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New eBooks from Pindigital/Overdrive
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The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Virginia slave narrowly escapes a drowning death through the intervention of a mysterious force that compels his escape and personal underground war against slavery.
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The Secrets We Kept
by Lara Prescott
A tale of spycraft, love, and sacrifice inspired by the true story of Doctor Zhivago follows the efforts of two CIA agents to help publish Boris Pasternak’s censored masterpiece against a backdrop of Cold War politics in Moscow.
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Talking to Strangers
by Malcolm Gladwell
The podcast host of “Revisionist History” and best-selling author of Outliers presents a controversial reassessment of leading news stories that offers strategic tips for more accurate and productive interactions with strangers.
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The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood
A long-anticipated sequel to the best-selling The Handmaid’s Tale is set 15 years after Offred stepped into an unknown fate and interweaves the experiences of three female narrators from Gilead.
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Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson
As Melody celebrates a coming of age ceremony at her grandparents’ house in 2001 Brooklyn, her family remembers 1985, when Melody’s own mother prepared for a similar party that never took place in this novel about different social classes.
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Call Sign Chaos
by James N. Mattis and Bing West
A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis—the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time—and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.
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Don't You Forget About Me
by Mhairi McFarlane
Fired and dumped on the same night, Georgina takes a new job before realizing that her new boss is her first love who does not recognize her.
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Cold Storage
by David Koepp
A debut novel by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park follows the desperate mission of a Pentagon bioterror operative and two unwitting security guards to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism.
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Inside Out
by Demi Moore
In this deeply candid and reflective memoir, Demi pulls back the curtain and opens up about her career and personal life—laying bare her tumultuous relationship with her mother, her marriages, her struggles balancing stardom with raising a family, and her journey toward open heartedness.
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Bringing Down the Duke
by Evie Dunmore
Recruiting men of influence to champion the rising women’s suffrage movement of 1879 England, a daring Oxford rebel targets a cold and calculating duke before their unexpected romance threatens to upend the British social order.
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New eBooks from eRead Illinois/Axis360
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Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train comes a memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
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The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
A tale set over the course of five decades traces a young man’s rise from poverty to wealth and back again as his prospects center around his family’s lavish Philadelphia estate.
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Heaven, My Home
by Attica Locke
In a follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird, Texas Ranger Darren Matthews must battle centuries-old suspicions and prejudices, as well as threats that have been reignited in the current political climate, to find a missing boy and save himself.
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The World That We Knew
by Alice Hoffman
Sent away to 1941 Paris when Berlin becomes too dangerous for Jewish families, a young girl bonds with her protective mystical golem; while her friend, a rabbi’s daughter, rises to become a defender of their people.
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Permanent Record
by Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
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Quichotte
by Salman Rushdie
The award-winning author of Midnight’s Children presents a modern adaptation of Don Quixote that finds a courtly, addled salesman embarking on a cross-country journey with his imaginary son after falling impossibly in love with a television star.
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We Are the Weather
by Jonathan Safran Foer
An urgent call to action on climate change by the author of Eating Animals shares insight into the climate denial mindset while identifying meat farms as a primary source of environmental pollutants.
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Lethal Agent
by Kyle Mills
A divisive presidential election is complicated by terrorist videos of a kidnapped scientist who is being forced to produce anthrax, catapulting Mitch Rapp into an undercover mission to prevent the weapon from being smuggled into America.
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Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
It is 1873, and Mycroft Holmes is in service to the Crown once again. A distant relative of Queen Victoria has been slain by the Fire Four Eleven killer, a serial murderer who leaves no mark upon his victims. Mycroft allows Sherlock to take the case.
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The United States of Trump
by Bill O'Reilly
The television journalist and author of the best-selling Killing series draws on exclusive interview materials and deep research, in an insider’s portrait of the 45th President that includes previously undisclosed details about Trump’s childhood, family life, and career.
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Pretty Guilty Women
by Gina LaManna
Detectives must unearth the truth after a man is found dead during a rehearsal dinner at a fancy resort and four different women confess to the crime, each insisting they acted alone, and each with very different stories.
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The Girl Behind the Red Rope
by Ted Dekker
Joining a secret religious community in the hills of Tennessee after a history-changing event, Grace finds everything she has worked to build threatened by her older brother’s questions and the arrival of the first outsiders in a decade.
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The Ungrateful Refugee
by Dina Nayeri
The award-winning author of Refuge draws on first-person testimonies in an urgent portrait of the refugee crisis that reveals how it happened and the harmful ways that Western governments respond to the inhumane conditions refugees endure.
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The Divers' Game
by Jesse Ball
The award-winning author of Census depicts an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced equality, where state-sanctioned abuses shape the final moments of a woman’s life against a backdrop of two violent festivals.
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Indistractable
by Nir Eyal
Drawing on groundbreaking research and exclusive interviews, the author of the best-selling Hooked shows us how we can be indistractable through a four-step model that helps us understand the processes of distractions and how we can finally get them under control.
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Today We Go Home
by Kelli Estes
Struggling to heal from a devastating loss while serving in Afghanistan, Larkin Bennett finds the diary of a young woman who disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union during the Civil War and begins to heal.
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Ducks, Newburyport
by Lucy Ellmann
An Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, and all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what’s happening at the factory farm down the interstate—not to mention what was done to the land’s first inhabitants.
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Strands of Truth
by Colleen Coble
A marine biologist whose last relative has passed away is surprised to discover that she has a half-sister at the same time her business partner’s stroke leads to an unexpected romance.
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Fentanyl, Inc.
by Ben Westhoff
An in-depth investigation into the dangerous world of synthetic drugs predicts a next wave in the opioid epidemic while examining the roles of black-market Chinese drug factories, European harm reduction activists, and American dealers and users.
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