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Staff Picks December 2016 Nicole N. is providing our picks this month.
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Cinder
by Marissa Meyer
When Cinder, a gifted cyborg with a mysterious past, becomes entangled with the handsome Prince Kai, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle to save humankind from a deadly plague and ruthless lunar beings.
Call Number: TEEN MEYER, MARISSA
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
This classic tale of justice and retribution tells the story of Edmond Dantes wrongfully imprisoned in an unreachable sea fortress, who discovers a hidden treasure that he uses to finance elaborate vengeance on the people who wronged him.
Call Number: F DUMAS, ALEXANDRE
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Land of love and drowning
by Tiphanie Yanique
Chronicles the families of three siblings who survived a shipwreck off the Virgin Islands in 1916 and raised three generations on the islands, adapting to the unique language, rhythm and magic of island life over 60 years.
Call Number: F YANIQUE, TIPHANIE
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Sabriel
by Garth Nix
Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead
Call Number: TEEN NIX, GARTH
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Skeletons at the feast : a novel
by Chris Bohjalian
During the final months of World War II, a small group of people--including teenager Anna Emmerich, daughter of Prussian aristocrats; Callum Finnela, a twenty-year-old POW; and a young Wehrmacht corporal hiding his true Jewish identity--make their way westward across a ravaged Europe in a desperate attempt to reach British and American lines.
Call Number: F BOHJALIAN, CHRIS
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Between breaths : a memoir of panic and addiction
by Elizabeth Vargas
The beloved 20/20 anchor presents this candid memoir of anxiety, addiction and recovery in which she addresses her time in rehab, her first year of sobriety and the guilt she felt as a working mother who had never found the right balance.
Call Number: B VARGAS, ELIZABETH
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the patriots
by David Fisher
A companion to Bill O'Reilly's docudrama by the same name shares insights into how the American Revolution was a civil war, exploring such events as the child's murder that led to the Boston Massacre, the return of Ben Franklin from the Continental Army's first victory under Washington and the "Swamp Fox" guerilla campaign.
Call Number: 973.3 FIS
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Curious minds : a Knight and Moon novel
by Janet Evanovich
Uncovering an embezzlement scheme linked to the highest levels of power at her mega-bank, a junior analyst forges an unlikely alliance with the bank's famously eccentric client, a financial whiz who helps her uncover one of the century's biggest crimes.
Call Number: F EVANOVICH, JANET
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Insidious
by Catherine Coulter
Investigating the attempted murder of an octogenarian society icon, FBI agents Savich and Sherlock consider a number of family suspects while Special Agent Cam Wittier teams up with detective Daniel Montoya in Los Angeles to capture a serial killer who is targeting young actresses.
Call Number: F COULTER, CATHERINE
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The wrong side of goodbye : a novel
by Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office, and he's picky about who he works for, but it doesn't matter. His chops from thirty years with the LAPD speak for themselves. Soon one of Southern California's biggest moguls comes calling. The reclusive billionaire is nearing the end of his life and is haunted by one regret.
Call Number: M CONNELLY, MICHAEL
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Age of consent : a novel
by Marti Leimbach
Returning home after a long absence to bring a child predator to justice, Bobbie endures a revelatory courtroom trial marked by people who make unfair judgments on her choice, including her own mother, who remembers the past differently.
Call Number: F LEIMBACH, MARTI
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Bloodline
by Conn Iggulden
Wars of the Roses #3
A latest entry in the series that began with Stormbird and Margaret of Anjou follows the 1461 murder of the duke of York and the proclamation of Edward of March as England's rightful king, events that trigger shifting alliances and a deadly sibling war for the crown.
Call Number: F IGGULDEN, CONN
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The bridge ladies : a memoir
by Betsy Lerner
After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother's "don't ask, don't tell" generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding. When Roz needs help after surgery, it falls to Betsy to take care of her.
She expected a week of tense civility; what she got instead were the Bridge Ladies. Impressed by their loyalty, she saw something her generation lacked. Betsy becomes a regular at her mother's Monday Bridge club. Through her friendships with the ladies, she is finally able to face years of misunderstandings and family tragedy, the Bridge table becoming the common ground she and Roz never had. The Bridge Ladies is the unforgettable story of a hard-won--but never-too-late--bond between mother and daughter.
Call Number: B LERNER, BETSY
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A deadly affection
by Cuyler Overholt
One of the first women practicing in the advanced new field of psychology, Dr. Genevieve Summerford is used to forging her own path. But when one of her patients is arrested for murder--a murder Genevieve fears she may have unwittingly provoked--she is forced to seek help to solve the crime and clear her patient's name...and her own.
Call Number: M OVERHOLT, CUYLER
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