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Armada : a novelby Ernest Cline

Publication Date: July 14, 2015

Struggling to complete his final month of high school only to

glimpse a UFO that exactly resembles an enemy ship from his

favorite video game, Zack questions his sanity before

becoming one of millions of gamers tasked with protecting the

Earth during an alien invasion.

Bathsheba : reluctant beautyby Angela Elwell Hunt

Publication Date: September 1, 2015

"Bathsheba, a beautiful woman forced to become one of King David's

wives, is committed to protecting her son while dealing with the

dynamics of the king's household in this biblical-ly based novel"

Bell weather : a novelby Dennis Mahoney

Publication Date: 7/7/2015

A mysterious young woman rescued from a flooded river

triggers rumors in a fantastical eighteenth-century settlement

before the desperate truth of her past forces her and her

rescuer to make a dangerous choice.

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Bennington girls are easyby Charlotte Silver


Becoming roommates in New York after graduating from a

bohemian college, Cassandra Puffin and Sylvie Furst share

years of self-exploration before their respective quirks test the

bonds of their friendship.

The Book of Numbersby Joshua Cohen


Hired by a dying tech company tycoon to ghostwrite his

memoirs, failed novelist Josh Cohen learns the history of the

man's profoundly influential company before being initiated into

the high-stakes truth behind the autobiography project.

Come rain or come shineby Jan Karon


Graduating from vet school and opening an animal clinic,

Dooley Kavanagh, Father Tim Kavanaugh's adopted son, plans

what he hopes will be a simple, affordable wedding with

soulmate Lace Harper. By the best-selling author of

Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good.

The curse of Crow Hollowby Billy Coffey


Everyone in Crow Hollow knows of Alvaretta Graves, the old

widow who lives in the mountain. Many call her a witch; others

whisper she’s insane. Everyone agrees the vengeance

Alvaretta swore at her husband’s death hovers over them all.

That vengeance awakens when teenagers stumble upon

Alvaretta’s cabin, incurring her curse. Now a sickness moves

through the Hollow. Rumors swirl that Stu Graves has risen for

revenge. And the people of Crow Hollow are left to confront not

only the darkness that lives on the mountain, but the darkness

that lives within themselves.


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In a dark, dark woodby Ruth Ware


What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the

English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's

suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological

thriller.

Disclaimerby Renee Knight


Reading a mysterious novel that recounts in haunting detail the

day she became the victim of a dark secret, documentary

filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft is forced to confront the past

to prevent her world from falling apart.

The Diver's Clothes Lie Emptyby Vendela Vida


After being robbed of her wallet and passport while on a

mysterious trip to Morocco, a woman feels a strange freedom

of being stripped of her identity and soon begins pretending to

be a well-known film star.

The Double Life of Lilianeby Lily Tuck


As the child of a German movie producer father who lives in

Italy and a beautiful, artistically talented mother who resides in

New York, Liliane’s life is divided between those two very

different worlds. A shy and observant only child with a vivid

imagination, Liliane uncovers the stories of family members as

diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Mary Queen of Scots and an

early Mexican adventurer, and pieces together their vivid

histories, through both World Wars and across continents.


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Golden Ageby Jane Smiley


1987: the next generation of Langdons are facing economic, social,

cultural, and political challenges unlike anything their ancestors have

encountered. Michael and Richie, twin sons of World War II hero

Frank, work in the high-stakes worlds of government and finance, in

Washington and New York—but their fiercest enemies may be closer

to home. Charlie, the charmer, recently found, struggles to find his

way ; Guthrie is deployed to Iraq, leaving the Iowa farm—the heart of

this enthralling saga—in the hands of his younger sister, Felicity,

though Felicity as always, has her own ideas. Determined to help

preserve the planet, she worries that her family farm’s once rich,

bountiful land is imperiled, and not only by the extremes of climate

change.

Everybody Riseby Charlotte Silver


It's 2006 in the Manhattan of the young and glamorous. Money

and class are colliding in a city that is about to go over a

financial precipice and take much of the country with it. At 26,

bright, funny and socially anxious Evelyn Beegan is determined

to carve her own path in life and free herself from the influence

of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through prep

school and onto the Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like

an outsider to her privileged peers, but when she gets a job at

a social network aimed at the elite, she's forced to embrace

them.

The heart goes last : a novelby Margaret Atwood


Enrolling in a project that allows them to live in safe homes

between alternate service months spent in prison, a homeless

couple is threatened by troubling events stemming from the

wife's involvement with another project member.


