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Recommended by Shannan, Marketing & Communications
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The Seed Keeper: A Novel
by Diane Wilson
Rosalie Iron Wing grows up in the woods, learning from her father until he vanishes. Sent to a foster family, she finds connection with rebellious Gaby Makespeace. Years later, Rosalie, a widow, returns to her childhood home to confront her past. As she searches for family and identity, she learns about her ancestors—women with "souls of iron" who protected their families, traditions, and a precious cache of seeds through generations of hardship and loss. This is a story of reawakening and remembering our original relationship to the seeds and our ancestors.
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The Lost Story: A Novel
by Meg Shaffer
Best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a West Virginia forest as boys, reappearing six months later with no memory or explanation. Fifteen years later, Rafe is a reclusive artist, and Jeremy is a famed missing persons' investigator. When vet tech Emilie Wendell's sister vanishes in the same forest, Jeremy, who secretly knows the boys were in a magical realm, believes they must return there to find her. As the former lost boys confront their shared, traumatic past, they must re-enter the enchanted world to get back everything and everyone they've lost.
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Bride
by Ali Hazelwood
Misery Lark, the outcast daughter of a powerful Vampyre councilman, is forced into an historic political marriage with Lowe Moreland, the ruthless Alpha of the Weres. Weres are unpredictable, and Lowe tracks her every move. But Misery has her own secret agenda: she's using the alliance as a means to retrieve the only thing she's ever cared about. Willing to risk a life alone in enemy territory, she'll do whatever it takes to get back what's hers.
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Recommended by Caitlin, Materials Collection
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays On A Human-Centered Planet
by John Green
Adapted and expanded from his podcast, John Green's collection of essays reviews different facets of the human-centered planet—the Anthropocene—on a five-star scale. From the QWERTY keyboard to the Penguins of Madagascar, Green uses his gift for storytelling to deliver observations that double as memoiristic empathy, exploring the shared human experience in this complex, artfully curated book.
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The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest
by Aubrey Hartman
Clare is an undead fox, an Usher who guides souls through the perpetually autumn-like Deadwood Forest. His solitary existence is shattered when a badger soul named Gingersnipes cannot cross into the Afterlife—an unprecedented and disturbing mystery. Desperate, Clare and Gingersnipes embark on a treacherous journey to find the visionary Hesterfowl, who delivers a shocking revelation that leaves Clare determined to change his fate. This delightfully grim and heartwarming tale explores what it means to move on.
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Empire of Wild: A Novel
by Cherie Dimaline
A year after her husband, Victor, disappears following their first big fight, a broken-hearted Joan stumbles upon a revival tent near Georgian Bay. There, she finds Victor, but he is a charismatic preacher named Reverend Eugene Wolff who doesn't recognize her. He insists she's mistaken and that his only mission is his ministry. With the help of a local Métis euchre shark, Ajean, and her odd nephew Zeus, Joan must find a way to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he really is—if he is Victor at all—before the enigmatic preacher's mission endangers everyone she loves.
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Recommended by Angela, Public Services
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The stolen life of Colette Marceau
by Kristin Harmel
For decades, jewel thief Colette Marceau has lived by her family's code: steal from the cruel to give to the needy. But her life as a modern-day Robin Hood began with tragedy in 1942 Paris, when her mother was executed and her young sister, Liliane, vanished along with a priceless diamond bracelet. Seventy years later, the long-lost bracelet surfaces in a Boston museum, forcing Colette to confront the ghosts of the past and a childhood acquaintance to finally learn the truth about her sister's disappearance and death.
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No more tears : the secret history of Johnson & Johnson
by Gardiner Harris
Gardiner Harris's No More Tears is a blistering exposé of Johnson & Johnson, the world's largest healthcare conglomerate, built on decades of deceit and dangerous corporate practices. Beginning with a tip from a drug sales rep, the former New York Times reporter uncovers shocking evidence of cover-ups, including lies about baby powder's link to cancer, deceptive marketing of dangerous antipsychotics to children, and aggressive efforts that fueled the opioid crisis. This investigative landmark reveals the corruption behind the company's child-friendly image and the devastating impact of its products on millions.
