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Fort Scott Public Library Newsletter November 2017
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Assassin's heart
by Sarah Ahiers
Working as an official assassin in her kingdom's highest-ranking clan, Lea pursues a forbidden relationship with a boy from a rival clan that she believes is responsible for her parents' murders.
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How the finch stole Christmas! : a Meg Langslow mystery
by Donna Andrews
When her husband organizes a full-scale production of A Christmas Carol with a famous veteran actor in the starring role, Meg Langslow finds herself navigating unexpected challenges in the star's baggage and enemies. By the award-winning author of Duck the Halls.
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The Skeleton Paints a Picture
by Leigh Perry
Georgia Thackery, adjunct English professor, has a new job teaching at Falstone College of Art and Design, known as FAD to its students and faculty. Living in a borrowed bungalow during winter in the snowiest part of Massachusetts, Georgia feels her isolation weighing as heavily as the weather. Then she receives a package containing her best friend, Sid, a walking, talking skeleton who has lived with the Thackery family since Georgia was six.
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Deep freeze
by John Sandford
When a woman from a community where he exposed school-board corruption years earlier is found dead, Virgil Flowers identifies clues linking the case to a 20-year high school reunion and its related traumas, dramas and rivalries. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Prey series.
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Murder on the toy town express : a vintage toyshop mystery
by Barbara Early
When a rival toy seller dies during the local train and toy show, Liz is pulled into the case after discovering that her high school sweetheart's brother is one of the prime suspects and her father may have been the intended target
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Thanksgiving entertaining : Entertaining
by Lou Seibert Pappas
Williams-Sonoma Thanksgiving Entertaining is a complete guide to creating favorite traditions in your own home. Equal parts cookbook and how-to manual, it presents five menus for entertaining over the Thanksgiving weekend, including three distinctive ideas for the holiday feast.
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The new Thanksgiving table : an American celebration of family, friends, and food
by Diane Morgan
This is the quintessential cookbook for our national day of thanks, capturing this diversity with creative recipes for the perfect dinner and providing the key to a stress-free occasion with author Diane Morgan's indispensable do-ahead tips. Including appetizers, soups, salads, main courses, stuffings, casseroles, biscuits, side dishes, desserts, and even leftovers, it contains everything the busy cook needs to celebrate this most festive and food-centered of holidays!
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How to cook a turkey : and all the other trimmings
by Fine Cooking
An all-in-one guide to cooking a turkey as part of a full-course holiday meal presents more than one hundred foolproof recipes, along with step-by-step instructions and full-color photography, that cover everything from appetizers to desserts and features an in-depth guide to selecting, preparing, storing, and cooking a turkey. 40,000 first printing.
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Fairytale : a novel
by Danielle Steel
When her idyllic life on her family's Napa Valley vineyard is shattered by her mother's sudden death, a young Stanford graduate finds herself at the mercy of a cold-hearted stepfamily at the same time that she bonds with her stepmother's kind mother and a loving friend from her childhood.
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Ghost on the case
by Carolyn G Hart
When a young woman is blackmailed into breaking into her wealthy employer's home to steal ransom money in exchange for her sister's life, the ghostly Bailey Ruth Raeburn follows heavenly orders to assist the distraught young woman and outmaneuver a brutal killer.
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Lie to me
by J. T Ellison
When his wife, Sutton, disappears while they are having marital problems, leaving behind a note saying not to look for her, Ethan Montclair becomes the target of vicious gossip as friends, family and the media speculate on what really happened to Sutton. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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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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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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Pulse
by Felix Francis
When a smartly dressed man dies in the hospital after being found unconscious at a local racetrack, doctor Chris Reynolds, a specialist struggling with mental health challenges, searches for the victim's identity and clues about what happened only to be targeted by a ruthless killer. By the author of Triple Crown.
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Sleeping beauties
by Stephen King
A father-son collaboration envisions a near-future where the women succumb to a sleeping disease, the men revert to their increasingly primal natures and one woman, mysteriously immune, struggles to survive in an Appalachian prison town where she is treated alternately as a demon and a lab specimen. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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The rooster bar : a novel
by John Grisham
The author of such best-sellers as A Time to Kill and The Pelican Brief presents a latest high-octane thriller of non-stop suspense.
