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New eBooks from OverDrive/Libby
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Keep Sharp
by Sanjay Gupta
The Emmy Award-winning CNN chief medical correspondent and best-selling author of Chasing Life draws on cutting-edge scientific research to outline strategies for protecting brain function and maintaining cognitive health at any age.
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Black Buck
by Mateo Askaripour
An unambitious college graduate accepts a job at Sumwun, the hottest NYC startup, and reimagines himself as “Buck” a ruthless salesman and begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America’s sales force.
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The Push
by Ashley Audrain
A devoted mother with a painful past gradually realizes that something is very wrong with her daughter, a fear that is complicated by her husband’s dismissive views and the birth of a healthy son.
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Outlawed
by Anna North
Forced to flee from a community that hangs barren women as witches, 17-year-old Ada joins a gang of outlaws under a charismatic former preacher who hatches a treacherous plan that risks all of their lives.
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The House on Vesper Sands
by Paraic O'Donnell
A Victorian-inspired supernatural mystery by the award-winning author of The Maker of Swans follows the experiences of a Cambridge dropout and his savvy detective partner, who connect a paramour’s disappearance to a bizarre suicide.
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The Doctors Blackwell
by Janice P. Nimura
The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women.
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Hades, Argentina
by Daniel Loedel
A medical student in Buenos Aires must decide how far he’s willing to go for his childhood crush and the group of insurgents she’s joined as more and more people like her are disappeared by an oppressive military junta.
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The Wife Upstairs
by Rachel Hawkins
Supplementing her modest income by stealing small valuables from her gated-community clients, a broke dog-walker endeavors to win the heart of a wealthy bachelor before learning his late wife’s own rags-to-riches story.
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The Prophets
by Robert Jones, Jr.
Two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation find refuge in each other while transforming a quiet shed into a haven for their fellow slaves, before an enslaved preacher declares their bond sinful.
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Wintering
by Katherine May
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. May models an active acceptance of sadness and finds nourishment in deep retreat, joy in the hushed beauty of winter, and encouragement in understanding life as cyclical, not linear.
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The Duke and I
by Julia Quinn
In an effort to keep himself footloose and single in spite of the efforts of the town's matchmakers, Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, begins a sham courtship with Daphne Bridgerton.
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The Fortunate Ones
by Ed Tarkington
Exposed to the privileges and depravity of wealth when his mother’s connections gain him entry into an elite Nashville boarding school, Charlie faces a difficult choice years later while supporting a friend’s morally questionable political campaign.
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Walking with Ghosts
by Gabriel Byrne
The award-winning stage and screen actor documents his working-class Dublin childhood, his failed ambition to become a priest, the role of street life in shaping his characters and his experiences in Hollywood and on Broadway.
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The Vanishing at Loxby Manor
by Abigail Wilson
Disappearances, strange activities in the night, and secret organizations abound in this mysterious Regency romance.
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Murder at Mabel's Motel
by G. A. McKevett
When a notorious gang leader is found poisoned in small-town McGill, Georgia, Stella “Granny” Reid investigates a flood of suspects who reveal dark secrets about the victim and several respected locals.
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All That We Carried
by Erin Bartels
Estranged sisters embark on a hiking trip on the tenth anniversary of their parents' deaths in an attempt to reconnect. In the wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula they'll face their deepest fears, question their most dearly held beliefs and begin to see that perhaps the best way to move forward is the one way they had never considered.
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Enjoy the View
by Sarah Morgenthaler
A grouchy mountaineer, a Hollywood starlet and miles of untamed wilderness.... What could possibly go wrong?
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At the Edge of the Haight
by Katherine Seligman
Witnessing a murder that threatens her already precarious existence, a young homeless woman is pressured to return to her family in tech-driven, race-torn San Francisco.
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A Curious Incident
by Vicki Delany
After Gemma helps a little girl find her lost cat, the child returns seeking further assistance when her mother is accused of killing her garden club rival, in the latest addition to the series following There’s a Murder Afoot.
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The Log Cabin Years
by Cindy Ross
The Log Cabin Years is the inspiring story of how award-winning author Cindy Ross and her husband, artist Todd Gladfelter-a young couple totally inexperienced in construction-built a log home using raw trees and without the use of power, how they recycled and used salvage to supplement their materials, and how the home went on to become a living, breathing part of their lives together.
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New eBooks from eRead Illinois/Axis360
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Just as I Am
by Cicely Tyson
The Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her six-decade career and life.
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The Russian
by James Patterson
Investigating a trio of horrifying murders in three major U.S. cities against a backdrop of his impending nuptials, Detective Michael Bennett risks getting caught in a deadly trap set by a particularly elusive killer.
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Shipped
by Angie Hockman
Competing for the same promotion, a workaholic marketing manager and her e-mail nemesis discover their mutual attraction when they meet for the first time while researching their company’s cruise line in the Galápagos Islands.
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Aftershocks
by Nadia Owusu
An award-winning essayist combines literary memoir and cultural history to examine her personal struggles with her mixed-heritage identity and the emotional trauma of her mother’s abandonment and father’s dark secrets.
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Light of the Jedi
by Charles Soule
A new Star Wars saga set 200 years before the events of The Phantom Menace finds the heroes of the Jedi Order confronted by an unexpected sinister force while defending the Republic from a catastrophic hyperspace disaster.
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Yellow Wife
by Sadeqa Johnson
Born on a plantation, but set apart from the others by her mother’s position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at 18 and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
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Burnt Sugar
by Avni Doshi
Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, a literary debut novel set in India is about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal.
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Neighbors
by Danielle Steel
Opening her home to neighbors in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, a reclusive woman inadvertently triggers events that reveal secrets, divide relationships and forge new bonds among strangers.
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The Liar's Dictionary
by Eley Williams
Tasked with identifying false entries in an encyclopedic dictionary before it is digitized, a young intern questioning her sexuality and place in the world uncovers the laugh-out-loud mountweazels of a disaffected Victorian lexicographer.
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
by George Saunders
The award-winning author of Tenth of December pairs scholarly essays based on his Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program with seven classic Russian stories to explain the essential literary processes of narrative, story immersion and perspective.
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