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Fort Scott Public Library Newsletter September 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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Aunt Dimity and the king's ransom
by Nancy Atherton
Stranded in a rural inn on England's southeast coast, Lori discovers the location's past as a smuggler hangout before investigating suspicious activities among the living and the dead that may be responsible for ghostly nighttime noises.
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Crazy rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan
On a summer vacation in the Singapore home of a man she hopes to marry, Chinese-American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes its member's relationship with an American girl. Reissue. Movie Tie-in.
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Dark sentinel
by Christine Feehan
A human woman, reeling with grief and rage from the devastating loss of her entire family, rescues a Carpathian monk who struggles to convince her that she is his soulmate while navigating the vengeful acts of an ancient vampire. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author
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Depth of winter
by Craig Johnson
When an international drug lord kidnaps his daughter and prepares to auction her off to his worst enemies, Walt Longmire embarks on a rescue mission in the brutal Mexican desert. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Western Star.
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In his father's footsteps : a novel
by Danielle Steel
Two courageous World War II concentration-camp survivors build a life together before their son resolves to be his own person as a first-generation American. By the best-selling author of The Right Time
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Leverage in death : an Eve Dallas novel
by J. D. Robb
When an airline executive is blackmailed into a suicide bombing in his Wall Street office, lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates strange inconsistencies in the case while trying to uncover the blackmailers' true agenda. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author
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Our house
by Louise Candlish
Arriving home to find strangers moving into the prized family home she agreed to share with her ex, Fiona endures a domino effect of horrors as she discovers that her children have gone missing amid terrible revelations.
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Texas Ranger
by James Patterson
Dedicated Texas Ranger Rory Yates is wrongly implicated in the murder of his ex-wife and finds his skills pushed to the limit in his effort to find the real killer and prove his own innocence. Co-written by a #1 best-selling author.
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The fall of Gondolin
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Two of the greatest powers in the world—Morgoth, of the utmost evil, and Ulmo, the Lord of Waters, battle over the city of Gondolin—a beautiful but undiscovered realm peopled by Noldorian Elves
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Architects of death : the family who engineered the death camps
by Karen Bartlett
Describes the small, respectable, German family engineering firm who sheltered Nazi enemies while also being responsible for designing and building the gas chambers and crematoria at the concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Dachau.
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Caddyshack : the making of a Hollywood Cinderella story
by Chris Nashawaty
An anecdotal account of the making of Caddyshack shares profiles of the comedy pioneers behind it, citing the influence of The National Lampoon and the film, Animal House before stories from the country club summer jobs of Bill and Brian Murray inspired the film's wacky production throughout a memorable Florida summer.
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The briefing : politics, the press, and the president
by Sean Spicer
The former White House Press Secretary for Donald Trump presents a behind-the-scenes account of his turbulent seven-month tenure, offering new insights into the headline-grabbing controversies of the administration's first year.
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Fresh ink : An Anthology
by Lamar Giles
"An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance."
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Delilah Dirk and the Turkish lieutenant
by Tony Cliff
Nineteenth-century adventurer Delilah Dirk plots to rob a rich and corrupt sultan in Constantinople with the aid of her flying boat and her newfound friend, Selim.
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Lucky Penny
by Ananth Hirsh
"If Penny Brighton didn't have bad luck, she'd have no luck at all. She lost her job. And her apartment. In the same day. But it's okay, her friend has a cozy storage unit she can crash in. And there's bound to be career opportunities at the neighborhood laundromat--just look how fast that 12-year-old who runs the place made it to management! Plus, there's this sweet guy at the community center, and maybe Penny can even have a conversation with him without being a total dork. Surely Penny is a capable of becoming an actual responsible adult, and if she can do that her luck's bound to change! Right?"
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Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy
by Chynna Clugston-Flores
When one of their teachers goes missing, the students of Gotham Academy set out to find her wandering into the woods where they find the Lumberjanes, who are looking for their own missing camp director.
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Justice League, Saban's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
by Tom Taylor
"The Justice League have never met heroes like these teenagers with attitude before! When a teleporter accident brings the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from Angel Grove to Gotham City, Batman isn't sure what to make of these masked martial artists and their highly suspicious giant robot dinosaurs. It's time to call in the DC Universe's greatest heroes -- the Justice League! But the League and the Rangers will have to get over their distrust quickly, because the fate of two worlds is on the line! When thePower Rangers crossed between worlds, they weren't alone -- Lord Zedd came with them. And when Zedd meets Brainiac, neither the DC Universe nor the Rangers' home Earth is safe. But when these two mighty teams join forces, they morph into a fighting forcelike neither world has ever seen!"
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One proud penny
by Randy Siegel
Follows the experiences of a penny born in Philadelphia that travels everywhere from New York to Portland, Oregon, to Puerto Rico describing in detail his many adventures along the way.
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The 5 O'Clock Band
by Troy Andrews
A leadership-themed follow-up to the Coretta Scott King Award- and Caldecott Honor-winning Trombone Shorty finds a scrappy young musician on a tour of his beloved New Orleans who questions what it means to be a leader and a friend when he lets his band down by missing a rehearsal.
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The Big Earth book
by Mark Brake
A vibrantly detailed, high-energy tour through history, geography and science introduces how the planet's four elements of earth, fire, air and water created the world and everything that exists today.
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The book of mistakes
by Corinna Luyken
A celebration of the creative process and the inspiration that can be found in mistakes follows the experiences of an artist who incorporates accidental splotches, spots and misshapen things into her art, transforming it in quirky and playful ways.
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The book with no pictures
by B. J. Novak
The Emmy Award-winning actor best known for his performances in The Office presents a silly read-aloud book that combines a deliberately image-free format with wacky nonsense text, goofy song lyrics and more. By the author of One More Thing.
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The sand warrior : The Sand Warrior
by Mark Siegel
A debut entry in a groundbreaking sci-fi fantasy adventure series depicts five imperiled worlds that will be rendered extinct unless five ancient and mysterious beacons can be lit in the wake of erupting wars during which three unlikely heroes make surprising discoveries about their homes and themselves.
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Train heist
by Ella Patrick
Han Solo and Chewbacca the wookiee team up with Beckett and his crew for a daring train heist on the planet Vandor.
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Illegal
by Eoin Colfer
Setting out to join his brother and sister in Europe, Ebo leaves Ghana, traveling through the Sahara Desert and dangerous streets of Tripoli before braving the merciless sea.
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I am Gandhi
by Brad Meltzer
Highlights the life and career of the Indian statesman and nationalist, from his youth to his civil disobedience to his assassination.
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