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eReads The latest Fiction & Nonfiction additions to our digital collection. July 2019
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Alpha's Promise
by Rebecca Zanetti
Though he has vampire, demon, and Viking blood rushing through his veins, Ivar Kjeidsen's soul-crushing trip to hell broke him in ways he can barely fathom. One vow keeps the deadly immortal standing: To rescue the vampire brother who had sacrificed freedom for him. To do that, Ivar needs the help of a brilliant physicist with wary brown eyes, fierce brilliance, and skin that's way too soft. Dr. Promise Williams understands the underpinnings of the universe but has never figured out the human beings inhabiting it. Her function is to think—and not feel—until she's touched by a vampire who's nowhere near human. The primal hunger in his eyes awakens feelings in her that defy calculation. As she shows him the way to step between worlds, he brands her with a pleasure that could last more than a lifetime . . . Dark Protectors Series.
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Backlash : a thriller
by Brad Thor
Far from home and surrounded by enemies in the wake of an unforgivable betrayal, Scot Harvath tests the limits of his training in an effort to escape and exact revenge. By the award-winning author of Spymaster. The Scot Harvath Series.
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Beach house memories
by Mary Alice Monroe
A tale set in the 1970s American South shares the story of Lovie Rutledge, who reflects on a summer during which a beach vacation to escape her unfaithful, disdainful husband culminates in a fateful romance with a handsome biologist The Beach House Series, Book 3
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The body lies
by Jo Baker
Moving to an English countryside university after witnessing an assault in London, a young writer supervises an escalating debate about violence against women before one of her male students writes a novel about her horrific murder.
AUDIOBOOK also available.
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The bookshop on the shore
by Jenny Colgan
Taking a nanny job in the Scottish Highlands to escape her high-stress city life, a single mother cares for two wild charges and their widowed father, finding purpose and a sense of belonging along the way. By the author of The Bookshop on the Corner.
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Boone
by Lori Foster
The day April Kasper offered herself to Boone Barton is etched in her memory—for all the wrong reasons. He turned her down flat. Five years later the humiliation still stings, but April isn't a naive kid anymore. Now that Boone is back in Buckhorn, she needs him to see that she's older, wiser and over him. Or at least two out of three... Back then, Boone was a bad boy—no question. But even he knew that sweet, smart April was off-limits. Now though, it's an entirely different ball game. No matter how hard he's tried to forget her, she's plagued his dreams. So he's back in Buckhorn to prove that letting her go was the biggest mistake of his life, and a wise man never repeats his mistakes...
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Captivated
by Jeffery Deaver
Colter Shaw is a career "reward-seeker," making his living traveling the country and locating missing persons, collecting reward money in return. So it is not unusual when a wealthy entrepreneur hires him to track down his wife, an enigmatic artist who vanished one month before. As Shaw begins to investigate, he suspects that she was fleeing a bad marriage, and he follows her trail to an artists' retreat in Indiana. The case takes one surprising turn after another, and soon Shaw begins to wonder if this mysterious woman is more of a captor than a captive.
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Dear wife
by Kimberly Belle
A woman who has changed her identity to escape domestic abuse and a woman who has gone missing under suspicious circumstances find their lives connected in unexpected ways. By the best-selling author of Three Days Missing.
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The favorite daughter
by Patti Callahan Henry
Reluctantly returning to her South Carolina home a decade after a wrenching betrayal, a freelance travel writer teams up with her estranged siblings to record their Alzheimer's patient father's personal stories, bringing their own into unexpected focus.
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The first mistake
by Sandie Jones
Believing she has finally achieved happiness in her second marriage, children and best friendship with the most loyal woman she has ever known, Alice turns suspicious when her husband and best friend start disappearing for extended times.
AUDIOBOOK also available.
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Fix Her Up
by Tessa Bailey
When his best friend’s sister, Georgie, proposes a wild scheme—that they pretend to date to shock her family and help him land a new job, for major league baseball player Travis Ford agrees and soon finds himself wanting to make their fake relationship real.
AUDIOBOOK also available.
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Girl in the rearview mirror
by Kelsey Rae Dimberg
Accepting what she believes will be a dream job from a prominent political family, a young nanny is dazzled by her employers' glamorous life before a mysterious stranger draws her into a menacing web of secrets.
AUDIOBOOK also available.
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The idea of you
by Robinne Lee
A middle-aged art gallery owner begins a passionate fling with a member of her daughter’s favorite boy band, who is 19 years her junior, and must fend off rabid fans and insatiable media after their affair becomes a viral sensation.
