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Literary ElementsMay 2016
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Socialize, mix and mingle at this evening book discussion of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Registration is underway.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2-4 PM Writers, join others as you share creative ideas. No experience necessary. Registration is underway. Check out Thoughts on Paper, the Writer's Club Quarterly Journal.
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Books and Bites Monday, May 16, 7-8 pm Are you in your 20s or 30s and looking for a book group geared just for you? Join us at Panera Bread in West Babylon where you can grab a snack, some coffee & discuss the book Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. Can’t make it to the Library to register? Find and follow us on Meetup.com/Books-and-Bites-Book-Group and download the book at Live-brary.com. Registration is underway. Newcomers are welcome!
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May Table Display Stop by our table display "If Books Could Kill" to see if you can figure out whodunnit! Try out your sleuthing skills with these mysteries that are sure to keep you entertained.
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Hostile Witness: A Kate Ford Mysteryby Leigh AdamsComputer security specialist Kate Ford finds herself drawn into the drama of a lurid kidnapping case with ties to her company, leading her to the country's darkest corners of power and leaving her and her family the target of a ruthless network of conspirators.
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Absolute Powerby David BaldacciAn unlikely witness threatens a high-level government cover-up, orchestrated by the Secret Service and a ruthlessly loyal White House chief-of-staff, of a brutal murder involving the president and his mistress.
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The Tomb in Turkeyby Simon BrettHaving been persuaded to join her neighbor Jude for a fortnight's holiday in a luxurious Turkish villa, Carole Seddon's sightseeing trip to nearby Pinara is curtailed by the discovery of a body in one of the ancient Lycian tombs. Who is the victim, and what is their connection with Barney Willingdon, the owner of the villa?
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All Things Cease to Appearby Elizabeth BrundageArriving home to find his wife murdered and their toddler left alone, art history professor George Clare is targeted with suspicion by a relentless police officer as dark community secrets are revealed over a span of decades.
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Follyby Stella CameronReturning home to Folly-on-Weir in the Cotswolds to start over after a disastrous marriage, Alex Duggins stumbles upon a dead body in the snow, which launches an investigation that unearths old secrets, including her own, forcing her to dig up the town's darkest deceptions to clear her own name.
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Run You Downby Julia DahlInvestigating the murder of a young Hasidic mother just might bring New York City tabloid reporter Rebekah Roberts face-to-face with her own mother, who abandoned her as a baby.
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Open Graveby Kjell ErikssonWhen pranks escalate into violence in the neighborhood of an unpopular Nobel Prize-winning professor, police inspector Ann Lindell's subsequent investigation reveals links to her own past.
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Find Herby Lisa GardnerRequesting the assistance of a survivor of an extended abduction experience who has become obsessed with the cases of girls who never made it home, Boston detective D. D. Warren becomes suspicious of the woman's agenda upon discovering her relationships with other victims.
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The River King by Alice HoffmanA town divided by class lines is thrown into turmoil by a mysterious death, which begins to unravel the lives of a fifteen-year-old girl, a young boy, and a women running from her own destiny.
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Mystic Riverby Dennis LehaneSean Devine must confront the world of violence and pain he tried to forget when his childhood friend's daughter is murdered, and the investigation brings him face-to-face with a vigilante killer and a man with a dangerous secret.
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Brooklyn on Fire: A Mary Handley Mystery by Lawrence H. LevyHired by a young woman who wants to find out if her uncle was murdered, Mary Handley, daring Brooklyn detective, finds her second case leading her to family scandal, several murders, corruption and unexpected romance.
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Choked Upby Janey MackIn order to bring down a Serbian mobster running a chop-shop operation in Chicago, Maisie McGrane goes undercover as a meter maid and sets up a sting operation.
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Last Willby Liza MarklundA shooting at the glamorous Nobel Prize Dinner in Stockholm enmeshes investigative reporter and witness Annika Bengtzon in a web of international terrorism and global pharmaceutical interests that forces her to track down a professional assassin.
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Atonementby Ian McEwanA richly textured coming-of-age novel, set in 1935 England, that follows thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, who witness an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, as she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which tears her family apart and leads her on a lifelong search of truth and absolution.
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The Nightmare Placeby Steve MosbyWhen the Creeper, a stalker who has been attacking women in their own homes, calls the help line where she volunteers, Jane Webster is pulled into a dangerous case by Detective Inspector Zoe Dolan, who is desperately trying to catch him—and soon Jane discovers that nowhere is safe.
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And Sometimes I Wonder about Youby Walter Mosley"New York City-based private eye Leonid McGill finds himself in the unusual pickle of trying to balance his cases with his chaotic personal life"
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The Travelersby Chris PavoneWhen a woman with whom he has shared a harmless flirtation shows up at his hotel door with a gun, travel writer and food expert Will Rhodes discovers the real reason his job occasionally requires him to assume different names and deliver mysterious parcels.
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A String of Beadsby Thomas PerryApproached by the leaders of the Seneca clans for help finding a childhood friend who has been accused of murdering a white man, Jane discovers that her friend is also being hunted by a sinister adversary.
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Vixen: A Nameless Detective Novel by Bill PronziniHired by a self-proclaimed model to find her missing brother, Nameless questions his client's motives when he discovers inaccuracies in her story and sinister complexities that undermine the case.
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Try Not to Breatheby Holly SeddonA young journalist struggles to maintain the demons of her alcoholism and restore her professional reputation by tackling the dangerous cold-case mystery of a woman who was placed in a coma 15 years earlier by an unknown assailant.
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Nowhere Girl by Susan StreckerMeeting the detective who investigated the murder of her twin years earlier, suspense writer Cady learns that the killer may have been someone who loved her sister, a revelation that catapults her into a world of deception and betrayal that forces her to confront unsettling facts from their childhoods.
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The Ice Twinsby S. K. TremayneMoving to a tiny Scottish island a year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah are shattered when their surviving daughter claims they have mistaken her identity and that she is actually the twin they believed dead.
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All that Followedby Gabriel UrzaThree citizens in a quiet northern Basque Country town in 2004 Spain are targeted with suspicion and hostility in the aftermath of the Atocha train bombings in Madrid.
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Cuba Straitsby Randy Wayne WhiteWhen a friend who was running a lucrative smuggling operation goes missing after selling a valuable cache of letters written by Fidel Castro, Doc Ford discovers that the letters may have contained a powerful secret.
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