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New Large Print BooksNovember 2017
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Manhattan Beach
by Jennifer Egan
Years after she is placed in the hands of a stranger vital to her family's survival, Anna takes a job at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during the war while meeting with the man who helped them and learning important truths about her father's disappearance. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad.
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An echo of murder : a William Monk novel
by Anne Perry
Investigating the murder of a warehouse owner, Thames River Police Commander Monk is forced to rethink his crimesolving techniques in order to avoid getting caught in the crosshairs of violence stemming from ethnic prejudice.
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Glass houses
by Louise Penny
When a mysterious figure travels through Three Pines and leaves a dead body in its wake, Armand Gamache pursues a difficult investigation that yields unexpected consequences and forces him into a battle with his own conscience.
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Sourdough
by Robin Sloan
When software engineer Lois Clary's favourite sandwich shop closes up, the owners leave her with the starter for their mouthwatering sourdough bread. Soon she is baking loaves daily and taking them to the farmer's market, where an exclusive close-knit club runs the show. When Lois discovers another, more secret market, aiming to fuse food and technology, a whole other world opens up. But who are these people, exactly?
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The witches' tree : an Agatha Raisin mystery
by M. C Beaton
Investigating the murder of an elderly woman whose body was found hanging from a tree, Agatha Raisin takes the case but begins to fear for her reputation and her life when two more murders occur.
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The Cuban affair
by Nelson DeMille
When his shaky finances compel him to accept a lucrative job for a 10-day fishing tournament to Cuba, Army combat veteran-turned-charter boat captain Mac learns that one of his clients is seeking to claim millions hidden by her grandfather, who was forced to flee Castro's revolution years earlier. By the best-selling author of Plum Island.
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The girl who takes an eye for an eye
by David Lagercrantz
Accepting help from Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the truth about her traumatic childhood, Lisbeth Salander navigates obstacles in the form of an anti-Muslim gang, her mafia-connected twin, and the conductors of a pseudoscientific experiment.
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Little fires everywhere
by Celeste Ng
Fighting an ugly custody battle with an artistic tenant who has little regard for the strict rules of their progressive Cleveland suburb, a straitlaced family woman who is seeking to adopt a baby becomes obsessed with exposing the tenant's past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both of their families.
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Merry and bright : a novel
by Debbie Macomber
Enduring a challenging year of constant work and family care, Merry struggles to take a break from her everyday responsibilities by creating an online dating profile and striking up an online friendship with a charming stranger who turns out to be someone she recognizes.
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The rooster bar
by John Grisham
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that's on shaky ground. The author of such best-sellers as A Time to Kill and The Pelican Brief presents his latest high-octane thriller.
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Origin : a novel
by Dan Brown
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon navigates a dangerous intersection of humanity's two most enduring questions, interweaving codes, science, religion and other disciplines before making a paradigm-shifting discovery. By the best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code.
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Two kinds of truth
by Michael Connelly
An investigation into the murder of a young pharmacist leads Harry Bosch and San Fernando's detective squad into the big-business world of pill mills and prescription drug abuse at the same time an old case from Bosch's days with the LAPD returns to haunt him.
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Forest dark : a novel
by Nicole Krauss
Giving away all of his personal possessions after retiring, a once-ambitious man embarks on a journey to honor his parents in Israel, where a blocked writer is drawn into a mystery that alters her life in unimaginable ways. By the award-winning author of The History of Love.
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Exposed
by Lisa Scottoline
An epic battle of wills and legal strategy ensues when DiNunzio and Rosato represent opposing sides in a wrongful termination lawsuit, triggering conflict-of-interest complications that estrange the partners and force their friends and colleagues to take sides.
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Secrets in death
by J. D. Robb
When a professional gossip informant is murdered in a chic Manhattan hotspot, Eve Dallas learns that the woman had been hiding her most shocking information through a system of strategic blackmail, a situation that forces Eve to uncover sordid secrets that threaten her own safety.
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The store
by James Patterson
Living in a world where all needs are anticipated and delivered by a powerful convenience retailer known as The Store, New York writers Jacob and Megan go undercover to expose The Store's secrets in ways that risk their lives. Co-written by the award-winning author of Zoo.
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
by Matthew Sullivan
When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer.
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A legacy of spies
by John Le Carré
A long-anticipated new Smiley novel finds George Smiley, his colleague Peter Guillam and other former members of the British Secret Service facing charges for decades-old, once-toasted intelligence operations by a generation that is unfamiliar with the dynamics of the Cold War.
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Y is for yesterday
by Sue Grafton
Kinsey Millhone monitors the release from prison of a sociopath who is determined to exact revenge on a fellow perpetrator who went missing after they sexually assaulted a fourteen-year-old classmate.
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On her majesty's frightfully secret service
by Rhys Bowen
After taking a mission from the queen, royal sleuth Lady Georgiana Rannoch juggles tasks from her mother and Darcy while attending a villa party in the Italian lake country.
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Any dream will do : a novel
by Debbie Macomber
Taking a bank job after her abusive father passes away, Shay risks everything to save her brother from a dangerous drug lord and winds up sentenced to two years in prison before finding love and healing at the side of a widowed pastor. By the best-selling author of A Girl's Guide to Moving On.
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The prisoner
by Alex Berenson
Forced to resume an old undercover identity as an al-Qaida jihadi to unmask a CIA mole, John Wells gets close to an ISIS prisoner in a secret Bulgarian prison, where he confronts the profoundly cruel and ambitious plans of increasingly formidable terrorist organizations.
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The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.
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