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What's New in Books at the HCPL NOVEMBER 15, 2017
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Mango Languages
Mango Languages offers a unique teaching method that quickly engages you in real conversations between two native speakers. Mango offers language learning for the following languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and many more. You can also study English as a second language if your native language is Spanish, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, and others.
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Pupcakes : a Christmas novel
by Annie England Noblin
Trying to stabilize her life after a divorce, Brydie accepts an offer to live rent-free while taking care of the landlord’s pug and start a bakery for dog treats. By the author of Sit! Stay! Speak!. 25,000 first printing.
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Hiddensee : a tale of the once and future Nutcracker
by Gregory Maguire
Presents an imaginative tale rooted in early nineteenth-century German Romanticism that explores parallels between the origin legend of the famous Nutcracker with the life of Drosselmeier, the toymaker who carves him
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Count to ten : A Private Novel
by James Patterson
Summoned by the head of the world's top investigation agency to join a new office in Delhi, former Private India head Santosh Wagh struggles to set aside his personal demons before tackling a case involving murderously corrupt authorities and human remains found at a government site. Co-written by a #1 best-selling author.
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Typhoon fury : a novel of the Oregon files
by Clive Cussler
Hired to track down a valuable art collection, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon sail into a perfect storm involving a Filipino insurgency, a Japanese-developed super-warrior drug and a South African mercenary. Co-written by the best-selling author of Odessa Sea.
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The quantum spy : a thriller
by David Ignatius
CIA agent Harris Chang uncovers a mole in a top secret, American research lab racing to develop a quantum computer before China does. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Director.
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The shadow district : a thriller
by Arnaldur Indriðason
Investigating the murder of a 90-year-old man, a retired detective discovers unsettling links between the victim, the World War II case of a strangled woman and a pair of attacks that suggest the wrong man may have been arrested decades earlier. By the award-winning author of Silence of the Grave.
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Strange music : a Pip & Flinx adventure
by Alan Dean Foster
The return of an old friend plunges empathic Flinx and his minidrag Pip into a maelstrom of intrigue and imagination on the planet Largess, where new trade agreements with the human-dominated Commonwealth are placed at risk by the disappearance of a powerful chieftain's daughter. By the best-selling author of Flinx Transcendent.
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End game
by David Baldacci
Returning home from an overseas mission to discover that his boss has gone missing in remote Colorado, Will Robie and his sometime partner, Jessica Reel, team up in an increasingly violent small town, where their lives are soon in jeopardy. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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Even if it kills her
by Kate White
Regretting that she has not kept more in touch with a college roommate whose family was brutally murdered years earlier, journalist-turned-sleuth Bailey Weggins helps investigate when the man convicted of the crime is exonerated and secrets from her roommate's past begin to surface. 20,000 first printing.
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