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Origin : a novel
by Dan Brown
Suspense. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon navigates a dangerous intersection of humanity's two most enduring questions, interweaving codes, science, religion and other disciplines before making a paradigm-shifting discovery. By the best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code.
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To Be Where You Are
by Jan Karon
Inspiration. Father Tim Kavanagh struggles to find meaning in an unexpected new job, while newlyweds Dooley and Lace are stricken by a crisis that overshadows their happiness, and 4-year-old Jack Tyler looks forward to the biggest day of his young life. By the best-selling author of Come Rain or Come Shine.
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Sleeping Beauties : a novel
by Stephen King
Horror. A father-son collaboration envisions a near-future where the women succumb to a sleeping disease, the men revert to their increasingly primal natures and one woman, mysteriously immune, struggles to survive in an Appalachian prison town where she is treated alternately as a demon and a lab specimen.
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A Stranger in the House : a novel
by Shari Lapeña
Thriller. Responding to a call she hoped she would never get, a woman braces herself for the worst in a bad part of town and wakes up with no memory of what happened at the same time the police and her husband accuse her of misconduct. By the author of the best-selling The Couple Next Door.
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The Rooster Rar : a novel
by John Grisham
Suspense. The author of such best-sellers as A Time to Kill and The Pelican Brief presents a latest high-octane thriller of non-stop suspense.
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The Rules of Magic
by Alice Hoffman
Fantasy. A prequel to the best-selling Practical Magic traces the story of the children of Susanna Owens, who, in spite of their mother's fierce edicts against witchcraft, develop powerful abilities while struggling to escape the family curse that leads to tragedy if they fall in love.
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Nonfiction - New Releases
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What Happened
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Politics. A new book of essays by the former secretary of state includes entries describing her experiences in the 2016 presidential campaign and incorporates hundreds of inspirational quotes that have shaped her life and work.
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Killing England : the Brutal Struggle for American Independence
by Bill O'Reilly
History. In a book told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Great Britain’s King George III, the authors chronicle the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. By a #1 best-selling authors of Killing the Rising Sun.
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Grant
by Ron Chernow
Biography. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Washington: A Life presents a meticulously researched portrait of the complicated Civil War general and 18th President, challenging the views of his critics while sharing insights into his prowess as a military leader, the honor with which he conducted his administration and the rise and fall of his fortunes. Read by Mark Bramhall.
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Leonardo da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson
Biography. A best-selling author draws on da Vinci's remarkable notebooks as well as new discoveries about his life and work in a narrative portrait that connects the master's art to his science, demonstrating how da Vinci's genius was based on the skills and qualities of everyday people, from curiosity and observation to imagination and fantasy.
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