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Retired Staff Picks October 2016 Retired staff members, Char, Chris, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Linda, Sara, and Trish, offer their reading suggestions.
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Deep Waters
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Charity Truitt and Elias Winter, two of the Pacific Northwest’s most powerful corporate figures, are both facing crises of career and the heart. Fate has brought them together in Washington’s tiny Whispering Waters Cove, each eager to downsize and simplify. A martial arts master, Elias is a novice at relationships; a formidable former CEO, Charity is starting in the mail room when it comes to love. But when the town is rocked by two shocking murders, Charity and Elias realize that they must join forces to catch a killer. Because behind the town’s sleepy façade run currents fed by treacherous secrets and Deep Waters.
Call Number: OVERDRIVE
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The forgotten garden : a novel
by Kate Morton
Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tell her until she grows up that she is not their child, a situation that causes her to return to England and eventually hand down her quest for answers to her granddaughter.
Call Number: F MORTON, KATE
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Liar, temptress, soldier, spy : four women undercover in the Civil War
by Karen Abbott
After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds cut off her hair and assumed the identity of a man to enlist as a Union private, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The beautiful widow, Rose O’Neale Greenhow, engaged in affairs with powerful Northern politicians to gather intelligence for the Confederacy. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy abolitionist, hid behind her proper Southern manners as she orchestrated a far-reaching espionage ring.
Call Number: 973.785 ABB
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Lilac girls : a novel
by Martha Hall Kelly
A debut novel inspired by the life of unlikely World War II heroine Caroline Ferriday follows the experiences of a Manhattan debutante, who resolves to help upon learning of the atrocities at the Ravensbruck concentration camp; and a Catholic teen, who is swept up in the Polish resistance movement.
Call Number: F KELLY, MARTHA H.
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Real murders
by Charlaine Harris
Roe Teagarden joins forces with police detective Arthur Smith and mystery writer Robin Crusoe to investigate a series of killings in which the victims are slain in the fashion of famous historical murders.
Call Number: M HARRIS, CHARLAINE
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Resistant
by Michael Palmer
Delivering a speech for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta, Dr. Lou Welcome takes an exclusive tour of the Centers for Disease Control and learns about the development of biological weapons before becoming enmeshed in a case involving the abduction of a leading scientist.
Call Number: F PALMER, MICHAEL
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The secret life of Anna Blanc
by Jennifer Kincheloe
In 1907 Los Angeles, socialite Anna Blanc, determined to break free of the era's rigid social roles, takes a job as a police matron with the Los Angeles Police Department, where she takes on the investigation of a string of brother murders until the police chief's son discovers her true identity and introduces her to blackmail.
Call Number: M KINCHELOE, JENNIFER
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Somerset
by Leila Meacham
Follows the lives of two antebellum southerners, Silas Toliver and his best friend Jeremy Warwick, as they head into a new territory known as “Texas” in search of black gold in this prequel to the best-selling novel Roses.
Call Number: F MEACHAM, LEILA
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The underground railroad : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.
Call Number: F WHITEHEAD, COLSON
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Vinegar girl : The taming of the shrew retold
by Anne Tyler
A modern retelling of The Taming of the Shrew follows the experiences of a preschool teacher who alienates others by speaking her mind and who manages her family's home before she is expected by her eccentric father to marry his assistant to prevent the young man's deportation.
Call Number: F TYLER, ANNE
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