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eBooks for January January 2019
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There's No Place Like Home. Hunker down in your home with a good read from this eclectic list of fiction and non-fiction. All titles are available for download to a variety of devices at nh.overdrive.com Questions? Call Cary at the library, 603-757-1838
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Traces the history gleaned by the author from his home in a Victorian England parsonage, documenting how the various rooms where he lives reflect key developments in areas ranging from cooking and hygiene to design and trade. By the award-winning author of A Short History of Nearly Everything.
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The Girl who Came Home : A Novel of the Titanic by Hazel Gaynor (Fiction)After the death of her father, Grace Butler, struggling with what comes next, unexpectedly finds a new direction in life when her Great Nana Maggie shares a painful secret she has harbored for almost a lifetime about the RMS Titanic.
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Home by Harlan Coben (Fiction)When one of two boys kidnapped from their wealthy families resurfaces a decade later, the young survivor is observed by Myron Bolitar and his friend Win, who endeavor to discover the fate of the other missing boy.
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Home by Toni Morrison (Fiction)The Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sula presents the story of embittered Korean War veteran Frank Money, who struggles against trauma and racism to rescue his medically abused sister and work through identity-shattering memories.
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Home Sweet Anywhere : How We Sold our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World by Lynne Martin (NonFict)Lynne and Tim Martin decided to sell their house and possessions and live abroad full-time. They've never looked back. With just two suitcases, two computers, and each other, the Martins embark on a global adventure, taking readers from sky-high pyramids in Mexico to Turkish bazaars to learning the contact sport of Italian grocery shopping. But even as they embrace their new home-free lifestyle, the Martins grapple with its challenges, including hilarious language barriers, finding financial stability, and missing the family they left behind.
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Home Sweet Home by Sarah Title (Fiction)Maddie Townsend, a stay-at-home mom, has no job skills, an out-of-control sixteen-year-old son, a talkative fourteen-year-old who's suddenly gone silent, a six-year-old daughter whose heart is broken, an ex-husband whose younger girlfriend is expecting their baby and two best friends who think she's somehow qualified to help them open a fitness spa for women. But if Maddie is a tad on edge with all that on her plate, it's nothing compared to the chaos that ensues when she discovers that her son's baseball coach has feelings for her and the whole town disapproves.
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Let's Take the Long Way Home : A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell (NonFict)The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Strong West Wind traces her close friendship with the late fellow writer Caroline Knapp, describing their shared experiences with sobriety, a love of dogs and Caroline's battle with cancer.
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A Long Way Home by Saroo BrierleyA full-length account of the author's inspirational effort to find his India birthplace describes how he was accidentally separated from his family in the mid-1980s, his survival on the streets of Calcutta, his adoption by an Australian family and his headline-making Google Earth search. This story was made into the movie Lion.
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A Not so Model Home by David JamesIn order to get the listing for Ian Forbes, realtor Amanda Thorn must appear on a bizarre reality dating show he's filming and discovers that there is a killer among the catty cast when two of his prospective lovers turn up dead.
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Keene, New Hampshire 03431
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http://www.keenepubliclibrary.org/
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