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Patron Picks July 2017 Angie, Bill, Gail, Heather, Kelsey, Margaret, Margey, Rumi, and Sarah participated in the adult reading program and offer these suggestions.
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Bellweather rhapsody
by Kate Racculia
A young music prodigy goes missing from a hotel room that was the site of an infamous murder-suicide 15 years earlier, renewing trauma for a bridesmaid who witnessed the first crime and rallying an eccentric cast of characters during a snowstorm that traps everyone on the grounds.
Call Number: F RACCULIA, KATE
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Come rain or come shine
by Jan Karon
Mitford #11
Graduating from vet school and opening an animal clinic, Dooley Kavanagh, Father Tim Kavanaugh's adopted son, plans what he hopes will be a simple, affordable wedding with soulmate Lace Harper. By the best-selling author of Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good.
Call Number: F KARON, JAN
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Eclipse : a novel
by Richard North Patterson
Placing his career on the line to defend a charismatic African freedom fighter who has been charged with murder by the autocratic ruler of Luandia's brutal government, California lawyer Damon Pierce finds his own life at stake as well as that of his client.
Call Number: F PATTERSON, RICHARD N.
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Growing up country: memories of an iowa farm girl
by Carol Bodensteiner
Growing Up Country delivers a treat as delicious as oatmeal cookies hot out of the oven - a memoir of a happy childhood. In charming and memorable vignettes, Carol Bodensteiner captures rural life in middle America, in the middle of the 20th Century. Bodensteiner grew up on a family-owned dairy farm in the 1950s, a time when a family could make a good living on 180 acres. In these pages you can step back and relish a time simple but not easy, innocent yet challenging.
Call Number: 977.7 BOD
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Hard country : a novel
by Michael McGarrity
Kerney family #1
Struggling with the death of his wife in childbirth at the end of the 19th century, John Kerney gives up his Texas ranch to pursue the outlaws responsible for his brother's murder and participates in nearly half a century of turbulent history in New Mexico Territory. By the Anthony Award-nominated author of Dead or Alive.
Call Number: W MCGARRITY, MICHAEL
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Keep calm : a thriller
by Mike Binder
Present at a bombing that injures the prime minister of England, a former Michigan police detective, Adam Tatum, must work to uncover the culprits who seem determined to pin the attack squarely on his shoulders.
Call Number: F BINDER, MIKE
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The last bookaneer : A Novel
by Matthew Pearl
A tale inspired by the century-long legal loophole that allowed books to be published without the permission or compensation of authors traces the battle over a dying Robert Louis Stevenson's final manuscript. By the best-selling author of The Dante Club.
Call Number: F PEARL, MATTHEW
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The mulberry bush : a novel
by Charles McCarry
Falling in love with a famous Argentinean revolutionary's daughter who he hopes will further his ambition to exact revenge against the handlers who ended his father's career years earlier, a maverick spy is caught in a web of deceit with ties to the Cold War. By the author of The Shanghai Factor.
Call Number: F MCCARRY, CHARLES
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Still life
by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Gamache #1
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of Canada's Surêté du Québec is called to Three Pines, a tiny hamlet south of Montreal, just north of the U.S. border, to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of Jane Neal, a local fixture in the village.
Call Number: M PENNY, LOUISE
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Still life with bread crumbs : a novel
by Anna Quindlen
Abandoning her expensive world to move to a small country cabin, a once world-famous photographer bonds with a local man and begins to see the world around her in new, deeper dimensions while evaluating second chances at love, career and self-understanding. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Living Out Loud.
Call Number: F QUINDLEN, ANNA
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Th1rteen r3asons why : a novel
by Jay Asher
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Call Number: TEEN ASHER, JAY
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The thorn birds
by Colleen McCullough
A saga of three generations of the indomitable Cleary family begins in the early 1900s when Paddy Cleary, a poor New Zealand farm laborer, moves his wife and children to the Australian sheep station owned by his rich sister.
Call Number: F MCCULLOUGH, COLLEEN
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The water knife
by Paolo Bacigalupi
Working as an enforcer for a corrupt developer, Angel Velasquez teams up with a hardened journalist and a street-smart Texan to investigate rumors of California's imminent monopoly on limited water supplies. By the National Book Award-finalist author of The Windup Girl.
Call Number: SF BACIGALUPI, PAOLO
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To whisper her name : a Belle Meade Plantation novel
by Tamera Alexander
Belle Meade Plantation #1
Poor widow Olivia accepts an invitation from the mistress of Belle Meade Plantation, but when she finds it is not what she expects, her leaving is complicated by her feelings for Ridley, a Southern man who doesn't seem a gentleman.
Call Number: F ALEXANDER, TAMERA
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