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New & Now Arrivals February 2021
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The Answer is . . . Reflections on My Life
by Alex Trebek
What it's about: Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life and career. In brief chapters copiously illustrated with photographs, fans will be pleased with Trebek's musings on some of the big winners, comic interactions with contestants, and celebrity guests. An amiable, enjoyable series of glimpses into the life of an avuncular figure.
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Faithless in Death
by J. D. Robb
What it's about: Investigating a woman whose report about an artist’s murder is not adding up, Eve Dallas uncovers a fanatical conspiracy that leads to Dallas’ partnership with the FBI.
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The Four Winds
by Kristin Hannah
What it's about: A Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California. By the best-selling author of The Nightingale
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Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey
What it's about: Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about life and acheiving success. A conversational, pleasurable look into McConaughey's life and thought.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by Victoria Schwab
What it's about: Making a deal with the devil to save herself from the tedium of an arranged marriage, a woman from early 18th-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name. Schwab crafts the tale of one woman’s desperate drive to be remembered into a triumphant exploration of love and loss.
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The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
What it's about: Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist. She must search within herself to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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Missing and Endangered
by J. A. Jance
What it's about: Protecting a brilliant freshman whose homeschooled life has left her unprepared for the outside world, Jennifer invites the vulnerable girl home for a Christmas break that embroils Sheriff Joanna Brady in a volatile missing-person's case.
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Moonflower Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
What it's about: Helping run her boyfriend’s small Greek island hotel, a homesick London editor is irresistibly drawn to the story of a murder on the Suffolk coast and the wrongful incarceration of an innocent immigrant.
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Ready Player Two
by Ernest Cline
What it's about: The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling futuristic novel Ready Player One returns to the fantastical future of online behavior and continues the “ridiculously fun and large-hearted” near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film.
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Just Arrived: New & Now DVDs
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The Croods: A New Age
What it's about: The prehistoric family the Croods are challenged by a rival family the Bettermans, who claim to be better and more evolved.
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Freaky
What it's about: After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent.
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Greenland
What it's about: As cities around the world are being destroyed by a comet, a family races against time to reach a possible safe haven
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Let Him Go
What it's about: A retired sheriff and his wife, grieving over the death of their son, set out to find their only grandson.
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Tesla
What it's about: A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.
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Wander Darkly
What it's about: New parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in order to face their uncertain future.
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