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Patron Picks July 2016 Audrey, Cheryl, Cindy, Erin, Gary, Heather, Karen, Kindra, Margaret, Randy, Rita, Tamara, Tiana, Traci, and Vicky participated in the adult reading programs and offer these suggested titles.
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Blood rites
by Jim Butcher
#6 The Dresden Files
While going undercover on the set of an adult film to investigate the mysterious deaths of several actresses, Chicago wizard Harry Desden unexpectedly learns the shocking truth about his vampire friend Thomas.
Call Number: F BUTCHER, JIM
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Body double : a novel
by Tess Gerritsen
Returning from Paris to discover a murder victim in her driveway, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the victim looks exactly like her and is a twin sister she never knew, a situation that prompts the doctor to investigate her true identity and come to terms with a convict biological mother.
Call Number: F GERRITSEN, TESS
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The book of unknown Americans
by Cristina Henríquez
Moving from Mexico to America when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy.
Call Number: F HENRIQUEZ, CRISTINA
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The English spy
by Daniel Silva
When a bomb explodes aboard the yacht of an iconic member of the British royal family, Gabriel Allon is soon on the tail of Eamon Quinn, a master bomb maker and mercenary of death who sells his services to the highest bidder. But why would Quinn kill a member of the royal family and draw unwanted attention to himself? Quinn seeks the aid of Christopher Keller, a British commando turned professional assassin who knows Quinn's murderous handiwork all too well-- and the two are up against a cabal of evil with an intricate plan for revenge.
Call Number: F SILVA, DANIEL
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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping.
Call Number: 616.02774 SKL
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On wings of the morning
by Marie Bostwick
When he drops out of college to enlist as a Navy pilot, Morgan Glennon comes face-to-face with war and its consequences, leading him to an unusual woman who is the only one who can help him reclaim both his joy for living and for flying.
Call Number: F BOSTWICK, MARIE
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The plum tree
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
In the fall of 1938, as Germany rapidly changes under Hitler's regime, 17-year-old Christine Bolz, a domestic forbidden to return to the wealthy Jewish family she works for - and to her employer's son Isaac, confronts the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau to survive and to be with the man she loves.
Call Number: F WISEMAN, ELLEN M.
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The stranger
by Harlan Coben
The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store. His identity is unknown. His motives are unclear. His information is undeniable. Then he whispers a few words in your ear and disappears, leaving you picking up the pieces of your shattered world.
When Adam runs into the Stranger, he learns a devastating secret about his wife, Corinne, he confronts her, and the mirage of perfection disappears as if it never existed at all. Soon Adam finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corinne’s deception, and realizes that if he doesn’t make exactly the right moves, the conspiracy he’s stumbled into will not only ruin lives—it will end them.
Call Number: OVERDRIVE
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The survivor : a Mitch Rapp novel
by Vince Flynn (Kyle Mills)
When an elite former CIA agent steals a massive amount of classified information and offers it to the Pakistani secret forces, operative Mitch Rapp must prevent the information from falling into the wrong hands.
Call Number: F FLYNN, VINCE
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Tricked [electronic resource] : The Iron Druid Chronicles
by Kevin Hearne
In this fourth installment of the highly popular urban fantasy series, tattooed Irishman Atticus O'Sullivan, who is actually a 2,000-year-old Druid with extraordinary powers, tangles with the diabolical gods of the American Southwest.
Call Number: OVERDRIVE
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Winter Street : a novel
by Elin Hilderbrand
A family reunion at Kelley Quinn's Nantucket inn is thrown into turmoil by his four adult children's personal dramas and the discovery of his second wife's infidelity.
Call Number: F HILDERBRAND, ELIN
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The red scarf
by Kate Furnivall
Enduring months of hardship and desolation after making a perilous escape from the Davinsky Labor Camp in 1930s Siberia, Sofia is nursed back to health by a Gypsy family in a remote village, where she also finds Mikhail Pashin, who is really a passionate revolutionary named Vasily and the love of her fellow prisoner, Anna.
Call Number: F FURNIVALL, KATE
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This is ridiculous, this is amazing : parenthood in 71 lists
by Jason Good
Jason Good delivers a laugh-out-loud reminder that everything is easier and more fun when approached with a sense of humor—especially parenting. Each list captures a perfect (or perfectly terrible) aspect of parenthood while wholeheartedly embracing every moment: "You Deserve a Break" offers ideas for downtime, such as giving blood and untangling cords, while "Self-Help from a Three-Year-Old" collects such wisdom as "If you fall down, stay down. Someone will pick you up eventually." Sweet, sincere, and oh-so-true.
Call Number: OVERDRIVE
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Whose names are unknown : a novel
by Sanora Babb
The poor but proud Dunne family and their friends struggle to survive on the dust-plagued prairies of the Oklahoma Panhandle, but discover bitter disappointment in the orchards and vineyards of the so-called promised land of California.
Call Number: F BABB, SANORA
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