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Friday Fiction: Mid-Summer edition July 2015
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Armada : a novel
by Ernest Cline
Struggling to complete his final month of high school only to glimpse a UFO that exactly resembles an enemy ship from his favorite video game, Zack Lightman questions his sanity before becoming one of millions of gamers tasked with protecting the Earth during an alien invasion. By the best-selling author of Ready Player One.
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Bathsheba : reluctant beauty
by Angela Elwell Hunt
After sending his army to besiege another king's capital, King David forces himself on Bathsheba, a loyal soldier's wife, and when her resulting pregnancy forces the king to murder her husband and add her to his harem, Bathsheba struggles to protect her son while dealing with the effects of a dark prophecy and deadly curse on the king's household. Original.
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Bell weather : a novel
by Dennis Mahoney
A mysterious young woman rescued from a flooded river triggers rumors in a fantastical 18th-century settlement before the desperate truth of her past forces her and her rescuer to make a dangerous choice. By the author of Fellow Mortals.
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Bennington girls are easy
by Charlotte Silver
Becoming roommates in New York after graduating from a bohemian college, Cassandra Puffin and Sylvie Furst share years of self-exploration before their respective quirks test the bonds of their friendship. By the author of Charlotte au Chocolat.
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Book of numbers : a novel
by Joshua Cohen
Hired by a dying tech company tycoon to ghostwrite his memoirs, failed novelist Josh Cohen learns the history of the man's profoundly influential company before being initiated into the high-stakes truth behind the autobiography project.
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Brush back : a V. I. Warshawski novel
by Sara Paretsky
Reluctantly agreeing to help when an old high-school boyfriend asks her to exonerate his mother for the murder of his sister, V. I. Warshawski is forced to confront ugly politics and violent elements in the depressed steel mill town of her youth.
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Candy corn murder : a Lucy Stone mystery
by Leslie Meier
Covering the town's annual giant-pumpkin festival during the Halloween season, reporter Lucy Stone follows leads to a local general store-turned-Internet hotspot when her husband, Bill, is framed for a friend's murder. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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Come rain or come shine
by Jan Karon
Graduating from vet school and opening an animal clinic, Dooley Kavanagh, Father Tim Kavanaugh's adopted son, plans what he hopes will be a simple, affordable wedding with soulmate Lace Harper. By the best-selling author of Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good.
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The curse of Crow Hollow
by Billy Coffey
When a mysterious illness strikes the children of Crow Hollow after Alvaretta Graves, whom many believe to be a witch, curses the small Appalacchian town, tensions rise as the villagers try to protect themselves
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Darkness on his bones
by Barbara Hambly
When James Asher is found unconscious in the cemetery of the Church of St. Clare with multiple puncture-wounds in his throat and arms, there is only one person his wife, Lydia, can call on for help—their old friend and adversary, the vampire Don Simon Ysidro.
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Devil's bridge
by Linda A. Fairstein
Investigating the disappearance of Alex Cooper, NYPD detective Mike Chapman looks into a recent security breach and Coop's numerous enemies while evaluating the vulnerabilities of their newly intimate relationship. By the New York Times best-selling author of Terminal City.
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Disclaimer
by Renee Knight
Reading a mysterious novel that recounts in haunting detail the day she became the victim of a dark secret, documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft is forced to confront the past to prevent her world from falling apart.
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The diver's clothes lie empty : a novel
by Vendela Vida
After being robbed of her wallet and passport while on a mysterious trip to Morocco, a woman feels a strange freedom of being stripped of her identity and soon begins pretending to be a well-known film star.
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The double life of Liliane : a novel
by Lily Tuck
From a National Book Award winner comes a bold, funny and inventive story of a young girl's life caught between two vividly different, cosmopolitan parents.
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Everybody rise : a novel
by Stephanie Clifford
A first novel by an award-winning New York Times reporter is set in the years leading up to the 2008 financial collapse and follows a socially anxious young woman's efforts to define herself away from her ambitious mother and corrupt father.
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Golden age : a novel
by Jane Smiley
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with Some Luck and Early Warning finds a new generation of Langdons tackling the unique economic, social, cultural and political challenges of the 1980s and beyond. By a Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author.
