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Libraries Rock! Adult Fiction Summer 2018
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Summer Hours at the Robbers Library: A Novel
by Sue Halpern
A head librarian who would leave behind the painful realities of her suburbia past unexpectedly bonds with a teenager performing community service, a disgruntled former Wall Street high flyer and other offbeat regulars who encourage her out of her self-imposed isolation. By the author of A Dog Walked Into a Nursing Home.
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The Rock Star in Seat 3A: A Novel
by Jill Kargman
When a surprise upgrade to first class puts her in the seat next to rock god Finn Schiller, Hazel, who has everything she could wish for, including a boyfriend who has given her a free pass if she ever meets the rock star, must decide what she wants when fantasy becomes reality.
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The Library at the Edge of the World: A Novel
by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
A debut novel by the author of The House on an Irish Hillside traces the experiences of a librarian on the scenic west coast of Ireland who searches for a way to rebuild her community and her own life in the wake of local estrangements.
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The Invisible Library
by Genevieve Cogman
An undercover librarian who works for an occult organization that collects books from different realities must determine what happened to a particularly dangerous book that has been stolen and becomes mired in a mystery infused with peril and conflicting clues.
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Murder at the 42nd Street Library: A Mystery
by Cornelius Lehane
Investigating a murder in the iconic, beaux-arts flagship of the New York Public Library, crime fiction curator Ray Ambler teams up with NYPD homicide detective Mike Cosgrove to uncover disturbing relationships between a celebrated mystery writer, his missing daughter, a society woman and one of Ambler's colleagues.
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The Rock
by Monica McCarty
When the woman he has loved for years come to him for help in rescuing her brother from the hands of the English, Thomas MacGowan, a man-at-arms in Edward Bruce's army, vows to prove to Elizabeth Douglas that he is worthy of her hand. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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Murder in the Manuscript Room: A 42nd Street Library Mystery
by Cornelius Lehane
Unofficially investigating the murder of a young woman staffer at New York City's iconic 42nd Street Library, Raymond Ambler, the library's curator of crime fiction, finds his efforts complicated by his growing feelings for Adele, Adele's interest in a darkly handsome Islamic scholar and the determination of the police to shut him out of the case.
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City of Rocks: A Western Story
by Michael Zimmer
In Idaho territory, Joseph Roper faces off against the fearsome Ian McCandles gang. By the author of Wild Side of the River.
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A Murder for the Books
by Victoria Gilbert
Moving in with her aunt in a quiet, historic town in Virginia, librarian Amy is lured into trouble by her attractive neighbor Richard, who seeks answers to an unsolved murder from the 1920s, but Amy soon uncovers more than she should.
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Hot Rocks: Beth Bowman, Private Investigator
by Randy Rawls
When private eye Beth Bowman is framed for murder in South Florida, she accepts help from a gang of street people to turn the tables on the people who set her up.
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Fortune's Rocks
by Anita Shreve
At a turn-of-the-century coastal resort in New Hampshire, fifteen-year-old Olympia Biddeford is drawn into an intense love affair with a much older man, John Haskell, a married physician and activist, which has profound and long-reaching repercussions upon everyone around them.
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Tower of Rocks: A Western Duo
by Steve Frazee
Roy Hale, a former Confederate Army officer, takes on a dangerous job for an anonymous benefactor in the hopes of a lucrative payoff in Tower of Rocks, while in Death Rides This Trail!, the Breslin family's journey across the plains in search of a better life is threatened by Mr. Breslin's death, in two western novellas.
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When twenty-five-year-old Laura Smart moves from Cleveland to Manhattan to take a job at a magazine, she hopes the world will become her oyster-her Fendi Oyster (this year’s must-have handbag) to be exact. Instead, Laura has to deal with the demands of her self-absorbed and quirky boss-the talk-show host turned magazine editor, Cassandra Lovelace. Laura, a Holly Golightly-type character, finds her own romantic and professional redemption in a novel that hilariously sends up the sex-and-celebrity-obsessed world of contemporary women’s magazines.
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Red Rock's Secret
by Max Brand
This exciting collection of three novellas recounts the further adventures of Speedy, a devilishly charming trickster who has so many enemies he needs a new disguise every week in order to survive.
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Scots on the Rocks: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery
by Mary Daheim
Heading out for what they believe will be a vacation at a castle in the Scottish highlands, Judith McMonigle Flynn and her cousin, Renie Jones, discover their unpopular host's murdered body, as well as numerous likely suspects, from his heiress widow to several executive employees.