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Ali : a life
by Jonathan Eig
The best-selling author of Opening Day draws on insider access to present an unauthorized portrait of the iconic champion fighter, arguing that race was a central theme in Muhammad Ali's career, faith and advocacy work and that his political beliefs and neurological health shaped his complex character. 100,000 first printing.
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Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory
by Michael Korda
A chronicle of the outbreak of World War II and the circumstances that shaped Dunkirk focuses on the events of May 1940, from Germany's invasion of France to the ascension of Winston Churchill, while reminiscing on the author's own experiences as a 6-year-old witness whose privileged family was among the 300,000 evacuees.
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Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
by Scott Kelly
An illustrated memoir by the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station shares candid reminiscences of his voyage, his colorful formative years and the off-planet journeys that shaped his early career.
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Grant
by Ron Chernow
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Washington: A Life presents a meticulously researched portrait of the complicated Civil War general and 18th President, challenging the views of his critics while sharing insights into his prowess as a military leader, the honor with which he conducted his administration and the rise and fall of his fortunes.
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Invictus
by Ryan Graudin
Born outside of time as the son of a time-traveler from the 24th century and a first-century gladiator, Farway takes a position commanding a ship that smuggles valuables from different eras before meeting a mysterious girl with knowledge that places his existence in question. By the author of Wolf by Wolf.
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Miles Morales : Spider-Man
by Jason Reynolds
After a misunderstanding leads him to be suspended from school, Miles Morales feels conflicted about his identity as the new Spider-Man, but when his scholarship is threatened, he uncovers a plot that puts his friends and neighborhood at risk
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The Epic Crush of Genie Lo
by F. C. Yee
Sixteen-year-old Genie's focus on getting into a top-tier college is destroyed when an enigmatic transfer student, Quentin, helps her transform into a demon-fighter
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The Passion of Dolssa : A Novel
by Julie Berry
Rescuing a mystic healer who is being violently pursued by a rogue monk in thirteenth-century Provensa, scrappy matchmaker Botille is challenged to protect the entire village against the monks' crusade to burn heretics
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Genuine fraud
by E Lockhart
Told through flashbacks, best friends Jule and Imogen are orphaned outcasts who will do almost anything to attain a happy, wealthy life.
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The book thief
by Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Adrift at Sea : a Vietnamese Boy's Story of Survival
by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
In 1981, six-year-old Tuan Ho, his mother, and two of his sisters escape from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in an overcrowded fishing boat whose motor fails at sea, as they attempt to rejoin his father and oldest sister who had already fled
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Bravo! : Poems about Amazing Hispanics
by Margarita Engle
Bold, graphic portraits and evocative poems combine in an introduction to famous and lesser-known Latinos of varied backgrounds, from César Chávez to Tito Puente, who have faced life's challenges in creative ways. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of The Surrender Tree.
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Bruce's Big Move
by Ryan T Higgins
A follow-up to Hotel Bruce finds the curmudgeonly bear despairing as his home is overrun by mischievous mice before embarking on a search for a rodent-free dwelling, with unexpected results.
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Drowned City : Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans
by Don Brown
Presents a graphic account of the events of Hurricane Katrina and its effects on the city of New Orleans and its people, detailing the selflessness, heroism, and courage, while also noting the incompetence, racism, and criminality
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Fingers for Lunch
by Brandt Lewis
A giggle-inducing book features an adorable hungry monster who loves to eat wiggling fingers, in a story that provides die-cut holes that children can stick their fingers through to tempt the monster's appetite. Illustrated by the creator of Penny Loves Pink.
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by J. K Rowling
Fully illustrated version. During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths
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Hollow Earth
by John Barrowman
Lots of twins have a special connection--being able to finish each other's sentences, sensing what the other is thinking, perhaps even knowing when the other is in trouble or in pain--but for 12-year-old twins Matt and Emily Calder, the connection is beyond special: They are able to bring art to life or enter paintings at will.
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