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Start the year off with a challenge to read a book from a different genre each month!
Don't forget the the Winter Reading Program starts soon at Linebaugh and Smyrna branches, so these will be great to include in your list.
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Christian Fiction:
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Blackberry Beach: A Hope Harbor Novel
Irene Hannon - Fleming H Revell Co
Format: Hardcover
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"Actress Katherine Parker is on the cusp of achieving the kind of career success she'd always dreamed of. But a visit to Hope Harbor for some much-needed R&R-and an unexpected partnership with a handsome local coffee shop owner-may cause her to rethink her ambitions and open... |
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Fantasy:
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The Midnight Library: A Novel
Matt Haig - Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance... |
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Mystery:
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Forgotten in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel
J. D. Robb - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas sifts through the wreckage of the past to find a killer. |
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Romance:
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The Butler: A Novel
Danielle Steel - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world. Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated... |
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Science Fiction:
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Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert - Paw Prints 2008-06-26; Reprint edition
Format: Library Binding
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The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud’dib,... |
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Western:
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The Riders of High Rock A Hopalong Cassidy Novel
Louis L'Amour - Bantam Books
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover
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Hopalong rode into cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story to tell. The ranchers around Tascotal had been losing their stock, and when Red caught the rustlers in the act,... |
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Christian Non-Fiction:
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True Crime:
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Information:
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A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind
D J Helfand - Columbia University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Print book
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We live in the Information Age, with billions of bytes of data all just two swipes away. But how much of this is of value? How much is mis-, or even dis-information? Lots. And your search engine cannot tell the difference. As a result, an avalanche of misinformation threatens to overwhelm... |
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Cookbooks:
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The Make Ahead Cook
Editors at America's Test Kitchen - Cook's Illustrated
Format: Book
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The ultimate plan-ahead cookbook that delivers on flavor Harried home cooks learned the hard way that the best possible way to maintain their mealtime sanity is to make things ahead. This stress-saving Americas Test Kitchen cookbook collects 150 reliable recipes for make-ahead meals including... |
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Literature:
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A Raisin in the Sun (Modern Library Series)
Lorraine Hansberry - Modern Library
Pages: 135
Format: Book
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"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama... |
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History:
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