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Recommended by Amy, IT Services
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Fellstones
by Ramsey Campbell
Fellstones takes its name from seven objects on the village green. It’s where Paul Dunstan was adopted by the Staveleys after his parents died in an accident for which he blames himself. The way the Staveleys tried to control him made him move away and change his name. Why were they obsessed with a strange song he seemed to have made up as a child? Now their daughter Adele has found him. By the time he discovers the cosmic truth about the stones, he may be trapped. There are other dark secrets he’ll discover, and memories to confront. The Fellstones dream, but they’re about to waken
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Bad Cree: A Novel
by Jessica Johns
Mackenzie is plagued by dreams of a snow-covered forest, waking one morning with a severed crow's head in her hands—a harbinger of her sister Sabrina's untimely death. Soon, a murder of crows stalks her waking hours, threatening texts arrive from someone claiming to be Sabrina, and the trauma of her family's past threatens to overwhelm her. Traveling to her rural Alberta hometown to confront the lingering grief, Mackenzie's dreams only intensify and grow more dangerous. She must finally uncover what really happened the night her sister died before whatever has been calling her home consumes her.
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Recommended by Paula, Community Engagement
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The Women
by Kristin Hannah
In 1965, sheltered Southern Californian Frances "Frankie" McGrath dares to imagine a different future. When her brother ships out to Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows him. Overwhelmed by the chaos of war, Frankie is quickly forced to gamble between life and death. The real battle, however, begins when she comes home to a divided America that wants to forget Vietnam. The Women is the story of one unforgettable heroine whose idealism and courage defined an era, shining a light on all women whose service and sacrifice have too often been forgotten.
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Recommended by Kelli C, Community Engagement
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All Fours: A Novel
by Miranda July
A semifamous artist spontaneously exits the freeway twenty minutes into a cross-country drive, settling into a nondescript motel for a temporary, radical reinvention. Miranda July's second novel, All Fours, follows this forty-five-year-old artist's quest for a new kind of freedom. With July's wry voice and perfect comic timing, this book is part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of sexual, romantic, and domestic life, transcending expectation while profoundly exploring what it means to be a woman.
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The Girl in the Ice
by Robert Bryndza
When a young boy discovers a woman's body frozen beneath the ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster leads the murder investigation. The victim, a seemingly perfect socialite, soon links to the killings of three prostitutes, all found strangled and dumped in water. As Erika races to uncover the girl's dark secrets, the killer closes in on her. Battling the personal demons from her last, failed investigation that cost her husband's life, Erika must catch this deadly killer before he strikes again.
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Recommended by Kelly, Administrative Services
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The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
by Sharon McMahon
In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are the ordinary, often-forgotten people not found in history books—the telephone operators, the schoolteachers, not the presidents. Through meticulous research, McMahon unearths the rich, riveting stories of history's unsung characters, including a young boy detained at a Japanese incarceration camp, a formerly enslaved woman on a mission to reunite with her daughter, and a teacher who learned to work with her enemies. This book is a tribute to what really made America great, lighting the path toward a more just, peaceful, good, and free world.
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann
In 1742, a makeshift craft carrying thirty emaciated survivors of the British ship HMS Wager washed up on the coast of Brazil. Wrecked on a desolate island while on a secret imperial mission, the men were hailed as heroes—until a second, smaller craft arrived six months later carrying three more survivors who accused the first group of mutiny. As the two factions leveled countercharges of murder and tyranny, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine the truth. The stakes were life and death, as the survivors had fallen into anarchy on the island. The Wager is a riveting nonfiction tale of human behavior at the extremes, full of incredible twists.
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Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge, a retired, complex schoolteacher in Crosby, Maine, deplores the changes in her town and the wider world but is often blind to the struggles of those around her: a haunted musician, a former student with no will to live, her tyrannized adult son, and her loyal husband, Henry. As the townspeople grapple with their problems, Olive is brought to a deeper, sometimes painful, but always ruthlessly honest understanding of herself and her life.