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Language artsby Stephanie Kallos

Publication date: 6/9/2015

Charles Marlow is a Seattle English teacher who instructs his

students to expand their worlds through language. Lately,

however, with one child off to college and the pressure from his

ex-wife to make plans for their severely autistic son, who's

about to age out of the system, he prefers the company of the

ghosts he turns up in the storage boxes in his crawl space.

There he finds the totems that betray the darker moments of

his youth--memories that were buried for decades when he met

the ambitious and sparkling Alison LeFevre. But the

complications of parenthood proved fatal to their marriage, and

Charles has been stagnant ever since.

Marvel and a wonderby Joe Meno

Publication date: 9/1/2015

Marvel and a Wonder is a darkly mesmerizing epic and literary

page-turner set at the end of the twentieth century. In summer

1995, Jim Falls, a Korean War vet, struggles to raise his

sixteen-year-old grandson, Quentin, on a farm in southern

Indiana. In July, they receive a mysterious gift--a beautiful

quarter horse--which upends the balance of their difficult lives.

The horse's appearance catches the attention of a pair of

troubled, meth-dealing brothers and, after a violent altercation,

the horse is stolen and sold. Grandfather and grandson must

travel the landscape of the bleak heartland to reclaim the

animal and to confront the ruthless party that has taken

possession of it. Along the way, both will be forced to face the

misperceptions and tragedies of their past.

The most famous illegal Goose Creek paradeby Virginia Smith


Even though retirement is still three years away, Al Richardson

is counting the days. He anticipates many enjoyable years in

which every day feels like Saturday. But Al's wife, Millie, has

different plans for their retirement. When she learns that a

Victorian-era home is up for sale, Millie launches a full-blown

campaign to convince Al that God's plan for them is to turn that

house into a B&B.

But a B&B won't be the only change for the small Kentucky

town. A new veterinarian has hung up her shingle, but she's

only got one patient--the smelly dog belonging to her part-time

receptionist. And sides are being taken in the issue of the


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water tower, which needs a new coat of paint...but no one can

agree who should paint it.

The Muralistby B. A. Shapiro

Publication Date: November 3, 2015

Entwining the lives of both historical and fictional characters,

and moving between the past and the present, The Muralist

plunges readers into the divisiveness of prewar politics and the

largely forgotten plight of European refugees refused entrance

to the United States. It captures both the inner workings of

today’s New York art scene and the beginnings of the vibrant

and quintessentially American school of Abstract

Expressionism.

My grandmother asked me to tell you she's

sorry : a novelby Fredrik Backman

Seven-year-old Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series

of letters, sending the girl on a journey that brings to life the world of

her grandmother's fairy tales. By the internationally best-selling author

of A Man Called Ove.

My Kitchen Year - 136 Recipes that Saved My

Lifeby Ruth Reichl


Reichl wrote her first cookbook at 21 and was restaurant critic

of both the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times , then

served as Gourmet 's editor in chief for ten years. When that

magazine suddenly folded, she sought solace by heading to her

country home with her husband and spending a year

rediscovering the kitchen comforts. Here's what she cooked

The Professorby Robert Bailey

Publication Date: 8/18/2015 (Revised)

"Taut, page-turning, and smart, The Professor is a legal thriller that

will keep readers up late as the twists and turns keep coming. Set in

Alabama, it also includes that state's greatest icon, one Coach Bear

Bryant. In fact, the Bear gets things going with the energy of an

Alabama kickoff to Auburn. Robert Bailey knows his state and he

knows his law. He also knows how to write characters that are real,

sympathetic, and surprising. If he keeps writing novels this good, he's


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got quite a literary career before him."

- Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys/October Sky, New York

Times Number 1 bestseller.

Rigged for Murderby Jenifer Leclair

Publication Date: 2011

Apparition Island: 3/21/2015

On leave from the Minneapolis Police Department and suffering

from PTSD after the killing of her partner, homicide detective

Brie Beaumont seeks refuge in Maine and joins Captain John

DuLac and eight others on a cruise, but her peaceful voyage is

interrupted by the murder of one of her shipmates and her

quest to find the killer.

The Secret Chordby Geraldine Brooks


The Secret Chord provides new context for some of the

best-known episodes of David’s life while also focusing on

others, even more remarkable and emotionally intense, that

have been neglected. We see David through the eyes of those

who love him or fear him—from the prophet Natan, voice of his

conscience, to his wives Mikal, Avigail, and Batsheva, and

finally to Solomon, the late-born son who redeems his Lear-like

old age. Brooks has an uncanny ability to hear and transform

characters from history, and this beautifully written, unvarnished

saga of faith, desire, family, ambition, betrayal, and power will

enthrall her many fans.

