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Fort Scott Public Library Newsletter October 2018
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WE WANT YOUR DISCARDED CRAYONS! Bring us your old crayons to recycle, and our teens will sort them as part of an ongoing volunteer project. The collection box is on the left of the rotation books downstairs. |
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A willing murder
by Jude Deveraux
The discovery of two bodies in a quiet Florida community exposes old secrets and deadly grudges, prompting a group of improbable friends to try to uncover the truth. By the New York Times best-selling author of Moonlight. 150,000 first printing
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Lethal Bayou Beauty
by Jana DeLeon
When aspiring actress Pansy Arceneaux returns to Sinful, Louisiana, to head up the beauty pageant portion of the Summer Festival, CIA assassin Fortune Redding knows she's in for trouble. Her undercover identity as a former beauty queen makes Fortune the perfect choice to chair the event with Pansy, but Pansy's abrasive personality makes it impossible to get through a single rehearsal without a fight.
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Lethal white
by Robert Galbraith
When a troubled young man asks him to investigate a crime he thinks he saw as a child, Cormoran Strike sets off on a twisting trail that leads from London's backstreets, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a country manor house
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Man of war : an Eric Steele novel
by Sean Parnell
An intelligence operative draws on the elite skills he learned as a Special Forces soldier when an adversary from his past steals a nuclear weapon. A first novel by the author of the best-selling Outlaw Platoon. 200,000 first printing
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The 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
by Stuart Turton
Doomed to repeat the same day over and over, Aiden Bishop must solve the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle in order to escape the curse, in a world filled with enemies where nothing and no one are quite what they seem.
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Contempt : a memoir of the Clinton investigation
by Kenneth Starr
A former special prosecutor shares behind-the-scenes perspectives into the divisive impeachment of Bill Clinton to discuss key events and how they inform today's debates about presidential power, sexual harassment and what actions justify impeachment. Illustrations.
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Educated : a memoir
by Tara Westover
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
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Ascent
by Roland Smith
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself.
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Batman : Nightwalker
by Marie Lu
An entry in the popular series depicting DC superheroes as teens follows a reckless young Bruce Wayne who must team up with a brilliant killer and overcome the challenges of not having superpowers in order to defend against Nightwalker attackers who are targeting the elite of Gotham City.
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Catwoman : soulstealer
by Sarah J Maas
Two years after escaping Gotham City's slums, Selina Kyle returns by day as the mysterious, wealthy Holly Vanderhees, but by night, she teams up with Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn under the guise of Catwoman to wreak havoc throughout Gotham City--and she just may be Batwing's undoing as she tangles with him at night and her devilishly handsome neighbor, Luke Fox, by day.
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The Dark Days Club
by Alison Goodman
In April 1812, as she is preparing for her debut presentation to Queen Charlotte, Lady Helen Wrexhall finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy reaching to the very top of society, and learns the truth about her mother, who died ten years ago.
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Abraham Lincoln, pro wrestler
by Steve Sheinkin
Deciding to quit history in order to teach a lesson to students who declare that history is boring, Abraham Lincoln pursues his dream of becoming a professional wrestler, compelling stepsiblings Abby and Doc to convince the 16th president to restore the timeline.
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All summer long
by Hope Larson
When her best friend, Austin, goes to soccer camp over the summer, thirteen-year-pld Bina finds an unlikely companion in Austin's older sister, Charlie.
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Atlas of miniature adventures
by Emily Hawkins
Shares miniature adventures from across the globe, from the Omiya Bonsai Village to the home of the world's smallest lizard, in a book filled with facts and items to find on each page.
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Baby Monkey, private eye
by Brian Selznick
The Caldecott Medal-winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret blends the styles of a picture book, beginning reader and graphic novel in a story for younger audiences that conveys the imaginative adventures of Baby Monkey, Private Eye, who searches for lost jewels, sniffs out a missing pizza and tracks down a stolen spaceship.
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Brave
by Svetlana Chmakova
Although shy Jensen daydreams about being a hero, the reality of his school life is very different, but when two school newpapers writers begin to put him in their stories, he discovers he may have to find real solutions for his problems.
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Bunny vs. Monkey. Book two. Year one, July-December
by Jamie Smart
Bunny, Monkey, Skunky, Pig and the rest of the loveable and zany characters from Bunny vs. Monkey embark on a latest battle of good versus evil in an adventure involving robotic worms, Trojan mooses and lemony doomsday devices.
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CatStronauts : space station situation
by Drew Brockington
"The CatStronauts--elite cat astronauts--are aboard the International Space Station to repair the faulty Hubba Bubba Telescope, but have to contend with communications interference and a near disaster that leaves them down a member."
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First words : French
by Andy Mansfield
Labelled illustrations provide the English and French words for foods, animals, buildings, workers, and other familiar topics, along with French pronunciations.
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