New Books for Sept 11

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Again again

Again again

Lockhart, E., author
2020

Rising high school senior Adelaide Buchwald grapples with a family catastrophe and romantic upheaval while confronting secrets she keeps, her ideas about love, and the weird grandiosity of the human mind.

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Beheld : a novel

Beheld : a novel

Nesbit, TaraShea, author
2020

"Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough."-- Provided by publisher.

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A better man

A better man

Penny, Louise, author
2020

It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father.

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Bloom

Bloom

Oppel, Kenneth, 1967- author
2020

It was just rain. But after the downpour, odd black plants begin to shoot up. Suddenly -- They. Are. Everywhere. They take over fields and twine around houses. They bloom and throw off toxic pollen--and feed. Strangely, three Salt Spring Island teens seem immune. Anaya, Petra and Seth. What's their connection? What's their secret? A week ago, they wouldn't have thought they had one. But they'd better figure it out fast--the invasion has already begun.

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Chain of gold

Chain of gold

Clare, Cassandra, author
2020

Cordelia Carstairs, a Shadowhunter trained to battle demons, travels with her brother to London where they reconnect with childhood friends but soon must face devastating demon attacks in the quarantined city.

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Crown jewel

Crown jewel

Reich, Christopher, 1961- author
2020

Monte Carlo's casinos have become the targets of an efficient, brutal, and highly successful group of criminal gamblers; a casino dealer has been beaten to death; a German heiress's son has been kidnapped. Simon Riske knows the area well from his time as a thrill-seeking thief. Now he is a man who solves problems. From the baccarat tables of the finest casinos to the yachts in the marina, to the private jet company that somehow ties these criminal enterprises together, Riske will do what he does best: get in over his head, throw himself into danger, and find some way to out-think and out-maneuver the villains.

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Find your path : honor your body, fuel your soul, and get strong with the Fit52 life

Find your path : honor your body, fuel your soul, and get strong with the Fit52 life

Underwood, Carrie, 1983- author
2020

Based on Carrie Underwood's own active lifestyle, diet, and workouts, this book is packed with meal plans, recipes, weekly workout programs, and guidelines for keeping a weekly food and workout journal. It also introduces readers to Carrie's signature Fit52 workout, which involves a deck of cards and exercises that can be done at home. Fit52 begins with embracing the "Pleasure Principle" in eating, making healthy swaps in your favourite recipes, and embracing a long view approach to health - so that a cheat a day won't derail you.

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The German heiress

The German heiress

Scott, Anika, author
2020

For readers of The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris, an immersive, heart-pounding debut about a German heiress on the run from British authorities, who discovers dark secrets about her family's past in post-World War II Germany.

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The gift of forgiveness : inspiring stories from those who have overcome the unforgivable

The gift of forgiveness : inspiring stories from those who have overcome the unforgivable

Schwarzenegger, Katherine, author
2020

Written with grace and understanding and based on more than twenty in-depth interviews and stories, this is about one of the most difficult challenges in life: learning to forgive. The book features experiences from those well-known and unknown, all providing different journeys to forgiveness and the process - sometimes slow and thorny, sometimes almost instantaneous - by which they learned to forgive and let go. A perfect blend of personal insights, powerful quotations, and hard-won wisdom for those seeking a way to live with greater acceptance, grace, and peace.

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Gone by midnight

Gone by midnight

Fox, Candice, author
2020

Crimson Lake is where people with dark pasts come to disappear--and where others vanish into thin air...When Sara Farrow's son goes missing from a locked hotel room, she frantically turns for help to Crimson Lake's unlikeliest private investigators--disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell. Just the sort of twisted puzzle that gets Amanda's blood pumping, the disappearance couldn't have come at a worse time for Ted. He has just this one week with Lillian, the daughter he barely knows... but the clock is ticking for the lost boy. Amanda and Ted's search dredges up the area's worst characters, and the danger they uncover could well put Ted's own child in deadly peril.

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The guardians : a novel

The guardians : a novel

Grisham, John, author
2020

In a small Florida town, a young lawyer is shot to death. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but the Episcopal minister in charge gets more than he bargained for as powerful people do not want Miller exonerated.

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Journey of the Pharaohs

Journey of the Pharaohs

Cussler, Clive, author
2020

In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil American aviator vanishes on an attempted transcontinental flight. And in the present day, a fishing trawler along with its mysterious cargo sinks off the coast of Scotland. How are these three mysterious events connected? And, more importantly, what do they mean for Kurt Austin and his NUMA team?

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Last impressions

Last impressions

Kertes, Joseph, 1951- author
2020

Zoltan Beck is dying. His devoted but long-suffering sons, Ben and Frank, are trying to prepare themselves and their families for Zoltan's eventual departure ... but they can't quite bring themselves to believe that the end is really at hand, and neither can Zoltan himself. The head of a family marked by war and tragedy for decades, he "can't stand to be in a room with a miserable person" and has done his best to keep the pain of his refugee past from his beloved children. But as he faces the end of his life, he discovers a heartbreaking secret from the War that will ultimately bring the family together--or irrevocably disrupt it.