Speakby Louisa Hall


A thoughtful, poignant novel that explores the creation of artificial

intelligence—illuminating the very human need for communication,

connection, and understanding.


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The truth and other lies : a novelby Sascha Arango


On the surface, Henry Hayden seems like someone you could

like, or even admire. A famous bestselling author who appears

a modest everyman. A loving, devoted husband even though he

could have any woman he desires. A generous friend and

coworker. But Henry Hayden is a construction, a mask. His

past is a secret, his methods more so. No one besides him and

his wife know that she is the actual writer of the novels that

made him famous. For most of Henry's life, it hasn't been a

problem.But when his hidden-in-plain-sight mistress becomes

pregnant and his carefully constructed facade is about to

crumble, he tries to find a permanent solution, only to make a

terrible mistake. Now not only are the police after Henry, but

his past--which he has painstakingly kept hidden--threatens to

catch up with him as well. Henry is an ingenious man and he

works out an ingenious plan. He weaves lies, truths, and

half-truths into a story that might help him survive. But bit by bit

the noose still tightens.

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Purity : a novelby Jonathan Franzen


Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her

real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student

debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that

her relationship with her mother-her only family-is hazardous.

But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother

chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll

ever have a normal life.

Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German

peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with

the Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the

secrets of the world-including, Pip hopes, the secret of her


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origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic

provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of

the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to

Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her

response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and

wrong.

The Marriage of Oppositesby Alice Hoffman


Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel

dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of

their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the

Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult

girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel’s

salvation is their maid Adelle’s belief in her strengths, and her

deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle’s daughter. But

Rachel’s life is not her own. She is married off to a widower

with three children to save her father’s business. When her

husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger

nephew, Frédérick, arrives from France to settle the estate,

Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant,

passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of

her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of

the greatest artists of France.

Candy Corn Murderby Leslie Meier


Covering the town's annual Giant Pumpkin Fest during the

Halloween season, reporter Lucy Stone follows leads to a local

general store-turned-Internet hotspot when her husband, Bill, is

framed for a friend's murder.

The Murderer's Daughterby Jonathan Kellerman


Kellerman's latest is a stand-alone, but don't worry, Alex

Delaware fans; he makes a cameo appearance. Grace Blades

is a supremely cool and competent psychologist by day and a

thriller seeker by night who relieves the stress of her job and

some awful childhood memories by doing crazy things like

picking up men in bars. It's bad news when a one-night stand

appears at her office and subsequently ends up dead.


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Xby Sue Grafton


Sue Grafton's X: Perhaps her darkest and most chilling novel,

it features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his

crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new

paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this sociopath. The

test is whether Kinsey can prove her case against him before

she becomes his next victim.

Playing With Fireby Tess Gerritsen


In a shadowy antiques shop in Rome, Julia Ansdell happens

upon a curious piece of music—the Incendio waltz—and is

immediately entranced by its unusual composition. The

mournful minor key and complex feverish arpeggios appear to

dance with a strange life of their own. Back in Boston, when

Julia plays the notes for the first time, the music has a terrifying

and unexplainable effect on her young daughter, who seems

violently transformed. Determined to track down the music

score’s origins, Julia travels to Venice—and uncovers a dark

secret that not only dates back to the Second World War, but

also directly involves a dangerously powerful family who will

stop at nothing to keep Julia from bringing the truth to light.

Brush Back : Library Editionby Sara Paretsky


Reluctantly agreeing to help when an old boyfriend asks her to

exonerate his mother for the murder of his sister, V. I.

Warshawski is forced to confront ugly politics and violent

elements in her hometown.

Devil's bridge : a novelby Linda A. Fairstein


Investigating the disappearance of Alex Cooper, NYPD

detective Mike Chapman looks into a recent security breach

and Coop's numerous enemies while evaluating the

vulnerabilities of their newly intimate relationship.


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Darkness on His Bonesby Barbara Hambly


When James Asher is found unconscious in the cemetery of the

Church of St. Clare Pieds-Nus with multiple puncture-wounds in

his throat and arms, his wife, Lydia, knows of only one person

to call: the vampire Don Simon Ysidro. Old friend and old

adversary, he is the only one who can help Lydia protect her

unconscious, fevered husband from the vampires of Paris.

Why James has been attacked – and why he was called to

Paris in the first place – Lydia has no idea. But she knows that

she must find out, and quickly. For with James wavering

between life and death, and war descending on the world, their

slim chance of saving themselves from the vampires grows

slimmer with each passing day

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suggestions or visit our Reading Room webpage and click on Personalized Suggestions.

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