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Retired Staff PicksDecember 2014 They're Back! Retired staff members, Char, Chris, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Linda, Sara and Trish, offer their reading suggestions.
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Cross
by James Patterson
Years after his wife Maria is gunned down by an unknown shooter, a crime that has never been solved and still haunts him, psychologist Alex Cross is called in by his former partner, John Sampson, who wants his help in tracking a serial rapist stalking Georgetown, a case that reveals a startling connection to Maria's death. 1,500,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Patterson
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The dressmaker : a novel
by Posie Graeme-Evans
Her happy childhood shattered by her minister father's early death, Ellen Gowan suffers hardship and heartbreak before opening up a fashionable salon in Victorian-era Battle Square, where she is patronized by royalty before her past threatens to destroy everything. Original.
Call Number: F Graeme-Evans
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Gray Mountain
by John Grisham
Losing her job at New York City's largest law firm in the weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Samantha becomes an unpaid intern in a small Appalachian community where she stumbles upon dangerous secrets. By the best-selling author of Sycamore Row. 1.5 million first printing.
Call Number: F Grisham
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Money to burn : a novel of suspense
by James Grippando
The author of When Darkness Falls and Lying With Strangers returns to a taut new thriller of greed and murder set in the high-stakes atmosphere of New York's Wall Street.
Call Number: F Grippando
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The Mozart conspiracy
by Scott Mariani
After a world-famous opera star--and ex-flame--asks him to investigate her brother's mysterious death, British Air Service officer Ben Hope gets caught up in a centuries-old web of intrigue surrounding the death--and possible murder--of Mozart. 125,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Mariani
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Nora Webster : a novel
by Colm Tóibín
Struggling with grief and financial hardships after the death of her beloved husband, widow Nora struggles to support her four children and clings to secrecy in the intrusive community of her childhood before finding her voice. By the award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn. 125,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Toibin
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Ordinary grace : a novel
by William Kent Krueger
Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his 13th year, a man explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community. By the award-winning author of the Cork O'Connor series.
Call Number: F Krueger
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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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The prime minister's secret agent
by Susan Elia MacNeal
Returning as a teacher to her former training camp after a traumatic undercover mission, Maggie investigates a series of poisonings and Churchill's growing stockpile of biological weapons in anticipation of a Nazi invasion. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of Princess Elizabeth's Spy. Original. 35,000 first printing.
Call Number: M MacNeal
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Top secret twenty-one : a Stephanie Plum novel
by Janet Evanovich
A latest entry in the fan-favorite mystery series by the best-selling author of the Alexandra Barnaby novels finds bounty hunter Stephanie Plum immersed in an ultra-secret case.
Call Number: F Evanovich
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