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List created by Linda T. (snigglefitz) - , on Jan 11, 2019
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The Girl in the Ice (Detective Erika Foster, Bk 1) by Robert Bryndza
Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice…She is not the only one.  When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder...  more

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Creating a Marriage by James Greteman
This inspirational "how-to" manual for making any marriage better shows how to integrate the stages of individual life development into the stages of marriage.

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I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg
Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie’s life seems practically perfect -- she’s lovely, charming, and a successful real estate agent at Red Mountain Realty. Still, Maggie can’t help but wonder how she wound up in her present...  more

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Heft by Liz Moore
Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn’t left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball career. The link between this...  more

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The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew
On a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard along with Jubie are her three siblings, her mother, and the family's black maid, Mary Luther. For as long as Jubie can...  more

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Say When by Elizabeth Berg
When is a marriage worth saving and when is it best to let go? When do half-truths turn into full-blown lies? When does betrayal end and passion begin? Say When is a compelling, complex novel that takes readers into the heart of a modern marriage where companionship and intimacy, and denial...  more

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An Italian Affair by Laura Fraser
When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. What they both assume will be...  more

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Bar...
January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written...  more

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The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille
From the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of Plum Island and Night Fall, Nelson DeMille?s blistering new novel features an exciting new character?US Army combat veteran Daniel ?Mac? MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, who is about to set sail on his most dangerous...  more

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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
When their recently widowed father announces that he plans to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda realize that they must learn to put aside a lifetime of bitter rivalry in order to save him. The new woman in his life is Valentina, a voluptuous gold-digger from Ukraine, fifty years his junior,...  more

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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history   In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage...  more

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Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
The most popular of C. S. Lewis' works of nonfiction, Mere Christianity brings together Lewis' legendary broadcast talks of the war years, talks in which he set out simply to “explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times.” Rejecting the...  more

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Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don't know you've lost someone until you've found them.   1987. There's only one person...  more

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The John McPhee Reader by John McPhee & William L. Howarth (Editor)
The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author’s first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist,...  more

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Spellbinder's Gift by Og Mandino
In his long and successful career as an agent to many of the most famous and dynamic motivational speakers in the world, Bart Manning had no peer. But when a series of misfortunes silenced the voices of his star clients, he happily retired. He'd had his last innings, and with his lovely wife,...  more

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The Vanished Man (Lincoln Rhyme, Bk 5) (Audio CD) (Abridged) by Jeffery Deaver & ...
It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. When a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot, they break down the door. The room is empty. Forensic criminologist...  more

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The Cinderella Murder (Under Suspicion, Bk 2) (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Mary Higgins...
Television producer Laurie Moran is delighted when the pilot for her reality drama, Under Suspicion, is a success. Even more, the program -- a cold case series that revisits unsolved crimes by recreating them with those affected -- is off to a fantastic start when it helps solve an infamous...  more

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Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel & Carol Christensen (Translator) &...
To the table or to bed...You must come when you are bid The number-one bestseller in Mexico in 1990, Like Water for Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with bittersweet moments of magic and sensuality. Evocative of How to Make an American Quilt in...  more

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River of Hope: My Journey with Kathy in Search of Healing from Lou Gehrig's Disease b...
This true story chronicles the frustrations and joys of Kathy Tank as she fought to beat Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), which she refered to as this monster within me. Told from the perspective of her husband, River of Hope reveals how a regimen of pharmaceutically-based medical care failed Kathy...  more

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Angel's Rest by Charles Davis
Growing up in Virginia's Allegheny Mountains, eleven-year-old Charlie York lives at the foot of an endless peak called Angel's Rest, a place his momma told him angels rested before coming down to help folks. In 1967 his town was a poor boy's paradise…until a shotgun blast killed Charlie's...  more

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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates...  more

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Joyland (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Stephen King & MIchael Kelly (Narrator)
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life...  more

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Revival (Audio MP3 CD) (Unabridged) by Stephen King & David Morse (Narrator)
The new minister came to Harlow, Maine, when Jamie Morton was a boy doing battle with his toy army men on the front lawn. The young Reverend Charles Jacobs and his beautiful wife brought new life to the local church and captivated their congregation. But with Jamie, he shares a secret...  more

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Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
On a balmy July night in New Hampshire a shot rings out in a garden, and a man falls to the ground, terribly wounded. The wounded man is Spencer McCullough, the shot that hit him was fired?accidentally??by his adolescent daughter Charlotte. With this shattering moment of violence, Chris...  more

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The Marriage of Opposites (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Alice Hoffman & Gloria Reube...
A forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro - the Father of Impressionism. Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of...  more

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Amistad by Alexs D. Pate
Based on the true story of the 1839 mutiny on board the Spanish slave ship, Amistad, here is the frightening sequence of events that led fifty-three young men and women - and one young nation - to seek freedom and justice for all people. Amistad is the story of Cinque, the illegally enslaved...  more

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Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Theatre director S. Walker inadvertently reveals some of the less savory facts of her childhood to the NY Times. The article brands her mother, a tap dancing child abuser. She virtually disowns her daughter. A conspiracy is created to bring everyone together. Through a series of flashbacks from...  more

