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New Must Read eBooks at HPL! January 2021
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You can access the eRead Illinois catalog to search and browse all titles here. You can access the OverDrive catalog to search and browse all titles here. On mobile devices download the Axis 360 App for eRead Illinois and Libby App for Overdrive.
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NYPD Red 6 by James PattersonDetective Kylie MacDonald of NYPD Red is submerged in a PR nightmare when reality star Erin Easton is kidnapped from her wedding reception and every A-lister on the guest list becomes a target of suspicion – or just a target.
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Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay AdamsRendered famous for sharing the story of her sexual harassment by a celebrity chef, activist café owner Alexis finds unexpected love when she asks Bromance Book Club hacker Noah to investigate a stranger claiming to be her long-lost sister.
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The Mystery of Mrs. Christie : A Novel by Marie BenedictDecember 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes a very strange book about a missing woman, a murderous husband, and a plan to expose the truth. What role did her unfaithful husband play? And what was he not telling investigators? The mystery of Mrs. Christie explores one strong woman's successful endeavor to take her history into her own hands"-- Provided by publisher.
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Homeland Elegies : A Novel by Ayad Akhtar"A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home"
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Pretty Little Wife by Darby KaneLila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is what it seems. Lila isn't what she seems. A student vanished months ago. Now, Lila's husband, Aaron, is also missing. At first these cases are treated as horrible coincidences until it's discovered the student is really the third of three unexplained disappearances over the last few years. The police are desperate to find the connection, if there even is one. Little do they know they might be stumbling over only part of the truth. With the small town in an uproar, everyone is worried about the whereabouts of their beloved high school teacher. Everyone except Lila, his wife. She's definitely confused about her missing husband but only because she was the last person to see his body, and now it's gone.
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Hot to Trot by M. C. BeatonJealously investigating an ex’s intended, Agatha Raisin crashes the wedding only to become implicated in the bride’s murder, a situation that immerses Agatha in the cutthroat equestrian world. TV tie-in.
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The Wrong Family by Tarryn FisherAn off-kilter narrator witnesses the slow unraveling of a couple’s strained marriage that erupts in unexpected ways, in a chilling tale of domestic suspense. Juno was wrong about the Crouch family. She thought that they had the perfect life. But after overhearing a chilling conversation, she knows this could be her chance to make a few things right.
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White ivy : a novel by Susie YangYears after she is sent away from Boston to China for shoplifting, a conflicted Chinese-American woman reconnects with her golden-boy childhood crush before a ghost from the past threatens her ambitions.
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How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa ColeAfter marrying the newly crowned King Sanyu of Njaza, Shanti Mohapi soon discovers that royal life is not what she expected and goes on the run when turmoil erupts in their kingdom and marriage.
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Ready player two : a novel by Ernest ClineA 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. Read by Wil Weaton. Movie tie-in.
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The Invention of Medicine : From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane FoxA preeminent classics scholar argues that the Epidemics case histories of ancient Greece may have been written earlier by Hippocrates himself, a theory with widespread implications for the evolution of Western medicine.
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Survival of the Thickest : Essays by Michelle ButeauThe stand-up comedian, actress and host of the Late Night Whenever podcast shares an unapologetic collection essays that reflect on her Caribbean heritage, her September 11 newsroom work and her experiences with IVF, surrogacy and motherhood.
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