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Olive, Again
by Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge, the "compelling life force" of Crosby, Maine, returns in a new collection of stories. Prickly, wry, and deeply empathetic, the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only her own life but the lives of those around her—from a teenager grappling with loss to a lawyer struggling with an unwanted inheritance. Through moments both hilarious and heartbreaking, Olive continues to startle, move, and inspire us to "bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."
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Recommended by Kori, Marketing & Communications
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Don't Let Him In
by Lisa Jewell
Widow Nina Swann is intrigued by the attention of Nick Radcliffe, an old friend of her late husband—a man who seems too perfect. Nina's skeptical daughter, Ash, begins digging into Nick's past and finds something deeply unsettling. Meanwhile, florist Martha suspects her devoted husband, Alistair, is hiding the real reason for his increasingly frequent work trips. Nina, Ash, and Martha are on a collision course with a shocking and dark truth, forced to confront the past they wish had stayed buried.
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Famous Last Words: A Novel
by Gillian McAllister
It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camilla’s life is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop her infant daughter off at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But, when she wakes, her husband Luke isn’t there, and in his place is a cryptic note. Then it starts. Breaking news: there's a hostage situation developing in London. The police arrive, and tell her Luke is involved. But he isn't a hostage. Her husband—doting father, eternal optimist—is the gunman. What she does next is crucial. Because only she knows what the note he left behind that morning says...
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Problematic Summer Romance
by Ali Hazelwood
Twenty-three-year-old grad student Maya Killgore is hopelessly drawn to her brother's thirty-eight-year-old, successful best friend, Conor Harkness. Despite the obvious clichés and the age and power imbalance that Conor insists makes a relationship problematic, Maya can't shake her feelings—or the suspicion that he's hiding something. When her brother’s wedding forces them together at a romantic Sicilian villa, Maya decides a problematic summer fling is exactly what she needs, even as the wedding—and her suspicions—begin to erupt out of control.
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Recommended by Emily, Materials Collection
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Dragonfall
by Laura Lam
After centuries of banishment and worship as gods, dragons are returning to the mortal realm. Thief Arcady scrapes by on the streets of Vatra until he steals a powerful artifact from the bones of the Plaguebringer, hoping for a noble life and revenge. The artifact's magic accidentally pulls Everen, the last male dragon, through the Veil. Disguised as a human, Everen knows he must convince the thief to bond with him—body, mind, and soul—to regain his true power and fulfill his destiny... by killing Arcady. As their forbidden bond grows, both their worlds risk shattering.
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To Clutch A Razor
by Veronica Roth
A funeral. A heist. A desperate mission. When Dymitr is called back to the old country for the empty night, a funeral rite intended to keep evil at bay, it's the perfect opportunity for him to get his hands on his family's most guarded relic—a book of curses that could satisfy the debt he owes legendary witch Baba Jaga. But first he'll have to survive a night with his dangerous, monster-hunting kin. As the sun sets, the line between enemies and allies becomes razor-thin, and Dymitr’s new loyalties are pushed to their breaking point. Family gatherings can be brutal. Dymitr’s might just be fatal.
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Voidwalker
by S. A. Maclean
Fionamara is a smuggler who ferries contraband and stolen magic between worlds to keep her people free from the blood sacrifices paid to immortal, flesh-devouring overlords like Antal. Centuries ago, a shattered world allowed these terrifying beasts to creep through the cracks between realities. When a reckless heist escalates into a coup against the immortals, Fi is forced into a desperate partnership with Antal to save her home. This forced alliance, beginning as a bid for survival, quickly grows into a dangerous revolution and a terrifying temptation.
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Birth of a Dynasty: A Novel
by Chinaza Bado
After the massacre of his people, M'Kuru Mukundi vows revenge and hides among his enemies as Khalil Rausi—unaware that the real Khalil's father is the General who murdered his family under Prince Effiom's command. Meanwhile, the warrior Zikora Nnamani is a threat to Effiom's dynasty due to a prophecy. Forced to the palace, Zikora begins The Rite of Blessing, a magical inheritance. Alone against a scheming kingdom, M'Kuru and Zikora must save their people and claim vengeance, but they can't even trust each other.
