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Patron Picks February 2017 Anne, Daniel, Erin, Judy, Kaye, Linoa, Lisa M, Lisa R, Margey, Maria, Ruth, Sorrel, and Traci participated in the adult reading program and offer these suggestions.
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Best foot forward
by Joan Bauer
Rules of the Road #2
Jenna Boller is dripping with newfound maturity after her life-altering summer on the road. She has a job she loves at Gladstone Shoes, a best friend who makes her laugh, and a dysfunctional family she's learning how to handle. Jenna feels ready for anything—until Tanner Cobb, a guy with a past, a police record, and dangerously good looks, walks into her life. Suddenly Jenna's surrounded by crises, including a shoe empire on the verge of crumbling.
Call Number: TEEN BAUER, JOAN
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Betrayal : a novel
by John T. Lescroart
Taking over the casework of a recently disappeared attorney, Dismas Hardy and his friend, detective Abe Glitsky, tackle a challenging appeal to overturn the life sentence of a National Guard reservist who has been convicted for a complicated double murder.
Call Number: F LESCROART, JOHN T.
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The body in the wardrobe
by Katherine Hall Page
Faith Fairchild #23
Attorney Sophie Maxwell has come to Savannah to be with her new husband, Will. But nothing throws cold water on a hot relationship faster than a dead body. Worse for Sophie, no one believes the body she knows she saw is real. Will is spending an awful lot of time in Atlanta on a case, and she’s been tasked with house hunting for them with his former sweetheart. Fortunately, Sophie has a good friend in Faith Fairchild. With teenage Amy being bullied by mean girls and husband Tom contemplating a major life change that will affect all the Fairchilds, Faith is eager for distraction in the form of some sleuthing.
Call Number: M PAGE, KATHERINE H.
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Brown girl dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world.
Call Number: JB WOODSON, JACQUELINE
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Candle in the darkness
by Lynn N. Austin
Refiner's Fire #1
The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline's eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with the risks and sacrifices her beliefs entail.
Call Number: F AUSTIN, LYNN N.
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The coincidence of coconut cake
by Amy E. Reichert
On the day Chef Lou Johnson catches her fiancé in a compromising position with an intern, British food critic Al pays a visit to her Milwaukee restaurant and writes a scathing review, which runs on the day the two meet at a local pub.
Call Number: F REICHERT, AMY E.
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Dead letter
by Jane Waterhouse
Garner Quinn #3
True-crime writer Garner Quinn is receiving letters from an obsessed fan. They arrive by the sackful in the daily mail, addressed to her remote, unlisted Jersey shore estate, where she lives with her daughter and their elderly housekeeper - three women, alone. In over her head, Garner hires Corbin, Inc., a prestigious security firm. Reed Corbin, the company's dynamic founder, takes a personal interest in the case - and in Garner. Little does Quinn know that her relationship with the security expert will end in a web of deadly intrigue, dark secrets, and betrayal.
Call Number: M WATERHOUSE, JANE
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Horns : a novel
by Joe Hill
After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart and an incredible new power, a power he uses in the name of vengeance, only to learn that, when it comes to revenge, the devil is in the details.
Call Number: F HILL, JOE
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The ice limit
by Douglas J. Preston
The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite, people begin to die. A frightening truth is about to unfold: The men and women of the Rolvaag are not taking this ancient, enigmatic object anywhere. It is taking them.
Call Number: F PRESTON, DOUGLAS J.
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Infernal angels : An Amos Walker Novel
by Loren D. Estleman
Working to overcome his technophobic inclinations to help recover stolen goods for an electronics retailer, Detroit private investigator Amos Walker is forced to team up with the local police and the FBI when two men connected to the case are murdered and a link to a heroin smuggling ring is discovered.
Call Number: M ESTLEMAN, LOREN D.
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Juliet, naked
by Nick Hornby
Ending her relationship with a man who turns out to be in love with a reclusive singer, Annie initiates an e-mail friendship with the musician that reveals their mutual loneliness, his concerns about his young son, and his plans to release an acoustic version of his most successful album.
Call Number: F HORNBY, NICK
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Life of Pi : a novel
by Yann Martel
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
Call Number: F MARTEL, YANN
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Mothering Sunday : a romance
by Graham Swift
Sharing what she believes will be a last tryst with a longtime secret lover on the eve of his marriage, a woman reflects on the years they have spent together and her journey of self-discovery against a backdrop of 20th-century history.
Call Number: F SWIFT, GRAHAM
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The Third Kingdom
by Terry Goodkind
Sword of Truth #13
The bloodthirsty Jit is dead, and against all odds Richard and Kahlan have survived. But a new menace has attacked them in the Dark Lands. Infected with the essence of death itself, robbed of his power as a war wizard, Richard must race against time to uncover and stop the conspiracy assembling itself behind the wall far to the north. His friends and allies are already captives, and Kahlan, also touched by death's power, will die completely if Richard fails. Bereft of magic, Richard has only his sword, his wits, his capacity for insight -- and an extraordinary companion, the young Samantha, a healer just coming into her powers.
Call Number: F GOODKIND, TERRY
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Untied : a memoir of family, fame, and floundering
by Meredith Baxter
Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress. Yet her success masked a tumultuous personal story and a harrowing private life. For the first time, Baxter is ready to share her incredible highs, (working with Robert Redford, Doris Day, Lana Turner, and the cast of Family Ties), and lows (a thorny relationship with her mother, a difficult marriage to David Birney, a bout with breast cancer), finally revealing the woman behind the image.
Call Number: B BAXTER, MEREDITH
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