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Staff PicksJuly 2014 Katherine from collections is providing our picks this month.
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NOS4A2 : a novel
by Joe Hill
When Charles Talent Manx, an unstoppable monster who transforms children into his own terrifying likeness, kidnaps her son, Victoria McQueen, the only person to ever escape his unmitigated evil, must engage in a life-and-death battle of wills to get her son back. 200,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Hill, LP F Hill
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Roses
by Leila Meacham
Having not married in spite of their true feelings, cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnate Percy Warwick struggle with deceit, secrets and tragedies that challenge their children and grandchildren in their small east Texas community. 75,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Meacham, CD F Meacham
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The thirteenth tale [sound recording]
by Diane Setterfield
When her health begins failing, the mysterious author Vida Winter decides to let Margaret Lea, a biographer, write the truth about her life, but Margaret needs to verify the facts since Vida has a history of telling outlandish tales.
Call Number: LP F Setterfield, CD F Setterfield
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True Detective: The Complete First Season
"One of HBO's most watched series in its debut season! The series premiere episode alone was the most watched HBO series premiere since 2010, higher than Game of Thrones." ALERT
Call Number: DVD TV Tru
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Written in red : a novel of the Others
by Anne Bishop
Blood prophet Meg Corbyn escapes enslavement by Others and teams up with a shape-shifter who employs her as a Human Liaison in the first novel of a new fantasy series from the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Jewels Trilogy. 40,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Bishop, CD F Bishop
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All the light we cannot see : a novel
by Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. By the award-winning author of About Grace.
Call Number: F Doerr
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Field of prey
by John Sandford
Lucas Davenport investigates the discovery of several bodies in an abandoned Minnesota farmyard, discovering the work of a local serial killer who has been murdering one victim every summer for years. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Virgil Flowers series.
Call Number: F Sandford
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Live to see tomorrow
by Iris Johansen
When her mentor, Hu Chang, tasks her with rescuing an imprisoned journalist in Tibet, shadowy CIA Operative Catherine Ling is pitted against a man so vile that she wonders if she is being used as a pawn in a game of revenge that is not hers to play. 250,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Johansen
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The Valley of Amazement
by Amy Tan
Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her. 750,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Tan
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Yarn over murder
by Maggie Sefton
Kelly Flynn and the House of Lambspun knitters help save their friend's alpacas from a fast-moving wildfire while one of their group comes under suspicion for murder after a husband-stealing local rancher turns up dead.
Call Number: M Sefton
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Bird with the heart of a mountain
by Barbara Mariconda
Drina wants only to dance though her Gypsy mother has forbidden it, but when her mother suffers a horrible attack, Drina sets out to find the father who abandoned them, and is drawn into the world of flamenco dancers.
Call Number: F Mariconda
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Coldsleep lullaby : a mystery
by Andrew Brown
A U.S. release of a prize-winning series from South Africa follows Detective Eberard Februarie's investigation of the murder of a young woman in the underworld of an old university town that is fraught with prejudice and sexual hedonism. 20,000 first printing.
Call Number: M Brown
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Lost for words : a novel
by Edward St. Aubyn
A frenzied competition for a major British literary award pits several colorful characters against one another and is complicated by an accidental entry, a scandal involving a judge and a vengeful reject. By the award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose series. 50,000 first printing.
Call Number: F St. Aubyn
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Now you see me : how I forgave the unforgivable
by Kathy Sanders
" On April 19, 1995, Kathy Sanders' life was forever changed when a bomb exploded and destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, killing her two grandsons Chase and Colton. For a while after her grandchildren died, Kathy struggled with coping and wondered if the God she'd worshipped all her life even existed. After struggling through bitterness and contemplating suicide, she turned to the Lord and asked what He'd have her do. She was reminded that the scriptures say that we are to forgive our enemies. Kathy then forged a relationship with Terry Nichols, a man who murdered her grandchildren. Additionally she housed, clothed and cooked for Nichols' children, mother, sister, wife and ex-wife. What's more, she demonstrated the same type of warmth to family members of Timothy McVeigh, the second man convicted of orchestrating the bombing. With photos, interviews, and actual letters exchanged between Kathy and Terry Nichols, NOW YOU SEE ME will tell the story of how she forgave these men, cultivated relationships with their families and how her courageous efforts of forgiveness gave her peace and removed the bitterness from her life".
Call Number: 976.638 San
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Warburg in Rome
by James Carroll
Arriving in Rome at war's end, determined to bring aid to the destitute European Jews, David Warburg, the new director of the U.S. War Refugee Board, becomes disillusioned when he discovers the Vatican ratline, an escape route maintained by church offices for Nazi war criminals. 30,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Carroll
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