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Friday Fiction: Holiday EditionNovember 2015 Christine Sharbrough, Head of Readers Services and Circulation Jessica Fitzpatrick, Adult Services |
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And again : a novel
by Jessica Chiarella
When four terminally ill patients get brand-new, genetically altered bodies that are exact copies of their former selves, giving them each a fresh start at life, they discover that their new reality is far from perfect as they must re-enter their former lives and relationships and try to regain the physical identities that had made them who they once were.
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And west is west
by Ron Childress
An award-winning follow-up to Mudbound assesses the corrupting influence of technology in the story of a young Air Force drone pilot and an innovative young Wall Street giant who are cast out of their respective careers for decisions they did not make.
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Bond by design : The Art of the James Bond Films
by Meg Simmonds
Illustrates the thrilling cinematic adventures of James Bond, from Dr. No to the forthcoming addition to the franchise, Spectre, via behind-the-scenes artwork of film designers and the sets, vehicles and gadgets they used and created.
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Career of evil
by Robert Galbraith
When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg, and Cormoran Strike must look to his past to determine who is behind the horrid parcel. By a #1 best-selling author of The Cuckoo's Calling.
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Coal River
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
The author of The Plum Tree and What She Left Behind explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town.
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The further adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge
by Charles C Lovett
A sequel to A Christmas Carol is set 20 years after Scrooge's famous reformation and finds him teaming up with a returning cast of ghosts to help the restless spirit of Jacob Marley make amends to victimized associates in order to find peace. By the best-selling author of The Bookman's Tale and First Impressions.
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The grownup
by Gillian Flynn
The Edgar Award-winning, creepy short story about a soft-core sex worker-turned-grifting psychic is now published for the first time as a standalone book. By the author of Gone Girl, Dark Places and Sharp Objects.
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Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
by J. K. Rowling
A first installment in the beloved series is presented in a deluxe format that incorporates more than 100 full-color illustrations by the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning artist of A Monster Calls.
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Hotels of North America : a novel
by Rick Moody
A man who shares details of his personal life on an online hotel-review site, including the end of his marriage and a romance with someone called “K,” suddenly goes missing. Reading-group guide available. By the author of The Ice Storm.
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Hunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir
by Carrie Brownstein
The guitarist and vocalist of feminist punk trio Sleater-Kinney presents a candid and deeply personal assessment of life in the rock-and-roll industry that reveals her struggles with rock's double standards and her codevelopment of the comedy Portlandia.
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The improbability of love : a novel
by Hannah Rothschild
When she comes into possession of a lost masterpiece by one of the most important French painters of the 18th century, chef Annie McDee, who works for two sinister art dealers, finds herself pursued by interested parties who would do anything to possess her picture, as well as faced with the possibility of falling in love again. Reading-group guide available.
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The Japanese lover : a novel
by Isabel Allende
A multigenerational epic by the New York Times best-selling author of The House of the Spirits follows the impossible romance between a World War II escapee from the Nazis and a Japanese gardener's son, whose story is discovered decades later by a care worker who would come to terms with her past.
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License to quill
by Jacopo Della Quercia
This historical retelling of the Gunpowder Plot features William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe amidst the scheme by English Catholics to blow up the House of Lords in 1605 as well as revealing the mysterious origins of the Bard's Macbeth.
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Magna Carta : the birth of liberty
by Dan Jones
A narrative history of the year 1215 and the making of the Magna Carta chronicles key events and shares insight into the treaty's enduring influence on Western views about liberty. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Plantagenets and The Wars of the Roses.
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The mark and the void
by Paul Murray
The author of Skippy Dies presents a madcap novel set in an investment bank.
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Mermaid moon : a Sunset Cove novel
by Colleen Coble
Convinced her father has been murdered, Audra Davis returns home to a remote coastal town in Maine to take over his mail boat duties and investigate with her former childhood sweetheart, now the local game warden.
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The prize : a novel
by Jill Bialosky
Determined not to let ambition, money and power corrode the sanctuary of his domestic and private life, Edward Darby, a partner at an esteemed gallery, finds himself unhinged by his ideals when he is betrayed by one artist and another very different artist awakens his heart and stirs up secrets from his past.
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Welcome to Night Vale : a novel
by Joseph Fink
Handed a message by a mysterious man, a young pawn shop owner embarks on a psychologically dangerous mystery that entangles her in the life of the local PTA treasurer, who helplessly watches her son's growing obsession with his absent father. Based on the #1 international hit podcast.
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