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New @ PPL Books on CD, MP3s, and Playaways March 2017
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The titles are sorted by author/call number.
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Hawke
by Ted Bell
Lord Alexander Hawke is one of England's most decorated naval heroes. Now, in the Caribbean on a secret assignment for the American government, Hawke must disarm a ticking time bomb; a highly experimental stealth submarine carrying forty nuclear warheads just ninety miles from the U.S. mainland. But Hawke's mission is twofold, for he has returned to the waters where modern-day pirates brutally murdered his parents when he was a boy. After a lifetime of nightmares, will vengeance be his at last?
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If I Live
by Terri Blackstock
Casey is on the run after being indicted for murder. It's only a matter of time before someone recognizes her. Dylan is now her only hope. Will one life have to be sacrificed to protect the other?
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The Flight Attendant
by Christopher A. Bohjalian
A binge-drinking flight attendant wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel room beside a dead body and sneaks back to her work, telling a series of lies that complicate her ability to figure out what really happened. By the best-selling author of Midwives. Read by Erin Spencer, Grace Experience and Mark Deakins. Simultaneous.
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Old Carver Ranch
by Max Brand
After ten years of wandering and living the life of a gambler, Tom Keene returns home and finds his father alone and dying. He decides to turn his life around, but with his past, the odds are against him.
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The Rising Sea
by Clive Cussler
Investigating an alarming rise in the world's sea levels, Kurt, Joe and the rest of the NUMA scientific team uncover a diabolical plot to upset the Pacific balance of power by triggering natural disasters to displace billions of people. Read by Scott Brick. Simultaneous.
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As You Wish
by Jude Deveraux
Gathering in a house in Summer Hill, Virginia, to support one another through marital woes, three women from different generations reflect on their experiences with estrangement, expectation and infidelity while resolving to pursue life on their own terms. By the award-winning author of For All Time. Simultaneous.
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The Last Jedi
by Jason Fry
Rey continues her epic journey with Finn, Poe, and Luke Skywalker in this thrilling novelization of the film Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
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A Dangerous Game
by Heather Graham
When a desperate woman shoves an infant into her arms and flees, only to be murdered minutes later, psychologist Kieran Finnegan teams up with FBI Special Agent Craig Frasier to expose and end a human-trafficking operation. Read by Saskia Maarleveld. Simultaneous.
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The great alone
by Kristin Hannah
When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season. By the best-selling author of The Nightingale. Read by Julia Whelan. Simultaneous.
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Force of nature : a novel
by Jane Harper
When one member of a five-woman team of co-workers goes missing during a corporate retreat, federal police agent Aaron Falk uncovers dark secrets in his search for the woman, a whistleblower and major contributor to his latest case. By the best-selling author of The Dry. Read by Stephen Shanahan. Simultaneous.
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Falling Darkness
by Karen Harper
Claire Britten's training never prepared her for this--the forensic psychology curriculum didn't cover plane crashes. Or how to help fellow survivors cope, seven frightened people huddled in two small rafts. Especially when three of them are your ex-husband, your young daughter--and the man you love, Nick Markwood.
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The Woman Left Behind
by Linda Howard
A gruff, no-nonsense GO-Team leader who relies on the sensual voice of the team's communication expert to guide him through dangerous assignments becomes her rescuer in the aftermath of an attack that leaves her stranded on a deserted station. By the award-winning author of Troublemaker. Simultaneous.
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The Third Victim
by Phillip Margolin
When a series of abductions, tortures and murders are traced to the home of a prominent attorney in rural Oregon, a rookie lawyer becomes a second chair to a legendary criminal defense attorney who holds a dangerous secret. By the best-selling author of Lost Lake. Read by Therese Plummer. Simultaneous.
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The Escape Artist
by Brad Meltzer
Discovering that a military artist-in-residence who has been officially declared dead by the government is actually alive and on the run, Zig, a worker at Dover Air Force Base, uncovers disturbing facts about the young woman's past before learning that she witnessed something she was not supposed to see. By the best-selling author of The Inner Circle. Simultaneous.
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Beautiful days : stories
by Joyce Carol Oates
A new collection of 13 stories by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes her Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien" and features protagonists who harbor secret inner lives and assert their independence through bold, often irrevocable acts of defiance. Simultaneous.
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Alternate Side
by Anna Quindlen
Living in a quiet Manhattan brownstone that has become its own little community, Nora discovers her true self in the wake of a violent attack that exposes the racial, economic, martial and interpersonal tensions beneath her neighbors' façade of harmony. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Object Lessons. Simultaneous.
