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New Large Print BooksFebruary 2015
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Leaving time
by Jodi Picoult
Abandoned by a grief-stricken father and scientist mother who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, thirteen-year-old Jenna Metcalf approaches a disgraced psychic and a jaded detective in the hopes of finding answers
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Flesh and blood : a Scarpetta novel
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Forensic pathologist, Kay Scarpetta, finds herself in pursuit of a serial sniper targeting victims with seemingly nothing in common
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Revival
by Stephen King
Years after a charismatic minister is banished in the wake of a faith-shattering tragedy, a heroin-addicted rock-and-roll guitarist from the same hometown reconnects with the man and forges a terrible pact
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Some luck
by Jane Smiley
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children. Beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change, the personal and the historical merge seamlessly in the Langdons' story.
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The burning room : a novel
by Michael Connelly
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. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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The bootlegger
by Clive Cussler
When his boss is nearly killed while chasing a rum-running vessel at the height of the Prohibition era, Isaac Bell confronts a ruthless team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs intent on overthrowing the U.S. government
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A perfect life : a novel
by Danielle Steel
A mother and daughter confront respective challenges, cope with celebrity and work through tragedy while maintaining an idyllic façade to the outside world, in an uplifting tale by the best-selling author of Until the End of Time. (general fiction). Simultaneous.
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The Cinderella murder : an under suspicion novel
by Mary Higgins Clark
A first collaboration between the MWA Grand Master and the best-selling author of the Ellie Hatcher series follows the launch of a reality television series for unsolved crimes and a case involving a murdered UCLA student. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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Station eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of "King Lear" marks the beginning of the world's dissolution in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates
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