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Fort Scott Public Library Newsletter November 2017
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It : a novel
by Stephen King
It began—and ended—in 1958 when seven desperate children searched in the drains beneath Derry for an evil creature, but in 1985, Mike Hanlon, once one of those children, makes six phone calls and disinters an unremembered promise that sets off the ultimate terror, in a book that was recently made into a major motion picture. Reissue. A #1 best-seller. Movie tie-in.
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13 Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
When Clay Jensen receives a box containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends the night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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Hand to Mouth : Living in Bootstrap America
by Linda Tirado
As the haves and have-nots grow more separate and unequal in America, the working poor don't get heard from much. Now they have a voice. Here, Linda Tirado tells what it's like, day after day, to work, eat, shop, raise kids, and keep a roof over your head without enough money.
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A skeleton in the family
by Leigh Perry
Sid is the Thackery family's skeleton. He's lived in the house as long as Georgia can remember, although no one, including Sid, knows exactly where he came from and how he came to be a skeleton.
This is the first of four books in the series. All are recommended.
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Betty Crocker Christmas cookbook
by Betty Crocker
Shares festive recipes for appetizers, main dishes, breads, desserts, candies, and drinks, as well as entertaining and decorating ideas
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The Good Housekeeping Christmas cookbook
by N.Y.) Good Housekeeping Institute (New York
An updated edition of the Good Housekeeping holiday reference shares more than 300 celebration-worthy recipes, decorating ideas, suggestions for homemade gifts and more, in a volume that features contributions by such celebrities as Sting, Reese Witherspoon and Mariah Carey.
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Holiday cookies : showstopping recipes to sweeten the season
by Elisabet der Nederlanden
Perfect for cookie exchanges, gift-giving and just enjoying throughout the season, a festive, full-color cookbook offers new inspiration for the best holiday baking through 50 tested recipes, including Gingerbread Houses, Peppermint Bark, Hazelnut Sandwich Cookies, Dark Chocolate-Hazelnut Fudge and many more.
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Homemade Holiday : Craft Your Way Through More Than 40 Festive Projects
by Sophie Pester
"Bring the magic of a handmade Christmas into your home with 40 projects for gifts, decorations, and homemade wrapping paper. Save time and money with the festive craft projects in Homemade Holiday. Clear, step-by-step instructions guide readers to create fresh flower garlands, bake edible gift tags, make homemade bath salts, and paint authentic tree ornaments. With last-minute ideas and lots of inspiration, this book will help you wrap up gift-giving and decorating for the holiday season."--
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Christmas : a biography
by Judith Flanders
The best-selling author of The Making of Home presents a tour of Christmas holiday traditions from the original festival through today, touching on subjects ranging from gift wrap and the holiday parade to the first gag holiday gift book and the first official appearance of Santa Claus.
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Artemis
by Andy Weir
Augmenting his limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city. By the best-selling author of The Martian.
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Count to ten : A Private Novel
by James Patterson
Summoned by the head of the world's top investigation agency to join a new office in Delhi, former Private India head Santosh Wagh struggles to set aside his personal demons before tackling a case involving murderously corrupt authorities and human remains found at a government site.
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The people vs. Alex Cross
by James Patterson
Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, Alex Cross is wrongly portrayed as a trigger-happy corrupt cop while he struggles to prove to a skeptical jury and dwindling supporters that his actions were in self defense.
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In this moment
by Karen Kingsbury
Risking his job by organizing an after-school bible-study program to combat local crime and gang activity, Indiana high school principal Wendell Quinn is delighted by the program's positive results, until a complaint renders him the subject of media speculation and a controversial lawsuit. TV tie-in.
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The midnight line : a Jack Reacher novel
by Lee Child
Spotting a hard-won women's West Point class ring in a pawn shop, Jack Reacher fights a biker gang and a South Dakota gangster to discover the truth about the ring and why its owner sold it. By the best-selling author of Night School.
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Hardcore twenty-four
by Janet Evanovich
Reluctantly agreeing to babysit a professional grave robber's pet boa constrictor, Stephanie Plum is embroiled in a bizarre series of crimes that escalate from the violation of stolen corpses to the murder of a homeless man, a case that is complicated by the return of the hunky but reckless Diesel.
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Two kinds of truth : a novel
by Michael Connelly
An investigation into the murder of a young pharmacist leads Harry Bosch and San Fernando's detective squad into the big-business world of pill mills and prescription drug abuse at the same time an old case from Bosch's days with the LAPD returns to haunt him. 750,000 first printing.
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End game
by David Baldacci
Returning home from an overseas mission to discover that his boss has gone missing in remote Colorado, Will Robie and his sometime partner, Jessica Reel, team up in an increasingly violent small town, where their lives are soon in jeopardy. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author. (suspense).
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Typhoon fury : a novel of the Oregon files
by Clive Cussler
Hired to track down a valuable art collection, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon sail into a perfect storm involving a Filipino insurgency, a Japanese-developed super-warrior drug and a South African mercenary. Co-written by the best-selling author of Odessa Sea.
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The revolution of Marina M.
by Janet Fitch
A young woman of privilege coming of age in 1916 St. Petersburg finds her life and ambitions violently upended by historical events that find her joining the cause for workers' rights, falling in love with a radical poet and navigating devastating betrayals. By the best-selling author of White Oleander. 100,000 first printing.
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Future home of the living god : a novel
by Louise Erdrich
A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows the efforts of a pregnant woman who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species. 300,000 first printing.
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Every breath you take
by Mary Higgins Clark
Struggling with the departure of co-host Alex Buckley, television crimesolver Laurie Moran is teamed with a despised Ryan Nichols, who draws her into the cold case of a wealthy widow pushed to her death from the roof of a famous museum.
