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Book Pot Luck February 1, 2020
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The editor : a novel
by Steven Rowley
A struggling writer in 1990s New York City gets his big break from none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. By the author of Lily and the Octopus. DD
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The mother-in-law
by Sally Hepworth
A woman's obsessive fears about how much she disappoints her successful, pillar-of-the-community mother-in-law lead to a controversial disinheritance and a suspicious suicide. By the best-selling author of The Family Next Door. MH
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The pearl that broke its shell
by Nadia Hashimi
Adopting the custom of bacha posh in 2007 Kabul, which allows her to dress and be treated as a boy, attend school and chaperone her sisters until she is of marriageable age, Rahima, the daughter of a drug-addicted father, discovers that she is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom. GT
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The wedding shop
by Rachel Hauck
A former soldier suffering from PTSD moves to a small, Tennessee town and honors the memory of a fallen friend by re-opening a long abandoned wedding shop, discovering hope and healing through helping others. SB.
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Next year in Havana
by Chanel Cleeton
A freelance writer returns to her grandmother’s homeland to fulfill her last wish to have her ashes scattered in Havana and discovers her family history amidst Cuba’s tropical beauty and dangerous political environment. PM.
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Summer of '69
by Elin Hilderbrand
During the tumultuous summer of 1969, the children of the Levin family, looking forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic Nantucket home, find their lives upended by troubling family secrets. BP
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The lager queen of Minnesota
by J. Ryan Stradal
A talented baker running a business out of her nursing home reconnects with her master brewer sister at the same time her pregnant granddaughter launches an IPA brewpub. By the award-winning author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest. LR
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Inheriting Edith : Library Edition
by Zoe Fishman
After Maggie's friend commits suicide, Maggie is left her house with the caveat that she care for her friend's eighty-two-year-old mother, Edith, and Maggie and Edith form a tentative alliance as they deal with death, forgiveness, and their own secrets. TR
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The daughter of Sherlock Holmes : A Mystery
by Leonard S Goldberg
A highly skilled nurse with unique mental talents is recruited into the investigative team of the elderly Dr. John Watson and his handsome son before being swept up in a Holmesian mystery with ties to the Second Afghan War, a hidden treasure and a murder at the highest levels of British society. By the best-selling author of Fever Cell. MC
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The death of Mrs. Westaway
by Ruth Ware
After erroneously receiving a mysterious letter about a large inheritance, Hal attends the deceased’s funeral and realizes that something is very, very wrong. By the New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood. AL
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Silent witness
by Richard North Patterson
Years after being wrongfully accused of the murder of his first love, Alison, successful San Francisco attorney Tony Lord returns to Lake City, Ohio, to defend old friend Sam Robb, charged with killing one of his students, and confronts the buried secrets of his past, WA
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Comfort food
by Kate Jacobs
Tiring of playing the hostess as her fiftieth birthday approaches, celebrity chef Augusta Simpson endeavors to distance herself from her overly dependent loved ones and receives assistance from handsome fellow chef Oliver in her efforts to launch an on-air cooking class. By the author of The Friday Night Knitting Club. CC
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Those who save us
by Jenna Blum
A professor of German history begins a long journey back into a past she has pushed aside, returning to Germany to reopen the wounds of her own life--as well as that of her mother--as a child living in Nazi Germany. JF
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The secrets we kept
by Lara Prescott
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago. GT
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The bride test
by Helen Hoang
"When his difficulties with processing emotions complicate the search for his bride, a Vietnamese-American on the autism spectrum is pursued by a hopelessly smitten girl from the Ho Chi Min City slums. By the author of ""The Kiss Quotient" AL
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The sweetness at the bottom of the pie [sound recording]
by C. Alan Bradley
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is propelled into a mystery when a man is found murdered on the grounds of her family's decaying English mansion and Flavia's father becomes the main suspect. Read by Jayne Entwistle. MH
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Stillbringer
by Zile Elliven
After learning her family plans to kill her, Aeyli escapes the prison she’s been kept in ‘for the greater good’. She manages to stay one step ahead of her pursuers until a stroke of bad luck leaves her alone, defenseless, and out of options. Faced with certain death, Aeyli flees into the night and lands in the middle of a battlefield. Is she brave enough to ally herself with the monster she finds there, or will she die, never learning the true nature of the power burning inside her?Agent Fourteen has no thought beyond the current mission—his mind, his life, and his will are bound tightly under the yoke of The Company. A momentary break in his conditioning is all it takes for him to yearn for freedom. Can Fourteen fight his programming long enough to attain true freedom. MH
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Small Miracles of the Holocaust : Extraordinary Coincidences of Faith, Hope, and Survival
by Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum
Brings together a collection of inspirational, uplifting stories of survival, endurance, and faith amid the darkest horrors of the Holocaust, presenting more than fifty real-life tales of heroism, remarkable reunions, transcendent love stories, life-saving coincidences, and more. JD
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Happy money : the science of smarter spending
by Elizabeth Dunn
Two rising stars in behavior science outline five core principles in responsible spending that can promote security and well-being, drawing on new research and the examples of leading companies to reveal how to gain greater happiness from such practices as investing in experiences rather than material objects and spending money on others. GT
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