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Staff Picks January 2015 Becky from collections is providing our picks this month.
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Lunchbox /
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's lunchbox delivery system leads to a connection between a young housewife to an older man.
Call Number: DVD Drama Lun
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Chef
A chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.
Call Number: DVD Comedy Che
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Townie [sound recording] : A Memoir
by Andre Dubus
The author of House of Sand and Fog describes his childhood in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime and his weekly visits with his father, an eminent author who taught on a college campus.
Call Number: CD B Dubus
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The Cinderella murder : an under suspicion novel
by Mary Higgins Clark
A first collaboration between the MWA Grand Master and the best-selling author of the Ellie Hatcher series follows the launch of a reality television series for unsolved crimes and a case involving a murdered UCLA student. 300,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Clark
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Deadline
by John Sandford
In the aftermath of a school board's secret decision to have a local reporter murdered, Virgil Flowers' investigation of a sinister dognapping is interrupted by a suspicious death. By the best-selling author of Storm Front. 600,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Sandford
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Killing Patton : the strange death of World War II's most audacious general
by Bill O'Reilly
The anchor of cable's The O'Reilly Factor and a best-selling historian explore the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of General George S. Patton after the war and describe the powerful people who may have wanted him out of the way. By the best-selling authors of Killing Jesus.
Call Number: 355.0092 O'Re
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The paying guests
by Sarah Waters
Forced to take in lodgers in economically challenged 1922 South London, widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter find their lives profoundly and disturbingly changed by the arrival of a modern young couple. By the best-selling author of The Little Stranger. 100,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Waters
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Personal : a Jack Reacher novel
by Lee Child
A follow-up to the best-selling Never Go Back traces the fallout of game-changing events, placing Jack Reacher in a unique environment while pitting him against adversaries whose fates transform in unexpected ways. 800,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Child
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Somewhere safe with somebody good
by Jan Karon
While Father Tim Kavanagh struggles with ambivalence about returning to the pulpit in Mitford, his adopted son, Dooley, falls passionately in love with an aspiring veterinarian against a backdrop of a mayoral reelection campaign and the opening of a new café. By the #1 best-selling author of Light From Heaven. 750,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Karon
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Bed of nails
by Antonin Varenne
Investigating a series of bizarre suicides that he suspects are connected, Paris police lieutenant Richard Guérin finds himself plunged into the sadomasochistic underbelly of Paris, following a bloody trail to the upper levels of the Parisian police force.
Call Number: F Varenne
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The day of atonement : a novel
by David Liss
Returning to mid-18th-century Lisbon to avenge the death of his father, Sebastian Foxx, the protégé of bounty hunter Benjamin Weaver, stealthily collects funds and identifies friends and allies among Inquisition spies. By the Edgar Award-winning author of A Conspiracy of Paper. 15,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Liss
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James : a novel
by Emma Hooper
Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory and reality. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Hooper
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The final silence
by Stuart Neville
Jack Lennon investigates a possible connection between him being the lead suspect in a murder investigation and the recently discovered twisted legacy of a new client's uncle.
Call Number: F Neville
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An Irish doctor in peace and at war
by Patrick Taylor
A World War II veteran tends to the needs of the people of Ballybuckebo, including bouts of German measles and involvement in a pie-baking contest. By the best-selling author of Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor.
Call Number: F Taylor
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