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Staff Picks February 2019 Teresa C. in Collections is providing our picks for the month.
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Before Evil
by Alex Kava
Maggie O'Dell #12 (Prequel)
Special Agent Maggie O'Dell doesn't need to set foot at a crime scene to catch a serial killer. From her small Quantico office, she's profiled criminals using just Polaroids and faxed copies of evidence from homicide detectives across the country. Stucky is a sadistic madman who places pieces of his victims in takeout containers and leaves them for innocent bystanders to find. And when Maggie is tasked with profiling his murders, Stucky is only too happy to rise to the challenge.
Call Number: F KAVA, ALEX
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The Innocent
by David Baldacci
Will Robie #1
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the U.S. government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up in this new thriller from the New York Times best-selling author of One Summer.
Call Number: F BALDACCI, DAVID
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Orphan X
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Orphan X #1
Using his skills as an elite former agent and assassin to advocate anonymously for desperate people, Evan Smoak finds himself pursued by someone with comparable training who would exploit his life of service to find and eliminate him. By the award-winning author of Don't Look Back.
Call Number: F HURWITZ, GREGG
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Runner
by Patrick Lee
Sam Dryden #1
A first installment in a new series by the best-selling author of The Breach finds retired Special Forces operative Sam Dryden saving the life of an 11-year-old girl with no memory of her past who possesses a dangerous skill that is highly sought by violent government forces.
Call Number: F LEE, PATRICK
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The ultimatum
by Karen Robards
Guardian series #1
A talented master of disguise who devotes herself to conning thieves and returning stolen money to its rightful owners hides her Robin Hood activities behind a day job as a personal assistant to her thief father's alluring former partner.
Call Number: F ROBARDS, KAREN
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Early warning
by Jane Smiley
Last hundred years trilogy #2
Follows the Langdon family from the author's best-selling novel Some Luck as they navigate the ups and downs of mid-century America. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres.
Call Number: IOWA F SMILEY, JANE
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Everything I never told you
by Celeste Ng
A first novel by a Pushcart Prize-winning writer explores the fallout of a favorite daughter's shattering death on a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio.
Call Number: F NG, CELESTE
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First man: the life of Neil A. Armstrong
by James R. Hansen
An authorized portrait of the famous American astronaut best known as the first person to set foot on the moon sheds light on lesser-known aspects of his career accomplishments, from the honors he received as a naval aviator to the price he and his family paid for his professional dedication.
Call Number: B ARMSTRONG, NEIL
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Into the drowning deep
by Mira Grant
Victoria Stewart and her crew sail to the Mariana Trench, in the hopes of discovering the fate of the Atargatis—which, along with its crew, including Victoria's sister, was lost at sea during the crew's attempt to film a mockumentary on ancient sea creatures of legend. By a New York Times best-selling author.
Call Number: SF GRANT, MIRA
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That Churchill woman
by Stephanie Barron
A tale inspired by the life of Winston Churchill's scandal-marked American mother follows the experiences of a wealthy and fiercely independent New Yorker whose whirlwind romance with a duke's son sweeps her disruptively into British royalty and politics.
Call Number: F BARRON, STEPHANIE
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To kill a mockingbird
by Fred Fordham
A graphic-novel adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic combines themes of race, injustice and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s with evocative illustrations by the artist of The Adventures of John Blake.
Call Number: GN LEE, HARPER
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Making winter : a hygge-inspired guide to surviving the winter months
by Emma Mitchell
A guide that draws on the Danish philosophy of hygge—which is all about coziness, simple pleasures and the company of loved ones—features 25 creative crafts and recipes, with easy-to-follow instructions and photographs, that will keep you warm no matter how cold it is outside.
Call Number: 745.5 MIT
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The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke
by Jeffrey C. Stewart
A biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance describes him becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar and earning a PhD at Harvard University and promoting the work of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Jacob Lawrence.
Call Number: B LOCKE, ALAIN
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