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New & Coming Soon eBooksJanuary 2018
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Click on a title to check availability. Log in to checkout titles or place holds online for forthcoming titles. Looking for additional recently released eBooks? Checkout last month's list with titles available now!
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Click here to read the ebook instantly on the hoopla app instead!After losing their mother to the Blitz and their father to suicide, 17-year-old Eliza, along with her troubled little sister, Rebecca, arrives at Abigale Hall for work where she soon learns that the worst is to come as she tries to unravel the mysteries of the house and save her sister, who has fallen under the spell of the vicious housekeeper, from certain doom.
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Artemis
by Andy Weir
Augmenting his limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city. By the best-selling author of The Martian.
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Enchantress of Numbers
by Jennifer Chiaverini
Rigorously educated in mathematics and science by her mother, an only legitimate child of brilliant Romantic poet Lord Byron is introduced into London society as a highly eligible heiress before forging a deep bond with inventor Charles Babbage and using her unique talents to become the world's first computer programmer. By the best-selling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker.
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Deep Freeze
by John Sandford
Having investigated the murderous school board of Trippton, MN, Virgil Flowers isn't happy to be called back when a woman is found there encased in ice. Her death seems to be connected to the midwinter reunion of the high school class of 20 years past, whose members obviously take old grudges to the extreme. Tenth in the No. 1 New York Times best-selling Virgil Flowers series
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Click here to listen the audiobook instantly on the hoopla app instead!Nine richly varied, often funny, always moving stories that cross a range of landscapes and generations to reveal the complex workings of the human heart. Bill Roorbach conjures vivid, complex characters whose layered interior worlds feel at once familiar and extraordinary. He first made his mark as the winner of an O. Henry Prize for one of his stories and the Flannery O'Connor Award for his first collection, Big Bend. His astounding new collection, The Girl of the Lake, captures a virtuoso in his prime. Among the unforgettable characters Roorbach creates are an adventurous boy who learns what courage really is when an aging nobleman recounts history to him; a couple hiking through the mountains whose vacation and relationship ends catastrophically; a teenager being pursued by three sisters all at once; a tech genius who exacts revenge on his wife and best friend over a stolen kiss from years past; and many more.
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The House of Unexpected Sisters
by Alexander McCall Smith
Investigating a case of wrongful dismissal, Precious Ramotswe discovers information that causes her to rethink her views about the case before meeting a local nurse who shares her unusual surname.
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Janesville : an American story
by Amy Goldstein
A Washington Post reporter provides an intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin—Paul Ryan’s hometown—and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class.
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Let the Devil Out
by Bill Loehfelm
In the face of her first suspension, rookie New Orleans cop Maureen Coughlin finds dangerous ways to pass the time. By the author of Doing the Devil's Work.
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Leonardo da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson
The best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin draws on da Vinci's remarkable notebooks as well as new discoveries about his life and work in a narrative portrait that connects the master's art to his science, demonstrating how da Vinci's genius was based on the skills and qualities of everyday people, from curiosity and observation to imagination and fantasy.
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When the party guests of Benedict Grame discover a body, that bears a striking resemblance to Father Christmas, under the tree, it is up to Mordecai Tremaine to find the culprit before another death occurs
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Pretend We Are Lovely
by Noley Reid
Seven years after the death of a son, the Sobel family deals with their tragedy and family secrets by an obssession with food, but when the anorexic mother, Francie, disappears, each member of the family is foced to face the truth about the past
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The Stone in the Skull
by Elizabeth Bear
A first volume in a trilogy set in the fantasy world of The Eternal Sky follows the experiences of a brass automaton mercenary who at the side of an embittered bodyguard carries an important message into the Lotus Kingdom only to become embroiled in a dynastic war. By the Hugo Award-winning author of Steles of the Sky.
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