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The Nature of Fragile Things

Susan Meissner - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Sophie quickly develops...
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Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

J. K. Rowling - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

J.K. Rowling, one of the world's most inspiring writers, shares her wisdom and advice. In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom...
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Seeing Darkness

Heather Graham - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

She's being murdered.It was supposed to be a fun girls' weekend in Salem, but when a past-life regression session instead sends a terrifying vision of murder to Kylie Connelly, she's shaken and doesn't know what to think. Worse, later she identifies the attacker from her vision:...
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Echo

Pam MunÌ?oz Ryan - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Winner of a 2016 Newbery Honor, ECHO pushes the boundaries of genre, form, and storytelling innovation. Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades...
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The Orphan Collector

Ellen Marie Wiseman - Kensington
Format: Paperback

Ellen Marie Wiseman, acclaimed author of What She Left Behind and The Life She Was Given, weaves the stories of two very different women into a page-turning novel as suspenseful as it is poignant, set amid one of history's deadliest pandemics. In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old...
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Irish Hostage, An: A Novel

Charles Todd
Format: Hardcover

In the uneasy peace following World War I, nurse Bess Crawford runs into trouble and treachery in Ireland - in this twelfth book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series.The Great War has finally come to an end, but tensions remain high throughout Europe. In Ireland, no one has forgotten...
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Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet: Tasting the Goodness of God in All Things

Sara Hagerty - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

In the age of fingertip access to answers and a limitless supply of ambitions, where do we find the God who was birthed in dirt and straw? Sara Hagerty found him when life stopped working for her. She found him when she was a young adult mired in spiritual busyness and when she was a new bride...
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Friction

Sandra Brown - Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
Format: Large print book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown comes a gripping story of family ties and forbidden attraction.Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork...
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Pros and Cons: A Short Story

Janet Evanovich - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERJanet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg have teamed up for a dynamic new series featuring an FBI agent who's on the hunt - and a master con artist who's enjoying the chase. The con is on in this eBook original short story that's a triumphant prequel to The Heist....
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Dead Ice: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Laurell K. Hamilton - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

Anita Blake has the highest kill count of any vampire executioner in the country. Shes a US Marshal who can raise zombies with the best of them. But ever since she and master vampire Jean-Claude went public with their engagement, all she is to anyone and everyone is Jean-Claudes fiancée.Its...
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