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Recommended by Amanda, Materials Collection
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The Long Walk
by Stephen King
Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as The Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour without ever stopping... with the winner being awarded "The Prize"—anything he wants for the rest of his life. But, as part of this national tournament that sweeps through a dystopian America year after year, there are some harsh rules that Garraty and ninety-nine others must adhere to in order to beat out the rest. There is no finish line—the winner is the last man standing. Contestants cannot receive any outside aid whatsoever. Slow down under the speed limit and you're given a warning. Three warnings and you're out of the game—permanently...
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The Enchanted Greenhouse
by Sarah Beth Durst
After casting an illegal spell to create a sentient spider plant out of loneliness, Terlu Perna is punished by being turned into a wooden statue in the Great Library. She unexpectedly wakes up on a nearly-deserted island full of magical greenhouses in the middle of winter. The only other person is a grumpy gardener who takes her in. When Terlu discovers the magic sustaining the wondrous greenhouses is failing, she risks breaking the law again to help. With the gardener and a sentient rose, Terlu must unravel a dead sorcerer's secrets to save the island—and find a second chance at happiness and love.
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Project Hail Mary: A Novel
by Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he?
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Mary Nohl: Inside & Outside
by Barbara Manger
Mary Nohl (1914–2001), described as an outsider artist and a witch, transformed her modest cottage near Lake Michigan into a magical, mysterious site. She filled the yard with huge concrete heads, stone creatures, and imposing driftwood figures, using castoff materials like wire, chicken bones, and broken glass to create her art and ornamentation. Mary Nohl: Inside & Outside offers the first comprehensive look at this remarkable artist and her surroundings, establishing her as a notable "outsider" whose idiosyncratic, alluring work attracted generations of curious visitors.
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Recommended by Jane, Public Services
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
Just Mercy is the unforgettable true story of lawyer Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), the nonprofit he founded in Montgomery, Alabama, to defend the poor, the incarcerated, and the wrongly condemned. The book recounts EJI's work challenging mass incarceration and the cruel practice of sentencing children to die in prison. It centers on the case of Walter McMillian, a poor Black man wrongly sentenced to death, showing how the death penalty is a direct descendant of racial injustice and lynching. This book is a clarion call for mercy and reform.
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I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman
In an underground prison where countless years have passed, the youngest captive—the fortieth prisoner—is an outcast who holds the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world above ground. Written by psychoanalyst Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting, post-apocalyptic novel of female intimacy, exile, and the lengths people go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation.
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Recommended by Pat K., Library Volunteer
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The Lies We Leave Behind: A Novel
by Noelle Salazar
In the Pacific in 1943, nurse Kate Campbell bravely flies dangerous missions rescuing wounded soldiers. When an injury reassigns her to the English countryside, she finds herself falling for a wounded officer with startling blue eyes and a wicked sense of humor. For the first time, Kate sees a future beyond the war. But before she can pursue it, a secret from her past calls her back into danger for one final mission to rescue a part of herself she left behind.
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The Boxcar Librarian: A Novel
by Brianna Labuskes
To escape a political scandal, WPA editor Millie Lang is sent to Montana to work on the state's American Guide Series. There, she finds her staff's missed deadlines are due to sabotage, possibly by the powerful Copper Kings hiding their violent history with union organizers. Millie suspects the answer lies instead with mysterious local librarian Alice Monroe. A decade earlier, Alice founded the Boxcar Library with librarian Colette Durand, but only Alice returned from the inaugural journey. Millie's investigation dramatically converges with the stories of these two women as she uncovers what someone is desperately trying to hide about Colette Durand's disappearance.
