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New This Month from Axis360August 2019
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Axis360 eBooks
Axis360 is one of several eBook services available through NHCPL. Unlike North Carolina Digital Library, which NHCPL shares with a number of other public library systems across the state, the Axis360 eBooks are available to NHCPL borrowers only.
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The turn of the key
by Ruth Ware
When Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by the luxurious "smart" home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into a nightmare--one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the unravelling events that led to her incarceration. It wasn't just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn't just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn't even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman, Jack Grant. It was everything. She knows she's made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn't always ideal. She's not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she's not guilty--at least not of murder. Which means someone else is.
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Things you save in a fire
by Katherine Center
When a family emergency compels her move from Texas to Boston, a skilled firefighter becomes the only woman in her new firehouse and navigates discrimination, low funding and her private edicts about falling in love with another firefighter.
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Someone we know
by Shari LapeƱa
In a quiet suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses--and into the owners' computers--and causing a stir by learning and sharing the residents' secrets, until a murder causes the tension to reach a breaking point.
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