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Staff Picks Susan N. from Administration is providing the picks for this month. August 2016
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The bartender's tale
by Ivan Doig
Running a venerable bar in 1960 Montana while raising his 12-year-old son, single father Tom Harry finds his world upended by the arrival of a woman from his past and her beatnik daughter, who claims Tom as her father and upends the town with her passionate and pretentious modern views.
Call Number: F DOIG, IVAN
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The heart goes last
by Margaret Atwood
Enrolling in a project that allows them to live in safe homes between alternate service months spent in prison, a homeless couple is threatened by troubling events stemming from the wife's involvement with another project member.
Call Number: CD F ATWOOD, MARGARET
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Inside the O'Briens : a novel
by Lisa Genova
When a beloved Irish-Catholic police officer is diagnosed with Huntington's Disease, his grown children witness their father's demise and consider whether they want to be tested to see if they have inherited the condition.
Call Number: F GENOVA, LISA
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The readers of Broken Wheel recommend
by Katarina Bivald
A Swedish tourist opens a bookstore in Broken Wheel, Iowa, to honor her deceased pen pal and makes some unconventional choices that threaten to bring long-hidden secrets to light as she attempts to share her love of reading with the locals.
Call Number: F BIVALD, KATARINA
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Clawback : an Ali Reynolds novel
by Judith A Jance
Ali Reynolds #11
When her father is implicated in the murder of a man whose Ponzi scheme bankrupted hundreds of people, Ali Reynolds and her husband struggle to clear her father's name while seeking justice for the victims.
Call Number: M JANCE, J. A.
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Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania
by Erik Larson
On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone.
Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love.
Call Number: 940.4514 LAR
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Memory man
by David Baldacci
Amos Decker #1
Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything.
The second time was at home nearly two decades later. Now a police detective, Decker returned from a stakeout one evening and entered a nightmare--his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law had been murdered. To uncover the stunning truth, he must use his remarkable gifts and confront the burdens that go along with them.
Call Number: F BALDACCI, DAVID
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Saturn run
by John Sandford
When a mid-21st-century Caltech intern discovers that a spacecraft from a technologically superior alien source is headed toward Saturn, a ragtag crew of competitors races to be the first to claim the ship and its technological advantages.
Call Number: SF SANDFORD, JOHN
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Chimera
by Mira Grant
Parasitology #3
The outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations of society, as implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a seemingly mindless mob. Sal and her family are trapped between bad and worse, and must find a way to compromise between the two sides of their nature before the battle becomes large enough to destroy humanity, and everything that humanity has built...including the chimera.
Call Number: SF GRANT, MIRA
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One child : the story of China's most radical experiment
by Mei Fong
When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers. Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy's repercussions on every sector of Chinese society. In One Child, she explores its true human impact, traveling across China to meet the people who live with its consequences.
Call Number: 369.9 FON
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Time and time again
by Ben Elton
Having learned from a Cambridge academic that time travel is possible, traumatized ex-soldier Hugh Stanton returns to June 1914 to prevent World War I by stopping an assassination.
But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century? And, if so, could another single bullet save it?
Call Number: F ELTON, BEN
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The widow
by Fiona Barton
Following the twists and turns of an unimaginable crime, The Widow is an electrifying thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife. When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on when more bad things began to happen. . . But that woman's husband died last week.
There's a lot Jean hasn't said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife. Now there's no reason to stay quiet. People want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. The truth--that's all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything.
Call Number: F BARTON, FIONA
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