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The heart goes last
by Margaret Atwood
Enrolling in a project that allows them to live in safe homes between alternate service months spent in prison, a homeless couple is threatened by troubling events stemming from the wife's involvement with another project member. By the award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale.
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In a dark, dark wood
by Ruth Ware
Reluctantly accepting an old friend's invitation to spend a weekend on the English countryside, reclusive writer Leonora awakens in a hospital badly injured, unable to recall what happened and confronting a growing certainty that someone involved has died.
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Language arts
by Stephanie Kallos
A high school English teacher begins to rise out of the rut his life has fallen into with the help of an art student and an Italian nun. By the best-selling author of Broken for You.
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The marriage of opposites : a novel
by Alice Hoffman
Dreaming of an exotic life in Paris while coming of age in a St. Thomas refugee community, young Rachel is forced to marry a widower before falling scandalously in love and becoming the mother of Impressionist master Camille Pissarro. By the best-selling author of Here on Earth.
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Marvel and a wonder
by Joe Meno
In 1995, Jim Falls is trying to raise his teenage grandson on a farm in southern Indiana and after a pair of troubled, meth-dealing brothers steal a horse from the farm, grandfather and grandson travel the landscape in search of the animal
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The most famous illegal Goose Creek parade
by Virginia Smith
Al Richardson enjoys small town life, but things are about to get hectic when Al's wife decides she wants to open a B&B, the new town veterinarian does not understand why she only has one patient, and there might even be an illegal parade
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The muralist
by Barbara A. Shapiro
Auction-house employee Danielle Abrams investigates the unsolved disappearance of her famous artist great-aunt when she discovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind Abstract Expressionist works created decades earlier. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Art Forger.
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The murderer's daughters
by Randy Susan Meyers
After the murder of their father, Lulu and Merry grow up living tenuous lives where Lulu denies he ever existed and Merry dutifully visits him in prison, only to find their lives on the brink of collapse when they learn that their unrepentant and manipulative father is about to be paroled. A first novel.
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My grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry : a novel
by Fredrik Backman
Seven-year-old Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending the girl on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales. By the internationally best-selling author of A Man Called Ove.
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My kitchen year : 136 recipes that saved my life
by Ruth Reichl
The high-profile restaurant critic and former editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine shares dozens of favorite comfort-food recipes that helped her recover from depression and reconnect with a sense of purpose after the magazine was shut down.
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Playing with fire : a novel
by Tess Gerritsen
Discovering an old and strikingly unusual music composition that causes her to black out and her daughter to be implicated in acts of violence, Julia Ansdell travels to Venice to find the composition's owner and uncovers a dark secret dating back to the Holocaust. By the New York Times best-selling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series.
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Purity
by Jonathan Franzen
Struggling with identity issues and student loans as the daughter of a mother who hides a mysterious past, Pip takes an internship with an illicit activist group and falls for its charismatic fugitive leader. By the author of Freedom.
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Rigged for murder
by Jenifer LeClair
On leave from the Minneapolis Police Department and suffering from PTSD after the killing of her partner, homicide detective Brie Beaumont seeks refuge in Maine and joins Captain John DuLac and eight others on a cruise, but her peaceful voyage is interrupted by the murder of one of her shipmates and her quest to find the killer.
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The secret chord
by Geraldine Brooks
A tale based on the story of King David is set against a backdrop of Second Iron Age Israel and traces his journey from an obscure shepherd to a hero and king before his fall as a murderous despot. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of People of the Book.
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Speak : a novel
by Louisa Hall
Exploring the creation of artificial intelligence and illuminating the very human need for communication, connection and understanding, a thought-provoking novel is told from the perspectives of five very different people from different times and places.
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The truth and other lies : a novel
by Sascha Arango
Famous author Henry Hayden is left to deal with the consequences after his wife—the actual writer of his books—meets an untimely death.
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by Sue Grafton
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of W Is for Wasted and V Is for Vengeance presents a latest series entry starring the intrepid Kinsey Millhone.
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