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Irish eyes
by Mary Kay Andrews
When her friend and former partner, Bucky, is accused of being an accomplice in a liquor store robbery, cleaning lady-turned-sleuth Callahan Garrity investigates, and discovers Bucky might have been working both sides of the law. Callahan Garrity Series, Book 8
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The Last House Guest
by Megan Miranda
Littleport, Maine, has always felt like two separate towns: an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy, whose summer homes line the coastline; and a simple harbor community for the year-round residents whose livelihoods rely on service to the visitors.
Typically, fierce friendships never develop between a local and a summer girl—but that's just what happens with visitor Sadie Loman and Littleport resident Avery Greer. Each summer for almost a decade, the girls are inseparable—until Sadie is found dead. While the police rule the death a suicide, Avery can't help but feel there are those in the community, including a local detective and Sadie's brother, Parker, who blame her. Someone knows more than they're saying, and Avery is intent on clearing her name, before the facts get twisted against her.
AUDIOBOOK also available.
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The Lemon sisters
by Jill Shalvis
Free-spirited Brooke and her high-achieving sister, Mindy, reconnect in the face of devastating personal setbacks before deciding to trade places to confront long-kept secrets. By the best-selling author of Rainy Day Friends.
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Light from other stars : a novel
by Erika Swyler
Decades after her grieving father, a laid-off NASA scientist, triggers chaotic changes in his pursuit of life-extending technology, an astronaut confronts dangerous family secrets to stop a world-threatening crisis. By the author of The Book of Speculation.
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Lost and found : a novel
by Danielle Steel
Spurred by old memories and a life-changing accident, Madison embarks on a cross-country adventure to reconnect with three very different men to reevaluate her past choices.
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The missing years
by Lexie Elliott
When Ailsa Calder inherits her childhood home in the craggy peaks of the Scottish Highlands, she must contend with memories of her 27-years-gone father, a half-sister she's hardly known, the fact that neighborhood animals avoid the garden—and the nighttime intruder.
AUDIOBOOK also available.
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Montauk
by Nicola Harrison
Distancing herself from her unfaithful spouse and her fellow society wives at seaside Montauk Manor, Bea is drawn by the village's natural beauty and community spirit before falling for a man who is nothing like her husband.
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Murder in the locked library
by Ellery Adams
When a collection of unusual bones and the remains of a very old book are unearthed during Storyton Hall’s renovations, resulting in an unexpected historical mystery and murder, manager Jane Steward must uncover a killer before someone else meets an unhappy ending.
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Paranoid
by Lisa Jackson
Struggling with traumatic memories of the shooting accident that ended her half-brother's life 20 years earlier, guilt-ridden Rachael Gaston prepares for her high-school reunion in Edgewater, Oregon, and begins to doubt her sanity when things in her home start moving by themselves.
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The risk of us
by Rachel Howard
Becoming foster parents in the hopes of adopting a child, a couple takes in a dimpled 7-year-old whose traumatic rages threaten their marriage and test the extent of their resolve. A first novel.
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The Rumor
by Lesley Kara
When a single mother hears a shocking rumor outside her son's school, she never intends to pass it on. But one casual comment leads to another . . . and now there's no going back.
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Searching for Sylvie Lee
by Jean Kwok
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sisters and their mother—in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge. It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother—and then vanishes.
AUDIOBOOK also available.
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The song of the jade lily : a novel
by Kirsty Manning
Returning to Australia to attend her grandfather's deathbed, a heartbroken woman learns the remarkable story of her grandmother, a Jewish refugee who forged a fateful friendship with a local in World War II Shanghai.
AUDIOBOOK also available.
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Sophie's Heart
by Lori Wick
After the tragic death of his wife, Alec Riley struggles to put his life back together. He and his three children are lost in their grief...until Sophie walks unexpectedly into their lives. Having left her native Czechoslovakia, Sophie has discovered the land which seemed so bright with promise is far from her dream. A highly educated woman, Sophie now finds herself keeping house for Alec and his family. How can Sophie find peace in her new job? Will God use her gentle spirit to help heal Alec's broken heart?
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Star-crossed : a novel
by Minnie Darke
Convinced that her childhood sweetheart and she are ideally suited upon discovering he is an astrology devotee, a secretly skeptical horoscope magazine writer takes matters into her own hands when the young man does not return her affections.
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Summer of '69
by Elin Hilderbrand
A pregnant eldest sibling, a middle-sister civil rights activist, an infantry soldier brother deployed to Vietnam and a lonely 13-year-old youngest child find their lives upended by troubling family secrets.
AUDIOBOOK also available.
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Swimming Lessons
by Mary Alice Monroe
Toy Sooner has dealt with enough rough waves in her troubled past. It's only been through the enduring love of a close-knit group of women on this tiny island that she's finally started to find her footing. But as new challenges in her career arise for this young single mother, the choices and demons of her past will catch up to her. Soon Toy will learn that, like the steadfast sea turtles she cares for, a mother must find the strength within herself to make it safely to shore. The Beach House Series, Book 2
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Three days missing
by Kimberly Belle
A woman learns that her son has gone missing from a field trip and then receives a mysterious ransom call for another boy who is safe and at home. By the national best-selling author of The Marriage Lie.
