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The truth about the Devlins
by Lisa Scottoline
The charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, TJ Devlin finds his world turned upside down when his lawyer brother confesses he has just killed one of his clients and, seizing this chance to prove his worth, becomes entangled in a deadly web of deception and murder to save his brother.
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The angel of Indian Lake
by Stephen Graham Jones
Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her.
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Chasing beauty : the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
by Natalie Dykstra
Chronicles the life of the creator of one of America's most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art; includes archival photos of her world, museum and the art she collected.
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Charlie Hustle : the rise and fall of Pete Rose, and the last glory days of baseball
by Keith O'Brien
"A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures, baseball immortal Pete Rose; and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the secondhalf of the twentieth century Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He had compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago, which still stands. At the same time, he was a working-class white guy from Cincinnati whomade it; less talented than tough, and rough around the edges. He was everything that America wanted and needed him to be, the American dream personified, until he wasn't. In the 1980s Pete Rose came to be at the center of the biggest scandal in baseballhistory. Baseball no longer needed Pete Rose, and he was magnificently, publicly cast out for betting on baseball and lying about it. The revelations that followed ruined Pete, changed life in Cincinnati, and forever altered the game. Charlie Hustle tells the full story of one of America's most epic tragedies, the rise and fall of Pete Rose, one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Drawing on first-hand interviews with Pete himself, his associates, as well as on investigators, FBI and court records, archives, a mountain of press coverage, Keith O'Brien chronicles how Pete fell so far from being America's "great white hope." It is Rose as we've never seen before. This is no ordinary sport biography, but cultural history at its finest. What O'Brien shows is that while Pete Rose didn't change, America and baseball did. This is the story of that change"
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The perfect guy doesn't exist
by Sophie Gonzales
"Ivy Winslow has the house to herself for a week and her only plans are to binge-watch her favorite fantasy TV show, H-MAD, hang out with her best friend, Henry, and avoid her former best friend-turned enemy (and neighbor), Mack. But things go awry when Ivy wakes up one morning to find Weston, the gorgeous and very fictional main character of H-MAD, in her bedroom, claiming to be her soul mate. Ivy's fanfic writing has somehow brought Weston as she's imagined him to life, but living out her fanfiction dreams isn't all it's cracked up to be. Her not-so-fictional crush is causing some major real-world problems and Ivy is desperate for help. To figure out why Weston is suddenly three-dimensional, she ropes Henry and a reluctant Mack into the chaos. As they spend more time together, Ivy and Mack are forced to deal with the fallout of their broken friendship and might just realize that they both want something more..."
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Listen to this
by Jennifer Blecher
When her two best friends make the elite soccer team and she doesn't, Lily feels left behind until she forms an unexpected brand-new friendship with Will amidst secrets, rumors, shifting loyalties, overbearing parents and the emotional rollercoaster of being a tween.
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The cool bean makes a splash
by Jory John
Determined to go down the super slide at the community pool, Cool Bean must summon up his courage and face his fears to do something totally cool. Illustrations.
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Bubbly beautiful Kitty-Corn
by Shannon Hale
When her best friend Unicorn dreams of being a mermaid, Kitty, armed with her trusty craft kit, creates an elaborate mermaid tail, but when their trip to the beach doesn't go as planned, she must help him feel enchanting again. Illustrations.
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