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Memory in Death
by J. D. Robb
Mystery. In mid-twenty-first-century New York, Eve Dallas's "tough cop" exterior is shaken by her twisted former foster mother's demands for money in exchange for protecting secrets from Dallas's childhood, a situation that becomes more complicated when the woman is found murdered.
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Inspector Morse
Movie. Chief Inspector Morse and Detective Sergeant Lewis investigate death and murder in the English town of Oxford.
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Heart of Obsidian
by Nalini Singh
Fiction. Three distant races of supernatural beings sharing very different goals must fight their emotions and true natures when their uneasy coexistence starts to erode.
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Water Diviner
Movie. After the Battle of Gallipoli, an Australian man travels to Turkey to find his three missing sons.
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Ten Big Ones : A Stephanie Plum Novel
by Janet Evanovich
Mystery. In a new adventure by the author of To the Nines, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum witnesses a gang-executed robbery and police officer shooting and finds herself targeted by a California-based killer looking to claim the price that is subsequently placed on her head.
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Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by Steve Silberman
Nonfiction. Revealing the untold story of the father of Asperger's syndrome, a landmark book reveals the secret history of autism, finds surprising answers to the crucial question of why the number of diagnoses has soared, and provides long-sought solutions to the autism puzzle.
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Alien
Movie. After responding to a signal for help, a spaceship takes on an alien creature which begins to kill the crew.
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Boy, Snow, Bird
by Helen Oyeyemi
Fiction. A modern reimagining of the Snow White fairy tale follows the experiences of a woman who marries a mid-20th-century Massachusetts single father and succumbs to vanity when the birth of her baby reveals her husband to be a light-skinned African American.
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Tambien la Lluvia / Even the Rain
Movie. A filmmaker and his producer arrive in Bolivia to make a film about Christopher Columbus' exploitation of the New World as local citizens riot in protest against privatization of the national water works, leaving the film shoot in jeopardy
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Hild
by Nicola Griffith
Possessing uncanny powers of observation that elevate her influence in turbulent seventh-century Britain, Hild, the king's youngest niece, is established as a seer and compelled to advise the king correctly at the risk of her loved ones.
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Dewey, the Library Cat: A True Story
by Vicki Myron
Follows the development of an endearing kitten abandoned in an Iowa library drop-box into an affable library mascot who made many friendships with the library staff and patrons of all ages.
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Rachel Getting Married
Movie. After being in and out of rehab for ten years, Kym returns home for her sister's wedding, reawakening old family tensions.
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Firefly Lane
by Kristin Hannah
Fiction. Inseparable best friends Kate and Tully, two young women who, despite their very different lives, have vowed to be there for each other forever, have been true to their promise for thirty years, until events and choices in their lives tear them apart.
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Nurse Jackie
TV series. Follows the adventures of nurse Jackie Peyton as she faces her personal struggles and her co-workers and patients at a New York City hospital.
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The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
Science Fiction. In a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature, forcing her to dive into the pages of a novel to stop literary homicide, in a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing thriller. Reprint.
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Veronica Mars
TV series. Follows Veronica Mars, an apprentice private investigator, as she solves the town of Neptune's toughest mysteries
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan
Fiction. After a layoff during the Great Recession sidelines his tech career, Clay Jannon takes a job at the titular bookstore in San Francisco, and soon realizes that the establishment is a facade for a strange secret. Reprint.
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Sound of Music
Movie. A young novice, uncertain about becoming a nun, becomes governess to seven children of an autocratic ex-naval captain.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
Fiction. Caught in an impossible-to-resolve situation that spans the boundaries of temporal reality, this tale of a plucky librarian who is accidentally cast back in time focuses on the romantic complications of time travel.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Yolo County Library 226 Buckeye St. Woodland, California 95695 530-666-8005
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