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Wolf rain
by Nalini Singh
Emancipated by a bad-tempered wolf from a kidnapper who would exploit her psychic abilities, a defiant woman awakens her rescuer's primal nature, forcing him to risk everything to prevent her annihilation. Psy-Changeling Trinity Series, Book 3
AUDIOBOOK also available.
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Wyoming bold
by Diana Palmer
After a gang of smugglers leaves former border agent Dalton Kirk for dead, he returns to his Wyoming ranch, hoping for a more peaceful life, until the lovely Merissa Baker comes to his door, saying that she has had visions that he is in danger. Wyoming Men Series, Book 3
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County [Audio]
by Mark Twain
According to an LA Times May 14, 2014 article, the following entry came from a notebook of a gold seeking prospector, Samuel Clemens, in 1864. "Coleman with his jumping frog—bet stranger $50...—stranger had no frog & C got him one—in the meantime stranger filled C's frog full of shot and he couldn't jump—the stranger's frog won." Little did Clemens know that this would be the source for his short story that would launch his career as one of America's greatest authors. The story was first published in the New York weekly, The Saturday Press, which gained Twain national attention.
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Of Mice & Men
by John Steinbeck
Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck's tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America's most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.
AUDIOBOOK also available.
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The Ransom of Red Chief [Audio]
by O. Henry
First published in The Saturday Evening Post, The Ransom of Red Chief is a humorous short story written in 1910 by O. Henry. A pair of con men kidnap and attempt to ransom a prominent Alabama citizen's son. Immediately they find themselves at the mercy of a particularly spoiled and clever boy who begins driving them mad. The ironic ending remains the story's most enduring feature.
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The Time Machine [Audio]
by H. G. Wells
I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud. The time traveler is on his way to a different world-his world 800,000 years in the future. He returns and recounts his journey to his friends at a dinner party.
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Recently Added Nonfiction
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All We Knew but Couldn't Say
by Joanne Vannicola
Joanne Vannicola grew up in a violent home with a physically abusive father and a mother who had no sexual boundaries. After being pressured to leave home at fourteen, and after fifteen years of estrangement, Joanne learns that her mother is dying. Compelled to reconnect, she visits with her, unearthing a trove of devastating secrets. Joanne relates her journey from child performer to Emmy Award–winning actor, from hiding in the closet to embracing her own sexuality, from conflicted daughter and sibling to independent woman. All We Knew But Couldn't Say is a testament to survival, love, and the belief that it is possible to love the broken, and to love fully, even with a broken heart.
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How to raise successful people : simple lessons for radical results
by Esther Wojcicki
The co-author of Moonshots in Education outlines simple, counter-intuitive approaches to raising happy, healthy and successful children through parental demonstrations of respectful examples and child-directed activities that facilitate early independence and problem-solving skills.
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The latte factor : why you don't have to be rich to live rich
by David Bach
The best-selling author of The Automatic Millionaire and the award-winning author of The Go-Giver outline three inspirational secrets to financial freedom that explain how readers can use their current resources to pursue their dreams.
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Legacy of Ashes : The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner
A New York Times reporter offers a powerful indictment of the CIA and its intelligence-gathering capabilities as he traces the history of the organization from the end of World War II to Iraq, in a study that condemns the CIA for its record, its inability to understand world affairs, the violence it has unleashed, and its undermining of American politics.
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Mama's boy : a story from our Americas
by Dustin Lance Black
The Academy Award-winning screenwriter and political activist presents a candid, resonant memoir of his experiences as a young gay Mormon in Texas whose polio-disabled mother taught him about surviving against all odds.
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Range : why generalists triumph in a specialized world
by David J. Epstein
The Sports Illustrated senior writer shares counter-intuitive advice on the most effective path to success in any domain while revealing the essential contributions of generalist, not specialist, team members
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Stay sexy & don't get murdered : the definitive how-to guide
by Karen Kilgariff
A dual memoir by the hosts of the My Favorite Murder podcast share never-before-heard stories about their battles with depression, eating disorders and addiction, sharing insights into the cultural forces that prevent people from being their own advocates.
AUDIOBOOK also available.
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Twelve patients : life and death at Bellevue Hospital
by Eric Manheimer
A former medical director of Bellevue Hospital in New York offers stories from the case histories of twelve patients, ranging from a homeless man to a prominent Wall Street financier, to humanize current social issues
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Unfreedom of the press
by Mark R. Levin
Presents a history of American journalism from the patriot press in the revolutionary war to partisan party-press, and a critique of the state of a once proud and respected profession
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Recently Nonfiction Added Audio Editions
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