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Death of an honest man : Library Edition
by M. C Beaton
When an insensitive newcomer to the village of Cnothan is found dead, flame-haired sergeant Hamish Macbeth confronts a bewildering array of suspects at the same time his clumsy police sidekick, Charlie, resigns in protest of his treatment by Chief Inspector Blair. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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The deceivers
by Alex Berenson
In the wake of a fatal incident in Dallas that may have been staged to look like a terrorist attack, former CIA agent John Wells is dispatched to Colombia to collect information from an old asset, a mission involving an audacious Russian plot that proves to be the most deadly of his career. By the Edgar Award-winning author of The Faithful Spy.
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Act of Revenge : Library Edition
by Dick Couch
What happens when a Navy SEAL comes home from war--with a mission? Garrett Walker is a warrior. For the last decade and a half he's been continuously at war--combat rotation after combat rotation. He's a veteran of the close fight, and he's taken a great many lives. Yet, all that combat and all those deaths were in the service of his country. Now, that's about to change. Since their college days, Garrett and his identical twin, Brandon, have been estranged. They were both in love with the same woman, and she chose Brandon. So Garrett chose the Navy SEALs. Then, following the death of their younger brother, yet another tragedy strikes the Walker family: Brandon is caught in the web of a Russian Mafia organ-theft ring. He's just another business man in Las Vegas on just another business trip--until strange men enter his hotel room and crudely remove his kidneys after he's been drugged. It's a rare crime, but one that happens more than is reported. For those in the black-market organ trade, it's easy pickings, right? But they didn't count on the resiliency of the one twin, or the rage of the other. Together, Garrett and Brandon embark on a mission. Together, they put all the rules aside and bring about the ultimate Act of Revenge.
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Raspberry danish murder
by Joanne Fluke
Throwing herself into the holiday season in the aftermath of her husband Ross' disappearance, Hannah Swensen investigates the murder of her husband's television-station assistant, who had been driving Ross' car and working from his office at the time of his death. Includes recipes. By a best-selling author. Read by Suzanne Toren. Simultaneous.
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An Honest Love
by Kathleen Fuller
When Lukas introuces himself, Anna can't resist her attraction to him. Though she finds herself falling in love, she's hiding a piece of her past in fear that their future will be destroyed if she tells him the truth.
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Shallow Grave : Library Edition
by Karen Harper
It's been four months since Claire Britten last crossed paths with danger, and she has begun volunteering with a children's support group. But when a field trip to a wildlife sanctuary turns deadly, leaving Claire to question the whether the death was an accident, suicide, or murder, Nick gets the South Shores team on the case, racing to unbury the truth before the killer can attack next.
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Promise not to tell
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Having spent years battling demons stemming from her childhood in a cult and a fire that ended her mother's life, a Seattle gallery owner is devastated when one of her artists commits suicide after sending her a mysterious picture that compels her to team up with a fellow cult survivor, a private investigator who uncovers the work of a determined killer. Simultaneous.
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Sunburn : a novel
by Laura Lippman
A pair of travelers, one of whom may be playing a dangerous psychological game with the other, embark on a steamy summertime affair that is thrown into chaos by dark secrets and a suspicious death, in a story inspired by the classics of James M. Cain. By a New York Times best-selling author. Read by Susan Bennett. Simultaneous.
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Between friends : Library Edition
by Debbie Macomber
A novel encompassing more than thirty years follows the lives of two women, Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski, as they learn to seek comfort in their powerful friendship, which has seen them through marriage, children, and tragedy.
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All Things Bright and Strange
by James Markert
"In the wake of World War I in the small, Southern town of Bellhaven, South Carolina, the town folk believe they've found a little slice of heaven in a mysterious chapel in the woods. But they soon realize that evil can come in the most beautiful of forms. The people of Bellhaven have always looked to Ellsworth Newberry for guidance, but after losing his wife and his future as a professional pitcher, he is moments away from testing his mortality once and for all. Until he finally takes notice of the changes in his town ... and the cardinals that have returned. Upon the discovery of a small chapel deep in the Bellhaven woods, healing seems to fall upon the townspeople, bringing peace after several years of mourning. But as they visit the "healing floor" more frequently, the people begin to turn on one another, and the unusually tolerant town becomes anything but. The cracks between the natural and supernatural begin to widen, and tensions rise. Before the town crumbles, Ellsworth must pull himself from the brink of suicide, overcome his demons, and face the truth of who he was born to be by leading the town into the woods to face the evil threatening Bellhaven"
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Fifty, fifty
by James Patterson
Violating protocol in her efforts to defend her brother against murder charges, Detective Harriet Blue is forced to relocate to a virtual ghost town in the outback, where a diary found on the roadside reveals shocking plans to massacre the community's few remaining residents. By the #1 best-selling authors of Never Never. Read by Federay Holmes. Simultaneous.
