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Our librarians have been busy ordering new books for you! Visit Pals Plus Overdrive on our website or through the Libby App for some new eBooks & audio books!

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Revised and Updated: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Covey, Stephen R. · SIMON & SCHUSTER

*New York Times bestseller--over 25 million copies sold * *The #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century* One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed...
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28 Summers

Elin Hilderbrand · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Summer of '69: Their secret love affair has lasted for decades -- but this could be the summer that changes everything.

When Mallory Blessing's son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper...
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Beach Read

Emily Henry · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

"Sparklingly bright." --Sally Thorne, USA Today bestselling author of The Hating GameA romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.Augustus...
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The Cellist of Sarajevo

Steven Galloway · Riverhead Books
Pages: 268
Format: eBook

A spare and haunting, wise and beautiful novel about war and the endurance of the human spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity.

In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are ultimately reminded of what it is to be human. From his window,...
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Dear Ann

Bobbie Ann Mason · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Book

From the acclaimed Kentucky author of the classics Shiloh and Other Stories and In Country comes a beautifully crafted and profoundly moving novel which follows a woman as she looks back over her life and her first love.

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Eli's Promise: A Novel

Ronald H. Balson



Eli's Promise is a masterful work of historical fiction spanning three eras -- Nazi-occupied Poland, the American Zone of post-war Germany, and Chicago at the height of the Vietnam War. Award-winning author Ronald H. Balson explores the human cost of war, the mix

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The Exiles: A Novel

Allison Lynn · Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed; Library edition
Format: Audio CD

A couple escaping the opulent lifestyle of Manhattan’s Upper East Side move to Newport, Rhode Island, only to be confronted by the trappings of the life they tried to leave behind. Nate, a midlevel wall streeter, and his longtime girlfriend Emily are effectively evicted from New York...
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Final Cut: A Novel

S. J. Watson

A gripping new psychological thriller from S.J. Watson, the New York Times bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep, in which a documentary filmmaker travels to a sleepy fishing village to shoot her new film and encounters a dark mystery surrounding the disappearance of a loc

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The finder : a novel

Colin Harrison; Jason Culp · BBC Audiobooks America
Format: Audiobook

A beautiful, secretive Chinese woman, Jin-Li, gets involved in a brilliant scheme to steal valuable information from corporations in New York City. When the plan is discovered by powerful New Yorkers who stand to lose enormous sums of money, Jin-Li goes on the run. Meanwhile, her former...
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The Friendship List: Library Edition

Susan Mallery · Blackstone Pub
Format: Audiobook

New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery delights with an engaging novel about two women who are as close as sisters and the summer that changes their lives forever…As a single mom, Ellen Fox missed out on a lot, but she wouldn’t change a thing—until she overhears her son saying...
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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

Eric Jay Dolin · Liveright
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling author of Leviathan returns with the first major historical account of America's hurricanes, and reveals how they've shaped our nation. From the moment European colonists laid violent claim to this land, hurricanes have had a profound and visceral impact on American...
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The Girl from Widow Hills: A Novel

Megan Miranda

Everyone knows the story of "the girl from Widow Hills."

Arden Maynor was just a child when she was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm and went missing for days. Strangers and friends, neighbors and rescue workers, set up search parties a
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The Girl with the Louding Voice: A Novel

Abi Daré





"A celebration of girls who dare to dream." - Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club pick)

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by The New York Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, Ess
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The Guest List: A Novel

Lucy Foley

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong." - Alex Michaelides, #

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The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs

Robert J. Mrazek

When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secret
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It Is Wood, It Is Stone: A Novel

Gabriella Burnham

. . . ." - Elle (One of the Most Anticipated New Books of Summer)

With sharp, gorgeous prose, It Is Wood, It Is Stone takes place over the course of a year in São Paulo, Brazil, in which two women's lives intersect.

Linda, an anxious and re
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JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956

Fredrik Logevall

By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish America
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The Last Train to Key West

Chanel Cleeton · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler's legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation....
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The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones · Gallery / Saga Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood...
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Pretty Things: A Novel

Janelle Brown
Format: Hardcover

Two wildly different women - one a grifter, the other an heiress - are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a page-turner from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear. "Pretty Things is awesome. Simple as that. I loved every page. Janelle Brown is your...
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Saint X: A Novel

Alexis Schaitkin




When you lose the person who is most essential to you, who do you become?

Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, included in Good Morning America's 20 Books We're Excited for in 2020 & named as one of Vogue's Best Books to Read This Winter,

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The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides · Celadon Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

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,...
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The Son of Good Fortune: A Novel

Lysley Tenorio · Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning author Lysley Tenorio, comes a big hearted debut novel following an undocumented Filipino son as he navigates his relationship with his mother, an uncertain future, and the place he calls homeExcel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager....
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To Tell You the Truth: A Novel

Gilly Macmillan · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"One of the most unsettling - and unforgettable - heroines I've ever met." - Shari LapenaThe acclaimed author of The Nanny, I Know What You Know, and Odd Child Out - "a writer to watch" (Publishers Weekly) - returns with another serpentine thriller that is a potent...
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Rachel Joyce · Wheeler Publishing; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian...
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What Are You Going Through: A Novel

Sigrid Nunez



A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a frie
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When No One Is Watching: A Thriller

Alyssa Cole · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning ... Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change...
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The Yellow Bird Sings: A Novel

Jennifer Rosner · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The girl is forbidden from making a sound, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. The bird chirps all the musical parts save percussion, because the barn rabbits obligingly thump...

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