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• Spider Woman's Daughter

  a Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

  Hillerman, Anne, 1949-

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  Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manualito witnesses the cold-blooded shooting of someone very close to her. With the victim fighting for his life, the entire squad and the local FBI office are hell-bent on catching the gunman. Bernie, too,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Double Fudge Brownie Murder

  Fluke, Joanne, 1943-

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  Life in tiny Lake Eden, Minnesota, is usually pleasantly uneventful. Lately, though, it seems everyone has more than their fair share of drama--especially the Swensen family. With so much on her plate, Hannah Swensen can hardly find the time to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Graveyard Book

  Gaiman, Neil

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  After fortuitously escaping the murder of his family, a toddler is taken in by the ghostly denizens of a local graveyard. Growing up in this strange setting entails many adventures, leading to a final showdown with the murderer. Occasional art…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A River in the Sky

  Peters, Elizabeth, 1927-2013

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  Amelia and Emerson follow an expedition searching for the vanished treasures of the Temple in Jerusalem. Besides suspecting the leader of the expedition of inept excavation practices, they believe him to be secretly working for German intelligence.

• Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues

  Brandman, Michael

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  Paradise, Massachusetts, is preparing for the summer tourist season when a string of car thefts disturbs what is usually a quiet time in town. In a sudden escalation of violence, the thefts become murder, and chief of police Jesse Stone finds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yes, Chef

  Samuelsson, Marcus

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  It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother's house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Speaking From Among the Bones

  Bradley, Alan, 1938-

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  From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as "one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature." Eleven-year-old amateur detective and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Benjamin Franklin

  An American Life

  Isaacson, Walter

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  In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wishful Drinking

  Fisher, Carrie

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  In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Carrie Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

  McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-

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  The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency often helps people find things they have lost. But they have never had to help a client find herself--until now, in this latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's best-selling and beloved series. A kindhearted…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Whitey : the Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss

  Lehr, Dick

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  Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material, Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J. "Whitey" Bulger, the crime boss and killer who brought the FBI to its knees. He is an American original -- a psychopath who fostered a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Telling Room : a Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese

  Paterniti, Michael

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  Equal parts mystery and memoir, travelogue and history. A moving exploration of happiness, friendship, and betrayal, The Telling Room introduces us to Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras, an unforgettable real-life literary hero, while also holding a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In Pieces

  Field, Sally,

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  The actress shares insights into her difficult childhood, the artistic pursuits that helped her find her voice, and the powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and mother.

• A Fine Romance

  a Memoir

  Bergen, Candice, 1946-

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  A Fine Romance begins with Bergen's charming first husband, French director Louis Malle, whose huge appetite for life broadened her horizons and whose occasional darkness never diminished their love for each other. But her real romance begins when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not My Father's Son

  a Memoir

  Cumming, Alan, 1965-

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  A beloved star of stage, television, and film—one of the most fun people in show business (Time magazine)—Alan Cumming is a successful artist whose diversity and fearlessness is unparalleled. His success masks a painful childhood growing up under…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

  [a Memoir]

  Bryson, Bill

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  Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. Using his fantasy-life persona as a springboard, Bryson re-creates the life of his family in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality--a life at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book Thief

  Zusak, Markus

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  Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

  Quindlen, Anna

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  In this irresistible memoir, the New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead--and celebrating it all--as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Takedown Twenty

  a Stephanie Plum Novel

  Evanovich, Janet

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  Stephanie Plum has her sights set on catching a notorious mob boss. If she doesn't take him down, he may take her out. New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sunny"…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Library Book

  Orlean, Susan,

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  On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later,…Read moreRead more of this annotation