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The Flight Attendant: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened. Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover...  more

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Rainwater (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Sandra Brown & Victor Slezak (Narrator)
The year is 1934.  With the country in the stranglehold of drought and economic depression, Ella Barron runs her Texas boardinghouse with an efficiency that ensures her life will be kept in balance.  Between chores of cooking and cleaning for her residents, she cares for her...  more

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The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Human resilience and enduring love, through the chaos of World War II and in its aftermath... “Bloom where you’re planted” is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German...  more

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The President Is Missing (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Bill Clinton & James Patterso...
The President Is Missing confronts a threat so huge that it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street, but all of America. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the Cabinet. Even the President himself becomes a...  more

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An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
In An American Marriage we meet Celestial, a thirtysomething African American woman from an upper-middle-class Atlanta family who is a year and a half into a marriage with a man named Roy. Roy views his much more modest, small-town Louisiana upbringing as a gift of humility, but he's also...  more

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Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion human beings attempt to follow his teachings and believe he is God. Killing Jesus will take readers inside Jesus's life, recounting the seismic...  more

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The Casual Vacancy (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by J. K. Rowling & Tom Hollander (Narr...
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers...  more

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Camino Island: A Novel by John Grisham & John Grisham & John Grisham & Jo...
A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University?s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.      Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino...  more

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The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival--literally scratching numbers into...  more

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The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court by Michelle Moran
After the bloody French Revolution, Emperor Napoleon’s power is absolute. When Marie-Louise, the eighteen year old daughter of the King of Austria, is told that the Emperor has demanded her hand in marriage, her father presents her with a terrible choice: marry the cruel, capricious...  more

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If Today Be Sweet by Thrity Umrigar
The recent death of her beloved husband, Rustom, has taken its toll on Tehmina Sethna. Now, while visiting her son, Sorab, in his suburban Ohio home, she is being asked to choose between continuing her old life in India and starting a new one in this unfamiliar country with her son, his American...  more

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The Whistler by John Grisham
From John Grisham, America’s #1 bestselling author, comes the most electrifying novel of the year, a high-stakes thrill ride through the darkest corners of the Sunshine State.   We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity and impartiality are the bedrock of the...  more

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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Highlighted by extensive interviews with Buffett, as well as family, friends, and colleagues, a detailed portrait of the life and career of legendary investment guru Warren Buffett sheds new light on the man, as well as on the work, ideas, business principles, strategies, and no-nonsense...  more

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Where the Crawdads Sing (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Delia Owens & Cassandra Campbe...
A novel about a young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit...  more

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The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott
Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy. Tess, an...  more

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The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
In this epic, critically-acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning tour de force, Adam Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost...  more

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The Coming Storm: Extreme Weather and Our Terrifying Future by Bob Reiss
Tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, heat wavesacts of God or the results of mans actions? To answer that question, this riveting book places readers in the eye of todays deadliest storms. If you think the worlds weather catastrophes are becoming more frequent and more powerful, youre right. Ten of...  more

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A Spark of Light (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Jodi Picoult & Bahni Turpin (Narrator...
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center -- a women’s reproductive health services clinic -- its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After...  more

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Born in Death (In Death, Bk 23) (Audio CD) (Abridged) by J. D. Robb & Susan Erick...
Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers -- both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm -- are brutally killed on the same night.  It doesn't leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that's...  more

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Her One Mistake by Heidi Perks
What should have been a fun-filled, carefree day takes a tragic turn for the worse for one mother when her best friend's child goes missing in this suspenseful, compulsively readable, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.It all started at the school fairCharlotte was supposed to be looking...  more

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Cross Roads (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Wm. Paul Young & Roger Mueller (Narrator)
Anthony Spencer is egotistical, proud of being a self-made business success at the peak of his game, even though the cost of winning was painfully high. A cerebral hemorrhage leaves Tony comatose in a hospital ICU. He 'awakens' to find himself in a surreal world, a 'living'...  more

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Audio CD) (Un...
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was...  more

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Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks
In the romantic tradition of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a story about a chance encounter that becomes a touchstone for two vastly different individuals-transcending decades, continents, and the bittersweet workings of...  more

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Innocent in Death (In Death Series) by J. D. Robb
The death of history teacher Craig Foster devastated his young wife, who?d sent him off to work that morning with a lovingly packed lunch. It shocked his colleagues at the Upper West Side private school. And as for the ten-year-old girls who found him in his classroom in a pool of bodily fluids,...  more

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Ordinary Grace (Audio MP3 CD) (Unabridged) by William Kent Krueger & Rich Orlow (...
Award-winning author William Kent Krueger has gained an immense readership for his Cork O’Connor series. In Ordinary Grace, Krueger looks back to 1961 to tell the story of Frank Drum, a boy on the cusp of manhood. A typical 13-year-old with a strong, loving family, Frank is devastated...  more

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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love (Thorndike Press Large Print ...
The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she recently made about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life. What makes us who...  more

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The Silent Patient (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Alex Michaelides & Louise Brealey (...
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot,...  more

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