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Locked in locked out : surviving a brainstem stroke

Locked in locked out : surviving a brainstem stroke

Jennings, Shawn, author
2020

"Can there be life after a brainstem stroke? After Dr. Shawn Jennings, a busy family physician, suffered a brainstem stroke on May 13, 1999, he woke from a coma locked inside his body, aware and alert but unable to communicate or move. Once he regained limited movement in his left arm, he began typing his story, using one hand and a lot of patience. In Locked In Locked Out, Shawn shares his experiences in the struggle for recovery and acceptance of his life since the stroke, to remind stroke survivors that, even without achieving a full recovery, life is still worth it."-- Provided by publisher.

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The middler

The middler

Applebaum, Kirsty, author
2020

Eleven-year-old Maggie, a middle-born child where only the eldest are valued, has her world turned upside-down by forbidden friendship with Una, a wanderer girl from outside the boundaries of Fennis Wick.

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Nightschool. The weirn books collector's edition. 1

Nightschool. The weirn books collector's edition. 1

Chmakova, Svetlana, 1979- author
2020

Schools may lock up for the night, but class is in session for an entirely different set of students. In the Nightschool, vampires, werewolves, and weirns (a particular breed of witches) learn the fundamentals of everything from calculus to spell casting. Alex is a young weirn whose education has always been handled through homeschooling, but circumstances seem to be drawing her closer to the Nightschool. Will Alex manage to weather the dark forces gathering?"

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Nothing ventured

Nothing ventured

Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- author
2020

William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that he will join London's Metropolitan Police Force. After graduating from university, William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under the watchful eye of his first mentor, Constable Fred Yates, to his first high-stakes case as a fledgling detective in Scotland Yard's arts and antiquities squad. Investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting from the Fitzmolean Museum, he meets Beth Rainsford, a research assistant at the gallery who he falls hopelessly in love with, even as Beth guards a secret of her own that she's terrified will come to light.

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The outsider : a novel

The outsider : a novel

King, Stephen, 1947- author
2020

An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad. But Maitland has an alibi, and it turns out that his story has incontrovertible evidence of its own. How can two opposing stories be true?

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Redemption

Redemption

Baldacci, David, author
2020

"Decker is visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by a man named Meryl Hawkins. Hawkins is a convicted murderer. In fact, he's the very first killer Decker ever put behind bars. But he's innocent, he claims. Now suffering from terminal cancer, it's his dying wish that Decker clear his name. It's unthinkable. The case was open and shut, with rock solid forensic evidence. But when Hawkins turns up dead with a bullet in his head, even Decker begins to have doubts. Is it possible that he really did get it wrong, all those years ago? Decker's determined to uncover the truth, no matter the personal cost. But solving a case this cold may be impossible, especially when it becomes clear that someone doesn't want the old case reopened. Someone who is willing to kill to keep the truth buried, and hide a decades-old secret that may have devastating repercussions ..."--from Amazon.com.

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Summer of '69

Summer of '69

Hilderbrand, Elin, author
2020

It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby is caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, each of them hiding a troubling secret.

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Thea Stilton and the race for the gold

Thea Stilton and the race for the gold

Stilton, Thea, author
2020

The Thea Sisters help their friend Beatrice prepare for the Summer Olympics!

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The turn of the key

The turn of the key

Ware, Ruth, author
2020

When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else, but it seems like too good an opportunity to miss -- a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten -- by the luxurious "smart" home, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into a nightmare -- one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the unravelling events that led to her incarceration. She knows she's made mistakes. She's not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she's not guilty -- at least not of murder.

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The warning

The warning

Patterson, James, 1947- author
2020

Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents are allowed to return past the national guard roadblocks. Mount Hope natives Maggie and Jordan quickly discover that their hometown is not as it was before. Downed cellular networks fail to resume service. Animals savagely attack humans. And the damaged power plant is under military lockdown. As friends and family morph into terrifying strangers, Maggie and Jordan are determined to discover who--or what--has taken control of Mount Hope soon has them in the cross-hairs of a presence more sinister than any they could have imagined.

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Yorick and Bones

Yorick and Bones

Tankard, Jeremy, author, illustrator
2020

Yorick is a skeleton who was just dug up after a few hundred years of sleep. He speaks like it too. "Forsooth, my joy, I barely can contain!" Bones is the hungry dog who did the digging. Though he cannot speak, he can chomp. What will become of these two unlikely companions? Will Yorick ever find the friend he seeks? Will Bones ever find a tasty treat that does not talk back? The course of true friendship never did run smooth.

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