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No Place Like You
by Jillian Meadows
Childhood friends turned high school rivals fall into a small-town fake dating scheme in this sweet, spicy, and utterly irresistible romance from the author of Give Me Butterflies.Fable Oaks never planned to return to Fern River. But after a string of failures, here she is, living in her parents' backyard, watching her beloved late grandfather's A-frame crumble around her. She can't seem to find her direction, and to make matters worse, Theo Nikolaou, her ex-best friend, has also resurfaced, distracting dimples and charming grin in tow.Theo knew it was only a matter of time before he came back. The demons of his past once drove him to leave, but Fern River always seemed meant to be. So, when Theo's boss, Arthur, announces he is selling his veterinary practice, it feels like the perfect opportunity. He just needs to show Arthur he's sticking around for good. And when Fable--Fable, with her smart mouth and sexy curls--quite literally falls into Theo's lap, an idea forms.If they can convince the town that they're madly in love, it could solve all their problems. Theo can prove to Arthur he's settling down, and Fable can get some much-needed help fixing up the A-frame, a task she is determined to see through. The only problem is, the more time they spend together, the blurrier the line gets between fake dating and falling hard.She's lost her way. He's finding his path. Together, they might discover there's no place like home.
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Falling Toward the Moon
by R. H. Sin
From the authors of The New York Times bestseller Empty Bottles Full of Stories comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose. From the authors of The New York Times bestseller Empty Bottles Full of Stories comes a brand-new collection of compelling poetry and prose. The heart will ache, the soul will feel weary, and the mind will be weighed down by the things you wish to forget. There will be nights when all you have is yourself and the moon. There will be nights when silence will exist in abundance. And even though you may feel lonely at first. You must understand that the solitude is a gift; you must understand that even when alone, you are more than enough.
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Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
by Andy Borowitz
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER * Andy Borowitz, one of the funniest people in America (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism (Walter Isaacson) in American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump.Andy Borowitz has been called a Swiftian satirist (The Wall Street Journal) and one of the country's finest satirists (The New York Times). Millions of fans and New Yorker readers enjoy his satirical news column The Borowitz Report. Now, in Profiles in Ignorance, he delivers a wittily alarming polemic that tracks the evolution of American politics from grounds for gravitas to festival of idiocy (The New York Times). Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years, American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge, and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagan's first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House, Borowitz shows how, during the age of twenty-four-hour news and social media, the US has elected politicians to positions of great power whose lack of the most basic information is terrifying. In addition to Reagan, Quayle, Bush, Palin, and Trump, Borowitz covers a host of congresspersons, senators, and governors who have helped lower the bar over the past five decades. Profiles in Ignorance aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of these public figures, and cry at the cataclysms these icons of ignorance have caused. But most importantly, the book delivers a call to action and a cause for optimism: History doesn't move in a straight line, and we can change course if we act now.
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Spellbound by Murder: A Mystic Hollow Bookshop Mystery
by Stacie Ramey
Gilmore Girls meets Charmed in this spellbinding cozy mystery featuring a magical bookshop run by three generations of women. When her grandmother suffers a nasty fall and asks for help managing the family business, coffee-addicted single mother Veronica Blackthorne moves her sixteen-year-old rom-com-obsessed daughter to Mystic Hollow, Connecticut. Veronica is ecstatic to return to New England, but when she arrives, she quickly finds out that Mystic Hollow Books, her grandmother's pride and joy, needs more than a little TLC. Hoping to save the bookstore from a big-box rival, Veronica enlists her sometimes mentor and sometimes crush, Adam Whitford, a controversial but popular author, as the keynote speaker to kick off a literary festival that will hopefully bring in a new wave of customers. But when Adam turns up dead, all that romantic potential turns into a nightmare as Veronica becomes the prime suspect in his murder. As the local sheriff investigates his murder, Veronica decides to take matters into her own hands to solve the case and clear her name. With the bookstore's future on the line, the stakes couldn't be higher. Until her gran reveals the biggest secret of all--the bookstore is magical, and it was a botched love spell that led to this entire mess. Witty and heartfelt, this mystery explores the price of magic and how it might be more hefty than one can hope, perfect for fans of Amanda Flower and Nina Simon.
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Indecent
by Corinne Sullivan
Corinne Sullivan's debut that bestselling author Jennifer Close called a sharp and complex coming-of-age story, now in trade paperback. [A] surprising debut...an affecting novel, examining self-doubt, self-sabotage, and the lasting impact of both. -- Publisher's Weekly Sullivan's debut is a smart and delicious page-turner. -- Booklist Exploring issues of class, sex, and gender, Indecent by Corinne Sullivan is a smart, sexy debut that shatters the black-and-white nature of victimhood, taking a close look at blame and moral ambiguity. Shy, introverted Imogene Abney has always been fascinated by the elite world of prep schools, having secretly longed to attend one since she was a girl in Buffalo, New York. So, shortly after her college graduation, when she's offered a teaching position at the Vandenberg School for Boys, an all-boys prep school in Westchester, New York, she immediately accepts, despite having little teaching experience--and very little experience with boys. When Imogene meets handsome, popular Adam Kipling a few weeks into her tenure there, a student who exudes charm and status and ease, she's immediately drawn to him. Who is this boy who flirts with her without fear of being caught? Who is this boy who seems immune to consequences and worry; a boy for whom the world will always provide? As an obsessive, illicit affair begins between them, Imogene is so lost in the haze of first love that she's unable to recognize the danger she's in. The danger of losing her job. The danger of losing herself in the wrong person. The danger of being caught doing something possibly illegal and so indecent.
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Dogcatcher in the Rye
by Ellen Riggs
When Ivy Galloway's sheepdog sniffs out a corpse in her rye field, the brand new hobby farm innkeeper must trade fresh pies for clues and clear her name in Clover Grove.Turning a hobby farm into a country inn sounded rustic-chic... until murder plowed through the rye.Fleeing big-city burnout, Ivy is determined to open Runaway Farm & Inn, even if she can't tell the difference between an alpaca and a llama. But the grand opening gets shelved when the local police chief-her former high school sweetheart-pegs her as Suspect #1.Armed with HR-honed interview skills and a border collie who lives to work, Ivy digs for answers among quirky relatives, runaway rescue animals, and a bumper crop of secrets. Meanwhile, the killer closes in on her beloved new home.Saddle up for: A clever canine sidekick with one blue eyeA small-town farm full of mischief-and baby goatsClean, laugh-out-loud sleuthing with recipes & rescue animalsPerfect for fans of Steve Higgs' Albert Smith Culinary Capers and Cindy Bell's Little Leaf Creek mysteries, Book 1 of the Bought-the-Farm Mysteries delivers heartwarming hilarity with a hint of homicide.
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Gail Borden Public Library District
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Main Library - 270 N. Grove Ave., Elgin, IL 60120 - 847-742-2411
Rakow Branch - 2751 W. Bowes Rd., Elgin, IL 60124 - 847-531-7271
South Elgin Branch - 127 S. McLean Blvd., South Elgin, IL 60177 - 847-931-2090
http://www.gailborden.info/
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