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New eBooks from Pindigital/Overdrive/Libby
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Cake and Punishment: A Southern Cake Baker Mystery
by Maymee Bell
Returning home to Kentucky, a pastry chef is sweet-talked into making the cake for her best friend's wedding in the professional kitchen of the local country club where she discovers the dead body of a chef.
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Calypso
by David Sedaris
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
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The Crooked Staircase
by Dean Koontz
Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk tracks a powerful Department of Justice operative at the center of a high-tech conspiracy that killed her husband and now threatens those closest to her as part of an agenda to seize power.
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The Ensemble
by Aja Gabel
Forging a familial bond over their shared artistic talents and secrets, four young people navigate a cutthroat world and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love reinforce and divide them throughout the course of their lives.
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The Good Luck Sister
by Jill Shalvis
After a difficult few years, Tilly Adams is ready for life to start going right. Though she has a case of first-day nerves teaching art at the local community college, she knows it isn’t anything a few snuggles from her rescue puppy won’t cure. Until she sees Dylan Scott again, her one-time BFF and first love sitting in the front row.
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Love and Ruin
by Paula McLain
After meeting and falling in love while she covered the Spanish Civil War in Madrid, Martha Gellhorn is forced to choose between her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and her career as a war correspondent.
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The Map of Salt and Stars
by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
Two girls living 800 years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker—place today’s headlines in the sweep of history, where the pain of exile and the triumph of courage echo again and again.
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The Other Lady Vanishes
by Amanda Quick
Escaping from a private sanitarium and taking a job at an herbal tea shop in a 1930s California seaside resort town, Adelaide bonds with a man hiding under the cover of a therapy-seeking widower before a local con artist is murdered, drawing them both into a shadowy underground of duplicity and misdirection.
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Send Down the Rain
by Charles Martin
When Allie loses her second husband to a car accident, traumatized Vietnam War veteran Joseph reemerges from her past in time for them both to find comfort with one another, but a secret from the distant past might stand in the way.
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New eBooks from eRead Illinois/Axis 360
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By Invitation Only
by Dorothea Benton Frank
A young, sophisticated Chicago woman falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina, and trades the bustle of cosmopolitan city life for the vagaries of a small Southern community.
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The Cast
by Danielle Steel
Building a huge following for her magazine column, Kait, a woman who prefers to focus on her career after two failed marriages, teams up with producer Zack to launch a television series with a colorful cast and crew, each marked by private eccentricities, heartaches and secrets.
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The Crossing
by Jason Mott
Relying on each other since early childhood to survive a merciless foster-care system, twins Virginia and Tommy are horrified when a deadly pandemic wipes out entire populations and a world war erupts over the cure, a situation that leads them to embark on a dangerous life on the run to avoid a suicidal military draft.
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Fade to Black
by Heather Graham
Using her fame as a cult TV star to launch a dream project in children's theater, Marnie witnesses the brazen murder of a co-star at the hands of a killer who seems to vanish into thin air, a crime that compels her partnership with a private investigator, the son of famous Hollywood actors, to counter an adversary who makes her doubt her own senses.
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The 49th Mystic
by Ted Dekker
When Rachelle Matthews undergoes a procedure to restore her sight, she begins to dream of another world and learns that she is the one destined to find five seals in both worlds in order to bring them peace, but if she fails, both will fall into darkness.
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How Bernie Won: Inside the Revolution That's Taking Back Our Country--and Where We Go from Here
by Jeff Weaver
The president of the Our Revolution nonprofit and manager of Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign shares insights into how Bernie Sanders and his run for office effectively rose above typical negative practices and affiliations with big money to reconnect the Democratic party to its populist roots, triggering important, revolutionary changes in American politics.
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How It Happened
by Michael Koryta
After a troubled teen, no stranger to the law, admits to her involvement in a brutal murder, Rob Barrett, an FBI investigator and interrogator stakes his reputation on her confession only to have the information she provided prove false.
