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Patron PicksOctober 2014
Amanda, Caron, Elizabeth, Jamie, JoAnna, Karen, Katy, Kaye, Lilian, Melody, Michelle, Nancy, Patti, Sheila and Tamara ~~were participants in the adult reading program and recommend these titles.
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The Blossom sisters
by Fern Michaels
Swindled out of his home by his gold-digging wife, successful accountant Gus Hollister returns to his grandmother Rose's Virginia farmhouse where he helps the residents of Blossom Farm expand their business and finds the courage to love again.
Call Number: F Michaels
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The case of the beautiful beggar
by Erle Stanley Gardner
Daphne Shelby seeks the help of Perry Mason when she returns from a cruise and discovers that her guardian uncle has been placed in a mental institution.
Call Number: M Gardner
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Delusion in death
by J. D. Robb
When an everyday downtown bar erupts in sudden violence that leaves 80 people dead, lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers that the bar's patrons were exposed to a lethal cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that a sinister killer administered through an airborne method. By the best-selling author of New York to Dallas.
Call Number: F Robb
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Home front
by Kristin Hannah
Struggling with a marital estrangement that is further complicated when one of them is deployed, military couple Michael and Joleen Zarkades are forced to confront their problems while protecting the security of their family in the wake of a brutal tragedy. By the author of Firefly Lane.
Call Number: F Hannah
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Inferno : a novel
by Dan Brown
In Italy, Harvard professor Robert Langdon is drawn into a world centered on one of history's most mysterious literary masterpieces--Dante's "Inferno"--as he battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle.
Call Number: F Brown
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Lean mean thirteen
by Janet Evanovich
Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, along with her offbeat family and associates, embarks on her thirteenth zany and perilous adventure, in the sequel to Twelve Sharp. 1,250,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Evanovich
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Letter to my daughter : a novel
by George Bishop
When her 15-year-old daughter runs away from their Baton Rouge home, a guilt-ridden mother writes a healing letter about her own adolescence, marked by a strict Catholic boarding school, a forbidden romance and the origins of an enigmatic tattoo.
Call Number: F Bishop
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Mark of the witch
by Maggie Shayne
When strange dreams, which restore her belief in magic, lead her to Father Tomas, who has emerged from the secrecy of an obscure Gnostic sect with tales of demons, warrior witches and her sacred calling, lapsed Wiccan Indira discovers that she holds the fate of the world in her hands. (romance).
Call Number: PB Shayne
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Maya's notebook : a novel
by Isabel Allende
After the death of her beloved grandfather, 19-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. 150,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Allende
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Me before you
by Jojo Moyes
Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living. By the author of The Last Letter from Your Lover.
Call Number: F Moyes
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My foot is too big for the glass slipper : a guide to the less than perfect life
by Gabrielle Reece
A best-selling fitness expert and beach volleyball icon draws on her own haphazard experiences to celebrate the highs and lows of modern marriage and parenthood, challenging popular conceptions about "happily ever after" while sharing real-world coping advice based on a premise that women must make themselves happy in order to help others. By the best-selling author of Big Girl in the Middle.
Call Number: 306.872 Ree
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Night road
by Kristin Hannah
When stay-at-home mom Jude Farraday takes in Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, the girl becomes inseparable from Jude's teenage twins before a shattering accident that rips the family apart and sets the stage for a sobering confrontation years later. By the best-selling author of Winter Garden. 400,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Hannah
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Passing through paradise
by Susan Wiggs
Deciding to sell her beach house on the edge of a town called Paradise, widow Sandra Winslow hires Mike Malloy who, despite having unbreakable ties to a community that believes she is responsible for her late husband's death, touches her lonely heart. Original.
Call Number: F Wiggs
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Revelations : a Blue Bloods novel
by Melissa De la Cruz
When one of the Gates of Hell is breached by Silver Bloods in Rio de Janeiro, the Blue Bloods need Schuyler Van Alen on their side, even though they question her blood legacy.
Call Number: YA De La Cruz
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Scat
by Carl Hiaasen
Although a strange note was left behind that explained her sudden absence from school, Nick and Marta are still doubtful about the whereabouts of their teacher, Mrs. Bunny Starch, since she went missing from a field trip to Black Vine Swamp, and so they set out together to discover the truth!
Call Number: YA Hiaasen
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The shining girls
by Lauren Beukes
"The sole survivor of a time-traveling serial killer who began his murder spree in Depression-era Chicago tries to hunt him down in 1989 along with help from an ex-homicide reporter in this new novel from the author of Moxyland. 75,000 first printing."
Call Number: F Beukes
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Survivor : Auschwitz, the death march, and my fight for freedom
by Sam Pivnik
Documents the extraordinary story of the author's survival of the Holocaust, relating his harrowing endurance of ghetto establishments in his home town of Bedzin after the Nazi invasion of Poland, his torturous six-month imprisonment at Auschwitz and his near escapes from subsequent wartime brutalities.
Call Number: 940.5318 Piv
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