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Patron Picks February 2019 Adult Reading Program participants offer these suggestions.
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All American boys
by Jason Reynolds
When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend.
Call Number: TEEN REYNOLDS, JASON
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The dry
by Jane Harper
Receiving a sinister anonymous note after his best friend's suspicious death, federal agent Aaron Falk is forced to confront the fallout of a 20-year-old false alibi against a backdrop of the worst drought Melbourne has seen in a century.
Call Number: F HARPER, JANE
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A good killing
by Allison Leotta
Anna Curtis #4
After her sister, Judy, is accused of murdering her old high school coach, sex-crimes prosecutor Anna Curtis returns home to Michigan where no one is telling the truth, not even the people she thought she knew best, and resolves to do everything she can to save the only family she has left.
Call Number: F LEOTTA, ALLISON
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The long road home
by Mary Alice Monroe
Recovering from the shock of her husband's suicide and trying to deal with his debts, Nora MacKenzie seeks peace on a small farm in Vermont, until a handsome farmhand shows up and shakes her to her very core.
Call Number: F MONROE, MARY A.
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The rent collector
by Camron Steve Wright
Sang Ly struggles to survive by picking through garbage in Cambodia's largest municipal dump. Under threat of eviction by an embittered old drunk who is charged with collecting rents from the poor of Stung Meanchey, Sang Ly embarks on a desperate journeyto save her ailing son from a life of ignorance and poverty.
Call Number: F WRIGHT, CAMRON S.
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Sleeping giants
by Sylvain Neuvel
Themis files #1
Years after waking up dozens of feet below the ground on the palm of what seems to be a mysterious giant metal hand, a top-level physicist leads a team of people to discover the nature of the hand, where it came from and what it portends for humanity.
Call Number: SF NEUVEL, SYLVAIN
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A steep price
by Robert Dugoni
Tracy Crosswhite #6
Investigating the brutal murder of a young woman who had resisted an arranged marriage in favor of an education, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite navigates work dynamics that are placing her career and her life on the line.
Call Number: F DUGONI, ROBERT
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The two-family house
by Lynda Cohen Loigman
A book set in a two-family brownstone in 1950s Brooklyn unravels a multigenerational story woven around a deeply buried family secret.
Call Number: F LOIGMAN, LYNDA C.
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The wedding date
by Jasmine Guillory
Stranded together in an elevator during a power outage, Drew and Alexa agree to pose as a couple at an ex's wedding and discover afterwards that they are unable to forget each other.
Call Number: F GUILLORY, JASMINE
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When we collided
by Emery Lord
Resigning himself to another summer of just getting by, a young man overwhelmed by family responsibilities meets a vibrant, beauty-loving girl whose zest for life turns dangerous when she pursues increasingly high-risk adventures.
Call Number: TEEN LORD, EMERY
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