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The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King NEW
When Mary Russell meets famous detective Sherlock Holmes, she discovers that he is also a beekeeper. Soon she finds herself on the trail of kidnappers and discovers a plot to kill both Holmes and herself. (5 copies)
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society. (6 copies)
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Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
Daisy Fay Harper turns 17 during the 1950s, and her experiences evoke the time in the deep South of strapless net evening gowns and Red Ryder. (5 copies)
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Echo Park by Michael Connelly
Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn’t crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was never found. (5 copies)
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Enchantment by Orson Scott Card NEW
Follows one man from ninth-century Russia to present-day America as he struggles to rescue a princess and her kingdom, find true love, and overcome the blackest of evil. (6 copies)
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En~The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew – Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
Traces how three American women of different faiths worked together to understand one another while identifying the connections between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, during which they openly discussed the issues that divided them. (5 copies)
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham
Presents the real-life case of Ron Williamson, a mentally ill former baseball player who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a 21-year-old woman in his Oklahoma hometown. (5 copies)
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The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Encompassing two generations and a rich blend of Chinese and American history, the story of four struggling, strong women also reveals their daughter’s memories and feelings. (6 copies)
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant’s son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan’s monarchy through the atrocities of the present day. (6 copies)
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
The author describes his all-American childhood growing up as a member of the baby boom generation in the heart of Iowa, detailing his rich fantasy life as a superhero known as the Thunderbolt Kid and his remarkably normal 1950s family life. (6 copies)
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The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper’s son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain. (6 copies)
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The Lost Madonna by Kelly Jones NEW
Returning to Florence, Suzanne Cunningham is determined to find out what happened to a priceless painting from her past, and to the man who forever changed her destiny. (6 copies)
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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza consummate their passion at the beginning of the 20th century after having waited over 50 years. (6 copies)
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Looking down from heaven, 14-year-old Susie Salmon recounts her rape and murder and watches her family as they cope with their grief and “the lovely bones” growing around her absence. (5 copies)
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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
A murder involves Sam Spade in a dangerous search for a valuable statue. (5 copies)
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Calliope’s friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent’s desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. (5 copies)
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The Moon on Our Hands by Thomas Dyja
Recruited in 1918 to work for the NAACP, Walter White – a light-skinned African American man who can pass for white – is sent undercover to investigate a lynching, all the while confronted with personal issues of identity. (5 copies)
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My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult NEW
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Anna begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body. (6 copies)
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Night by Elie Wiesel
The narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provide a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity. (5 copies)
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Open Range by Lauran Paine
Since the citizens of Harmonville dislike open range cattlemen, they look the other way when their marshal is involved with the killings of two of Boss Spearman’s cattlemen, and Spearman has to achieve justice for himself. (5 copies)
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Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages. (6 copies)
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The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The story of Dinah, a tragic character from the Bible whose great love, a prince, is killed by her brother, leaving her alone and pregnant. The novel traces her life from childhood to death, in the process examining sexual and religious practices of the day, and what it meant to be a woman. (6 copies)
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity. (6 copies)
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
The author retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend. (5 copies, including 1 audiobook)
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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd NEW
After her “stand-in mother,” a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters. (6 copies)
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon NEW
A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author’s works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written. (6 copies)
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Tell No One by Harlan Coben
It’s been eight years since Dr. David Beck’s wife, Elizabeth, was murdered by a serial killer. When Beck receives a message containing a phrase only Elizabeth should know, he falls apart. Either someone is playing a sick joke, or his wife is still alive. After being warned to tell no one, Beck sets out in a desparate search which leads him toward a deadly secret. (5 copies)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini NEW
Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in wartorn Kabul, losses incurred over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage. (5 copies)
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The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger NEW
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel. (6 copies)
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