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New & Now Arrivals August 2020
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Just Arrived: New & Now Books
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28 Summers
by Elin Hilderbrand
What it's about: The best-selling author of Summer of '69 presents a tale inspired by the film, Same Time, Next Year, that follows a man’s discovery of his mother’s long-term relationship with the husband of a Presidential frontrunner.
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A matriarch confronts the legacy of her parenting mistakes while her adult children navigate challenges of their own, before a teen granddaughter makes a courageous decision to tell the truth.
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What it's about:
A woman confronts the dynamics of friendship and forgiveness while visiting Cape Cod to attend an old friend’s increasingly disastrous wedding.
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Bombshell by Stuart WoodsWhat it's about: Former CIA operative-turned-movie producer Teddy Fay becomes embroiled in two sticky situations involving a vengeful criminal thug and malicious gossip.
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The Book of Lost Friends
by Lisa Wingate
What it's about: A modern-day teacher discovers the story of three Reconstruction-era women and how it connects to her own students' lives.
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Credible Threat by J. A. JanceWhat it's about: Ali Reynolds and her team at High Noon Enterprises must race against the clock to save an archbishop who faces mysterious death threats.
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Daddy's Girls by Danielle Steel What it's about: Inheriting a California ranch upon their single father’s sudden death, three sisters evaluate their very different childhoods while uncovering paradigm-shifting secrets about their father’s identity.
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What it's about: A best-selling author, National Book Award-winner and professor combines ethics, history, law and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable.
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Hush by James Patterson and Candice FoxWhat it's about: An imprisoned ex-cop seeking justice for her brother’s murder is offered freedom in exchange for helping the Deputy Police Commissioner rescue his missing daughter and grandchild.
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing BrownWhat it's about: While so many institutions claim to value diversity in their mission statements, many fall short of matching actions to words. Brown argues that the middle-class has participated in the rise of racial hostility, and encourages the reader to confront apathy.
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A brilliant octogenarian defense lawyer on the brink of retirement seeks to prove the innocence of a long-time friend, a former Nobel Prize winner charged with murder.
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Forging an unlikely connection with a stranger at a bar, an aspiring reporter investigates when the man goes missing on September 11, 2001.
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by John Bolton What it's about: The former National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump offers an inside look at the administration.
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Investigating four Army Rangers implicated in the destruction of a luxurious summer lake resort, former NYPD cop Jeremiah Cook is stonewalled by local law enforcement and dangerous secrets.
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A portrait of Donald J. Trump and the family that made him, by Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's niece.
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Separated by different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in her southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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Just Arrived: New & Now DVDs
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1917
What it's about: At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack.
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Bad Boys for Life
What it's about: Miami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett reunite for one last ride.
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Birds of Prey
What it's about: When Roman Sionis and his zealous right-hand, Zsasz, put a target on a young girl named Cass, the city is turned upside down looking for her. After Harley, Huntress, Black Canary, and Renee Montoya's paths collide, they team up to take Roman down.
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The Call of the Wild
What it's about: Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s.
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Cats
What it's about: Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper transforms Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical into a cinematic event.
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Dolittle
What it's about: After losing his wife, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle hides behind the walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure.
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Fantasy Island
What it's about: The enigmatic Mr. Roarke makes the secret dreams of his lucky guests come true at a luxurious but remote tropical resort. But when the fantasies turn into nightmares, the guests have to solve the island's mystery in order to escape with their lives.
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The Gentlemen
What it's about: American ex-pat Mickey Pearson built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he's looking to cash out of the business forever, it triggers plots, schemes, bribery, and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
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The Invisible Man
What it's about: When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turns lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
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Just Mercy
What it's about: After graduating from Harvard, Bryan Stevenson had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
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Little Women
What it's about: Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters—four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.
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Onward
What it's about: Two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.
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Sonic the Hedgehog
What it's about: Sonic and his friend Tom join forces to try and stop the villainous Dr. Robotnik from capturing Sonic and using his immense powers for world domination.
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