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West With Giraffes
by Lynda Rutledge
At age 105, Woodrow Wilson Nickel feels his life ending, but the news of giraffes going extinct triggers an unforgettable memory. Inspired by true events in 1938, the story flashes back to the Great Depression, when two giraffes miraculously survived a hurricane crossing the Atlantic. Woodrow, then a young Dust Bowl rowdy, was chosen to drive the animals in a custom truck from the East Coast to the San Diego Zoo. Part historical saga, part coming-of-age love story, this is a tale of a twelve-day road trip exploring what it means to be changed by the grace of animals and the kindness of strangers.
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Recommended by Julia, Public Services
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Read At Your Own Risk
by Remy Lai
Hannah and her friends were just having a bit of fun when they decided to play a game to communicate with spirits of the dead. Little did they know something would answer their call and crawl its way into the pages of Hannah’s journal. What started out as a game has turned into something much more evil. With dire, horrifying consequences. Is there any way to escape the curse?
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The Witch's Hand
by Nathan Page
Mystery-solving twins Pete and Alastair Montague discover their detective skills are far from ordinary after a strange storm at the beach. Their guardian, David Faber, is forced to reveal secrets about their parents and the boys' true capabilities. Simultaneously, three girls vanish after casting a mysterious spell, setting in motion a chain of events that exposes forces at work the twins never imagined. With help from David's daughter, Charlie, the boys must face a thrilling new reality that will impact their lives forever.
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Garlic & The Vampire
by Bree Paulsen
Garlic feels as though she’s always doing something wrong. At least with her friend Carrot by her side and the kindly Witch Agnes encouraging her, Garlic is happy to just tend her garden, where it’s nice and safe. But when her village of vegetable folk learns that a bloodthirsty vampire has moved into the nearby castle, they all agree that, in spite of her fear and self-doubt, Garlic is the obvious choice to confront him. And with everyone counting on her, Garlic reluctantly agrees to face the mysterious vampire, hoping she has what it takes. After all, garlic drives away vampires…right?
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Ravenfall
by Kalyn Josephson
Thirteen-year-old Annabella Ballinkay, a psychic outcast whose only power is foreseeing death, helps her family run the magical Ravenfall Inn at the crossroads of the human and Otherworld. When fourteen-year-old Colin Pierce arrives searching for his missing brother and the supernatural creature who killed his parents, Anna jumps to help. As they investigate, they uncover Colin's secret past and his powerful, unexpected abilities. Now, a creature with eerie Celtic origins is hunting Colin. If Anna and Colin can't stop it by Halloween night, the veil to the Otherworld will rip open, spelling destruction for their world.
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Recommended by John, IT Services
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The Likeness
by Tana French
Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O’Neill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double. What’s more, her ID shows she is Lexie Madison – the identity Cassie used, years ago, as an undercover detective. With no leads, no suspects and no clues to Lexie’s real identity, Cassie’s old boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime: send Cassie undercover in her place, to tempt the killer out of hiding to finish the job.
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The Regulators: A Novel
by Richard Bachman
There's a place in Wentworth, Ohio, where summer is in full swing. It's called Poplar Street. Up until now it's been a nice place to live. The idling red van around the corner is about to change all that. Let the battle against evil begin. Here come...The Regulators
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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
by Joshua Bloom
Black against Empire is the first comprehensive history of the Black Panther Party. The book begins in 1966 Oakland, California, where founders Bobby Seale and Huey Newton began patrolling the police and promising to prevent brutality, rejecting the Civil Rights approach for a global struggle against American imperialism. Despite intense repression, the Party flourished, expanding to 68 U.S. cities. Informed by twelve years of meticulous research, the book cuts through the mythology to analyze key political questions: why so many young people risked their lives, why the Party grew during peak repression, and why its allies abandoned it at the height of its power.
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The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
by C. M. Waggoner
Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle is worried by the rising, and increasingly unnatural, body count in her quaint village. When someone close to her is murdered and her cat, Lord Thomas Crowell, becomes possessed by an ancient demon, Sherry realizes she needs to become an exorcist as well as a sleuth. With the help of the new town priest and her friends, who call themselves the "Demon-Hunting Society," Sherry must solve the murder and vanquish a demon. This riotous mix of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Murder, She Wrote proves: Never mess with a librarian.
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