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Retired Staff Picks September 2014
They're Back! Retired staff members, Char, Debbie, Ellen, Jane, Linda, Sara and Trish, offer their reading suggestions.
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12th of never
by James Patterson
A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real in this new addition to the best-selling series. 750,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Patterson
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Benediction
by Kent Haruf
A terminally ill cancer patient is attended throughout his final days by his wife and daughter while the trio contemplates their relationships with an estranged son, a situation that stirs up painful memories for a new next-door neighbor who has recently lost her mother. By the award-winning author of Eventide. 75,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Haruf
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The cuckoo's calling
by Robert Galbraith
Working as a private investigator after losing his leg in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike takes the case of a legendary supermodel's suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, desperate designers and hedonist pursuits. 20,000 first printing.
Call Number: M Galbraith
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The dead in their vaulted arches : a Flavia de Luce novel
by C. Alan Bradley
"On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed under the train by someone in the crowd. Who was this man, what did his words mean, and why were they intended for Flavia? Back home at Buckshaw, the de Luces' crumbling estate, Flavia puts her sleuthing skills to the test. Following a trail of clues sparked by the discovery of a reel of film stashed away in the attic, she unravels the deepest secrets of the de Luce clan, involving none other than Winston Churchill himself. Surrounded by family, friends, and a famous pathologist from the Home Office--and making spectacular use of Harriet's beloved Gypsy Moth plane, Blithe Spirit--Flavia will do anything, even take to the skies, to land a killer.
Call Number: M Bradley
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Fourth of July Creek : a novel
by Smith Henderson
After his estranged 13-year-old daughter disappears, social worker Pete Snow must face the fact he has spectacularly failed his own family as he is drawn into a massive manhunt when his client—a profoundly disturbed and paranoid survivalist—sparks the interest of the F.B.I. 100,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Henderson
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Frog music : a novel
by Emma Donoghue
Burlesque dancer Blanche Beunon tries to discover who murdered her friend Jenny, who was shot through a window in a railroad saloon in 1876 San Francisco, amidst a record-breaking heat wave and smallpox epidemic. 200,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Donoghue
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The hundred-year house
by Rebecca Makkai
A couple living on a historic estate that once housed an artist's colony make a discovery that leads them into a thrilling journey into the past as the secrets of the house and the people who lived there are revealed.
Call Number: F Makkai
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The inner circle
by Brad Meltzer
After an archivist goes against security protocol to show an ex-crush the president's private room at the National Archives, the two stumble upon a dictionary once owned by George Washington and are soon entangled in a web of conspiracy and murder. By the #1 best-selling author of The Book of Fate.
Call Number: F Meltzer
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The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
Forging a powerful bond in the mid-1970s that lasts throughout subsequent decades, six individuals pursue respective challenges into their midlife years, including an aspiring actress who harbors jealousy toward friends who achieve successful creative careers.
Call Number: F Wolitzer
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The Last Kind Words Saloon
by Larry McMurtry
Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday move across the frontier from Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver in the latest novel by the acclaimed author of The Last Picture Show and Lonesome Dove. (westerns).
Call Number: W McMurtry
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Letters from Skye : a novel
by Jessica Brockmole
A sweeping love story told in letters spans two world wars and follows the correspondence between a water-phobic poet on the Scottish Isle of Skye and an American volunteer ambulance driver for the French Army, an affair that is discovered years later when the poet disappears.
Call Number: F Brockmole
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The Lincoln letter
by William Martin
A latest entry in the best-selling series by the author of The Lost Constitution finds Peter Fallon and Evangeline Carrington heading to Washington, D.C. to compete against dangerous adversaries in a hunt for the 16th President's Civil War diary, a record that contains information that could change history and influence key elections. 40,000 first printing.
Call Number: PB Martin
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Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker : a novel
by Jennifer Chiaverini
Chosen as the personal modiste for Mary Todd Lincoln, freed woman Elizabeth Keckley is drawn into the intimate life of the Lincoln family as she supports Mary in the loss of her husband from the assassination that stunned the nation and the world. 150,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Chiaverini
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The new countess
by Fay Weldon
As Dilberne Court prepares for a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, Lady Isobel finds herself at odds with her son's new American heiress wife in the third book of the trilogy following Long Live the King. 60,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Weldon
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An unfinished life : a novel
by Mark Spragg
Seeking to escape her brutal boyfriend and hoping to introduce her daughter, Griff, to the grandfather she has never met, widow Jean Gilkyson seeks refuge in her late husband's Wyoming hometown with her estranged father-in-law, who blames her for his son's death. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Spragg
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The wives of Los Alamos : a novel
by TaraShea Nesbit
An emotionally charged debut told in the collective voices of the wives of the team who created the atom bomb traces their struggles to adapt and raise children in a rugged military town where everything their husbands are doing is an intense secret.
Call Number: F Nesbit
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