to his past to determine who is behind the horrid parcel.
Call Number: M GALBRAITH, ROBERT
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Delta lady : a memoir
by Rita Coolidge
An intimate portrait of the two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter, who is a muse to some of the 20th-century's most influential rock musicians, reveals the strength, resilience and inner and outer beauty—as well as her strong sense of heritage and devotion to her family—that helped her survive and thrive the music world.
Call Number: B COOLIDGE, RITA
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The good girl
by Mary Kubica
The daughter of a prominent Chicago judge and his socialite wife, inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett is taken hostage by her one-night stand, Colin Thatcher, who, instead of delivering her to his employers, hides her in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota to keep her safe from harm.
Call Number: F KUBICA, MARY
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I shall be near to you : a novel
by Erin Lindsay McCabe
A tale inspired by true accounts and a real female soldier's letters home follows the extraordinary experiences of a woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight next to her husband in the American Civil War, an effort that tests the bonds of their relationship and their respective gender perceptions.
Call Number: F MCCABE, ERIN L.
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Apprentice in death
by J. D. Robb
Investigating a Central Park sniper attack that has left three dead, Eve Dallas discovers that the killer was potentially miles away from the victims and may be the protTgT of an even more deranged shooter.
Call Number: ROBB, J.D.
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Blue : a novel
by Danielle Steel
Surviving the crash that kills her beloved husband and preschooler son, reporter Ginny Carter becomes a human rights worker in war-torn countries to escape her own grief before meeting a remarkable homeless boy with whom she forges a healing bond.
Call Number: F STEEL, DANIELLE
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The gene : an intimate history
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
A history of the gene draws on science, social history, and the author's family medical history to explore the centuries of research into the science of genetics and the quest to understand human heredity.
Call Number: 616.042 MUK
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The girl with the lower back tattoo
by Amy Schumer
An uproarious collection of no-holds-barred personal essays by the Emmy Award-winning comedian reflects on her raucous childhood antics, her hard-won rise in the entertainment industry and her struggles to maintain the courage to approach the world in unstintingly honest ways.
Call Number: B SCHUMER, AMY
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Killer look
by Linda A Fairstein
The shady underside of glamour challenges Alex Cooper, Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, who embark on a murder investigation at the height of New York City's Fashion Week to expose dark undercurrents in the garment district and the machinations of a resolved killer.
Call Number: M FAIRSTEIN, LINDA A.
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Close your eyes
by Michael Robotham
When a former student bungles the investigation of a mother-daughter double murder, clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin discovers a link between the case and a series of escalating attacks.
Call Number: F ROBOTHAM, MICHAEL
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Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
A five-decade saga tracing the impact of an act of infidelity on the parents and children of two Southern California families traces their shared summers in Virginia and the disillusionment that shapes their lasting bond.
Call Number: F PATCHETT, ANN
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The masked city
by Genevieve Cogman
A follow-up to The Invisible Library finds librarian-spy Irene traveling to a strange alternate-world Venice to prevent a catastrophic war that has been triggered by the abduction of her royal dragon apprentice, Kai.
Call Number: F COGMAN, GENEVIEVE COGMAN
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Mrs. Sinclair's suitcase
by Louise Walters
Roberta likes to collect the letters and postcards she finds in second-hand books. When her father gives her some of her grandmother's belongings, she finds a letter from the grandfather she never knew - dated after he supposedly died in the war.
Dorothy is unhappily married to Albert, who is away at war. When an plane crashes in the field behind her house she meets Jan Pietrykowski, and as their bond deepens she dares to hope she might find happiness. But soon she is hiding a secret so momentous that its shockwaves will touch her granddaughter many years later...
Call Number: F WALTERS, LOUISE
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Razor girl : a novel
by Carl Hiaasen
Involved in a car accident with a young scam artist, a man helplessly watches his life spiral out of control in the wake of a sand-stealing company, a Hawaiian-shirt-clad NYC mafia capo, a reality show accordionist and other eccentric characters.
Call Number: F HIAASEN, CARL
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