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New Adult Fiction Books 5/24/2017
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The following books are new to the shelves at Kendall Young Library. To reserve an item, click on the image or title to be taken to the library's catalog. (Detailed instructions at the end of the newsletter.)
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Ready to die
by Lisa Jackson
Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli find their lives in danger after they become targets of a vicious stalker
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Forever a hero
by Linda Lael Miller
Successful vintner and third Carson brother Mace is unsuspectingly reunited with a woman who he rescued from an attacker back in his college days, who is representing a company that would buy his winery and who has never forgotten the hero who once stole her heart.
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In this grave hour : a novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie Dobbs is plunged into a treacherous personal battle when she stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may not be who they seem against a backdrop of the outbreak of World War II in England. By the best-selling author of Journey to Munich.
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Quicksand
by Malin Persson Giolito
After spending nine months in jail awaiting trial for her involvement in a mass shooting that took the lives of her boyfriend and best friend in a prep school in Stockholm’s richest suburb, Maja finally reveals the circumstances that brought her there.
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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question. Reading-group guide available. By a national best-selling author. 150,000 first printing.
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Sorrow road
by Julia Keller
When Alzheimer patients start dying at alarming rates at a West Virginia nursing home, Bel Elkins's sister goes undercover to investigate links between the case and the fates of three young Navy soldiers who participated in the D-Day invasion. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bitter River.
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Lost horizon : a novel
by James Hilton
The classic 1933 novel that introduced Shangri-La to the world focuses on one woman and three men who, in a paradisiacal community deep in the mountains of Tibet, experience physical, cultural, and spiritual transformation.
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Smooth operator
by Stuart Woods
Summoned to Washington for a potentially disastrous situation that requires the help of ex-CIA agent and master of disguise Teddy Fay, Stone Barrington reluctantly oversees an operation that is complicated by Fay's maverick approaches and personal brand of justice. Co-written by the Edgar Award-winning author of Chiefs.
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All by myself, alone : a novel
by Mary Higgins Clark
Taking a cruise to escape the humiliation of her fiancé's arrest, gems expert Celia Kilbride befriends octogenarian passenger Emily Haywood, who is found dead three days out to sea at the hands of someone who has stolen the victim's priceless emerald necklace. By the best-selling author of As Time Goes By.
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All items can be reserved through the Kendall Young Library catalog: - When viewing an item in the catalog, click "place hold" button.
- Enter your library card number (14 digits on the back of your card) with no spaces.
- Enter your PIN. If you don't know your PIN, try:
- Your 4-digit birth month and day (i.e. August 4 would be 0804), or
- The last 4 digits of your library card number.
- If neither of these options work, call the library at 832-9100.
- You will get a call from the library when the item is available.
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