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Patron PicksApril 2015 Ann, Anne, Betty, Carol, Cheryl, Dean, Diane, Emily, Gina, Heidi, Ivan, Jeannette, Linda, Michelle, Steve and Tammy participated in the adult reading programs and offer these suggested titles.
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Astray
by Emma Donoghue
The author of Room presents a new collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana. Simultaneous.
Call Number: F Donoghue
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The best of us : a novel
by Sarah Pekkanen
Four old college friends, desperate for an escape from their crazy lives, spend a week at a luxury villa in Jamaica and help each other cope with their problems.
Call Number: F Pekkanen
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Blame it on Paris
by Jennifer Greene
Enjoying a trip to Paris before settling down to married life, Kelly Rochard never expects to be mugged at the Louvre or that gorgeous Will Maguire will come to her assistance, but she worries that their growing feelings for each other might not survive the romance of the City of Lights. Original.
Call Number: F Greene
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A catered birthday party : A Mystery With Recipes
by Isis Crawford
When sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons cater a canine birthday celebration for Trudy the Pug, who is the mascot for the Colbert toy company, the big day is marred by murder when Trudy's pugnacious owner is poisoned, forcing Bernie and Libby to sniff out a killer among a lot of suspects--all of whom had a bone to pick with the deceased.
Call Number: M Crawford
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The confession
by John Grisham
A latest psychological thriller by the best-selling author of Pelican Brief and The Rainmaker features signature courtroom twists and turns that imperil legal defenders caught in a web of corruption and betrayal. 2.8 million first printing.
Call Number: F Grisham
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Echo Park : a novel
by Michael Connelly
Eleven years after his investigation into the 1995 disappearance of Marie Gesto goes cold, Harry Bosch finally gets a chance to put the case to rest when a man accused of two brutal killings agrees to come clean about several others, including that of Marie Gesto, until Harry discovers that he and his partner had missed a clue in 1995 that could have found the killer and stopped nine other killings. 600,000 first printing.
Call Number: M Connelly
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The gods of guilt : a novel
by Michael Connelly
Defense attorney Mickey Haller investigates after a former client, a prostitute who had left the life for the straight and narrow, turns up dead, in the fifth novel of the crime series following The Fifth Witness. 500,000 first printing.
Call Number: M Connelly
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The house of tomorrow
by Peter Bognanni
In a first novel by a Pushcart Prize nominee, homeschooler Sebastian Prendergast is forced by his grandmother's stroke to venture out of his geodesic dome habitat and form a punk band with a chain-smoking teen who introduces him to pop culture.
Call Number: F Bognanni
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How to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you
by Matthew Inman
A hilarious, brilliant offering of cat comics, facts and instructional guides from the creative wonderland at TheOatmeal.com also includes a pullout poster. By the creator of 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides). Original.
Call Number: GN Inman
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The invention of wings : A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-no Annotations)
by Sue Monk Kidd
"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go beyond the record to flesh out the inner lives of all the characters, both real and imagined".
Call Number: F Kidd
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Kill shot : an American assassin thriller
by Vince Flynn
Working his way through a list of hit targets who were responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of civilians, assassin Mitch Rapp shoots a drunken Libyan diplomat in Paris only to discover that he has been set up and that his handlers would have him permanently silenced. By the author of American Assassin. 850,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Flynn
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Little wolves
by Thomas James Maltman
Their family farms devastated by a Minnesota drought in 1987, a father searches for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, while a pastor's wife returns to the town for mysterious reasons of her own. By the award-winning author of The Night Birds.
Call Number: F Maltman
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Mirage
by Clive Cussler
An investigation into a 1943 mission during which a U.S. destroyer vanished after it was deliberately sent into an obscured field of electromagnetic radiation finds Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon uncovering disturbing evidence of a dangerous super-weapon. Simultaneous
Call Number: F Cussler
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The reversal : a novel
by Michael Connelly
Mickey Haller, changing from defense attorney to prosecutor for this one important case, joins forces with Detective Harry Bosch when a brutal child murderer is released on bail due to DNA evidence and needs to be retried, pitting Haller and Bosch against a slick, media-savvy defense attorney. By the #1 best-selling author of Nine Dragons. 750,000 first printing.
Call Number: M Connelly
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River road
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Returning thirteen years after an embarrassing incident from her teens to the hometown of her beloved late aunt, forensic genealogist Lucy Sheridan makes shocking discoveries about her aunt's death, the disappearance of a cold-blooded local, and an attractive former cop.
Call Number: F Krentz
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Rose Harbor in bloom : a novel
by Debbie Macomber
A sequel to The Inn at Rose Harbor finds Jo Marie Rose welcoming a new set of guests including a cancer survivor who regrets ending a relationship with the one man she truly loved and a woman who remembers her own broken engagement while planning an anniversary celebration for her grandparents.
Call Number: F Macomber
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A step of faith : the fourth journal of The walk series
by Richard Paul Evans
Embarking on a walking tour from Seattle to Key West after the losses of his beloved wife and business, Alan Christoffersen meets a series of people on his journey who impart lessons in love, sacrifice and forgiveness until a crisis in St. Louis threatens his healing progress. By the best-selling author of The Road to Grace.
Call Number: F Evans
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The twelve tribes of Hattie
by Ayana Mathis
Traces the story of Great Migration-era mother Hattie Shepherd, who in spite of poverty and a dysfunctional husband uses love and Southern remedies to raise nine children and prepare them for the realities of a harsh world. A first novel.
Call Number: F Mathis
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The weight of silence
by Heather Gudenkauf
When their 7-year-old daughters abruptly go missing, Antonia evaluates her decision to stay in a loveless and trauma-marked marriage that caused her child to withdraw into silence, while Martin confronts an uncomfortable aspect of his personality hidden beneath his professorial demeanor. Original. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.
Call Number: F Gudenkauf
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