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1) 1Q84

Author

Murakami, Haruki, 1949-

Earliest Publication Date

2011

Summary

An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.

2) 3 Truths and a Lie

Author

Earliest Publication Date

2016

Summary

Boston Detective D.D. Warren faces her most brutal adversaries yet—a class of jaded thriller writers—in this short story from #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Lisa Gardner.
Detective D.D. Warren takes on her most intimidating assignment yet: a fifty-minute class meant to educate a horde of bloodthirsty thriller writers on the ways of actual police work. Yet sometimes life really does imitate fiction, as D.D. takes...

3) 7 money rules for life: how to take care of your financial future

Author

Earliest Publication Date

2012

Summary

Mary Hunt gives listeners the keys to get their money under control and get prepared financially for the rest of their lives. She offers applications for each of the seven rules as well as practical advice for how to recover from past financial mistakes. These simple, unchanging, basic rules work in every financial situation, for every income level, and for every stage of life.

4) 10 mindful minutes: giving our children--and ourselves--the social and emotional skills to reduce stress and anxiety for healthier, happier lives

Author

Earliest Publication Date

2011

Summary

Across the country, the revolutionary MindUP program, developed under the auspices of the Hawn Foundation, established by Goldie Hawn, is teaching children vital social and emotional skills. By understanding how their brains work, children discover where their emotions come from and become more self-aware. They learn to appreciate the sensory aspects of their lives and to value the positive effects of mindfulness, compassion, and kindness. This, in...

Author

Earliest Publication Date

2009

Summary

In present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life until she encounters architect Marshall Marchand, a lifelong bachelor who spends most of his time with his brother Danny. When Polly's two young daughters from her previous marriage are likewise taken with Marshall, she marries him. But then an ominous prediction by a New Orleans tarot card reader proclaims that Polly will murder her husband, and...

6) 14

Author

Clines, Peter, 1969-

Earliest Publication Date

2012

Summary

There are some odd things about Nate's new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn't perfect, it's livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don't nag at him too much. At least, not until he meets Mandy, his neighbor across the hall, and notices something unusual about her...

7) 14

Author

Earliest Publication Date

2008

Summary

Ten victims, each with pale skin and long dark hair. All have been slashed across the throat, the same red lipstick smeared across their lips. In the mid-1980s the Snow White Killer terrorized the streets of Nashville, Tennessee. Then suddenly the murders stopped. A letter from the killer to the police stated that his work was done. Now four more bodies are found, marked with his fatal signature. The residents of Nashville fear a madman has returned,...

8) 44 Charles Street

Author

Steel, Danielle

Earliest Publication Date

2010

Summary

Owner of a struggling art gallery and newly separated from her boyfriend, Francesca Thayer does the math and then the unimaginable. She puts out an advertisement for boarders, and soon her Greenwich Village house becomes a whole new world.

9) 74 Seaside Avenue

Author

Macomber, Debbie

Earliest Publication Date

2007

Summary

Olivia Lockhart-Griffin

Cedar Cove, Washington

Dear Reader,

Do you remember Teri Miller? She works at Get Nailed, the beauty salon here in town. Well, Teri got married a little while ago--to Bobby Polgar, the famous chess champion. They've moved into a beautiful house, 74 Seaside Avenue, which has a spectacular view of Puget Sound.

Teri's my hairdresser, and she confided that something seems to be worrying Bobby.

...

10) 77 Shadow Street

Author

Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-

Earliest Publication Date

2011

Summary

Once the center of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse, the 1800s Gilded Age palace known as the Pendleton, has been re-christened in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, and elevators plunge into unknown depths.

11) 92 Pacific Boulevard

Author

Macomber, Debbie

Earliest Publication Date

2009

Summary

Sheriff Troy David had hoped to marry Faith Beckwith, but she's ended the relationship because of misunderstandings--inadvertently caused by Troy's daughter. However, Troy has plenty to keep himself occupied, like the unidentified remains found in a cave outside of town.

12) 311 Pelican Court

Author

Macomber, Debbie

Earliest Publication Date

2003

Summary

Return to #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove, where sometimes you have to take a leap of faith to find the love you deserve.
In the small town of Cedar Cove, everyone knows everybody else's business—and they usually have an opinion about it.
Recently divorced, Zach and Rosie Cox were given an unusual custody deal by Judge Olivia Lockhart: instead of their...

13) 1105 Yakima Street

Author

Macomber, Debbie

Earliest Publication Date

2011

Summary

1105 Yakima Sreet
Cedar Cove, Washington
Dear Reader,
You've probably heard that my wife has left me. Rachel's pregnant, and she says she can't handle the stress in our household anymore. My thirteen-year-old daughter, Jolene, is jealous of her. Maybe it's my fault. As a widower I spoiled her—
Jolene was reading over my shoulder just now and says that's not true. She claims Rachel ruined everything....

14) 1861: the Civil War awakening

Author

Goodheart, Adam

Earliest Publication Date

2011

Summary

As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, historian Adam Goodheart presents an original account of how the Civil War began. 1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to reject their parents' faith in compromise and appeasement, to do the unthinkable in the name of an ideal. It set Abraham Lincoln...

15) A. Lincoln: a biography

Author

White, Ronald C. (Ronald Cedric), 1939-

Earliest Publication Date

2009

Summary

“If you read one book about Lincoln, make it A. Lincoln.”—USA Today

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD
Everyone wants to...

16) Abandoned: a thriller

Author

Earliest Publication Date

2009

Summary

Investigating the works of a serial killer for hire who kills wives and effectively hides all evidence until the cases are closed, FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett and her team fight to crack his operation and discover that he may be targeting Smoky.

17) Abraham Lincoln: the prairie years and the war years

Author

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

Earliest Publication Date

1954

18) Absolute fear

Author

Earliest Publication Date

2007

Summary

For the past three months, Eve Renner has struggled to remember the night she was nearly killed and her lover was tried for murder. She remembers getting the anxious call from a friend from her past: "Meet me at the cabin. I've got evidence." She remembers seeing that friend lying in a pool of blood. And she remembers a horrifying glimpse of her lover Cole Dennis's face as a gunshot plunged her into darkness. Now, her memory and emotions scarred,...

19) Acceptable loss

Author

Earliest Publication Date

2011

Summary

When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices.

20) A Chesapeake Shores Christmas

Author

Earliest Publication Date

2010

Summary

Mick and Megan O'Brien finally make plans to walk down the aisle, but not everyone is happy about the upcoming wedding as they are. There's a good chance complications will keep this reunited couple from ever saying "I do."

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