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New @ PPL Books on CD & Playaway July
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Against the Rules
by Linda Howard
When Cathryn Ashe was seventeen, she ran away to the anonymity of the city after a romantic encounter with Rule Jackson, the manager of her father's ranch. Now, eight years later, her father has passed away, leaving her the ranch, and Cathryn returns to claim what's hers...and to challenge Rule like never before.
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Brush Back
by Sara Paretsky
Reluctantly agreeing to help when an old high-school boyfriend asks her to exonerate his mother for the murder of his sister, V. I. Warshawski is forced to confront ugly politics and violent elements in the depressed steel mill town of her youth. Read by Susan Ericksen. Simultaneous.
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The First Confessor
by Terry Goodkind
A prequel to the Sword of Truth series follows the experiences of Magda Searus, who is shunned by her community members when she makes unsettling discoveries about her powerful husband's suicide and ventures out into a war-stricken world. Simultaneous.
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Go set a watchman : a novel
by Harper Lee
A highly anticipated release of a newly discovered early work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird continues the stories of iconic characters 20 years later during turbulent 1950s America. Simultaneous.
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Huckleberry Summer
by Jennifer Beckstrand
A mischievous Amish couple in their 80s discovers there is nothing more rewarding than sparking unexpected love between their grandson, Aden Helmuth, and Amish girl Lily Eicher.
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The ice limit
by Douglas J Preston
When a meteorite possessing secrets about human evolution is discovered in a desolate region of Chile, an expedition team sets out to recover it but finds increasing mysteries and dangerous challenges along the way
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The naked eye
by Iris Johansen
Resolving to track down serial killer Eric Colby four months after the events of Sight Unseen, Kendra Michaels takes in Eve Duncan's troubled sister, Beth, only to find herself framed for the murder of a police officer. By a pair of New York Times best-selling authors. Simultaneous.
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Naked greed
by Stuart Woods
Rescuing a prominent brewery owner from an attack by two rogue policemen, Stone Barrington is catapulted into the turbulent, high-stakes world of beer making and distribution. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Chiefs. Simultaneous.
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Nemesis : Library Edition
by Catherine Coulter
Special Agent Lacey Sherlock interrogates a terrorist she prevented from launching a grenade at an American airport while Dillon Savich tracks a killer who styles himself like a Hollywood Dracula
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Racing the Rain
by John L. Parker
A prequel to the best-selling Once a Runner follows the coming-of-age of future world-class athlete Quenton Cassidy, who races against the forces of nature near his mid-20th-century Gold Coast home before befriending a regional eccentric.
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The friends of Jesus
by Karen Kingsbury
Looks at the lives of six of Jesus' close companions, providing character sketches and investigating the scriptural teachings associated with them
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Dark Places of the Earth : The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope
by Jonathan M. Bryant
Drawing from untapped archives, a professor of history who specializes in slavery and constitutional law investigates one of the most significant—and shocking and unjustly forgotten—Supreme Court cases in American history involving the slave ship Antelope and the 300 African lives at stake.
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Forensics : What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
by Val McDermid
Drawing on interviews with top professionals, cutting-edge research and the author's own firsthand experience on the scene with top forensic scientists, a gripping volume explores the history of forensic science, real-world murders and the people who, confronting unimaginable evil, must solve them. By an internationally best-selling author.
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A full life : reflections at ninety
by Jimmy Carter
The thirty-ninth president and Nobel Peace Prize winner reflects on his full and happy life with pride and humor--and a few second thoughts
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A Thousand Miles to Freedom : My Escape from North Korea
by Sebastien Falletti
In an exposé of North Korea's totalitarian regime, the author recounts her childhood in North Korea and the harrowing 9-year journey to South Korea and freedom, during which she lived homeless, fell into the hands of Chinese human traffickers, survived a North Korean labor camp and crossed the deserts of Mongolia on foot. Read by Emily Woo Zeller. Simultaneous.
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The Oregon Trail : a new American journey
by Rinker Buck
Recounts the author's two-thousand-mile trip on the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way, in a covered wagon with a team of mules, and discusses the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the United States
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