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Available Formats: Hardcover, BRIDGES eBook and BRIDGES Audiobook |
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The Prisoner
by B. A. Paris
Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the handsome billionaire Ned Hawthorne. But then, Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun to feel with her husband Ned?
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Available Formats: Hardcover, Large print, BRIDGES eBook and BRIDGES Audiobook |
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A Painted House
by John Grisham
A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born ... and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly, bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Luke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives -- and change his family and his town forever....
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Available Formats: Hardcover, BRIDGES eBook and BRIDGES Audiobook |
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Just the Nicest Couple
by Mary Kubica
When her husband Jake vanishes without a trace, Nina Hayes will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, which, unbeknownst to her, is inextricably linked to their close friends, who may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing.
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Available Formats: Hardcover, BRIDGES eBook and BRIDGES Audiobook |
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The Home for Unwanted Girls
by Joanna Goodman
At fifteen, Maggie was forced to give up her baby in 1950s Quebec when she become pregnant with her childhood sweetheart. As an adult, Maggie makes the wrenching decision to abandon a more secure life to search for her daughter, Elodie, who, after enduring torturous conditions in orphanages and psychiatric hospitals, struggles to survive in an unnerving alien world.
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The Boys from Biloxi
by John Grisham
The #1New York Times best-selling author sets the stage for his most gripping thriller yet as he returns to Mississippi where his page-turning twists and turns lead to a stunning conclusion. A riveting story of two sons of immigrant families who grow up as friends, but ultimately find themselves on opposite sides of the law and headed for a showdown, one that would happen in a courtroom.
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The Break-Up Book Club
by Wendy Wax
Jazmine, Judith, Erin and Sara are four very different women leading very different lives. With the help of books, laughter, and the joy of ever evolving friendships, they find the courage to navigate new and surprising chapters of their lives as they seek their own versions of happily-ever-after.
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Dead Sea Rising
by Jerry B. Jenkins
Nicole Berman is an archaeologist on the brink of a world-changing discovery. Preparing for her first dig in Jordan, she believes she has found concrete evidence of a biblical patriarch that could change history books forever. But someone doesn't want the truth revealed. While urgently trying to connect pieces of an ancient puzzle, a dangerous enemy is out to stop her.
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Available Formats: Hardcover, BRIDGES eBook and BRIDGES Audiobook |
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Fire
by Kristin Cashore
In this suspenseful prequel to Graceling, Fire, a beautiful girl with the power to control the minds of others, must do all she can to stay alive during the deadly times facing her land in the Dells with impending war upon them.
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March 27, 2023 6:30pm at the Library Book Discussion: The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf April 24, 2023 6:30pm at the Library Book Discussion: The Library Book by Susan Orlean Multiple copies are made available at the library for upcoming selections. Contact the library for more information. |
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Independence Public Library
805 1st St East
Independence, Iowa 50644
319-334-2470
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