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Fiction A to Z December 2017
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The man in the crooked hat
by Harry Dolan
Having spent two years searching for the man he believes murdered his wife, private investigator Jack Pellum follows a bewildering message to a winding trail of unsolved murders and a philosophical man with a dark and secret past.
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| The End We Start From by Megan HunterThis post-apocalyptic debut is set in London, England -- though parts of the city itself are deep under water. After giving birth to a baby boy, our unnamed narrator flees north with her husband and son, seeking refuge first with family, then with the government, and finally on their own. |
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Unleash the Night
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Wren Tigarian, a forbidden blend of snow leopard and white tiger, already shunned by the Were community, finds himself attracted to the human daughter of a U.S. Senator in the latest addition to the Dark-hunters series
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Roomies
by Christina Lauren
Modern love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in Christina Lauren's new romance. Calvin is set for a great entry into Broadway until he admits his student visa has expired. Holland impulsively offers to wed the Irishman to keep him in New York, her growing infatuation a secret only to him.
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| Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance by Bill McKibbenWhat if Vermont were to secede from the U.S., relying on a barter economy and the fruits of local labor? That's exactly what radio personality Vern Barclay aims to find out, as his attempts to sidestep big box stores and Coors beer in favor of shopping local. This debut novel wrestles with questions of ethics and morality. |
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Three Daughters of Eve
by Elif Shafak
A tale by the internationally best-selling author of The Architect's Apprentice is set over an evening in contemporary Istanbul and follows the efforts of a woman to navigate cultural, religious and economic tensions during a seaside mansion dinner party while enduring painful memories of her deep multicultural friendships during her Oxford years.
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The ice house : a novel
by Laura Lee Smith
A man on the brink of losing his family's business in the wake of a mysterious accident receives an equally devastating health diagnosis that compels him to reach out to his estranged drug-addict son and the baby granddaughter he has never met.
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Cell
by Robin Cook
Entering a profession on the brink of radical transformation by a new smartphone technology capable of diagnosing and treating patients, radiology resident George Wilson is horrified when his fiancée and several patients die after beta testing the technology. By the best-selling author of Intervention.
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| Pachinko by Min Jin Lee At 16, Sunja becomes pregnant and, spurned by her married lover, reluctantly accepts a marriage proposal from a minister. The newlyweds travel to Japan to begin their life together, setting the stage for a sweeping multi-generational family saga that spans decades and touches on pivotal events of the 20th century. |
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Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
The critically acclaimed author lends a comic twist to a contemporary morality tale involving two eminent Englishmen who make a pact over the grave of a mutual lover, with disastrous consequences.
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| Commonwealth by Ann PatchettIt's at the christening for baby Franny Keating in Southern California that the implosion of two nuclear families begins and when the dust clears, Franny and her sister have gained four step-siblings. Over the next few years, the Keatings and Cousins children are forced together by overwhelmed parents, growing "like a pack of feral dogs" during long summers in Virginia. |
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Lila
by Marilynne Robinson
Triggering a romance and debate by seeking shelter in a church and becoming a minister's wife, homeless Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.
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