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Ebooks by the numbers! All titles are available for download to a variety of devices at nh.overdrive.com Questions? Contact Cary at the library, 603-757-1838.
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Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin CotterillDr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but this independent seventy-two-year-old has an outstanding qualification for the role: curiosity. And he does not mind incurring the wrath of the party's hierarchy as he unravels mysterious murders, because the spirits of the dead are on his side—and a little too close for comfort more often than he would like.
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Three Rivers Rising : a novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame RichardsSpending the summers at an elite 19th-century resort by the shimmering Allegheny Mountain reservoir, 16-year-old Celestia pursues a secret romance with a working-class boy and is horrified when heavy rains trigger a tragic dam failure in her boyfriend's valley community. An award-winning first novel.
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Fives and Twenty-Fivesby Michael PitreA debut novel by an Iraq War veteran presents the stories of platoon leader Lieutenant Donovan, who feels isolated by his rank; medic Doc Pleasant, who is unraveled by the deaths of friends; and Iraqi interpreter Dodge, who both loves and hates what America represents.
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4 3 2 1 by Paul AusterA single child born in 1947 experiences four parallel lifetimes poignantly marked by shifting family fortunes, athletic pursuits, friendships, sex, intellectual passions and the same intriguing woman.
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12, 20 & 5 : A Doctor’s Year in Vietnam by John A. ParrishAssigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir, he crafts a haunting, humane portrait of one man's agonizing confrontation with war.
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Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa ScottolineA single father and head of a successful Philadelphia psychiatric care unit sees his life begin to crumble when a teen patient is implicated in a murder and the doctor himself is wrongly accused of sexual harassment.
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Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherWhen high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAn illustrated rerelease of the best-selling work is a tale of family, friendship and faith as shaped by 30 years of Afghan history, in a volume that features expressive photographs of cultural life.
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Nine Women, One Dressby Jane L. RosenNine unrelated women whose circumstances are shaped by unrequited love, infidelity and fame find their lives touched by the same little black dress and its seemingly magical properties.
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Forty Signs Of Rain by Kim Stanley RobinsonIn the first installment of a trilogy of eco-thrillers set in Washington, D.C., environmental aide Charlie Quibler is frustrated in his attempts to prove to a distracted government that global warming has reached cataclysmic levels, a situation that is complicated when a promising technology is exploited for private interests.
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Thirty Girls by Susan MinotForced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities after being abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army, Ugandan teen Esther struggles to survive and escape before crossing paths with Jane, an American journalist who has traveled to Africa to advocate on behalf of children like Esther.
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Nine Lives : In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William DalrympleExamines how traditional religions are observed in present-day India through the experiences of such individuals as a Tantric practicing middle-class woman from Calcutta, a prison warder from Kerala who is worshipped as an incarnate deity, and a Jain nunwho watched a friend ritually starve.
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The Four Corners of Palermo by Giuseppe Di PiazzaA crime reporter looks back on his career and recounts four epic stories in Mafia-run Palermo, Italy, in the 1980s including the tale about a man who refused to become a professional killer and a daughter searching for her lost honor.
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Columbus : the Four Voyages by Laurence BergreenThe award-winning author of Over the Edge of the World chronicles the lesser-known voyages of Columbus after his famous 1492 landfall in the Americas, explaining how they reflected Columbus's uncanny navigational skills before taking an extreme toll on his health and personal circumstances.
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Archive 17 by Sam EastlandAppointed by Stalin to finance an imminent war with Germany by finding the legendary missing gold of Tsar Nicholas II, former investigator Pekkala goes undercover and returns to Siberia where he was once a gulag prisoner to infiltrate a gang of convicts rumored to know the treasure's whereabouts.
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Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley RobinsonIn the sequel to Forty Signs of Rain, after years of denial and non-action, a near-future Earth faces a crossroad when it is threatened with the dire implications and perils of global warming, an environmental crisis that ironically could unleash a devastating Ice Age on the planet.
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Think of a Number by John VerdonRecently retired after a prestigious career with the NYPD, homicide detective Dave Gurney is pulled back into service when an old college friend receives threatening letters from a murderous sender who has an uncanny ability to read a person's thoughts.
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Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie SeftonFinding a killer becomes an all-too-personal quest for Kelly Flynn when she returns to Colorado from Washington, D.C., to uncover the truth about the death of her beloved Aunt Helen, turning to the knitting regulars at the House of Lambspun for a few lessons in knitting and in capturing a murderer.
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Two by Two by Nicholas SparksThe seemingly charmed life of a Charlotte family man abruptly tumbles around him, leaving him an unemployed single father who embarks on a new reality that tests his skills and emotional resources beyond his imagining.
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Three Bedrooms, One Corpse : an Aurora Teagarden Mystery by Charlaine HarrisTrying her hand at selling real estate with some help from her mother, former librarian Aurora Teagarden, during her first house showing, stumbles upon the dead body of a rival broker and sets out to find a killer who knows a lot about the market and even more about her.
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom StandageAn offbeat history of the world traces the story of humankind from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century from the perspective of six different drinks--beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola--describing their pervasive influence during pivotal eras of world history, from humankind's adoption of agriculture to the advent of globalization.
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Eight Flavors : the Untold Story of American Cuisine by Sarah LohmanThe young gastronomist formerly behind New York magazine's Grub Street food blog presents a culinary history of America that chronicles the diverse cultures that shaped the nation's cuisine, using long-forgotten recipes to explain how eight distinct flavors changed how we eat.
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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-eight Nightsby Salman RushdieA modern fairy tale by the award-winning author of Midnight's Children is set in a world of religious dominance where mystical acts and supernatural abilities shape a war over control of Fairyland.
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