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New This Month from Axis360April 2017
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About Axis360 -- Something New!
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Axis360 eBooksStarting this month, something new will be happening on NHCPL's Axis 360 site. Instead of placing one new order per month, many popular author's titles are on standing order. No more having to wait several weeks to have a chance at the downloadable version of those latest bestsellers!
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The Burial Hour
by Jeffery Deaver
A return to Deaver's successful series finds Lincoln Rhyme investigating the abduction of a traveling businessman from an Upper East Side street, a case that is complicated by an 8-year-old girl who was the crime's only witness.
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The Horse Dancer
by Jojo Moyes
A headstrong teen quietly training to become an elite equestrian to fulfill her ailing grandfather's ambitions is taken in by a struggling lawyer and her estranged husband, whose lives are thrown into turmoil by a devastating secret. By the best-selling author of Me Before You.
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Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve : What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing
by Ben Blatt
Statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world's greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors' favorite words? Do men and women write differently? Are bestsellers getting dumber over time? Which bestselling writer uses the most clichés? How can we judge a book by its cover? This eye-opening book will provide you with a new appreciation for your favorite authors and a fresh perspective on your own writing, illuminating both the patterns that hold great prose together and the brilliant flourishes that make it unforgettable.
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