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Radio free Vermont : a fable of resistance
by Bill McKibben
Broadcasting from a secret location with the help of a young computer prodigy, a septuagenarian radical and fugitive from the law leads an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerilla warfare when they decide that their home state might be better off seceding from the United States. By the author of Eaarth.
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Everything You Need to Know About Social Media : Without Having to Call a Kid
by Greta Van Susteren
An MSNBC anchor and media maven presents a simple, step-by-step guide to the major social platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Snapchat, that addresses important moral and behavioral issues, and is perfect for anyone who wants to stay up to date with today’s changing technology. Original.
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Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by Caroline Fraser
A comprehensive historical portrait of Laura Ingalls Wilder draws on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries and official records to fill in the gaps in Wilder's official story, sharing lesser-known details about her pioneer experiences while challenging popular misconceptions about how her books were ghostwritten.
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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. Read by Mark Bramhall.
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The Midnight Line
by Lee Child
Spotting a hard-won women's West Point class ring in a pawn shop, Jack Reacher fights a biker gang and a South Dakota gangster to discover the truth about the ring and why its owner sold it. By the best-selling author of Night School. Read by Dick Hill.
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Every Breath You Take
by Mary Higgins Clark
Struggling with the departure of co-host Alex Buckley, television crimesolver Laurie Moran is teamed with a despised Ryan Nichols, who draws her into the cold case of a wealthy widow pushed to her death from the roof of a famous museum.
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Two kinds of truth : a novel
by Michael Connelly
An investigation into the murder of a young pharmacist leads Harry Bosch and San Fernando's detective squad into the big-business world of pill mills and prescription drug abuse at the same time an old case from Bosch's days with the LAPD returns to haunt him. Simultaneous.
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Hardcore Twenty-four
by Janet Evanovich
Reluctantly agreeing to babysit a professional grave robber's pet boa constrictor, Stephanie Plum is embroiled in a bizarre series of crimes that escalate from the violation of stolen corpses to the murder of a homeless man, a case that is complicated by the return of the hunky but reckless Diesel.
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Strange weather : four short novels
by Joe Hill
A collection of four novellas by the award-winning author of "The Fireman" includes the tales, "Snapshot," "Aloft," "Rain" and "Loaded."
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Caroline : Little House, Revisited
by Sarah Miller
In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril.
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The Twisted Ones
by Scott Cawthon
One year after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Charlie is still haunted by nightmares of the gruesome puppets, and when bodies turn up bearing wounds that are disturbingly similar, she is drawn back into the world of her father's frightening creations.
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Ei8ht. Volume 1, Outcast
by Rafael Albuquerque
Joshua travels to the inhospitable MELD a dimension between dimensions. Marooned there he must complete his mission to save the future.
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Doctor Who : Ghost Stories
by George Mann
When we last saw Grant and Lucy, they were settling down together with Lucy's daughter, and Grant's superheroic costume was being stored away. But that wasn't the end of the story! Soon, the Doctor is swooping back into their lives - because it turns out the alien gemstone that gifted Grant his powers of flight, super-strength, and super-speed has siblings all over the universe. It's up to the Doctor, Grant, Lucy, and their daughter to track them down to prevent disaster - from a post-apocalyptic New York, to a world taken over by the forces of the Harmony Shoal, to a boneship in the depths of space... and more! But is there something the Doctor isn't telling Grant...? Will the journey's end require Grant to give up his powers in order to save the universe? There's only one way to find out!
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Devils' Line. 3
by Ryo Hanada
Lee offers to tell Anzai what he knows about the benefits of drinking human blood in exchange for being hidden away, while snipers Zero Seven and Zero Two deal with the consequences of their actions.
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Abby in Wonderland
by Sarah Mlynowski
A first Special Edition in the best-selling Whatever After series finds Abby spending a day with best friends Frankie and Robin as well as the snobby Penny, until a tumble down a mysterious rabbit hole lands them in the world of Lewis Carroll's classic adventure.
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Darth Vader and Friends
by Jeffrey Brown
An Eisner Award-winner offers an intimate look at the friendships between best pals in the Star Wars universe, from Darth Vader and the Emperor to Leia and her Ewok pals, Han and Chewie, C-3PO and R2-D2, the bounty hunters and other favorite characters.
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Charlie the ranch dog : Charlie goes to the doctor
by Ree Drummond
When Charlie loses his appetite and is not even tempted by bacon, a worried Mama takes the faithful basset hound to the veterinarian, where his nerves are soothed by a friendly puppy. Simultaneous. 75,000 first printing.
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Down to a Science!
by Alexandra West
After foiling a Vulture attack, Peter Parker finds there are strange goings - on at Midtown High and he tries to get to the bottom of the odd occurrences.
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The War I Finally Won
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
A sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning The War That Saved My Life continues the story of Ada, who in the aftermath of the surgery that corrects her disability struggles to welcome a Jewish-German girl into the crowded cottage where her loved ones are enduring the horrors of World War II.
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Secret Ninja Force : Secret Ninja Force
by Julia March
In these leveled readers, young fans will be introduced to the characters, teams, minifigures, vehicles, creatures and locations from The LEGO Ninjago Movie, which released in theaters on September 22, 2017.
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Oaken's Invention
by Jessica Julius
When Oaken invites his entire family for a Creators Contest, he cannot think of something new to invent, until a trip into the forest at night gives him inspiration.
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The Bronze Key
by Holly Black
Following the death of one of their classmates, Call, Tamara, and Aaron set out to find and stop the killer before he can use his magical powers to commit further evils.
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The 8th Continent
by Matt London
Hoping to use their father's special formula to transform a giant floating garbage patch into a habitable eighth continent where people can escape an oppressive bureaucracy, Evie and Rick must race against time when a plastic-obsessed villainess tries to claim the continent to expand her own power.
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