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Count to Ten : Library Edition
by Karen Rose
In all his years in the Chicago fire department, Lieutenant Reed Solliday AHS never experienced anything like this recent outbreak of house fires, devastating, vicious and in one case, homicidal. He has another problem, his new partner, Detective Mia Mitchell. She's brash, bossy, and taking the case in a direction he never imagined.
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The Celebration
by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Lyle and Heidi Troyer have taken in a brother and sister, who were orphaned when their parents were killed in a car accident. Hoping to help the children adapt and make friends, Heidi decides to hold a series of cooking classes for kids. But kids are always accompanied by an adult, and that is where the trouble arises. Miranda Cooper is living the life of a single mom to her two kids while separated from her husband, but Trent is trying to worm his way back into her heart. Denise McGuire's life as a wife, mom, and real estate broker is full and spilling over. Darren Keller, single dad and firefighter, and Ellen Blackburn, single mom and nurse, find a few things in common. Will hearts be healed over plates of Amish food?
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The View from Rainshadow Bay
by Colleen Coble
When her mentor and business partner is murdered, Shauna realizes that she's in danger too. Fearing for her son, she turns to the only ally she has. Nate Bannister was her husband's best friend, and is the person she blames for his death. Nate is only too happy to try to assuage his own guilt over Jack's death by helping her in any way he can. The lavender fields are a shroud for something much darker, and these are secrets that someone will do anything to keep buried.
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Look for me
by Lisa Gardner
Detective D. D. Warren teams up with Flora Dane from Find Her in an investigation involving the sinister disappearance of a 16-year-old girl whose family has been brutally murdered. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author. Simultaneous.
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A death in Live Oak
by James Grippando
When the president of a black fraternity is murdered, defense attorney Jack Swyteck navigates a maelstrom of racial uprisings as he investigates the chief suspect, an effort that is further challenged by the case's eerie similarities to a Jim Crow-era lynching. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Pardon. Simultaneous.
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Hellbent
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
When the man who raised and trained him warns him that secret government forces are trying to eliminate all surviving members of the Orphan Program, Evan Smoak is challenged to track down and protect his teacher's last protégé from a brutal new Program leader. By the best-selling author of The Nowhere Man. Read by Scott Brick. Simultaneous.
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Night moves
by Jonathan Kellerman
When an affluent family returns home from Sunday dinner to discover the murdered body of a complete stranger in their house, psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis navigate unexpected consequences in a case that tests their intellectual and emotional limits. By the best-selling author of Heartbreak Hotel. Simultaneous.
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Surprise me : a novel
by Sophie Kinsella
When the fragile contentment in their marriage is shattered by someone's casual remark about how many more years they will be together, Sylvie and Dan agree to arrange surprises for each other to revitalize their relationship, only to encounter a comical series of mishaps. By the best-selling author of the Shopaholic series. Simultaneous.
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Borden Chantry
by Louis L'Amour
Functioning as the marshal of a small and violent town in order to support his family, ex-rancher Borden Chantry investigates a series of murders and comes face-to-face with an outlaw who harbors a desperate need for revenge.
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Poison
by John T Lescroart
When the steely owner of a successful family business is murdered, attorney Dismas Hardy doubts the guilt of a chief suspect and instead combs through a maelstrom of dangerous secrets and gold-digger agendas to identify a killer among the victim's numerous heirs. By the New York Times best-selling author of Fatal. Simultaneous.
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Looking for a Hero : Marriage Wanted and My Hero
by Debbie Macomber
My hero: Would-be romance writer Bailey York thinks men make a great read, but that's it. To overcome her difficulties in creating a hero for her book, she finds a real-life example in Parker Davidson, who is everything a romance hero should be. He isn't content to just be her inspiration, but he wants to be her real life hero.
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Sisters Like Us
by Susan Mallery
Despite dealing with the chaos caused by her live-in mother, her virtual-assistant business, her rebellious teenage daughter, and her pregnant sister, Harper can't help entertaining the notion that a handsome client may be for her.
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The Last Thing She Ever Did
by Gregg Olsen
Liz and Owen have always admired their seemingly perfect neighbors, Carole and David. And when Carole and David's son Charlie vanishes, they are all shocked, except for Liz.
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Educated : a memoir
by Tara Westover
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond
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Wallis in Love : The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
by Andrew Morton
921 WINDSOR, W., Mor A captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne. Although her life has constantly been the subject of much fascination, gossip, and speculation, her whole story has yet to be told. Now historical biographer Andrew Morton uses diary entries, letters, and other never-before-seen records to offer a fresh portrait of Wallis Simpson in all her vibrancy and brazenness as she climbed the social ladder, transforming from a hard-nosed gold digger to charming chatelaine.
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