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On the Rocks
by Erin Duffy
After her fiancé publicly dumps her on Facebook, Abby and her best friend Grace escape to Newport for the summer where they enjoy the beach, cocktails and cute men, but discover that in this era of social media there is no real escape.
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Death in the Stacks
by Jenn McKinlay
Targeted by a new library board president who she is sure is trying to drive her out, library director Lindsey Norris and her new hire, Paula, are declared suspects when the combative president is found dead, a situation that forces them to find the real killer to clear their names. By the best-selling author of Better Late Than Never.
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Shadow of the Rock: A Spike Sanguinetti Novel
by Thomas Mogford
Entreated for help by an old school friend who has been wrongly accused of murder, lawyer Spike Sanguinetti travels to Tangier to prevent his friend's extradition, an effort that is compromised by a renewable energy company's financing deal and a Bedouin girl's claims that the company is responsible for her father's disappearance.
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Twin Rocks
by Wayne D. Overholser
When Morgan Dill returns to Twin Rocks to claim his half of the ranch left to him by his father, the ranch's current resident refuses to leave the premises and threatens to have him framed for a bank robbery if he won't revoke his claim.
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Read It and Weep
by Jenn McKinlay
When the Briar Creek Community Theater mounts its newest Shakespeare production, library director Lindsey Norris gets involved when a very-real villain shows up.
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Murder on the Rocks by Allyson K. Abbott Mack's Bar is one of those nice, friendly places where everybody knows your name. That's great when someone's buying you a round, but not so hot when you find yourself atop a list of murder suspects--with your fingerprints on the bloody knife! Mackenzie "Mack" Dalton is a Milwaukee bar owner with a nose for trouble--literally. A neurological glitch has left her with extra perceptive senses. So when she stumbles upon a dead body in the alley behind the bar--the same spot where her own father was shot eight months earlier--she can tell right away there's something fishy in the air. The lead detective thinks there's a link between the two deaths, and he'll need Mack's help to sniff out the murderer amid the crowd of eccentric regulars. But when all the evidence points to her as the most likely culprit, it could be an early last call for Mack--and celebratory cocktails for a killer.
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Rock Bottom
by Erin Brockovich
From a real-life environmental advocate who inspired a movie starring Julia Roberts comes a new suspense novel.
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Book, Line, and Sinker
by Jenn McKinlay
When a salvage company arrives in town to dig up treasure that had been buried on Pirate Island more than 300 years ago, library director Lindsey Norris finds herself knee-deep in a murder mystery when the local tourism director is found dead and her downstairs neighbor is accused of the crime. Original.
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Whiskey on the Rocks: A Whiskey Mattimoe Mystery
by Nina Wright
Recently widowed, thirty-three-year-old real estate agent Whiskey Mattimoe is adjusting to a new life with a purse-snatching, mischievous Afghan hound, but when a client turns up dead at one of her property listings, she becomes caught in the middle of a dangerous scheme involving identity fraud, the theft of priceless artworks, and murder.
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Faith on the Rocks: A Daisy Arthur Mystery by Liesa MalikWhen widow and retired special education teacher Daisy Arthur takes up romance writing with a quirky group of aspiring authors, she finds herself tangled in merry mayhem that suddenly turns quite deadly. Instead of pursuing her romantic interests she must go in search of a killer ― or risk becoming the next victim. Enter Gabe Caerphilly, father of one of her old students and a single police lieutenant with Littleton Colorado’s finest.
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The View From Castle Rock: Stories
by Alice Munro
An evocative and compelling compilation of short fiction by the award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman and other works journeys from the Scotland of the author's own family heritage and a ship en route to the New World, to a family odyssey from Illinois to Canada and in and around Lake Huron. 150,000 first printing.
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In the Stacks: Short Stories About Libraries and Librarians
by Michael Cart
Featuring contributions from Isaac Babel, Jorge Luis Borge, Ray Bradbury, Francine Prose, and Nikki Giovanni, a noted librarian presents a magnificent collection of stories that celebrates the library--a realm filled with endless possibilities, excitement, romance, and adventure.
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No Cats Allowed
by Miranda James
A new director at the Athena College library sets about making very unpopular changes, including his “no cats allowed” policy, which makes things awkward when he mysteriously dies, leaving librarian Charlie and his feline sidekick, Diesel, to investigate. By the New York Times best-selling author of Arsenic and Old Books.
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