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Patron Picks November 2017 Betty, Dean, Deanna, Gillian, Joanne, Karl, Lisa, Lori, Margaret, Mary, and Twyla participated in the adult summer reading program and offer these suggestions.
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Behold the dreamers : a novel
by Imbolo Mbue
Two marriages, one immigrant working class and the other from the top one percent, are shaped by financial circumstances, infidelities, secrets and the 2008 recession. A first novel.
Call Number: F MBUE, IMBOLO
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Bottomland
by Michelle Hoover
A German family in the Iowa plains tries to fight the rising tide of Anti-German sentiment in the years following World War I while searching for their two youngest daughters who vanished suddenly in the middle of the night.
Call Number: F HOOVER, MICHELLE
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The burning room : a novel
by Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch #19
Detective Bosch and new rookie partner Lucia Soto chase elusive leads in a case involving a victim who succumbs to complications from a bullet wound sustained nine years earlier. By the best-selling author of The Black Box.
Call Number: M CONNELLY, MICHAEL
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Daring to drive : a Saudi woman's awakening
by Manal Sharif
An intimate memoir by a devout Saudi Arabian woman who became the unexpected leader of a movement to support women's rights to drive describes how fundamentalism influenced her radical religious beliefs until her education, a job and legal contradictions changed her perspectives and made her an accidental activist.
Call Number: B SHARIF, MANAL
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Deceptions
by Kelley Armstrong
Cainsville #3
Haunted by visions of a blond child with an urgent message, Olivia Taylor Jones outmaneuvers her stalking ex-fiancé while investigating how her destiny is being shaped by ancient scripts. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Otherworld series.
Call Number: F ARMSTRONG, KELLEY
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Dreams and shadows
by C. Robert Cargill
Long ago, friends Ewan and Colby pierced the veil between their world and a supernatural realm, and while trying to lead normal lives, soon discover that fate can never be outrun as they are called back to the Limestone Kingdom.
Call Number: F CARGILL, C. ROBERT
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The girls she left behind
by Sarah Graves
Lizzie Snow #2
When a 16-year-old girl goes missing in the aftermath of a kidnapper's escape from prison, Aroostook County Sheriff's deputy Lizzy Snow consults the fugitive's embittered former captive, who blames the family who failed to rescue her a decade earlier. By the author of the Home Repair Is Homicide mysteries.
Call Number: M GRAVES, SARAH
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A good American
by Alex George
The Meisenheimer family struggle to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than just music and an spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
Call Number: F GEORGE, ALEX
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A great reckoning
by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Gamache #12
Receiving a mysterious old map that has been found stuffed in the walls of a bistro, former Quebec homicide investigator Armand Gamache follows clues to the site of a dead Sûreté academy professor and an unlikely cadet with whom he is implicated in a murder case. By the award-winning author of The Nature of the Beast.
Call Number: M PENNY, LOUISE
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The Japanese lover : a novel
by Isabel Allende
A multigenerational epic by the New York Times best-selling author of The House of the Spirits follows the impossible romance between a World War II escapee from the Nazis and a Japanese gardener's son, whose story is discovered decades later by a care worker who would come to terms with her past.
Call Number: F ALLENDE, ISABEL
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Keepers of the covenant
by Lynn N. Austin
Restoration Chronicles #2
When the king of Susa orders the executions of all Jewish citizens, quiet scholar Ezra is thrust into the role of a military leader before the death of his brother requires him to marry his widowed sister-in-law and lead his people to Jerusalem. By the award-winning author of Hidden Places.
Call Number: F AUSTIN, LYNN N.
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Kind of kin
by Rilla Askew
When her father is tossed in jail for hiding a barn-full of Mexicans, her 10-year-old nephew disappears and her son comes home, bringing a world of trouble with him, Sweet is driven to desperate actions to fix things, which tests her family, friends and neighbors in unexpected ways.
Call Number: F ASKEW, RILLA
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A man without breath
by Philip Kerr
Bernie Gunther #9
Working in the Wehrmacht's War Crime Bureau of 1943 at the behest of an old friend, sardonic Berlin cop Bernie Gunther struggles to find proof of Russian responsibility for a mass shooting of Polish army officers in the hopes of destabilizing the Western Alliance. By the author of the Edgar Award-nominated Field Gray.
Call Number: F KERR, PHILIP
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The secret wisdom of the earth
by Christopher Scotton
Witnessing his younger brother's accidental death, teenage Kevin spends the summer traumatized in his grandfather's Appalachia coal-mining community, which is fighting plans for a massive mountaintop-removal operation.
Call Number: F SCOTTON, CHRIS
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Small great things : a novel
by Jodi Picoult
Hesitating to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple who has demanded that a white nurse assist them, a black nurse is placed on trial in the tragic aftermath and is aided by a white public defender with whom she begins questioning their beliefs as the case becomes more racially charged. By the #1 best-selling author of Leaving Time.
Call Number: F PICOULT, JODI
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