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New Large Print BooksAugust 2017
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One perfect lie
by Lisa Scottoline
A single mom's efforts to support her shy star athlete son's recruitment into a Division I college are violently complicated by a secretly disturbed young man from an affluent family and a new teacher with a mysterious agenda. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Most Wanted. (suspense).
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Camino Island
by John Grisham
A young woman is recruited to recover priceless F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts that were stolen during a daring heist. By a #1 best-selling author. (suspense).
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The thirst
by Jo Nesbø
When Harry is drawn back into the Oslo police force to investigate a serial murderer who has begun targeting Tinder daters, the murderer's MO reignites Harry's hunt for a former nemesis.
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A gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. By the best-selling author of Rules of Civility (historical fiction).
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Al Franken : Giant of the Senate
by Al Franken
The Harvard-educated comedian, talk-show host, and U.S. Senator chronicles the story of his unlikely senatorial campaign, detailing the ensuing months-long recount and what his service has taught him about America's deeply polarized political culture.
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Testimony
by Scott Turow
Assigned to investigate the unsolved disappearance of an entire Gypsy refugee camp during the Bosnian War, a disillusioned American prosecutor navigates a host of suspects while uncovering disturbing alliances and betrayals. By the best-selling author of Presumed Innocent. (suspense).
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The women in the castle
by Jessica Shattuck
Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband's ancestors. The widow of a resister murderer in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband's brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows. Eventually, all three women must come to terms with the choices that have defined their lives before, during, and after the war--each with their own unique share of challenges.
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The fix
by David Baldacci
A latest thriller featuring football player-turned-detective Amos Decker finds him using his eidetic memory to solve a high-stakes case. By the best-selling author of Memory Man and The Last Mile.
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No easy target
by Iris Johansen
Threatened by an enemy from her past, animal psychic Margaret Douglas goes on the run and finds the limits of her powers tested by her effort to outmaneuver the man who would kill her. By the best-selling author of Shadow Play (suspense).
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Fast & loose
by Stuart Woods
Making the acquaintance of a prestigious family while enjoying a boating excursion, Stone Barrington learns that he and his new friends share a common enemy who has a short fuse.
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Earthly remains
by Donna Leon
After acting rashly during an interrogation, Guido Brunetti takes leave to spend time at a friend's villa, but he becomes emboiled in the disappearance of his host following a sudden storm.
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Chaos : a Scarpetta novel
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
While investigating an alleged death by lightning strike, a skeptical Kay Scarpetta receives threatening poems from a cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie, and Kay begins to suspect that he was involved in the suspicious death.
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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
by J. D. Vance
Shares the poignant story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle-class life and the collective demons of the past.
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Into the water
by Paula Hawkins
When a single mom and a teen girl are found murdered at the bottom of a river in a small town weeks apart, an ensuing investigation dredges up a complicated local history involving human instincts and the damage they can inflict. By the best-selling author of The Girl on the Train (suspense).
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Murder games
by James Patterson
A tenacious Manhattan police officer determined to stop a serial killer who leaves playing cards at the scenes of unrelated victims teams up with a brilliant professor whose book has been connected to the murders against a backdrop of high-profile tabloid speculation. By a National Book Award-winning author (suspense).
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The identicals : a novel
by Elin Hilderbrand
Forced to call a truce by a family crisis, estranged identical twins Tabitha and Harper reevaluate their bond and the resentments that drove them apart from their respective homes on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. By the best-selling author of The Rumor.
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The Jane Austen Project
by Kathleen Flynn
Sent from the future to meet, befriend, and steal an unpublished manuscript from Jane Austen, Rachel and Liam, who are posing as siblings, find themselves struggling with their assignment to leave history intact after they make the author's acquaintance.
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In this grave hour : a novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
Just after England declares war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs stumbles on the deaths of a group of refugees, prompting her suspicions that the enemy is closer than anyone knows.
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New boy
by Tracy Chevalier
The best-selling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring presents an imaginative retelling of Shakespeare's Othello that places events in 1970s America and follows the experiences of two diverse children who navigate themes of love, betrayal, racism and revenge on the playground of their all-white school.
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