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Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America
by James Fallows
A portrait of the civil and economic renewal underway in American towns draws on the authors' visits with civic leaders, factory workers, recent immigrants, and young entrepreneurs who are observing and understanding important transitional dynamics and opportunities.Book Annotation
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
by Simon Winchester
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.
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Probable Claws
by Rita Mae Brown
Postmistress "Harry" Haristeen and her human and animal companions investigate a mystery dating back to Virginia's post-Revolutionary past, an effort shaped by the creative influence of an artistic new friend and the struggles of their predecessors from the eighteenth century.
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The Adamant: Finding Truth in a Universe of Opinions
by Lisa Bevere
By ancient definition, the adamant was known as both a diamond and a mythical stone of indestructible wonder. In more modern terminology, it describes a posture of unshakeable resolve and determination. If there was ever a time for people to be adamant about love and truth it is now. God is Love. God is Truth. Both love and truth are timeless, transcending the current trends and opinions. Sometimes the most loving thing people will ever do is to speak the truth, but speaking truth begins with living it.
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The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally
by Jason Fung
Writing with clear, persuasive language, Dr. Jason Fung explains the only way to treat type 2 diabetes effectively is proper dieting and intermittent fasting - not medication. Dr. Fung proposes a new, evidence-based way to break the cycle of high blood glucose and increased insulin resistance. Drawing from the latest in medical research, he outlines the impact of diet and lifestyle in type 2 diabetes and offers simple, easy-to-follow advice for preventing and reversing its course, complete with helpful charts and illustrations.
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The Knowledge
by Martha Grimes
Investigating a double homicide involving a brazen heist at a rarefied art gallery and casino, Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Richard Jury teams up with a motley assortment of Baker Street Irregulars to solve a case with ties to astrophysics, the Tanzanian gem mines and a long-planned act of revenge.
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Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime
by Cutter Wood
An award-winning writer who was a motel guest documents the story of a missing Gulf Coast motel owner and the efforts of local detectives to identify her assailant, offering additional insights into the psychological factors that motivate domestic crimes as based on firsthand interviews with the case's chief suspect.
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Misadventures With the Boss
by Kendall Ryan
At twenty-nine, Piper Daniels is having the longest dry-spell of her life. When she agrees to be set up on a blind date, she never expects it to end with the hottest sex of her life. But when she discovers that her very well-endowed secret lover is also her new boss, heartless womanizer and cutthroat CEO Jackson Dane, she chalks it up to a one-time mistake and puts up her best professional front. But Jackson isn’t used to rejection, and if Piper thinks it’s going to be easy to move on from their tryst, she’s underestimated his determination. As their work brings them together, temptation becomes too much, and Piper loses herself in all the wicked pleasure Jackson has to offer. But his conquest comes at a steep price. Piper has a secret. A secret big enough to rip Jackson’s carefully ordered world to shreds.
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The Perfume Burned His Eyes
by Michael Imperioli
After the loss of both his father and grandfather, sixteen-year-old Matthew moves from Queens to Manhattan with his mother. There he learns to navigate a new school, a new neighborhood and a neighbor upstairs, Lou Reed.
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Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
by Michelle Dean
An acclaimed, award-winning literary critic combines biography and cultural history to highlight the lives of brilliant, quick-witted women writers who became influential at a time where women were still second class citizens, including Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West and Susan Sontag.
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Tart of Darkness
by Denise Swanson
After unexpectedly inheriting a huge old house in a small college town, Dani, to fund her new personal chef business, takes in boarders, but when one of them is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect, she must serve up the real killer to clear her name and save her business.
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X-Ops Exposed
by Paige Tyler
Believing he is too dangerous to be around people, lion hybrid and former Army Ranger Tanner Howland retreats to the forests of Washington State to be alone, until Dr. Zarina Sokolov tracks him down and offers him a chance to become human again and save his fellow hybrids.
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