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Patron Picks December 2016 Alyssa, Anne, Barb, Brenda, Carol, Daniel, Holly, Jene, Josh, Joy, Katie, Kaye, Stephanie, Tammy, and Terri participated in the adult reading program and offer these suggestions.
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The book of Q : a novel
by Jonathan Rabb
A modern-day priest uncovers a sixth-century conspiracy that threatens to re-awaken in the present, and his investigation carries him to Croatia where he will confront the consequences of an eight-year-old affair.
Call Number: F RABB, JONATHAN
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Freedom summer : the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy
by Bruce Watson
Using in- depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi and the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state. Freedom Summer presents finely rendered portraits of the courageous black citizens-and Northern volunteers-who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life. Few books have provided such an intimate look at race relations during the deadliest days of the Civil Rights movement.
Call Number: 323.1196 WAT
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The friendship test
by Elizabeth Noble
During a single late wine- and gossip-fueled night, four friends create a fateful test of friendship, the essence of which is to never betray one another, but twenty years later, they must face that ultimate test.
Call Number: F NOBLE, ELIZABETH
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Full dark house
by Christopher Fowler
When a bomb claims the life of John May's detective partner of more than half a century, May becomes convinced that the key to the killer's identity lies in his first case together with his partner.
Call Number: M FOWLER, CHRISTOPHER
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How to bake a perfect life : a novel
by Barbara O'Neal
Hoping for a quieter life as a bakery owner after struggling as a young parent and suffering a heart-breaking divorce, Ramona Gallagher finds herself caring for an unruly step-granddaughter by immersing the girl in a network of women family members.
Call Number: F O'NEAL, BARBARA
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The merchant of death
by D. J. MacHale
Pendragon #1
Bobby Pendragon finds himself on an amazing 5 year quest in an interdimensional world where he is involved in important battles and conflicts that will have an effect on the outcome of human existence.
Call Number: TEEN MACHALE, D.J.
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Mind prey
by John Sandford
Lucas Davenport #7
Deputy chief Lucas Davenport stood in the parking lot, a blood-stained shoe in his hand, the ground stained pink around him, and knew that this would be one of the worst cases he'd ever been on. With an urgency born of dread, he presses the attack, while in an isolated farmhouse, Andi Manette does the same, summoning all her skills to battle an obsessed captor. She knows the man who has taken her and her daughters, knows there is a chink in his armor, if only she can find it. But for both her and Davenport, time is already running out.
Call Number: F SANDFORD, JOHN
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Mirror mirror
by Gregory Maguire
A retelling of "Snow White" by the author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Wicked is set in Renaissance Italy and draws a link between the original fairy tale and the Borgia family's infamous practice of poisoning its enemies.
Call Number: F MAGUIRE, GREGORY
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Missing pieces
by Joy Fielding
A family therapist who prides herself on her super-functional family, Kate Sinclair faces a challenge to her domestic Eden in the form of her half-sister, who plans to marry an accused serial killer and begins to influence Kate's rebellious daughter.
Call Number: F FIELDING, JOY
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No second chance
by Harlan Coben
Injured by an unknown shooter who has killed his wife and abducted his baby daughter, surgeon Marc Seidman struggles with limited options when he receives a ransom note that he will never see his daughter again if he contacts the police.
Call Number: M COBEN, HARLAN
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A slice of murder
by Chris Cavender
Pizza Lovers #1
Discovering the murdered body of one of her customers while making a pizza delivery, Eleanor Swift realizes that her public argument with the victim will place her on the suspect list, a situation for which she and her free-spirited sister, Maddy, investigate the victim's secrets, including an affair with the mayor's wife.
Call Number: M CAVENDER, CHRIS
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Tinkers
by Paul Harding
An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildren, George Washington Crosby drifts in and out of consciousness, back to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in Maine. As the clock repairer’s time winds down, his memories intertwine with those of his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler and his grandfather, a Methodist preacher beset by madness.
Call Number: F HARDING, PAUL
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The violets of March [electronic resource] : a novel
by Sarah Jio
In her twenties, Emily Wilson was on top of the world: she had a bestselling novel, a husband plucked from the pages of GQ, and a one-way ticket to happily ever after.
Ten years later, the tide has turned on Emily's good fortune. So when her great-aunt Bee invites her to spend the month of March on Bainbridge Island in Washington State, Emily accepts, longing to be healed by the sea. Researching her next book, Emily discovers a red velvet diary, dated 1943, whose contents reveal startling connections to her own life.
Call Number: OVERDRIVE
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The white woman on the green bicycle
by Monique Roffey
Sabine struggles to adapt to life in postcolonial Trinidad after her husband George takes a job assignment there, especially as racial and political tensions rise and the couple's secrets and lies cause them to drift apart.
Call Number: F ROFFEY, MONIQUE
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