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New on the Download Library May 2017
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Beartown : a novel
by Fredrik Backman
In a forgotten town fractured by scandal, an amateur hockey team might just be able to change everything. By the New York Times best-selling author of A Man Called Ove.
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Into the water
by Paula Hawkins
When a single mom and a teen girl are found murdered at the bottom of a river in a small town weeks apart, an ensuing investigation dredges up a complicated local history involving human instincts and the damage they can inflict. By the best-selling author of The Girl on the Train.
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The Women in the Castle
by Jessica Shattuck
In a novel set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, three widows' lives and fates become intertwined.
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Any day now
by Robyn Carr
A sequel to What We Find continues the adventures of the characters from Sullivan's Crossing, who greet diverse visitors at a rustic campground at the crossroads of the Colorado and Continental Divide Trails. (romance).
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The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women
by Kate Moore
A full-length account of the struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to dangerous levels of radium while working factory jobs during World War I describes how they were mislead by their employers and became embroiled in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights.
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The stars are fire
by Anita Shreve
(Audiobook) A novel based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history follows the experiences of a pregnant woman who struggles to protect her two young children and watches her home burn while her husband joins the volunteer firefighters. By the best-selling author of The Pilot's Wife. Read by Suzanne Elise Freeman. Simultaneous.
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Astrophysics for people in a hurry
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The notable host of StarTalk reveals just what people need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.
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Born both : an intersex life
by Hida Viloria
An intersex activist describes what it was like being raised a girl, but knowing that her genitals, reproductive organs, hormones and chromosomes failed to fit the standard definition of either sex and how she became an advocate for others in similar situations.
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The burial hour
by Jeffery Deaver
A return to Deaver's successful series finds Lincoln Rhyme investigating the abduction of a traveling businessman from an Upper East Side street, a case that is complicated by an 8-year-old girl who was the crime's only witness.
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