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Fort Scott Public Library Newsletter August 2017
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Shadow of night
by Deborah E. Harkness
A follow-up to the best-selling A Discovery of Witches finds Oxford scholar and reluctant witch Diana and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont in Elizabethan London, where Diana seeks a magical tutor and Matthew confronts elements from his past at the same time the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens.
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It's a book
by Lane Smith
A donkey with a laptop computer and a gorilla with a printed book discuss the merits of their preferred formats in this hilarious, modern tale.
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Waking gods
by Sylvain Neuvel
A sequel to Sleeping Giants finds an elite physicist investigating the nature of what appears to be a giant metal hand found decades earlier deep underground, a mystery that leads to the greatest discovery of the millennium and the appearance of a world-changing technology.
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Full wolf moon : a novel
by Lincoln Child
Traveling to an isolated writers' retreat deep in the Adirondacks, Jeremy Logan, an investigator who specializes in unexplained phenomena, discovers a dead hiker whose wounds suggest an unnatural attack before encountering numerous suspects and a woman scientist struggling with the death of her father.
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Come sundown
by Nora Roberts
Running the Montana ranch that has been home to four generations of her family, Bo and the man she is starting to love encounter her badly injured aunt, who ran off decades earlier, before a local murder reveals sinister activities in the mountains that surround their home. By the best-selling author of Whiskey Beach.
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Dangerous minds : a Knight and Moon novel
by Janet Evanovich
A follow-up to Curious Minds pits mismatched partners Riley Moon, a financial analyst; and Emerson Knight, an eccentric billionaire's son, against a big-league criminal whose activities pose a series of puzzle-like clues. By the best-selling author of the Stephanie Plum novels.
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Monster hunter siege
by Larry Correia
"When Monster Hunter International's top hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, was given a tip about some missing hunters, he didn't realize their rescue mission would snowball into the single biggest operation in MHI's history. Their men are being held prisoner ina nightmare dimension only reachable through radioactive ruins of a monster-infested war zone. And it is also the home base of the powerful creature behind the devastating attacks on the Last Dragon and Copper Lake. It turns out ancient gods of chaos really hate trespassers. So now it is D-Day at the City of Monsters"
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Paradise valley
by C. J Box
Setting a trap for a serial killer she has hunted for three years, investigator Cassie Dewell is disgraced when the operation goes horribly wrong, a situation that is further complicated by the loss of her job, the disappearance of a troubled youth and her determination to catch the killer at any cost.
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The force
by Don Winslow
A highly decorated NYPD detective at the head of an elite anti-gang task force risks betraying his colleagues, his city and the woman he loves when federal agents discover the corrupt activities that have enabled him to skim millions in drugs and cash. 250,000 first printing.
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The lying game
by Ruth Ware
In the wake of a woman's horrifying discovery of human remains along a scenic tidal estuary, the members of a once-inseparable clique from a second-rate boarding school near the English Channel reflect on their participation in a dangerous game of deception that contributed to the death of a teacher. By the best-selling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood.
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The road to Camelot : inside JFK's five-year campaign
by Thomas Oliphant
A behind-the-scenes account of the 35th President's journey to the White House includes coverage of his failed vice presidential nomination in 1956, the ways his Catholic faith challenged his campaigns and the successful efforts of his team of young advisors to reinvent the traditional party.
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All fall down
by Ally Carter
After being hospitalized for insisting that her mother was murdered, not killed in an accidental fire, Grace goes to live with her grandfather for a fresh start, but when she sees her mothers murderer again, her past comes back to haunt her.
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Denton Little's deathdate
by Lance Rubin
A tale set in a world where everyone knows the day on which they will die finds Denton preparing for his imminent demise and wondering about a mysterious purple rash before a stranger's warning raises suspicions about shady government characters.
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Almost autumn
by Marianne Kaurin
In 1942 Oslo, Norway, 15-year-old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-next-door Hermann Rod for their first date, but unbeknownst to her, Hermann is working in the Resistance, helping Norwegian Jews flee the country to escape the Nazis, and as life becomes even more difficult, particularly for Jewish families like the Sterns, the choices made—to speak up or to look away, to stay or to flee—become more important by the hour.
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Lumberjanes : out of time
by Noelle Stevenson
Jen's attempt to teach the girls basic survival skills without supernatural intervention goes wrong when a blizzard hits the camp, separating Jen from the group and putting her in danger until a taxidermist with mysterious connections to Rosie swoops in.
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The book jumper
by Mechthild Gläser
While visiting her mother's childhood home in Scotland, Amy discovers that she is able to jump into books and experience their stories firsthand, but peril arises when she is confronted by a dangerous adversary who is stealing from the books she visits and threatening her life, in a first U.S. translation by an award-winning writer from Germany.
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Joplin tornado : survival stories
by Emily O'Keefe
Shares stories from the survivors of the Joplin tornado, discussing what happened during the tornado and after, with color photos.
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Happy birthday, Mike!
by Jennifer Weinberg
Sully and the Monsters Inc. crew enjoy a monster birthday bash for Mike in a skill-building reader for children who are recognizing early vocabulary and sounding out new words.
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Another monster at the end of this book
by Jon Stone
The classic Sesame Street interactive story that is now available as a sturdy board book features the hilarious efforts made by Grover to prevent Elmo and the reader from reaching the end of the book.
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Freckleface Strawberry : loose tooth!
by Julianne Moore
Academy Award-winning actress and author of My Mom Is a Foreigner, but Not to Me presents a latest Freckleface Strawberry reader that finds the redheaded 7-year-old hoping that her loose tooth will fall out in school so that she can get a special prize from the nurse.
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Supersize animals
by Melvin Berger
Introduces the largest animals of their species, including Great Dane dogs, Savannah cats, Japanese spider crabs, leatherback turtles, and whale sharks.
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Wildlife watcher guide
by Michael Leach
Provides advice on how to track, observe, and photograph wildlife in such natural habitats as woodlands, mountains, and even cities.
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